Patent ID: 7682252

Claim:
A computer-readable recording medium, storing a game data control program for arranging game data in an internal memory of a video game device for use in a game process, the game data including a plurality of game parameters representing a status of a game stored in an external storage medium connected to the video game device, wherein the game data control program instructs a computer to function as: a storage area setter for setting a storage area for the game data in the internal memory so that each game parameter is arranged in a different storage area (a) before the game data is arranged and (b) each time the game data is arranged, such that each game parameter is arranged in a storage area that differs each time a game parameter is arranged; a game data loader for loading the game data from the external storage medium to the storage area set by the storage area setter; arrangement information storage programmed logic circuitry for storing arrangement information in a specified area of the internal memory, when the storage area setter sets the storage area for the game data, the arrangement information being information which directly or indirectly indicates the storage area for each game parameter; and storage area determination programmed logic circuitry for determining the storage area for the game parameter by referring to the arrangement information, when a game parameter in the internal memory needs to be referred to or overwritten during the game process, wherein the storage area setter specifies an offset value for shifting the storage area for the game data as a whole in the internal memory so that the storage area for the game data is changed each time the game data is arranged; and the game data loader loads the game data as a whole to the internal memory so that a storage position relationship between the game parameters is maintained, by using, as a base address, an address obtained by adding the offset value to a specified address of the internal memory.