Has this happened to you? (lost your save file)

[Bivotar]

I was playing "Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga" on my new DS Lite this morning. I have just over 8 hours in the game and am loving it. I never had a GBA, so the games seem fresh and new on my DS. I was doing a save (you know, where it tells you do NOT power your system off) and the DS battery died on me!!! I didn't notice that the power light was orange or flashing or whatever it does before it dies.

 

I plug the DS in to the charger and turn it on. The saves were COMPLETELY wiped out. The only option available was "New Game". I am still just stunned. As much as I like the game, I'm bummed about the thought of having to start all over again. I might put this to the side for now and play something else.

 

This is the first time I have ever lost a save file. I guess I should consider myself lucky, thinking back on all the games I have played and never had this happen before.

 

Has anything similar ever happened to you? Do you just jump back in to the game, or is that cause for not playing it anymore?

[Chickybaby]

I actually got into an *almost* RPG- Champions of Norrath (sp?) , it was midevil weaponry irrisistable to me, playing nicely with my husband too, which is uber rare and stuff started freezing but I swore I saved my own game in its own spot. Somehow it over wrote the game we were playing together but since we had leveled really high it would have been too redundant for us (ok for me) to start over and keep playing the same levels we beat more then once over and over again.

I have a short attention span for games so this was a real record.

 

Now I am trying to beat a thing on Zoo Tycoon 2 and it's pissing me off cause I devoted way too much time to that game already. If that got wiped out I would be really irritated.

 

Glad I like animals. People on the other hand...

[sega saturn x]

Yes, for whatever reason a lot of staurn games set the default save to the battery and not the card. And for a long time I had a dead battery. So you can just imagine my joy of playign a agme for 6 hours and than seeing it saved to a dead battery when I tried to load it up.

[JB]

Has anything similar ever happened to you? Do you just jump back in to the game, or is that cause for not playing it anymore?

A few times.

SNES SimCity. I was leaning back in a chair. It fell over, and in the process of falling, I hit the cartridge. Byebye city.

 

Final Fantasy 3US. The game is infamously glitchy, and if you don't know about the glitches, they're easy to set off accidentally, and aside from all the other trippy effects they have, they can also corrupt your save RAM, forcing you to start over.

 

Parasite Eve. I really can't explain this one. A PS file shouldn't just disappear, even if it's corrupt. And yet, that's EXACTLY what happened to my file, which was half-way up the Chrysler Building "bonus dungeon."

 

Vagrant Story.

3 blocks a save. I start getting save errors. They gradually get worse, ultimately culminating in a session where all 15 blocks on the card are covered with 5 corrupted data slots, I've been trying to save for a half-hour, every single save has failed, and I have no other memory cards with 3 blocks free. I was already annoyed at the game for other reasons, so I just said screw it and killed the game.

 

The card worked again after formatting it with a GameShark, but the damage was done.

 

 

Yes, for whatever reason a lot of staurn games set the default save to the battery and not the card.

Presumably because everyone had console save RAM, but not everyone had a save cart.

Of course, it'd be nice if games would save the default save space.

 

And for a long time I had a dead battery. So you can just imagine my joy of playign a agme for 6 hours and than seeing it saved to a dead battery when I tried to load it up.

What is it with Sega and batteries, anyways?

Saturn and Dreamcast both rip through 'em like nobody's business.

[AtariJr]

I gave up replacing the battery in the VMUs a looong time ago. Honestly, getting new ones and putting them in isnt that much of a pain to me, its just that screw blocking my way.. everytime i have a new battery in hand i am just too damn lazy to unscrew the damn thing lol.

 

As far as my saturn, i have all my game saves on the 4meg save card thingy. Before i play any game i transport the save file onto my system battery save (while keeping it on my cart just in case). Then when im done with the game, i go back and replace the old cart save with the new battery save... i know its annoying, but that seems to be the only way to do it for games that save to system automatically. And honestly you get used to it. Besides, the saturn is worth that extra time.. beautiful system.

Edited June 25, 2006 by AtariJr

[Sonic]

 

This is the first time I have ever lost a save file. I guess I should consider myself lucky, thinking back on all the games I have played and never had this happen before.

 

yeah, i would consider you lucky. i have lost many files on GB+GBA games, and most i was close to beating them when it happends.

 

Has anything similar ever happened to you? Do you just jump back in to the game, or is that cause for not playing it anymore?

 

yeah i lost save files with my GB, GBA, PS, PS2, Saturn, and the strange thing was that on the PS i lost all my ape escape 1 data, and on PS2 i lost all my ape escape 2 data, i beat the game but i was getting all the extras and playing through with spike. and after my ape escape save was deleted i'm just playing through it again, slowly though. i just hope my memory card holds up on me for ape escape 3. (and yeah, i am a huge ape escape fan )

Edited August 22, 2006 by Sonic

[Video]

I've had it happen a few times on consoles. The power would blip, or I'd accidentally bump the system (or someone trips over the cord) And it really sucks. Useually, it's a case of oh well, and I start over. Unless it's a game I'm not really into, then it's feck it.

 

I've never had this problem on a handheld though, with the thing on batteries, and most haveing a way to tell if the batteries are low, I useually replace the batteries befor they get so low as to be a hazard. I remember loosing a game on the NGPC once though, if I remember right, it tells you when you turn it on, if it's batteries are low, but there's no other way to tell while playing a game.

[SHAGOHOD X99]

Was damn near at the end of Princess Crown on the Sega Saturn (using a partial "walkthrough") and the battery went dead, and all my work was for nothing. Before I could fling my Saturn or stomp in into the ground, I just powered off the system and left the house for a few hours to cool down. I've never played the game again, and probably never will. Shit like that can pump the fires of hell through a man's veins.

[gdement]

I got angry about dying in Shining Darkness on the Genesis, and smacked the cart. The cart popped out and my saves were wiped out. I've still never completed that game, though I did surpass the point where I had to start over.

 

I've also had some tragic failures to backup my game before formatting a hard drive on the PC. That's happened a few times.

Edited July 1, 2006 by gdement

[Classic Pac]

Try losing all your saves. That's what happend to me about 4 or 5 years ago when I was a fool using the save game feature with the Gameshark Pro on my PS1. When it totally died. Never again.

[Atari-Jess]

It happened for me all too often in the Legend of Zelda, and a number of Pokemon games from the original Red and Blue days.

[Phineasfool]

I was playing through the first Tomb Raider and was at the 2nd to last level when my memory card fried on me. Needless to say I never went back to that game at all.