Game crashes when exiting the options menu

[swindle]

Hey folks! I've been putting my game out for testing over the last two weeks, and i common problem i am having is that: when players access the options menu in game, they are given an error message and must force quit the game. I've attached a screenshot of the error message.

This happens on both windows and mac. I developed the game on a mac. It seems like it cannot find a directory or something but im not sure....any advice on a fix? I AM using some yanfly plugins and i am also using a fullscreen plugin from sumrmdmdde.


thanks!! <3

 

[Silva]

I don't have a solution but it might help to post a list of your plugins. Have you tried disabling all the plugins and re enabling the plugins one at a time to see if any of them are causing the problem?

 

[Shaz]

Error message seems to indicate it's trying to create a directory in a read-only location. Do you have any plugins that do autosave? Do you have any plugins that alter saving in any way? What version of the core scripts are you using (look at your rpg_core.js file and see if there's a version number on the first few lines - don't look at the version you can see in the editor as they may not be the same and that one is irrelevant).

I seem to remember earlier versions used cookies for save files, but I can't tell if that's what it's trying to do - I don't use Macs and I'm not familiar with their version of cookies.

What is the error message when running on Windows?

 

[swindle]

Plugin list is below. I dont think any of these have anything to do with saving.
Is it possible that ticking "exclude unused files" might have caused a problem? or that zipping and unzipping the game could cause an issue?

Thanks again <3

 

[Archeia]

I had this same issue with MacOSX but the way I fixed it is changing how I deploy the project.

How to Deploy for Mac: Step One, Export using RPG Maker MV

• File -> Deployment -> Mac OSX -> OK
• Go to the Folder. Rename everything as GAMENAME DEMO.app
• Grab icon.lcns from the dropbox folder and replace the one in GAMENAME DEMO.app through Get Info
• In Get Info change the Permissions from everyone to read and write

Step Two: Create a .dmg file

• Place GAMENAME.app into a new empty folder (probably name it GAMENAME DEMO as well). Create a link/shortcut to /Applications folder by right-clicking on the Applications folder and selecting Make Alias
• You can open Disk Utility (command + spacebar 'diskutil') and pick File > New Image from Folder from the menu bar
• Pick the GAMENAME folder that only has GAMENAME.app and diskutil will create a dmg file for distribution. While GAMENAME.app can be opened directly from the .dmg file, for best results please copy it out of the dmg file and run it from the filesystem instead. (placing it in documents/desktop seems to work fine!)"

Application folder alias:
Hold down OPTION + COMMAND and drag the Applications folder to the GAMENAME folder. (note that this means the applications folder, not the sidebar shortcut! access the Applications folder from your root drive/MACOSX HD)

 

[swindle]

Thank you so much for this detailed reply. I’ll try this next time I can work on the game.

Out of curiosity, is this workaround meant to change the way the game saves information? By creating a drive image, this allows you to change permissions that you otherwise aren’t able to in the regular export?