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| {{Retitle|persist.dat}} | | {{UpdatedForOniX|1.0.0}} |
| As players of Oni are well aware, the game does not allow arbitrary saving ("save anywhere"), but relies on the use of fixed savepoints activated through level scripting by reaching certain places in each level. This means that by setting a maximum number of levels and savepoints for Oni, the developer could store the total state of the player's progress in a single, fixed-size file -- a 206,496 byte file, to be exact. In addition to savepoint data, persist.dat has a header which stores Oni's player settings (besides [[Oni (folder)/key_config.txt|key bindings]]). It also records whether the cheats are enabled (i.e. whether you have beaten the game), and whether you killed Griffin in {{C|13}}.
| | {{Hatnote|See [[OBD:Persist.dat]] for technical documentation of this file's format.}} |
| | '''persist.dat''', found next to the game application, is the save-game and preference file for Oni. It can be edited most easily with GUI tools such as [[OSGE]] for Windows and [http://mods.oni2.net/node/155 OniLib] for Mac. |
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| The persist.dat file has nothing to do with Oni's [[Dat|instance files]] despite the ".dat" extension (it looks like Bungie West simply used .dat for every kind of file Oni read and wrote -- saved_film####.dat, lvl_#_###_corpse.dat, etc., then later on added .raw and then .sep as unique suffixes when they needed to break out the level data .dats).
| | ==Progress saving== |
| | As players of Oni are well aware, the game does not allow arbitrary saving ("save anywhere"), but relies on the use of fixed save points activated by reaching certain places in each level, at which point the level scripting uses the [[BSL]] function <tt>save_game</tt> to mark your progress. This means that by deciding on a maximum number of levels and save points, Bungie West could store the total state of the player's progress in a fixed-size file – 206,496 bytes, to be exact. |
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| The original Mac game application and the Omni Group build were for PPC Macs, thus numbers were written big-endian (e.g., the 0x08 field in the header would be 00 0C 7F 5C). This meant that the saved-game files were not interchangeable between PC and Mac versions of Oni. However, with modern Macs running a [[AE:FERAL|native Intel build]], the files are now all in little-endian format, as in Windows.
| | Many aspects of the game world are <u>not</u> saved in persist.dat: essentially, anything not pertaining to Konoko herself, such as the position of AIs and the presence of power-ups on the ground. What <u>is</u> stored is Konoko's position, health and inventory. Everything else is determined by the level scripting and the game data, and will always be in the same place when that save point is loaded. |
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| The header of the file is 0x60=96 bytes long. It is followed by an array of 400 savepoints, 0x204=516 bytes each, grouped implicitly into 40 levels, 10 savepoints per level. The first 10 savepoints belong to level 0 and are never written to. The savepoints of the original 14 levels follow. This leaves 25 unused levels at the end of the saved-game file.
| | ==Game preferences== |
| | In addition to save point data, persist.dat stores Oni's preferences as chosen on the Options screen (note that this omits key bindings, which are stored in [[key_config.txt]]). It also records whether the [[cheats]] are enabled, i.e. whether you have beaten the game (however, cheats are unlocked at all times when playing with the [[Anniversary Edition]] or [[Daodan DLL]] installed or when using the [[FERAL|Intel Mac build]]). The final "setting" tracked by persist.dat is whether you killed Griffin in {{C|13}}. |
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| Only savepoint names are stored in this file (and they are all named uniformly as "Save Point ''x''" even though they could say anything). The actual level names are taken from the [[ONLD]] files of level 0, except for Chapters 0 and 1: "TCTF Training" and "Syndicate Warehouse" are hard-coded into the engine.
| | ==Mac-Windows compatibility== |
| | The Windows version of persist.dat stores its numbers in little-endian format. But Bungie's original Mac game application and The Omni Group's Mac OS X port were built for PowerPC, a big-endian processor, thus numbers were written in the opposite order to the Mac's persist.dat. This meant that the save-game files were not compatible between Windows and Mac versions of Oni. However, when Macs moved to Intel and players began using the Intel-native Mac build of Oni, the file changed to being written in little-endian format and thus became interchangeable between Windows and Mac Oni. |
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| ==Unlocking more levels==
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| To unlock all possible levels, fill the range 0x08 to 0x28 with "FF". So far this has caused no problems, and allows you to add more levels to the game. Levels will not be visible unless there is a corresponding LevelX_Final.dat in the GameDataFolder, and an ONLD that matches the level number in the level0_final.dat. Levels above 39 are not currently unlockable due to the 40-level savepoint limit in the persist.dat (probably reflecting an underlying engine restriction).
