Ever had a save file loss?

[superheroantics]

How did that even happen?

Windows 8 decided it didn't want to work so I had to refresh and restore my machine until it just gave up and reverted to factory default
All my files (music, pictures, etc.) were left intact, though

 

[lolipopfishsticks]

I'm kinda slow gamer when it comes to using consoles and it took me forever to beat Majora's Mask and when I finally got to the last boss in the moon, my friend deleted my gamefile. T^T Not to mention the fact that my family was really low on money and it took me forever to save up to buy the expansion pak to play the game.

Skyrim of all things, after I first played it when it came out. I still miss that Orc.

Haha, I'm always messing around with mods on Skyrim so losing saved files isn't too big of a deal for me.

 

[shayminskyforme88]

Back when I was young and stupid. I used to think these Black Pokemon Cartridges were legit(Gen III) just because they had a single game on them. Back then, I though bootleg cartridges were only the ones with multiple games in them. Those things would get deleted very often, but I do have some memories with them seemingly deleting. The first one was with a Bootleg Sapphire(my first Pokemon game, I do have a legit one now though). I slept over in my cousins' house and they had helped me get items I don't have and get further in the game(I didn't get the items because I did not talk to all NPCs). That night, I had a dream that my file got deleted. When I woke up in the morning, I checked and it did get deleted. My cousin told me to try again and my save file was still there. Another time was with a Bootleg FireRed(Also have a legit copy of that now). I saved the game, then it froze in "Saving... don't turn off the power." When I turned it on, I lost my file. I felt bad because I worked really hard on that file and I just lost it. So I just left it and went biking. I then decided to just start it over again and my save file was suddenly there.

Lesson: Make sure what you're buying is legit.

 

[Alienfish]

I had on old Pok?mon games before. Uuuugh I remember on a Crystal copy I had, was pretty far, to that ice cave near Mahogany town... nope!

 

[cielyca]

I never experience any save corruption or loss in any videogames I have played. The closest one was probably when we still had ps1 and I lost my memory card which had my save for harvest moon back to nature. It was fine though because I love playing and restarting that game until I fully upgrade my house, farm and get married.

 

[TeH_JERGEN]

Someone stole my PS2 memory card with completed save files for all 3 Ratchet and Clank games, the first 3 .//hack games, San Andreas and all of my Soul Calibur 2 and Vice City data. It sucked.

 

[Dustmop]

I grew up playing old-ass consoles with cartridges. Yeah, we've lost some save files.

Most recently, I lost a whole bunch when my 360 RROD'd a couple years ago, including 1,000+ hours on Fallout 3. :c

Never lost anything on PC or any of my other newer consoles, though.

 

[n64king]

Not in an two ages though have I lost data. Probably 10 years ago now my PS2 memory card corrupt, Pokemon Red got funky after i accepted a Mew in a trade, and if it counts my Pokemon Silver for GameBoy doesn't save anymore cause the battery inside the cart is going down.

Most recently, I lost a whole bunch when my 360 RROD'd a couple years ago, including 1,000+ hours on Fallout 3. :c

The Fallout 3 thing would make me end my life.

 

[TeH_JERGEN]

Not in an two ages though have I lost data. Probably 10 years ago now my PS2 memory card corrupt, Pokemon Red got funky after i accepted a Mew in a trade, and if it counts my Pokemon Silver for GameBoy doesn't save anymore cause the battery inside the cart is going down.

If you can use a soldering iron its a really easy fix on for the battery on old Pokemon games.

 

[Coach]

Nope! All of my games have never corrupted.

 

[ItachiKouyou]

I had once in Harvest Moon : Another Wonderful Life on GameCube. I was pretty far, if I remember well. It took me a while before I decided to restart.

And on my Pok?mon Silver. I was young and stupid. I was stucked at some place and decided to start a new game just to spend time, and I saved by mistake. Well xD

 

[smb3master]

My 256 block GCN memory card recently corrupted, and I lost all of my years of data.

Luckily I had some of it (like my Doubutsu no Mori e+ town) backed up on my PC.

 

[ThePayne22]

My 256 block GCN memory card recently corrupted, and I lost all of my years of data.

Luckily I had some of it (like my Doubutsu no Mori e+ town) backed up on my PC.

My card corrupted recently too, but I didnt have a backup. ;-;

Last summer I let my brother have my old DS Lite and my copy of Wild World, cause he was jealous of my New Leaf swag. On his first day playing, he wanted to show me his town song, so he hands me the DS and I'm all:

"Gotta turn the volume up."

I instinctively move my finger over to the left switch, cause the 3DSXL volume switch is there. Little did I realize that that was the power switch on the DS Lite. He had been playing all day without saving.

 

[tamagotchi]

I can't remember exactly what game it was, but I remember accidentaly scrolling through too fast and I deleted everything in my save file.

I don't think I played after that.

 

[Brobasaur]

Just lost 20 hours in dragon age

 

[n64king]

If you can use a soldering iron its a really easy fix on for the battery on old Pokemon games.

I've seen that and it's not that important at this point. But it is good to know you can fix it if I so chose to.

 

[Brad]

Many finished Pokemon saves have been lost to siblings in the past.

 

[Marmoset]

Yes. Trying to fix right now. So many hours of work gone. Let's hope it all works out in the end!

 

[Vizionari]

When I was playing Harvest Moon: Cute Edition on the DS, I was playing in my sister's friend's file, and when I was saving I wasn't thinking straight and hit the power button :/

The good thing was I got to make a new farmer though c:

 

[Mega Kakuna]

I had this happen mainly with a few games that I couldn't find a reasonably priced copy of and emulated, mainly EarthBound. Though I'm finally playing through that on a physical copy at long last

The main one though is sadly my Crystal version. After moving into an apartment with some friends, I found out one of them owned Pokemon Stadium 2 and an excited me decided that I'd try to play it with my Crystal version. Alas, the save battery had gone the way of good Sonic games, and all my progress as a child was gone. I plan on getting it replaced but all my attempts at second gen breeding were gone.