One of my friends in one of my college courses just ran into an issue. She was playing one of the Fire Emblem games in the RGR. She made it through 3 or 4 levels, so she decided to register so she could save.

Here's the problem. After she registered and logged in, she couldn't save. Even though she logged in, the game window didn't acknowledge it so she couldn't save. Is there any way to adjust the plugin (or whatever needs adjusting) so that a user who is playing a game as a guest can register in order to save? It's kind of a pain when you play a game for an hour or two, decide you like it, register so you can save it, then find out you can't save it without closing the window and restarting from the beginning.


tRIUNE :
rcarter2 :

What are the odds of this getting added? I'm actually surprised this hasn't been suggested sooner since it makes the site a lot more appealing to new users.

P.S. I decided to drop this here since it is a Suggestion. If you want to send it elsewhere, go for it, but I think it will get more attention and feedback here.

I ran into this same issue when I first found the site. I played a game for about an hour and then read that members can save. I registered and logged in, but it wasn't reflected in the game window, obviously.

This may not be something that's possible to do since a window can't find new information without refreshing. If the window were to refresh, the game would just reset. I'm not sure how you could work around this without some extremely complicated coding that builds a login directly into the emulator and then can enable the member features without interfering with the game at all. Not even sure this is a thing that can be done.

red ninja : The issue is not how to save. It is the fact that you cannot save your game unless you are using a registered account (so guests can't save). And a particular person was playing as a guest, wanted to save, and registered (but the window restarts when you register). Remember to read the whole post before answering questions like this.

I never really thought about that, but I can see how that can be quite an issue for users who just find the site. I honestly do no know what the odds are of changing this. I'm not very savvy with web design, so I wouldn't even begin to know how to do this. There seems to be more than one aspect behind this. It could be a fix with the site, an edit in the Plugin, or a combination of both. Since David is in the process of moving, I wouldn't be able to ask him now. Hopefully tRIUNE could add more insight to this.

rcarter2 :

The window doesn't refresh or anything when someone registers. It just stays in guest mode. That's the problem. It would be good if it could refresh login status without affecting the game that is running.

BNuge : The window doesn't refresh on its own because there's no way for it to know to. And even if it did refresh, this would just re-load the game. That's just what refreshing does. As I said in my previous post, the only feasible way to have logging in recognized without restarting the emulator is if you could log in through the emulator itself. That doesn't sound like a thing that can be done as the emulator you use for each system is different and based on existing emulators. Unless the plugin is really advanced in how customized it is for this site, it probably isn't a fixable issue. I do know quite a bit about web design, but I obviously know nothing about the inner workings of the site or the RGR. The only people who would know are the person who actually develops the plugin for this site and anyone who communicates with that person.

Yes, I was leaning towards posting the same as Crazy Li, I'm not sure about what gets implemented from staff/former-staff or users if it's not priority - I know David has some other stuff taking up the majority of time for now.

tRIUNE :

I didn't expect it to be a major priority of his. I just thought it would make the site more appealing for potential new users.

Well it might be possible since David already has a lot of knowledge about website coding. He should be the person to ask this really.

Davideo7 : Do you thinkk what he's asking is possible?

Saving isn't suppose to even be an option for guests actually (an incentive to register is the ability to save). The fact that guests are able to save is a bug. What happens when they save as a guest is that the save files get stored in a folder with the id of 0 but when you're logged in, your save files get stored into a folder based on your user id so that means you can't retrieve those save files as a user if you made them as a guest.

Davideo7 :

That wasn't the point.
She played a Fire Emblem game for an hour or two. She decided she wanted to save. Only registered users can save.

She registered, then tried to save. She couldn't save because even though she was registered and logged in, the RGR window didn't acknowledge that she was logged in.

She lost out on 1-2 hours of gameplay because the plugin window didn't recognize that she was logged in.


The question is whether or not the plugin can be adjusted so that it can refresh and realize that a user is logged in without affecting the game.

You could solve the issue but its some work,  for very little reason.  I had same problem,  but I viewed it as my fault as it does say non-registered players cannot save,  so I simply took it as a fun 2 hours that I get to do again;  of course not as fun second time around.

BNuge : Ok I guess I didn't understand the problem, I had only skimmed through it since I didn't have the time to fully read it.

I don't think it can be adjusted to do that, sorry.