Losing your save

[SinAkuma]

I don't know if you remember, but the PS2 game cases had a slot to put the memory card in.
I had reached before the end of Kingdom Hearts and saved the game.
After putting the memory card in the game case, I lent it to a friend and i forgot that I had the memory card there, that was the last time i saw the game and the memory card...

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I don't know if you remember, but the PS2 game cases had a slot to put the memory card in.
I had reached before the end of Kingdom Hearts and saved the game.
After putting the memory card in the game case, I lent it to a friend and i forgot that I had the memory card there, that was the last time i saw the game and the memory card...

 

[Bonkers225]

Happened to me for PSO on the Dreamcast. I just basically Gamesharked the hell out of it afterwards and became a no good duping cheater online. But I have an excuse! I was a stupid kid.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

my magic times of PSO on DC had 8 VMUs, 8 chars with 3 of them over 900 hrs each - over 500 for the rest. bless you VMU chiLdren, I never lost a VMU sav back in ze day.

fast-fwd to Phantasy Star Universe... Phantasy Star Portable...

untold horror...

told AF terror...

hair-tear-out tragedy...

F-U PPSSPP YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MEH FRIEND TO THE END!!! WELL CHUC... I MEAN PPSSPP... THIS *IS THE END - F R I E N DDDD!!!!!!!!!!!* FLAMETHROWER LAWNMOWER LEAFBLOWER CHAOGROWER --- COMBO ATTACK FRVM H3LLLLLLLL

n GODDAMN YOU HEWLETT-PACKARD!!! I CAME BACK TO ASUS CRYIN UP A BOO-HOO SHITSTORM BUT THE SCARS NEVER.., EHRRMM... UN-SCAR-IFY!!!!! or sum shit BUT YEA KISS MEH ASS WITH SONIC1 DEBUG SPIKES GLUED TO IT HP!!!!!!!!!!!! LOST.... ALL,... EMU.... savs. sigh.

thank you 18 external HDs. I can again sleep at night...

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.........................................................DAMMIT STEAM!!!

I now back up as many saves locaLLy as I can. Steam Cloud is a dreary, rainy poopcloud indeed.

~(never)END(ing)~

 

[JG5009]

It happened to me with Battle Network 3, 2 times actually, I can't bring myself to go through the final part of the game since it has so much backtracking everywhere I got really burned.

 

[snes9x]

Recently happened to me when I tried to transfer my Mother 3 save file to a Miyoo Plus. Incidentally, I also lost my Mother 3 save when I was playing it on a phone emulator in high school fifteen years ago and switched over to a new phone. I downloaded a .sav file approximately at the same spot I was but still, fuckin bummer.

 

[MajesticSiN]

I always get discouraged when it happens and usually play something else for a week or so before coming back to the game I lost the data for.

 

[Soma_Shotgun]

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?

My friend started playing Super Mario RPG, the og one while I backseated him. I was happy because I've finally managed to convince him to play a JRPG but then he lost his save because he is a doofus and since then I could't make him to play any RPGs.

 

[snes9x]

That's a shame. Super Mario is pretty short for a JRPG and easy to blast through. Probably one of the easiest in the genre to retrace your steps.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

My friend started playing Super Mario RPG, the og one while I backseated him. I was happy because I've finally managed to convince him to play a JRPG but then he lost his save because he is a doofus and since then I could't make him to play any RPGs.

nice Gravity Circuit sig. too bad about your friend but leading horses to water is never a guarantee (unless you BLAST IT down their throat with a SUPER-SOAK'RRRR)

 

[_Lorenzo_]

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?

Not too long ago, I bought a modified Arduino device from a well-known Chinese e-commerce site, to read my old PS1 mc using the tool MemCardRex. On a couple of them, there were two corrupted save files that I was able to recover without any problems. These were saves that dated back twenty years. This tool is incredibly useful, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to recover a save file from a pendrive using your PS Classic and then proceed with MCR.

 

[Bluewyne]

If I lose a save in a game that I have been actively playing, it makes me depressed and I usually abandon the game for a long time. If its the game itself that corrupted the save, then I never go back to the game, because I can't handle the stress and paranoia that it'll happen again.

 

[ThatOneLum]

This literally happened to me with Xenoblade Chronicles 3D last week.

I have a shitty habit of just leaving my 3DS running and forgetting to save, and so i experienced the bug where you freeze up after using a group attack.

I was like 5+ hours in at the time so now I'm waiting to try it on Switch or something cus screw plating a game this old that still has a bug as bad as that in it.