How do I get my D-sides save file back?

[regal token]

I was told to save file edit to get it back because Monika changed the paths. But I have no idea how to do that

[plain loom]

Open the game files, then go to the "Saves" folder
Find the file called "n.celeste" where n is the number of your D-sides savefile. Note that the top savefile is "0.celeste", the second one is "1.celeste", etc...
Replace every instance of "nameguysdsidespack" with "monikadsidespack" (typically use ctrl+h to Find and Replace), save and exit.
Careful, there's no s in monikadsidespack

That should solve it

[steep reef]

how do i get to the game files? i can't find the saves folder.

[regal token]

Go to steam, right click on Celeste, go to properties, go to installed files, go to browse

[wise dawn]

or yknow, just

[regal token]

Monika is my 4th file, so it should be 3.celeste. But there is no instance of nameguysdsidespack in the files

[wise dawn]

are you opening the 3.celeste file in notepad

[regal token]

I didn’t know I had to

[plain loom]

you don't have to, you should be able to open it with any text editor

lemme make sure I didn't make a typo in nameguysdsidespack

[regal token]

When I searched for it. I could find it. But when I replaced it. The issue never got resolved

[regal token]

If your referring to when I said there was no instance of nameguysdsidespack in the files, that was before I knew I supposed to open it in a text editor.

[plain loom]

huh, weird
I'm hoping booting the game before making the change didn't cause anything to break I know I replaced all of that before booting it

[plain loom]

oh okay okay

[regal token]

So should I just try to restart Celeste?

[plain loom]

oh yes restart the game

[regal token]

K I’ll try that

Nope

It didn’t work

[plain loom]

hmm...
I'll let you know if I think of anything else

[regal token]

Ok, I’m worried I did the editing of the files wrong though. I feel like that is where I would’ve gone wrong if I did. Is there a way to check if I did it correctly?

[wise dawn]

this is why you tell people to make a backup before fiddling with their files

steam cloud may be interfering with their files and overwriting their changes with the version before

[plain loom]

that's true I forgot about that, my bad

[regal token]

So is there anything I can do?

[plain loom]

There isn't any private info in a savefile file right? If so, then you can try copying your file here I guess

[wise dawn]

turn off steam cloud before editing files

[wise dawn]

not really

[regal token]

I’ll try this first and then try copying it here

How do I turn off cloud?

[wise dawn]

right click celeste and go to properties in steam

[regal token]

Thanks, I will now attempt to edit the files again

[wise dawn]

make a copy first

[regal token]

Should I keep the copy on clipboard or paste it somewhere?

[wise dawn]

copy the entire file

dragging and dropping the file somewhere else (like your desktop) while holding control creates a copy

[regal token]

Ok done

Now I will edit

Should I just try pasting it here now?

[wise dawn]

drag and drop the file here

[regal token]

The copy or from the files?

[plain loom]

Both should be the same if you didn't edit anything in the meantime
But both should do anyway

[regal token]

Ok

[regal token]

Did that go through okay?

[wise dawn]

yes

[plain loom]

yes
Though the data for the dsides seems to be like that of a new savefile indeed
I suppose it got over-written at some point? Not sure why though

[regal token]

I imagine the new update caused that?

[plain loom]

I think that happened when you started playing the file

[regal token]

I launched prologue to see what was going on. Maybe that did it?

[plain loom]

The update itself didn't
But if you played the file (you have 1 prologue death so I assume you did for a bit) then maybe it just over-wrote it somehow

That may admittedly be my fault

[regal token]

The death was an exit to map. The progress all the way to 9D was gone once I opened the file after the update

[plain loom]

If you played it, then edited the file with what I said, and so the game thought "monikadsidespack" was what you just played

[wise dawn]

ive seen people get the update, open the save, close the save, revert the update and have their data still there

[regal token]

As in their progress was gone and they did this to get it back?

[wise dawn]

no

they did absolutely nothing to their save

[regal token]

Oh

So is it all gone because I played prologue then?

Permanently I mean

[plain loom]

It... may be

By any chance, there may be a "Backups" folder in the game files
I know this one is designed poorly but maybe the 3.celeste in there still has the old data?

