Timeline for How do some games save without creating data files?
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| Feb 27, 2014 at 22:32 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Feb 27, 2014 at 21:56 | history | edited | Anko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Feb 27, 2014 at 21:56 | history | suggested | Lysol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2010 at 15:48 | comment | added | Ricket | @Benjamin Manns Your comment may apply to the original question, but no, LockNote does indeed save into itself. You can have multiple locknotes by saving them as different names, and they're 100% portable because indeed the text is encrypted and saved into the exe. | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 15:46 | comment | added | Ricket | @dash-tom-bang What's the difference? Sounds like the same thing to me. | |
| Sep 3, 2010 at 20:26 | answer | added | Kaj | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 3, 2010 at 0:01 | comment | added | Benjamin Manns | I would suggest downloading Process Monitor to verify that the program in question is in fact writing to it's own executable. I think you will find that it is writing to other files or the registry. | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 20:58 | history | edited | Bryan Denny | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 2, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | PrettyPrincessKitty FS | You may want to be careful it's not picked up as a virus. | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 17:10 | comment | added | dash-tom-bang | @Ricket - that's bolting an executable onto existing data, sort of like self extracting archives. I suspect that they're not actually modifying the file itself, rather recreating it on "save". | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 16:47 | comment | added | Ricket | caspin, yes it is possible! Check out LockNote (steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview) for an incredibly useful example of saving data into an executable. | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 16:21 | comment | added | deft_code | Is it even possible to modify you own exe for game saves? I'm primarily a Linux/Mac guy so I don't know what Windows allows in this area. | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 15:56 | answer | added | leander | timeline score: 20 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 15:50 | history | asked | youngProgrammer | CC BY-SA 2.5 |