There's an alternative way to save your game without using the saving feature of GM or INI's?

Think of your own file format and use GM's binary or text file functions to save and load to that. e.g. if you have a metroidvania game and all you need to save is your current save room and the amount of coins you found, your file is saved like [code] file = file_bin_open_write(filename); file_bin_write_byte(file,roomID); file_bin_write_byte(file,coins); file_bin_close(file); [/code] and you load by extracting these values exactly the same way: [code] file = file_bin_open_read(filename); roomID = file_bin_read_byte(file); coins = file_bin_read_byte(file); file_bin_close(file); // And then you do stuff with the info you just retrieved, such as: room_goto(roomID); [/code] Code is made up on the spot, thus, no guarantee that it works, and it's only an example for using the gml file handling functions.

This will work with GM Lite?

Well the Help file doesn't list a restriction on any of the binary file functions, so it looks like it will.

[quote="[url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?p=328466#p328466]Mason[/url]"] Yoink. A question though. I have a game where certain enemies die and never come back when you leave the room (sounds bad but it isn't if you've played it) so should I have some variables like goombas_goombaway=8 or something? I don't see instance_number working with multiple rooms (but it would create the goombas_* variable) and they are persistent rooms.[/quote] Just saving the amount of enemies left won't do, I mean you want to save the status (there or not there) for each individual goomba, wouldn't you? Thus you'd need an individual true/false value for each goomba, which would e.g. be an array (Although, since GM arrays are 32 bit, this may boost the size of your save file a lot)