[regal token]

I’ll check

It says there is no nameguysdsidespack to be found so I assume not

[plain loom]

dang

[regal token]

Thanks for trying

I’ll just have to deal with it

[plain loom]

That said, you can still go through the levels quickly with assist mode
And if you have screenshots of/know your deaths and times then it is technically possible to recover those
It takes a bit of time but it's possible

[regal token]

I do have a screen shot luckily

Let me get it real quick

[plain loom]

oh nice

[regal token]

So what do we need to do?

[plain loom]

So before you do anything, I'm not too knowledgeable in file editing in Celeste and I'm not sure how to tell the game you beat a certain level or got a specific collectible
But editing deaths and times is easy
I would recommend you first collect each heart real quick using assist mode or debug mode if you have it

[regal token]

Yeah I can do that

[wise dawn]

if you open the level file and take a look at it it's relatively understandable

the only difficulty would be strawberries

also there's a save file editor womewhere here

[plain loom]

The thing I wasn't sure mostly is berries
Because they have a specific ID

[plain loom]

Oh that may exist, I don't know about it

[wise dawn]

id format is roomname:entitynumber

[wise dawn]

#modding_showcase message

[plain loom]

oh that would probably be easier than going through the levels
Though I'll have to let you figure out how to use it because I never did

[regal token]

So should I stop debugging to the end of them?

It’s pretty fast already

[plain loom]

It doesn't matter much, you can finish doing it if you want

Same for moonberry in Final Goodbye

[regal token]

Ok I’ll beat the levels and moonberry then let you know when I’m done

Should only be a few minutes

Ok sorry that took so long

I’m done

[regal token]

So how do I edit my file? I’ve gone though the levels, I just need to adjust the deaths and time

[wise dawn]

i've never used the tool

i've always just edited my files manually because i know what i'm doing and i havent had a need to use the tool

[regal token]

Oh ok

[plain loom]

Okay so
You can either try the save edit tool Snip was talking about
Or you can edit the file directly

I know how to do the second one, but it's potentially a bit trickier
It should be fairly straightforward though, I can show you some examples if you want

[regal token]

I’m up for either option, you know more than I do so whatever method you think would be best

[plain loom]

Well I don't know how the tool works so I can't say, but I'll just show how to edit deaths and times directly, gimme a second

[regal token]

Ok

[plain loom]

• For deaths, find the lines that look like the first screenshot for each level. The example is for Prologue specifically. You only need to edit copy of "AreaModeStats", you can leave the other two. Simply edit where it says "Deaths=" and "BestDeaths=" using the stats from your old journal screenshot. Probably put both at the same value since I assume you played them only once
  Don't remove the quotation marks that are already there.

• For time, you need to edit where it says "TimePlayed=" and "BestTime=". If you leave BestTime="0", then it will default to being blank in the journal.
  Important, the times are the amount of frames you spent in the level. You need to convert your times from hh:mm:ss.xxx to frames. You can use https://valid-time.modded-celeste.com/ and input the times from the journal, it should say "Valid frame!" and tell you the amount of frames that is. Copy that amount (without the "f") in your journal.
  Important, in the game file, you need to add four zeros after the amount of frames for the game to understand it properly, like in the second screenshot.

[wise dawn]

the time unit used in the save files are ticks

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timespan.tickspermillisecond?view=net-9.0#system-timespan-tickspermillisecond

[plain loom]

oh, did I mess up again

Oh, I did

[wise dawn]

i'm just clarifying

there are 4 zeroes because there are 10000 ticks in a millisecond

[plain loom]

that makes sense

[regal token]

Is there a possibility that we can do this over a call? That looks very easy to mess up and I’m a little overwhelmed

[wise dawn]

i mean this is why you back your save files up before messing with them, so that you have a safety net if you do mess it up

the tool should be able to just let you do what you want

[regal token]

I don’t know how use the tool and it doesn’t look any easier. I’m not confident when it comes to touching game files

If you can’t call that’s fine it would just make it easier for me

[plain loom]

I can if you want
It's probably because of my carelessness that you savefile died soooo

But at the same time I don't want to fuck it up even more by being to hasty

[regal token]

It’s all fine. I have a copy now so everything should be good.

But I’m glad you’re up to call. Makes it much easier

[plain loom]

You can call me now if that's fine with you

[regal token]

Yep that works

Is it glitched? It just immediately went to being just me in the call

[regal token]

Done! All fixed!

Thank you both for the help I really appreciate it

[cinder path]

i wonder if it would be even slightly worth it to make a mod that does this for you

like specifically for the d-sides