Ever had a save file loss?

[NewLeaf13]

I had that twice in SimCity DS. The first time was because the battery died while saving and the second time was me accidentally taking the cartridge out mid save. And both cities had over 150,000 sims and were called Llama City. I made a 3rd Llama City, and deleted it in September. Now it's Hanford City.


Post below about how you felt if that happened to you.

 

[Caius]

Hey anything about gaming needs to go into the Gamers Lounge category. Just a heads up!

 

[spCrossing]

LittleBigPlanet 2.

We almost 100% the game, and then the save data crapped out on us...UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH.

 

[n64king]

7 Generations in of playing normal speed Sims 3 on my computer exploded after 6-7 months of play. Probably too many mods/downloads killed it or too much saved data from so many things done. Although I really wasn't that annoyed because the city was a futuristic mess of edits I had done that built onto one another and my family was so rich and content with their moodlet managers that they taught themselves to use that the game played itself.

 

[Tao]

Skyrim PC has had a few save file losses. I say 'losses', they were 'broken' and/or 'corrupt' due to whatever mods broke them...So I've had to delete many Skyrim saves over the course of playing it due to shoddy mods.

Metal Gear Solid 4 got 'corrupt' near the end...It was about 6 months later that I 'cooled off' and felt like picking it up and trying again.

My brother spilled his milk on my old PS1 memory card and I lost my data for Digimon World (I had an awesome Metal Ninjamon), Final Fantasy IX and a bunch of other games that weren't as important.

My Gamecube memory card 'corrupted' and I lost my saves for everything I had at the time (this prompted me to get an official Nintendo card rather than the cheap third party ones...And never get crappy third party accessories again...)


Most recently, though it wasn't exactly 'lost', I had to reformat my 3DS.
I bought a WiiU last month. About a year ago my friend made me create a profile on his WiiU. Long story short, this made it that I either had to:
A) go through even more hassle with Nintendo customer service (I had already sent a few emails + racked up a bit of a phone bill) or
B) Reformat my 3DS (to erase my NNID data) and start a new profile on 3DS as well.

I had to do one or the other if I wanted the same profile on both systems so that it was all under one account and so that things like 'Club Nintendo' were linked to both systems...So I ended up losing all my Streetpass data...Like, 2,000+ street pass hits, all puzzle pieces + almost every hat...

I like Streetpass though...So I guess it's given me the chance to 'do it all again' *sigh*

 

[alwatkins]

I haven't yet. I hope I never do.

 

[lars708]

I had a similar problem with Mario Kart 7, i turned my 3DS off when i accidently clicked on next race online becouse i wanted to stop playing. That made me lose all my Mii data and friends

 

[Astro0]

Dunno if it counts but i once let my ypung family friend play my 99% complete pokemon mystery dungeon blue team and it was returned to me completely wiped... i was so mad but i couldnt even tell him he f'ed up because he was like 7 and my parents would be mad haha

 

[Feloreena]

My Binding of Isaac save spontaneously deleted itself from the Steam cloud and I wasn't able to recover it. It really sucked because I had pretty much unlocked everything, and I definitely stopped playing as much as I used to because of that.

 

[superheroantics]

I've had something worse: every game in my Steam library deleted itself from my computer. At lest my actual data was saved on the cloud, though.

 

[NewLeaf13]

I've had something worse: every game in my Steam library deleted itself from my computer. At lest my actually data was saved on the cloud, though.

How did that even happen?

- - - Post Merge - - -

My Binding of Isaac save spontaneously deleted itself from the Steam cloud and I wasn't able to recover it. It really sucked because I had pretty much unlocked everything, and I definitely stopped playing as much as I used to because of that.

And it sucks because some consoles like the N64 apparently, sometimes look like all data is lost, but if you reset the console or something like that, the data would be back. I think that also works on the SNES. Of course, in some instances, such as doing the DKC 2 Castle Crush glitch, it wouldn't work.

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

My GameCube memory card got corrupted, so I lost all my save files.

 

[ibelleS]

Plenty of Sims 2 losses due to switching computers/wiping computer data/etc. Hours of searching and downloading custom content, down the drain. I don't even feel it's worth it to reinstall on this computer, I doubt it could handle the game.

Also Pokemon Ruby. My first Pokemon game, dangit.

 

[Togekiss]

Once, but only due to the carelessness of a friend. I don't know why, but they just decided that it would be hilarious to delete everything off of my Gamecube's memory card.

 

[Locket]

Not yet. My 3DS was too smart. But, I no longer have one. But I was so close to losing everything after it's left hinge broke. It wouldn't turn on, but I adjusted the screen and it turned on, but the top screen won't work because two cords split in half.

 

[LisaIsEatingTacoBell]

I've had that happen to me several times with the Sims. Especially with The Sims 3. Every so often the game would crash on me after HOURS of playing. Ughhh, my poor deleted Sims. Almost had that happen to me with LA Noire on xbox as well. I had bought the complete edition after playing the normal edition and for some reason it wouldn't read my old save file but I managed to fix it.

Literally some of the most gamer rage I've ever felt has been through lost save files.

 

[JCnator]

The only moment I lost a save file was my PS2 version of Tony Hawk's Underground 2 progress, in which I've halfway beat the game. For playing over two hours and then saving at the New Orleans stage in its World Tour mode, the game is stuck on that save box dialog forever without an easy way out. Then, I shut the system off and rebooted, only to find that the concerned character profile (which contained the progress) is corrupted and can't be used anymore. Had to restart a new game because of that. It's not all too surprising to heard this happening, considering the game's filled with glitches anyway.

 

[Smile Dog]

I've had something worse: every game in my Steam library deleted itself from my computer. At lest my actual data was saved on the cloud, though.

I got phished out of a steam account and permanently lost every game from it.

 

[oranje]

It happened to me twice on Banjo-Kazooie. I had gotten to the last world in the game and then it resetted itself. Then I re-played it all over again and once I got to the same level, it resetted itself again. D: I was so disappointed that I was so close to beating the game when that happened. I don't think it was an issue with my n64 though because all of the other games were fine. There was a mole in the beginning of the game that I remember that would threaten to reset the game if you bother him too much. I think he cursed my game. ;_;

 

[Geoni]

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