what?

Return of the Obra Dinn saves your game as .txt files
containing XML
which contain a date and a <data> element that's a base64 encoded string.

that sounds like binary with extra steps
I'm trying to Death Generator this game but Lucas Pope is known for two things:
1. really neat games
2. caching all his rendered text
@foone Did you ever Death generator the GameCom Castlevania proto? It released shortly before you exited the bird app.
@biggestsonicfan nah, I never did. I'll have to look into that