Entry 61

Save and load pages, pause and title

2026-10-1534msave

Filescrates/rugrats/src/card_menu.rs crates/rugrats/src/game.rs crates/rugrats/src/front.rs crates/rugrats/src/main.rs

The card pages are ported from memory-card.md "Saving and loading from the pause", which an agent traced and checked in the oracle.

• rugrats::card_menu::CardMenu runs these pages:

  • no card (4);
  • create the save file? (13);
  • the record list (22 save, 10 load);
  • overwrite? (23);
  • are you sure? (15);
  • saved (16) and not saved (17);
  • read failed (20) and create failed (21);
  • the load's no-file page (25).

  The format pages (5, 11, 12) and no room (14) cannot come up with the port's folder cards.

• The record list:

  • 5 rows by 3 columns, numbered down the columns, with no wrap.
  • Numbers sit at x -190/-45/110 and names at -160/-15/140, y -60 + 25 row, font 0. An empty record shows "---".
  • On the load list, the cursor's record gets a line at y 64 (strings 206-209: level name, pieces, bars mod 15).

• Colours and sounds (0x800391d4): items light blue, the heading pink, the cursor blinking ((255, 218, 0), then alternating every 13 frames). Cross plays 126; Triangle, Left and Up play 124; Right and Down play 125; Start closes.

• Footer: PRESS X while the footer flag is set, else CANCEL / ACCEPT.

• Save (0x80070b14): the whole state, with the hub's spot of the level (0x800b8718) at +0x24 and word 2 cleared, through put_record and Cards::store. An empty card gets the file first.

• Load (0x80070970): the record read again and returned. Main puts the state in place, sets the previous level to the saved one, and enters Pickles' Home at that level's door spot.

• The pause:

  • Game::state_block comes from main each frame, and Game::loaded goes back to main.
  • The pause takes the menu's colours, and its sounds now play the right way round (Left/Up 124).
  • The counters show on the pause page only.

• The title's Load Game uses the same menu in title mode (Cross and Triangle returns end it). Its old list is removed.

• Checked:

  • In a scratch working directory with an empty card folder: pause, save (create file, list, "Game saved."), then load (list with GAME 1 and the detail line, are you sure, loaded).
  • The real binary loaded from the title into Pickles' Home (screenshots).
  • play tests pass.