Cervantes
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Post by Cervantes on May 12, 2017 9:44:08 GMT
Has this ever happened to anyone here?
It just happened to me. Recently, I begun playing Mirror's Edge: Catalyst on PC (Origin, which now I can attest that it definitely sucks). This game follows the modern stupidity of having only auto saves, all stored in a single file: this already sucks because my wife (or anyone else) can't start a new game or it will mess with my save. At least some games like Skyrim and Tomb Raider 2013 always store 2 auto save files (besides the manual saves), so if one of them gives you trouble, you just load the previous one.
So, I had a power outtage while playing the game. When I tried playing it again later, it informed me that my save was corrupted, so I assumed the game would load the file from the cloud. Surprise: the game threw me at the beginning scene. Apparently, what it did was restart my entire game and WRITE IT OVER MY CLOUD SAVE. So, basically, the cloud saves on Origin are completely useless (on Steam I never had a problem like this). Keep in mind this is my first game on Origin; I have literally 186 games on Steam and never had any problem with the ones that use cloud saves - the very few times a local save gave me trouble, Steam instantly asked me if I wanted to load a cloud save before opening the game. This doesn't give me any confidence on buying further games on Origin.
I did a quick search online and, besides this having no solution, it is a surprisingly common problem. What the hell, this is serious amateur stuff: why not let the players do manual saves or at least keep two autosaves, like every game ever?
This reminded me the first time the internal battery on my Saturn died: at the time, I didn't have its Backup Memory cartridge, so I lost a lot of nice saves (like a Guardian Heroes save with all the characters unlocked, some good times in NiGHTS etc.).
EDIT: I had played ME:C for 15 hours before losing my file. That's quite some time lost. At least the game is fun enough to play those hours again, I guess.
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Post by leaon79s on May 12, 2017 10:15:58 GMT
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Balder
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Post by Balder on May 12, 2017 11:50:12 GMT
I lost my Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 save many many times because the memory card that I used was 3rd party (but it has worked perfectly fine every other game). The DBZ worked fine with the memory card for a few days, then just one day it deleted itself. It happened several times before I bought an original memory card. Just fucking weird man.
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Post by stratogustav on May 12, 2017 12:25:22 GMT
This has happened to me too many times and the number one place goes to Lament Of Innocence. Whether it was my PS2 or my PS3 I always had to restart from the beginning all the way to being able to play Punkin when I lost the files.
In the PS2 were simply memories lost, but on the PS3 it happened when I upgraded from 320 GB to 1 TB to 1.5 TB.
Last time it happened I actually gave up half way the first playthrough. I need to go back and finish all the other playthroughs including Joachim and Crazy.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on May 12, 2017 15:08:32 GMT
Sorry for your loss, Cervantes. I can't remember a time that this has ever happened to me, but those single save file auto saves are dumb for all the reasons you already mentioned. Total garbage. And I don't know why the developers do it. Seems like it would be easy to just add a second save file.
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Post by Balder on May 12, 2017 15:28:48 GMT
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Post by dschult3 on May 12, 2017 21:25:25 GMT
Has this ever happened to anyone here? This game follows the modern stupidity of having only auto saves, all stored in a single file. What's up with this stupid trend? I hate the fact that games only have one save slot these days. As for losing files, I tend to replace my Super Nintendo and Nintendo batteries these days, because I hate testing fate. Although the older games don't take as long to beat, you still can put 40-60 hours into an old Final Fantasy game. I have had my Final Fantasy VI cart erase my save slots, and that drove me nuts.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on May 12, 2017 22:14:25 GMT
Has this ever happened to anyone here? This game follows the modern stupidity of having only auto saves, all stored in a single file. What's up with this stupid trend? I hate the fact that games only have one save slot these days. As for losing files, I tend to replace my Super Nintendo and Nintendo batteries these days, because I hate testing fate. Although the older games don't take as long to beat, you still can put 40-60 hours into an old Final Fantasy game. I have had my Final Fantasy VI cart erase my save slots, and that drove me nuts. How do you keep the save when you replace the battery?
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Balder
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Post by Balder on May 12, 2017 22:24:34 GMT
What's up with this stupid trend? I hate the fact that games only have one save slot these days. As for losing files, I tend to replace my Super Nintendo and Nintendo batteries these days, because I hate testing fate. Although the older games don't take as long to beat, you still can put 40-60 hours into an old Final Fantasy game. I have had my Final Fantasy VI cart erase my save slots, and that drove me nuts. How do you keep the save when you replace the battery? I'm guessing that he doesn't. But after changing the battery, he can start a new save and not worry about it dying half way.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on May 12, 2017 22:30:18 GMT
How do you keep the save when you replace the battery? I'm guessing that he doesn't. But after changing the battery, he can start a new save and not worry about it dying half way. Yeah, that's what I figured. I've heard of people doing it before, (Preserving a save while replacing a battery) but I've never tried it for myself.
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Post by dschult3 on May 12, 2017 23:35:09 GMT
Yeah, I replace the battery before starting a new game. Old save states (from years ago) don't really matter that much to me.
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Post by fsfsxii on May 13, 2017 0:50:39 GMT
My younger sibling saved over my Darksiders playthrough, twice. don't worry, i finished it eventually. I then gave my copy to my friend in highschool, he encountered a glitch in the last part of the game preventing him from progressing. That game is just bad luck lol
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Post by stratogustav on May 13, 2017 0:57:42 GMT
I didn't know Super Nintendo consoles had an internal battery. My brother keeps our three SNES consoles, if that's the case I'm sure they all need a replacement by now. fsfsxii prosecutors or defenders, who is better?
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Post by Cervantes on May 13, 2017 1:07:39 GMT
Thanks for all the condolences, mates. I believe my save is in heaven, alongside my Albert Odyssey save with all the characters on level 99. Man, that was a lot of grinding lost! dschult3 - Oh man, I forgot all about cartridges. Is it easy to replace the battery? Does it need soldering or you just need to fit the battery there? Balder - Mirror's Edge is one of the single player games/series we both enjoy the most (Portal, Sleeping Dogs and Strider 2014 are the others). Unlike me, she usually leans toward metroidvanias, being a huge fan of both the Castlevania and Metroid series themselves, open-world games (all the GTAs, Saints Row, Just Cause) and modern point&click (Botanicula, Machinarium, Fran Bow, The Room etc.). And Spelunky. She has literally 500+ hours on it between the classic free version, the XBLA one and the Steam copy. Besides those, any coop game we can play together is fair game.
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Post by fsfsxii on May 13, 2017 1:11:44 GMT
I didn't know Super Nintendo consoles had an internal battery. My brother keeps our three SNES consoles, if that's the case I'm sure they all need a replacement by now. fsfsxii prosecutors or defenders, who is better? prosecutors, i'm not much of a defending type, i just lunge forward lol
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