Enable Stage Select

How to enable Stage Select without playing through the whole game again.

How to enable Stage Select

You can enable Stage Select by modifying your save file with a hex editor. HxD is a good one and its setup can be used to create a portable edition: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

Open the file %LOCALAPPDATA%\SirenGame\Saved\SaveGames\data.sav

Mark the last 13 bytes (05 00 00 00 4E 6F 6E 65 00 00 00 00 00):



Then copy and paste these 61 bytes into the HxD window:

11 00 00 00 62 49 73 47 61 6D 65 43 6F 6D 70 6C 65 74 65 64 00 0D 00 00 00 42 6F 6F 6C 50 72 6F 70 65 72 74 79 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 05 00 00 00 4E 6F 6E 65 00 00 00 00 00

Save the changes and confirm that the filesize will be changed.

When you start the game the stage selection should appear in the main menu. Now you don't need to replay the game from beginning if you want to revisit a specific level.

PS: if you have a Unix shell at hand (i.e. Cygwin) you can do the same with the Unix commands head and printf, in case you prefer that:
(those are 3 lines)

mv data.sav data_backup.sav
head -c-13 data_backup.sav > data.sav
printf "\x11\x00\x00\x00bIsGameCompleted\x00\x0D\x00\x00\x00BoolProperty\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x05\x00\x00\x00None\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" >> data.sav

[Kelrycor]

Nicely done :)

[djcj]

I've updated the guide.

[Kelrycor]

I used the HxD freeware editor. You can use the setup to create just a portable version which does not install anything to the win registry. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

Drag an drop data file into the editor and just mark the area you want to replace and paste your altered code, which will increase the file size - but you can ignoe the warning. Was really easy and worked out as intended - my own game progression with the possibility so select the chapters to my liking :)

Thanks again

[djcj]

I'm glad someone found this useful. Portable and easy to use hex editor sounds good. Which did you use? Maybe I'll update the guide with some screenshots.

[Kelrycor]

Thanks, that rescued me. Had to go back to the chapter beginning because I missed a collectible due to a bad description of the location in a bad written 100% guide - and I really didn't wanted to start the whole game over or play until the very end first to redo it :)

I used a portable hex editor, a simple GUI is just more handsome for doing a quick and nifty non-daily adjustement.