Save Guide — Playtest Transfer & Broken Save Repair

Hi, I'm Vook, a sim player who keeps a backup folder for every save I touch — playtest imports, JSON surgery, the lot.

This page covers two save problems I actually hit on PC: moving Open Playtest progress into the full release, and fixing a broken save when the game boots you to menu or you cannot interact with shelves. Same folder for both. Close the game before any file work — Windows locks the files otherwise.

Hub loop once you're in: beginners' guide. Cash edit on the parameters line: money cheat guide.

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Where saves live (Windows PC)

1. Open File Explorer.
2. Go to C: → Users → your Windows username.
3. Open AppData.
   • Missing? View → Hidden items, or type %AppData% in the address bar and go up one level to AppData.
4. Open LocalLow → OneMoreTime.

Shortcut paste into the address bar:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\OneMoreTime\

Folder	What it is
Anime Shop Simulator Playtest	Open Playtest / demo progress
Anime Shop Simulator	Full release saves

Save slots inside the full-game folder:

File	Slot
0_save.es3	Save slot 1
1_save.es3	Save slot 2
(etc.)	One file per slot

These are plain JSON — Notepad opens them. Not encrypted. Editing parameters index 0 changes cash — money cheat guide if you must; I barely recommend it.

Note: Saves are per Windows profile. Wrong user folder = empty Continue screen.

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Playtest → full game transfer

If you grinded the Open Playtest and bought the release, progress does not auto-import. Copy it manually.

Before you paste

1. Close Playtest and the full game.
2. Back up Anime Shop Simulator if you already started a fresh full-release save — paste replaces those files.

Warning: Replace overwrites the full game's current save. No undo without a backup.

Copy steps

1. Open Anime Shop Simulator Playtest.
2. You will see save files and four subfolders — copy only the loose files at this level. Do not copy those four subfolders into the main game directory.
3. Copy (Ctrl+C) → go up one level → open Anime Shop Simulator.
4. Paste (Ctrl+V) → Replace when Windows asks.
5. Launch the full game from Steam → Continue.

Tip: If Continue looks empty, confirm you pasted into Anime Shop Simulator, not Playtest again, and that you copied files, not an empty folder tree. Some playtest builds tuck data inside one of the four subfolders — grab the largest .es3 / .sav files you find there instead of skipping everything.

Transfer troubleshooting

• Game still running — copy fails or reverts; close Steam overlay and retry.
• Fresh full-game save you wanted to keep — restore from the backup you made first.

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If your save is broken — try this first

Symptoms I have seen:

• Save will not load — kicks you back to the menu on open.
• You load in but cannot interact with items, cannot aim at shelves, cannot place products.

Cause: something — usually a delivery box or piece of furniture — flew far outside the game world. The engine still tracks it. Deleting that object from the save file fixes the shop.

Do not waste time on Player.log or Sentry — nothing useful shows up there for this bug.

Repair steps

1. Close the game completely.

2. Open:

   %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\OneMoreTime\Anime Shop Simulator\
   

3. Copy 0_save.es3 somewhere safe first. (0_save = slot 1, 1_save = slot 2, etc.)

4. Open 0_save.es3 in Notepad.

5. Ctrl+F → search orders.

6. Look at each entry's Position values:

   Range	Verdict
   Single or double digits	Normal
   Small negatives	Fine — roughly x −1…10, y −0.3…5, z −11…11 (varies with shop size)
   Millions, or e+07 scientific notation	Broken

   Broken example:

   "Position" : { "x" : 21502924, "y" : -7.74e+07, "z" : 1650608 }
   

7. Delete that whole entry — from its opening { to its closing }, plus the trailing comma, so the JSON stays valid.

   • If it was the only order, you are left with: "orders" : [ ]

8. Also check buildings (Ctrl+F) — furniture uses the same rule. Anything wildly outside the range of everything else is suspect.

9. Save the file → launch the game.

Warning: You lose whatever was in that deleted box or furniture piece. The shop works again — that is the trade.

If repair did not help

Restore your backup copy from step 3 and try again — maybe you missed a second rogue entry, or the bad object lives under buildings instead of orders.

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After either fix

Jump back to the hub for pricing, bills and thieves, and level 5 Arcanis setup.

Played the playtest? Do the transfer before rerunning day one — hub checklist assumes you might skip it.