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Memory card persistence, save formats, and recovery behavior.

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Controller Input and Memory Card Saves

While working on gameplay interactions, I needed controller input to behave consistently across scripts and the interface. Players also needed to save progress and recover it in another session. Both systems are used constantly, but require considering more situations than the usual setup on my development computer.

A player may start without a connected controller or use one with different capabilities. A memory card may be full, missing, or contain damaged data. Integrating these systems into Polygon Engine meant accounting for those cases and providing enough information for each game to respond to them.