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Games where your save file got corrupted/lost

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HeeHo

Member
I don't think anything too bad has happened.

I lost a 70+ hour Secret of Mana save when I let a friend borrow the game. I told him not to blow in it or anything but when I tried to check up on my save it was gone...

Also, my first FF7 play through got erased because my sister was playing on a different save file and she accidentally saved over my 50 hour file (I was near Wutai). This was kinda dumb because she was playing on her file and it defaulted to save on mine.

ALSO! When I didn't know what the word 'format' meant in terms of memory space, I saw an option in the PS1 memory card menu to 'format' and I tried it out and poof! FFT Save gone, FF7 save gone, FF8 Save gone, Legend of Mana, etc... That was clearly my fault though. I thought that might happen too so I wasn't too upset.
 
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DealWithIt

Member
Teslagrad 75% of the way through.

It was really annoying because I was liking the game but not enough for a full do-over. The game crashed while auto-saving.
 
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watdaeff4

Member
Happened to me recently with my NBA2K17 file. Was halfway through a season and for whatever reason the file got corrupted.

Haven't touched the game since.
 
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yanipheonu

Member
I had to start over Baten Kaitos Origins twice, both at around the same part of the game.

First time, save file was corrupted.
Second time, a dog literally ate the memory card.
 
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BeekleMatter

Member
99% completion in Red Dead Redemption, I needed 1 more flower...

About the same and 300 hours in Skyrim...

And my Xbox 360 hard drive bit the dust. RIP.
 
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ultra7k

Member
Tactics Ogre on PS1 back in the day, c.1999, or 2000. Spent the entire summer carefully playing this game at my grandma's place, grinding via training to make sure units were around the same level.

Was down deep in the optional dungeon where you can get the Ogre gear and had most of it. Saved my game and walked away from it for a day or so. When we got back to my parents place, the memory card somehow got lost - who knows where it went.

Never got back to that level of TO, not even in the remake, which I think I will get on soon.
 
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SabinFigaro

Member
Lost a 35-40 hour save in Persona 3.

I had multiple saves, and thought I was being so smart by backing things up. I had just bought an Action Replay and was pretty new to it; decided to copy (actually cut/paste) my latest save to their card so I couldn't transfer it to my PC. It was also on a third party memory card, and I wanted to transfer it to an official one.

Didn't realize the card was in the "locked" position, meaning no read/write capabilities. I don't think there was a warnkng during transfer.

Last backup was at 12-15 hours. Pretty crushed, but I just sat there for a few minutes feeling sorry for myself, then kept going.
 
Melchiah

Melchiah

Member
My save file was corrupted in Tomb Raider 2013 remaster, when I was in the last open area. Luckily it only erased about 10% of progress. Afterwards, I made sure to rotate the save files at the campfires on regular basis.

I was lucky enough to avoid the bullet with The Last of Us, because the save bug was fixed when I started playing in the evening of the release date.
 
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xboxster

Member
I had a copy of Dave Mirra Pro BMX 2 for GBA that deleted the save after so long.

Eventually, it became a game within itself to see how far I could get before the save file reset again.
 
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jelly

Member
Thief Deadly Shadows - Just after leaving the Asylum, what a relief then couldn't continue, never completed it to this day.

Dark Souls - Somewhere around the ice caves, can't remember the name but about 20-30hrs in, that was crushing. Took me a few months to bother starting again and I did complete it.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Recently Darksiders 2 remastered or whatever its called. My save got fucked like 20+ hours in, I already finished the normal version before but it still bummed me out :/
 
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Gravidee

Member
Was playing the VC Shantae on 3DS when the save file somehow disappeared/corrupted. Didn't want to do everything over again by that point so I just watched the rest.
 
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Lumpy Onion

Member
Final Fantasy III for the Famicom. Was doing the final boss rush at the top of the Crystal Tower and accidentally bumped into the system with my foot. I was on a remodeled NES top loader with the honeybee import adapter. Somehow it managed to erase all my save files. Started over from scratch and conquered it days later though.
 
nikeboy94

nikeboy94

Member
Nairume said:
Ubisoft's stupid DRM for AssCreed 2 ate my save after 20 or so hours.

twice

I've not been able to bring myself to try playing through the game again.
Click to expand...

Ah man that's a real shame. I remember those times, but luckily for me my saves were always intact. For what it's worth, Ubisoft have gotten rid of all that DRM. Hopefully some day you'll have it in you to go back, that game was truly one of a kind.
 
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Chopper

Member
Doesn't really count, cos it's kinda my own fault. But I lost my entire living Dex from the Pokemon Vault cos I forgot to renew my account. Livid.
 
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Gugus

Neo Member
Link's Awakening DX : provoked a bug by saving into Eagle's Tower mini-boss room.
When I loaded it back, the mini-boss was alive, door was open, and then memory just bugged in my inventory and this save file has like duplicate for some objects that replaced others.
It's then difficult to finish the game with 2 feathers, 2 shovels, etc... and without power bracelet or bow, isn't it ?

I kept it in the cartridge for fun.
 
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Mifec

Member
3x in Asscreed 3 after the Haytham part, I have PTSD from it.

The fact that the game is really bad after and I actually finished it didn't help either.
 
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NullPointer

Member
Battlefield 4

Must have tried to make some progress in the campaign at least half a dozen times and my save just disappeared each and every time. For the life of me I still don't know how this is possible, even after all of the game's patches and re-releases.

My only refund in this generation to date.
 
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eyeball_kid

Member
The first Infamous. Save got corrupted about halfway through the game in a really unfun sewer mission.

For extra irony, this was a gift from Sony as part of their apology for the giant server hack.
 