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| ==Header==
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| [[Image:Persist_header.gif]] | |
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| {{Table}}
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| {{OBDth}}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x00 | int32 |FF0000| 0F 00 00 00 | 15 | version }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x04 | int32 |FF0000| 0E 0B D0 D0 | 0xD0D00B0E | signature }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x08 | int32 |FF0000| 5C 7F 0C 00 | 0x000C7F5C | level unlock flags for levels 0-31; each level has a corresponding bit:
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| :0x'''01''' 00 00 00 - level 0 (always unlocked, ignored) | |
| :0x'''02''' 00 00 00 - level 1 (always unlocked, ignored)
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| :0x'''04''' 00 00 00 - level 2
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| :...
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| :0x00 00 '''08''' 00 - level 19 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x0C | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 32-63 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x10 | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 64-95 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x14 | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 96-127 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x18 | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 128-159 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x1C | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 160-191 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x20 | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 192-223 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x24 | int32 |FF0000| 00 00 00 00 | | level unlock flags for levels 224-255 }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x28 | int32 |FFFF00| 01 00 00 00 | 1 | killed Griffin (0 <nowiki>=</nowiki> no, 1 <nowiki>=</nowiki> yes) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x2C | |00FF00| FE 1B 00 00 | 7166 | unlocked weapons; one bit for each weapon; the number of corresponding bit is given by the skill index value in the primary firing mode block of each [[ONWC]] }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x30 | |00FFFF| 1F 00 00 00 | 31 | unlocked items; one bit for each item type (hypo, ammo etc.) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x34 | |FF00FF| 13 00 00 00 | 19 | last read diary page (level) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x38 | |FFC8C8| 01 00 00 00 | 1 | last read diary page (page) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x3C | int32 |FFFFC8| 04 00 00 00 | 4 | level of graphical detail; the following options are possible:
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| :0 - extra low
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| :1 - low
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| :2 - medium
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| :3 - high
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| :4 - extra high }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x40 | float |C8FFC8| 00 00 80 3F | 1.0 | sound volume (0.0 <nowiki>=</nowiki> min, 1.0 <nowiki>=</nowiki> max) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x44 | int32 |C8FFFF| 06 00 00 00 | 6 | option flags; the following values are possible:
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| :0x'''01''' 00 00 00 - show subtitles
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| :0x'''02''' 00 00 00 - invert mouse
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| :0x'''04''' 00 00 00 - game won (aka cheats enabled) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x48 | int32 |FFC8FF| 02 00 00 00 | 2 | difficulty; the following values are possible:
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| :0 - easy
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| :1 - medium
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| :2 - hard }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x4C | int16 |FFC800| 20 03 | 800 | resolution: width }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x4E | int16 |FFC800| 02 58 | 600 | resolution: height }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x50 | int16 |C800C8| 20 00 | 32 | color depth }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x52 | |C800C8| 00 00 | | padding }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x54 | float |C87C64| 00 00 00 3F | 0.5 | gamma correction; from 0.0 to 1.0, 0.5 means no correction }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x58 | int32 |B0C3D4| 03 00 00 00 | 3 | last saved level }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x5C | int32 |E7CEA5| 02 00 00 00 | 3 | last saved savepoint }}
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| |}
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| ;Killed Griffin
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| :Used in Chapters 13 and 14; set with [[killed_griffen]], read with [[did_kill_griffen]].
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| After this header is an array of 400 savepoints (40 levels, 10 savepoints per level). The size of a savepoint is 516 bytes so the array size is 206,400 bytes.
