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Save/Load utility for Choice of Games titles
By TequilaSeLai
Easily create, organize, and load saves for Night Road and other Choice of Games titles!
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CoGSaver - Save and load manager for your Steam-based Choice of Games titles
Ever mis-click and screw up hours of gameplay in a Choice of Games title? Ever see an option and think "I want to know what'd happen if I tried that, but I don't actually want my character to DO it"? Ever just want to hold onto an old character's save for sentimentality's sake? Know how to manually back up saves already, but just sick and tired of trying to organize them, or even remember where the heck Steam saves them? Want to quickly save a copy of your current game state for bug reporting? Well, here's a solution to those issues!
CoGSaver is a small GUI program that allows you to create, name, and load as many saves as you'd like for your Steam/CoG games; and includes quicksave/quickload functionality for those "I wonder what happens if..." moments.
How-To
1. First, you'll need to download CoGSaver:
This download[drive.google.com] will provide you with an executable .jar file. If you wish to run it as-is, you will need at least Java 11 installed on your computer. You can download Java here[www.oracle.com]. If you're a security-minded and tech-savy individual, the .jar also includes the CoGSaver source code for you to inspect and compile on your own.
2. On first run, you will need to click 'Select Game' and locate your "storePS...gametitle...PSstate" file: something like storePSnightroadPSstate or storePSwayhaven1PSstate. Figure out where your Steam folder is and look in "\Steam\userdata\<yourSteamId#>\1290270\remote" (for Night Road on Windows.) Click on the storePS___PSstate and click Open. A subfolder will be created in the same folder as your storePS___PSstate to hold your saves. (Linux users: check "~/.steam/root/userdata/<yourSteamId#>/1290270/remote")
3. Pressing 'Quicksave' will copy your current storePS___PSstate file to a file named quicksave.cogsav in the same folder. You can save at any time, whether the game is running or not.
4. Pressing 'Quickload' will copy quicksave.cogsav back to storePS___PSstate, OVERWRITING YOUR CURRENT GAME with the game you previously saved. Note that if you press Quickload while your game is still open, you will see no effect, as your game will overwrite your save one last time upon closing. In order to restore a save, you must exit the game, then load or quickload, and then restart the game. If using Steam's cloud save feature, be aware that after loading a save, you will have to click through the Steam pop-up asking you if you want to use your cloud save or your local save. I recommend disabling cloud save if you are going to be reloading often.
5. Pressing 'Create Save' will open a window pointing by default to the folder that was created in step 1. For many CoG titles, there will be a default save name suggested that includes your character name and current scene name, but this filename can be edited as you wish. If CoGSaver is unable to determine these for a particular title, that does not mean CoGSaver is incompatible with your game - it will still save and load just fine, it just means the author of the game did not use any of the common variables used to store this information, and you'll have to name your files manually if you want to have a descriptive title.
6. Pressing 'Load Save' will open a window pointing by default to the folder that was created in step 2, allowing you to select from your manual saves. Remember, saves cannot be successfully loaded while the game is open.
7. One final warning: There is nothing I or anyone else outside of the publishers can do to ensure that saves will remain compatible with updates to the game. Night Road in particular seems to be extremely bad about releasing save-breaking updates. If your beloved sentimental save gets rolled back, please yell at the publishers, not me. I am as powerless as you in this regard. You can consult another user's Steam guide here for instructions on preventing Night Road from updating, but while this will maintain save compatibility, you will miss out on whatever additions or bug fixes the publishers release.
Finding other Choice of Games save locations
If you only intend to use this program for Night Road, your job is easy: your Night Road save is located under your Steam directory at: ...\Steam\userdata\<yourSteamID#>\1290270\remote\storePSnightroadPSstate (for Windows users.)
If you wish to use CoGSaver for other games, a simple way to find the folder corresponding to the game is as follows: Open the Steam library tab. Right click on the game you wish to locate and click 'Make desktop shortcut.' Go to your desktop and right click on that shortcut and select 'Properties' and you will find an entry like: steam://rungameid/1290270. Search your Steam folder for that last number (you can see where the corresponding number was in the Night Road filepath up above) and you'll quickly find the game's save folder.
Questions, comments, suggestions
Please understand that I am not a professional or full-time programmer. Every mod or program I have ever created was made for my own use and only uploaded to the internet at wide as a courtesy. While I MAY implement minor feature requests if time and interest permits, I am a full-time student and only a sporadic gamer. That said, all my source code is available and you are welcome to make whatever modifications you desire yourself.
And finally: BLM, Love is love, etc. If you're a bigot of any stripe, CoGSaver isn't for you. To the rest of you: Happy hunting!
10 Comments
TequilaSeLai [author] 13 Jan, 2025 @ 5:33am
@filips Unfortunately, NVDA seems to be a windows-only program, so testing any changes would be difficult since I don't use windows. There's another save utility here that you could try that has a lot less textual clutter that might work for you: https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/save-manager-and-editor-for-steam-open-source/107649
filips 9 Jan, 2025 @ 11:58am
hi. I tried this but found the app inaccessible for NVDA users. Could you try to work on that?
TequilaSeLai [author] 28 Jan, 2022 @ 10:30pm
Great, glad it's working for you!
Cr 302 28 Jan, 2022 @ 7:07pm
YES IT WORKS!!! Thank you so much for your work, it really helps me a lot!
TequilaSeLai [author] 25 Jan, 2022 @ 10:09pm
UPDATE: Finally back in town, and I have (hopefully) fixed the issue that was causing the program to fail to open a file chooser dialogue when pressing "Select Game" on some systems. I have also done away with providing an .exe file for download. It was quite a few extra steps for me to create after every update, a pain to test as a primarily Linux user, and it's 2022 - I trust everyone can download the most recent version of Java on their own. As always, please re-download CoGSaver from the link above in the guide to get the updated version.
Cr 302 20 Jan, 2022 @ 3:50pm
Yes, I can create new file in the folder. Actually I installed steam on d drive, could this be a problem? Still, thank you for doing all these!
TequilaSeLai [author] 19 Jan, 2022 @ 7:13pm
Alright, I'll try to look into it when I get a chance - I'm going to be out of town from this afternoon until next Tuesday, but I think I'll have access to a Win10 machine there. I do have one possible thought that seems like a very likely problem that could check while you're waiting - is your \1290270\remote\ folder writable? If you go into that folder, can you just create a new text file or folder? Or does it require administrator access to create? CoGSaver shouldn't be given admin access, so if your folder requires admin access to write in, that could very well be causing it to hang at that point (since it tries to create a /saves subfolder on first run.)
Cr 302 19 Jan, 2022 @ 1:16pm
When I first started running the program, I did receive the message "Microsoft defender smartscreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting", but I don't think it will affect the actual operation of the program after you choose "Run anyway"? Also, I installed Java 17, but it still didn't work. I am using windows 10, 64-bit version.
Cr 302 18 Jan, 2022 @ 4:06pm
Sorry, I have a problem! I downloaded two versions of CoGSaver and installed Java 11, but the Select Game button didn't work. I clicked it and just nothing happened.
TequilaSeLai [author] 14 Jan, 2022 @ 11:29pm
UPDATE: I have added checks in the code to ensure that only files ending in "PSstate" can be selected from the "Select Game" window, to ensure users cannot accidentally overwrite the wrong files by selecting the wrong location, and removed the relevant warnings from this guide. Please re-download CoGSaver from the links in the guide to get the most recent version.