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How to restore your save after pressing Fresh Start (formerly New Game)
By xBleacheDxSungasMx
Occasionally a misfortunate soul wipes his save since there are no profiles or backup folder/files in %localappdata%. But there's a way to restore progress.
   
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Sandbox Update, and How to restart campaign
Sandbox Mode came in a major update on 2023-12-21, which removed the "New Game" button to prevent an accident since it was dangerously close to "Continue Story" and profiles do not exist for campaign. (Sandbox itself are self-contained large map saves.)

It is now renamed to "Fresh Start", and "Allow Fresh Start" must be toggled on in settings.
New Game

See this bad boy? (*This is now called "Fresh Start".)

WARNING! Some players feel this is unintuitive.

Can you believe the dev specifically implemented the Konami Code due to user oopsies?
Konami Code
Enter the Konami Code on the main menu:


For PC


For Nintendo Switch


You will see this.

I have to play the first tutorial level again?? This may give you a heart attack, but afterward you will return to the overworld with all regions/vouchers you have reached. Enjoy clicking through all the unlock pop-up spam. Your times are not saved though.

I implemented the Konami code in as stable and robust way possible. Which does mean it lacks a custom code path for the restore process. Hence it does not directly send you to the Overworld. Although maybe I should add that.
Manual Nuke
This section exists for technical info only and is a way to manually manage multiple sandbox profiles. There is no easy way to combine progress or fastest times from different profiles.

WARNING: Konami Code WILL NOT SAVE YOU from completely lost files!
Turn off Steam Cloud. Close the game if it isn't, then (under Windows) go to %localappdata% and
Rename these: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved\SaveGames\Profile_0.sav C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved\saves (optional) C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved\checkpoints (optional) to anything like: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved\SaveGames\Profile_0 - 0.sav C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved\saves - 0 C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved\checkpoints - 0
Renaming/deleting Profile_0.sav will automatically delete region saves and checkpoints when the game generates a new Profile_0.sav which is why you must back up the saves folder if you wish to restore region builds from old Profile_0.sav. However Profile_0.sav alone contains times and unlocks, and unfortunately settings too so if you had custom keybinds then you will have to redo it when manually restarting campaign.

Pre map maker and sandbox updates:
Rename this: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved to anything like: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Railgrade\Saved - 0
This was simple, however the map maker and sandbox updates contain, obviously, custom map and sandbox saves.
2 Comments
yujihang1989 26 Nov, 2023 @ 4:43am 
这条信息没有任何意义 你们开发者真的不负责任
任何时候save在另一个文件夹都是对的
yujihang1989 26 Nov, 2023 @ 4:42am 
我需要用中文回复 就是说这个事情真的超级恶心,大家都用云服务,saved文件夹会被很快清楚 你开什么玩笑? 用心一点把存档这个搞定吧 41%的全成就没了 90个小时的时间没了