how to save/load by calling a script through an event?

[Cruelty]

here's the deal, i'm an eventer. i event everything from my battle systems, to my menus, and even my title screen. however, there is NO WAY to event my own save/load screen given the nature of rmxp having a pre-programmed screen for loading/saving and not having any events to just save/load. needless to say, i wanna event it anyway. but there's a problem here.

i don't know jack-shit about scripting, so i need help with this.

what i'm asking is if there's a scrap of code i could just call through an event that would just force a save on the first save slot, and another to load the game from the first slot. this way i can call it from an event-based menu, and it will just save on the first save-slot. if there's already a save game on this slot, it needs to just be over-written automatically.

additionally, yet slightly less important, if there would be a way to call yet a third code in a conditional branch (apparently you can have a condition branch check if 'ruby code snippet' is true, which i never knew until just now) to check if there's a save file on the first slot, and cause the conditional branch to return a 'yes' if the slot is occupied, this would be pretty helpful too.

what i'm going for is just a 'new game' / 'continue game' scenario. thanks in advance to anyone who may be able to help me.

 

[Zeriab]

There certainly is ^^
Here are two snippets for saving the game. (The difference being whether the save sound effect being played or not)
Save with the sound effect being played:

$game_temp.save_calling = true
s = Scene_Save.new
s.on_decision('Save1.rxdata')

Save without the Save SE being played:

s = Scene_Save.new
file = File.open('Save1.rxdata', "wb")
s.write_save_data(file)
file.close

For load I likewise will present you with two snippets.
Load with Load SE:

l = Scene_Load.new
l.on_decision('Save1.rxdata')

Load without Load SE:

l = Scene_Load.new
file = File.open('Save1.rxdata', "rb")
l.read_save_data(file)
file.close
$game_system.
  bgm_play($game_system.playing_bgm)
$game_system.
  bgs_play($game_system.playing_bgs)
$game_map.update
$scene = Scene_Map.new

All of the snippets here can be placed in a script call.
Finally you can place this code in script section of the conditional branch to check whether there exist an save file in slot 1 or not:

FileTest.exist?('Save1.rxdata')

I hope you will be able to work out the rest yourself
*hugs*
- Zeriab

 

[Cruelty]

magnificent. :}

exaaaactly what i was looking for. thanks a lot man, i appreciate it.  :hercule: