Losing your save

[sothfr]

I was never a fan of JRPGs, but I decided to give it a try with Dragon Quest VII on my modded PlayStation Classic. I got pretty far and was actually enjoying it, but then… my save file got corrupted. This happened more than a year ago, and I haven’t touched it since.

As a side note, this whole experience actually got me into finally liking Final Fantasy VII later on, so something good came out of it! Anyone else had a similar experience? How long did it take for you to try again after something like that?

 

[Numubunde]

I'm really sorry for your loss, it is indeed a tragedy

You know, it's odd but I can't remember any case of losing a save game of a JRPG (thank god). But I remember clearly a case of something that felt worse, not by amount of progress loss, but because it's a story of betrayal. I was playing Dragon Quest V, which so far I'd say was my second favorite DQ game, and I had just beaten the final boss. It was the final scene of the game, and I had to go pee, so I left my NDS on the desk. As I was walking back to my bedroom, I saw my younger brother walk out of it, and I instantly knew a criminal deed had been commited. The little bastard had turned off my NDS just to mess with me. It is still painful to me even retelling this story and it's been over a decade lol.

 

[Clippy]

The little bastard had turned off my NDS just to mess with me

I hope you turned him off with a solid uppercut.

 

[Your_Homie_Gale]

Everytime I get far in FFV something happens to where I lose my progress. You see, the first steam port of the game was based on the mobile version of FFV which had no cloud save. Now I didn't play it all the time, like once in a blue moon before I would go back to the same 3 games I always played (TF2, Dark Souls, and Pokemon). I used cheap laptops to play that and twice i lost my progress due to hardware failure. The 3rd time I transferred over my save files but the flashdrive got corrupted. Then the fourth time, oh boy. I played a GBA rom of it on my hacked Vita and it got corrupted. This time I actually got to the 3rd world, nearing the end of the game. I have yet to pick it up again.

I have never beaten a Final Fantasy game. I get far but something happens. The same thing happened with my FFVIII technically, but I backed up my save on PS+ cloud before my PS4 died.

 

[Cris_Agev]

I don't think I've ever had such tragedy happened to me, but yes I wouldn't touch that game for a fair amount of time until the bitter taste is gone.
Even so, I try to have different saves as well as save-states since I use emulator.

I'm really sorry for your loss, it is indeed a tragedy

You know, it's odd but I can't remember any case of losing a save game of a JRPG (thank god). But I remember clearly a case of something that felt worse, not by amount of progress loss, but because it's a story of betrayal. I was playing Dragon Quest V, which so far I'd say was my second favorite DQ game, and I had just beaten the final boss. It was the final scene of the game, and I had to go pee, so I left my NDS on the desk. As I was walking back to my bedroom, I saw my younger brother walk out of it, and I instantly knew a criminal deed had been commited. The little bastard had turned off my NDS just to mess with me. It is still painful to me even retelling this story and it's been over a decade lol.

Perdón, pero tu pequeño hermano es un crack! como diríamos por acá

 

[Your_Homie_Gale]

I should also add that I am scared to finish my save file of FFVI on my SNES classic. It's still there. I can climb Kefka's tower right now, but I am scared something might happen.

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

I was never a fan of JRPGs, but I decided to give it a try with Dragon Quest VII on my modded PlayStation Classic. I got pretty far and was actually enjoying it, but then… my save file got corrupted. This happened more than a year ago, and I haven’t touched it since.

As a side note, this whole experience actually got me into finally liking Final Fantasy VII later on, so something good came out of it! Anyone else had a similar experience? How long did it take for you to try again after something like that?

That's gotta be one of my biggest gaming fears. RPG's like that take forever to play through, and once I get invested I sink so much time into finding every item etc.

 

[moonbits]

I was 80 hours into Persona 4 on PS2 and I accidentally rushed the saving because I needed to go to school and when I came back it was corrupted. I almost cried.

 

[PSVitaForever]

I tried that Action Replay disc for the ps2 (for the cheats, I confess), on a no-modded console with physical games.
I don't know what happened: guilt on the disc, or guilt on my memory card that maybe was going to break anyway, the ps2 decided to format it and I lost ALL MY SAVES

The one I really regret was "Suikoden 5", I was one battle and one dungeon away from the end...
The others were 100% save files, so... ok, shit happens!

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Had this happen the first time with Star Ocean 1. Still haven't gone back but there's a wait list.

 

[Pickle surprise]

I only had one game where this happened and it was Super Mario RPG. I bought it on the Wii Virtual Console and had just finished Booster's tower and then the game just deleted my save and I had to start over. I was annoyed but I decided to try again and it went and deleted my save even earlier this time. Quite infuriating when a ROM I bought seems to freak out and not even let me finish the damn thing. It was a shame as well as I was enjoying the game but having to redo large chunks and then have the game decide "nah, no save file for you today, bye!" made me shelve it. To this day, I still have not finished Super Mario RPG. I think I should just try it on emulator with save states, will definitely be better for my sanity.

 

[Akiba]

I was never a fan of JRPGs, but I decided to give it a try with Dragon Quest VII on my modded PlayStation Classic. I got pretty far and was actually enjoying it, but then… my save file got corrupted. This happened more than a year ago, and I haven’t touched it since.

As a side note, this whole experience actually got me into finally liking Final Fantasy VII later on, so something good came out of it! Anyone else had a similar experience? How long did it take for you to try again after something like that?

Takes about an hour or so. Goes like this
>Scream
>Step outside
>Smoke a cigarette
>Come back in, hack the fuck out of the game, save edit, cheat engine, game shark, action replay, whatever.
>Bully the game for fucking with my save file

Generally speaking these days I just hack any RPG going if its all just numbers. And thats only cause Ive been there done that so many times before. If all you can give me is avatar growth via number go up, I snooze and am only here for story.

Ya gotta do something like Delta Rune or Legend of Dragoon to make me actually wanna engage with the numbers and play the stuff as intended.

Thus why if I were on Disk 4 of Legend of Dragoon and my save file borked, well, thats why it starts a scream ya know?

 

[Felipe]

Suffered the same when playing samurai jack, my save was overwritten (that was many years ago) and till this day i dont know how this happened.

 

[JustLooking123]

Happened to me a few times... however, i don't remember what games, as it was years ago... but i know i didn't touch those games for years...

Since then, i always tried my best to have more than one save.
Whenever i can, i create multiple save states and save files.

If save state is not an option, i try to alternate between two save slots, so if one of them is lost, the other one stays safe...

Also, if there's enough save slots, i always try to use different save slots after a while... (eg for each chapter)

Thanks to these methods, i haven't faced a big loss anymore, despite i faced save corruption again.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Everytime I get far in FFV something happens to where I lose my progress. You see, the first steam port of the game was based on the mobile version of FFV which had no cloud save. Now I didn't play it all the time, like once in a blue moon before I would go back to the same 3 games I always played (TF2, Dark Souls, and Pokemon). I used cheap laptops to play that and twice i lost my progress due to hardware failure. The 3rd time I transferred over my save files but the flashdrive got corrupted. Then the fourth time, oh boy. I played a GBA rom of it on my hacked Vita and it got corrupted. This time I actually got to the 3rd world, nearing the end of the game. I have yet to pick it up again.

I have never beaten a Final Fantasy game. I get far but something happens. The same thing happened with my FFVIII technically, but I backed up my save on PS+ cloud before my PS4 died.

I too am cursed but for Earthbound instead. Always getting further but never beating the game.

First time? Exclusively on school computers so I made an account. Site went belly up and the files were useless

Second time? Made it to the final sanctuary guardian. Pandemic happens.

Third time? Tried again on browser. Site went belly up

Fourth time? Made it really far into the game before taking a month long break. That was the year my computer had to be wiped because of booting issues

Present day? I’ve learned the way of the emulators and made it to Threed but I’m considering just starting over again so I can get Retroachievements.

Completed Mother 3 in it’s entirety before the second Earthbound attempt so lol

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

VII is quite long especially if you mess too much with the class system, gotten around 100 hours in most of my playtroughs. Also if you delve in the Talk and the immersion text(like looking in the mirrors with the different characters or revisiting old places) you can turn the hourglass even faster, you can get stuck looking for shards(on my first playthrough i got stuck to the point of having to restart).

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I didn't outright lose my entire save file, but I was using a clearly corrupted SD card when playing Dragon Quest IX on my phone and the fucker would only make valid saves at random, pushing me back hours at a time until I was able to identify the problem.

Made me want to burn it down lol.

 

[nobitakun]

I never lost any save because I am too paranoid and create backups all the time, but one of my friends lost his saves because his PS3 died and the HDD has all his info together with the profile.

If that happened to me, I would refrain from starting the game again, unless I already finished it long time ago. Well, only one game I would never start again, and that's FFX International for PS2. My 100% savegame has over 1400h invested and there is no way I am starting that again. When PS4 can be hacked at the end of its life, I will convert the save to PS3, upload it to PSN+ and download it on PS4, because I want to have it for FFX HD.

 

[Numubunde]

I was 80 hours into Persona 4 on PS2 and I accidentally rushed the saving because I needed to go to school and when I came back it was corrupted. I almost cried.

Almost cried? Bro I would've bawled my eyes out

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

It depends on how deep into the game I was when it happens, but I usually drop a game and move on if I lose a ton of hours to a corrupt save. I rotate my saves whenever possible though to avoid this.

 

[JPchicre]

The 3DS version is a bit shorter, do not know how purists feel about that one, but i personally liked it a lot. You could try that one if you ever feel inclined to play it again.

 

[AkiraSO4]

Only recent case to happen to me was an old MGS3 save I had where I beat it a couple times. Oh well.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

As a Saturn owner… save loss and corruption is a concept that haunts me to my core, because it looms over all of us and our coin cell batteries.


Well, not me because I have FRam mod, but I’ve had corruption once on a memory card. :,)

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I JUST REMEMBERED THAT I LOST A POKÉMON SAVE ON MY FIRST EVER EMULATOR AND IT TURNED ME AGAINST EMULATION FOR MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD!

Yeah, losing a save is no joke. Especially in RPGs.

 

[Graw]

The worst was probably my n64 controller pak. It was an offbrand one with switches on it that let you have multiple saving pages. It was basically the size of 4 regular controller paks. Something fucked up in a game I was playing one day and everything on all the pages of the controller pak got erased. Which was pretty much every n64 game I owned or rented that used the controller pak which was a lot of the games I owned. It was pretty disheartening and killed a lot of the enjoyment of a bunch of multiplayer games we had spent hours and hours playing just to unlock everything. The two I remember being the most disappointed by were Duke Nukem Zero Hour and Beetle Adventure Racing. Because both of those games are decently tough and time consuming to unlock everything and both of their multiplayer matches are kind of lousy until you unlock stuff.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

The worst was probably my n64 controller pak. It was an offbrand one with switches on it that let you have multiple saving pages. It was basically the size of 4 regular controller paks. Something fucked up in a game I was playing one day and everything on all the pages of the controller pak got erased. Which was pretty much every n64 game I owned or rented that used the controller pak which was a lot of the games I owned. It was pretty disheartening and killed a lot of the enjoyment of a bunch of multiplayer games we had spent hours and hours playing just to unlock everything. The two I remember being the most disappointed by were Duke Nukem Zero Hour and Beetle Adventure Racing. Because both of those games are decently tough and time consuming to unlock everything and both of their multiplayer matches are kind of lousy until you unlock stuff.

The horror is palpable. I share your pain because I was a member of the Mad Katz club as a kid…