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TylerDurden4321

Member
Rebel Galaxy...
I decided to not play any story missions and grind out a super fast and agile ship with highest tier weaponry, shields etc.

when I was almost done, I did an escort mission and spawning stuff in after the jump-gate made the game crash on PS4 after that my save file was corrupted, no back-up, not online either despite PS+ subscription.

Another gaffer had the same issue in the OT.
 
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captain_skyhawk

Member
Final Fantasy 1 on the NES.

Spent all summer grinding as a kid. Hit level 60, ready to take on the rest of the game!

Pop the game into my nes, screen stars flashing green,black and white....pretty normal. pull it out blow on it, jiggle it back in using my secrete method. Title screen comes up and I try to continue and my save is wiped.

Happened twice.
 
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DrKelpo

Banned
For a few months I had no PS+ Subscription but I don't know how long it was exactly... so I fear for my Witcher 3 savefile :(
Hopefully it waits for me in the cloud.
 
Celcius

Celcius

°Temp. member
Once as a kid I let my cousin play my N64 and when I went back to it my entire memory card was deleted. Thankfully some of the saves were on the carts themselves but I still lost plenty of progress.
 
Jibbajabbawockky

Jibbajabbawockky

Member
Last summer, Fallout 4. I had maybe 30 or 40 hours into it and wanted to get back into it to finish the game but the my saves would not load and would just crash the game. Ended up reinstalling Windows since there was some larger issue going on since other games weren't loading but even after reinstalling Windows and having other games like The Witcher 3 work fine, my Fallout 4 saves are seemingly busted.

I tried starting it back up with a new game and got maybe an hour or 2 into it. I still want to get back into it but between Zelda and playing Blood and Wine, I'm starting to feel some open world fatigue.
 
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BiggNife

Member
Nothing huge but I remember being pretty pissed when I got exactly halfway through Condemned 2 and my save file got corrupted. Apparently it was completely random and the only way to avoid the bug was to quit to the main menu before turning off the system, but obviously I had no way of knowing that. I'm not even sure if Sega/Monolith patched the bug or not, I contacted support and their response was basically a shrug.
 
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ChoppedandScrewed

Member
I'm literally about to reformat my computer in about an hour and I hope I don't have any stories to add. I'm surprised at how little information there was about backing up your save files on Steam, but I downloaded something called GameSave Manager which seems like a legit solution. I hope it works!
 
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SmackAttack

Member
Literally just happened to me with Bioshock 2 in the collection. Went to save in Siren Alley and the game crashed. Started it back up and can't continue because the save is corrupted and now I have to start the level over at the Autosave because my dumbass kept saving over the same file. I really don't want to do all of that over again.
 
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Unspoken90

Member
It only happened to me with Smackdown vs Raw 2009 for the PS2. Could have been worse experience if it was with a different game.
 
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The007JiM

Member
WWE2K17. Buggy and glitched game specially at launch around october- december. Lost everything around dicember i believe.

Surprised when i realized that the save file for this game weights 1Gb.
 
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Fisty

Member
"Man this Die Hard Trilogy game is pretty cool, so glad I got the lightgun with it!"

...

"Format memory card? Hmm OK, I thought my memory card was already the correct format, but I guess I better check this out."

...

"Oh"
 
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KirbKirb30

Member
Recently Grand Theft Auto V apparently hadn't saved to the cloud like I thought it was supposed to and so I lost all my save files I built up over the last two years when I wiped my HDD. Thankfully I had already beaten the game and was looking to start a new playthrough so I guess the choice was just removed for me lol.

More tragic was Jak X: Combat Racing corrupting my memory card with its infamous memory card bug and not only killing progress on that game but every other game on my memory card, from Kingdom Hearts II to Sly 3 to Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal.
 
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abolisher6812

Member
LittleBigPlanet

It wasn't very good, but I made a Voltron in which the arms and legs connected to the body and it made the lion growl when they connected. I spent a week making it then my PS3 went poof and that was that.
 
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Justinh

Member
I was playing Panzer Dragoon Orta via 360 BC when it froze. I let it sit for a few minutes, then did a hard shutdown/reboot. When it booted back up I learned that my hard drive had been corrupted and I lost everything on my 360 hard drive.

The things that really sucked were Dark Souls 2 and the Mass Effect save (1-3). I had already played ME 1-3 a couple times and wanted to keep it for whenever I got around to the Citadel DLC. Dark Souls 2 is where it really hurt though. I was having a lot more trouble in that game than the first one and it took me over a year to get over it and start a new save. I still haven't played the Citadel DLC, it has the only achievements I don't have for the entire series on 360, and I don't plan on playing it until I play through all the games just like I did with my old save. I don't know why, it just feels like I should do it that way. Although I'm not motivated in playing these games again. I've played them enough, really...

I bought an OXBOX shorty after this, btw.
 
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Rodney McKay

Member
KOTOR 2

Hit a really weird bug (a full story event repeated itself), but everything seemed fine so I kept going.

About 5-6 hours later I finish the planet I was on and try to leave the planet, but the ship is empty and I can't access the flight computer, so I was stuck.

All my save files were AFTER that weird bug I hit (I keep like 20 saves that I overwrite in order) so there wasn't anything I could do.

This was only a few years ago with all the fan patches and stuff that were suppose to fix the game. I wasn't having that much fun with the game (it's like a way more depressing KOTOR 1), so I didn't feel like replaying the boring 20 hours I had put into it already.

If it ever comes to Mobile I might give it another shot, but I don't think I'll ever retry it on PC.
 
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SuperLurker

Member
In the PS1 era I had a third party 3.5 inch floppy drive to backup memory cards to. I would keep saves for games I was actively playing on the memory card and put others onto a floppy. About 50 hours into DQ7 I moved the save from the memory card to a floppy for some reason and when I went back to it the entire floppy was corrupted.

I never finished that game until that 3DS port came out.
 
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