conversion of savefiles 16.x ?

[Dr. Goulu]

just bought the game on Steam. Any way to continue my game from a v16 save file ? it generates errors in series ...

[Paz]

I'm afraid not. 0.17 had too many in the code to ensure save compatibility, so it's advised to start fresh.

[MrSandwichCookies4321]

Yeah, I looked through it thinking about figuring out how to make it work, and quickly concluded that it would be way too much work. Nearly every variable got renamed. I mean, in theory, you could do it by diffing the two builds side by side and writing an

label after_load:

block that does a giant pile of lines like

$ new_variable = old_variable

but it would be many hundreds of lines long, and that's assuming the rollback system doesn't choke, which it probably would in some cases, because a bunch of labels also changed, and I don't know a way to tell Ren'Py about label renames, unless "config.missing_label_callback" would work.

Having looked at how much changed, I can see why you decided to go with a clean slate. Annoying, but understandable.