alt Hacker News> Putting the (very valid) reasons for not having human-readable game saves aside,
I don't follow. What would the reasons be?
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trinix912 • 04/23/2025
Mostly to prevent people and programs from editing them, obfuscating implementation details, reducing file sizes (say had they used XML vs. binary)...
A human-readable game save file is presumably human-editable.