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| ==Savepoint==
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| [[Image:Persist dat.gif]]
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| {{Table}}
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| {{OBDth}}
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| {{OBDtr2|0x00 | char[64] |FF0000| "Save Point 2" | name of the save point in Load Game dialog }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x40 | int32 |FFFF00| 01 00 00 00 | 1 | valid (was saved previously), i.e. "Should we display this in Load Game?" (0 <nowiki>=</nowiki> no, 1 <nowiki>=</nowiki> yes) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x44 | int32 |00FF00| BE 00 00 00 | 190 | current player health (HP) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x48 | int32 |00FFFF| C8 00 00 00 | 200 | max player health (HP) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x4C | float |FF00FF| AE 20 FB 43 | 502.255310 | x position of the player }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x50 | float |FF00FF| 03 32 4B 42 | 50.798839 | y position of the player }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x54 | float |FF00FF| 55 12 25 C4 | -660.286437| z position of the player }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x58 | float |FFC8C8| 80 06 C1 3F | 1.508010 | player facing direction (radians) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x5C | int32 |FFFFC8| 00 00 00 00 | 0 | number of ballistic ammo clips }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x60 | int32 |C8FFC8| 01 00 00 00 | 1 | number of energy cells }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x64 | int32 |C8FFFF| 00 00 00 00 | 0 | shield (percent) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x68 | int32 |FFC8FF| 00 00 00 00 | 0 | invisibility (1/60 seconds) }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x6C | int32 |FFC800| 01 00 00 00 | 1 | number of hypos }}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x70 | int32 |C800C8| 00 00 00 00 | 0 | door keys}}
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| {{OBDtr| 0x74 | int32 |C87C64| 01 00 00 00 | 1 | whether player has [[LSI]] (0 <nowiki>=</nowiki> no, 1 <nowiki>=</nowiki> yes) }}
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| {{OBDtr2| 0x78 | char[128]|B0C3D4| "" | weapon name (unused) }}
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| {{OBDtr | 0xF8 | int32 |FFDDDD| 00 00 00 00 | 0 | weapon ammo (unused) }}
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| {{OBDtr2| 0xFC | char[128]|FFDDDD| "" | weapon name (unused) }}
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| {{OBDtr | 0x17C| int32 |FFDDDD| 00 00 00 00 | 0 | weapon ammo (unused) }}
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| {{OBDtr2| 0x180| char[128]|64AAAA| "w2_sap" | weapon name }}
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| {{OBDtr | 0x200| int32 |EBEBEB| 1E 00 00 00 | 30 | weapon ammo }}
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| ;Weapon slots
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| :Yes, Virginia, Oni does seem to support saved data for three weapons, even though the player can only carry one in the final game. Perhaps the three weapon slots were planned to allow for, say, [[:Image:Windows_(UK)_box_art_-_front.jpg|dual-wielded guns and a holstered weapon]]....
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| [[Category:Oni binary data docs]]
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- See OBD:Persist.dat for technical documentation of this file's format.
persist.dat, found next to the game application, is the save-game and preference file for Oni. It can be edited most easily with GUI tools such as OSGE for Windows and OniLib for Mac.
Progress saving
As players of Oni are well aware, the game does not allow arbitrary saving ("save anywhere"), but relies on the use of fixed save points activated by reaching certain places in each level, at which point the level scripting uses the BSL function save_game to mark your progress. This means that by deciding on a maximum number of levels and save points, Bungie West could store the total state of the player's progress in a fixed-size file – 206,496 bytes, to be exact.
Many aspects of the game world are not saved in persist.dat: essentially, anything not pertaining to Konoko herself, such as the position of AIs and the presence of power-ups on the ground. What is stored is Konoko's position, health and inventory. Everything else is determined by the level scripting and the game data, and will always be in the same place when that save point is loaded.
Game preferences
In addition to save point data, persist.dat stores Oni's preferences as chosen on the Options screen (note that this omits key bindings, which are stored in key_config.txt). It also records whether the cheats are enabled, i.e. whether you have beaten the game (however, cheats are unlocked at all times when playing with the Anniversary Edition or Daodan DLL installed or when using the Intel Mac build). The final "setting" tracked by persist.dat is whether you killed Griffin in CHAPTER 13 . PHOENIX RISING.
Mac-Windows compatibility
The Windows version of persist.dat stores its numbers in little-endian format. But Bungie's original Mac game application and The Omni Group's Mac OS X port were built for PowerPC, a big-endian processor, thus numbers were written in the opposite order to the Mac's persist.dat. This meant that the save-game files were not compatible between Windows and Mac versions of Oni. However, when Macs moved to Intel and players began using the Intel-native Mac build of Oni, the file changed to being written in little-endian format and thus became interchangeable between Windows and Mac Oni.