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Hey guys. I am making an Android game and I am trying to make a save system. It works perfect on PC, but not so well on Android. For example: say I had a variable named levels1, and it was equal to love.filesystem.read("levels1"). If I do print("levels1") on PC, it will show that levels1 is equal to "true". But on android, it shows that it is equal to "Rar!♣♣6s♣♣♣♣♣♣♣". I really need help.

Unsurprisingly, "Rar!" is exactly what a rar file starts with. Are you sure you've packaged the right file?

Yes because the .love works

that doesn't mean squat though. For some people, 7zip compressed love files worked, and for others, they didn't. It's probably the OS's hand in this one. (or rather, whatever löve on each platform uses to decompress files)

Make sure you're compressing with a plain old zip compressor.

More specifically, you should use DEFLATE algorithm, which is pretty much guaranteed to be supported. LZMA and the like are also widely supported but may or may not actually be included.

On unrelated note, you really shouldn't use Rar. It proliferates proprietary standards and what's worse, it's not even widely supported format so people would often have to install additional software just to extract it. It's not even that good at the one thing it should be doing, there are faster and tighter open source compressors out there.