Seamless Chapter Transitions

(Pronounced "Shawmless")

This mod removes the ending logo and credits of the chapters preceding Chapter 5, taking you immediately to the beginning of the next chapter instead. This also skips the file selection menu of the next chapter entirely; the mod automatically imports your previous save file and starts a new game in the save slot you were using before.

Of course, you can still access the file menu for each chapter by launching them like normal through the Chapter Select screen.

The aim of this mod is simply to make Deltarune flow a bit more like a single, large game, instead of the individual collection of games it technically is. I was a little surprised nobody tried this before, but I guess it's not exactly a game-changer that someone would be dying to get their hands on lol.

Note About Chapter Switching: All this mod does is make the actual process of switching chapters as seamless as possible. They still use completely separate data files, and the mod still uses the GameMaker data switching functionality to load the next chapter. This means that any issues you had with process hooks being lost upon switching chapters (OBS Game Capture, Discord streaming, etc.) won't be fixed with this mod. If anything, it's kind of worse; selecting "Return to Title" in a chapter you haven't seen the title screen for will *reload *the chapter, in the same way Chapter Select does. Sorry! Dumb technical reason for those curious: Deltarune, somewhat understandably, opts to just restart the game whenever you select the "Return to Title" option during gameplay. However, restarting the game like this retains whatever arguments you passed when you launched the game. This mod uses launch arguments for the chapter handoff functionality, so to avoid the game trying to put you back in your imported save file in this situation, it has to relaunch the entire chapter to get rid of the arguments. However, this will only happen if you actually launched the chapter in that way. Otherwise, "Return to Title" will work as it does in Vanilla.

How is mod merging compatibility? Should be decently high, in theory. However, this mod heavily modifies both initialization and file loading code, so mods that modify those (including the file menu itself) will definitely cause problems. Additionally, it modifies the final scenes of each chapter in order to actually start loading the next one, so it's important that it isn't stopped from doing that in any way. Otherwise, I expect most simple mods will play just fine with this one!

I tested this pretty thoroughly, but considering we're dealing with save data here, it wouldn't be a bad idea to back up your save files before trying the mod. Please let me know if you run into any issues or bugs!