Managed to save my data from being corrupted!?

[FelicityShadow]

Last night I had a dream that I saw my game got corrupted, used your tactic, and it worked. I hope that if it actually happens in real life that it does work for me. That was scary.

 

[Dorian]

Agreed! Thank you for posting this information and I am VERY glad you were able to save your data

 

[TheEchoTimes]

Woah... That was close.
THAT WAS A WILD RIDE- /shot

 

[AudyBanana]

That was close! Glad your town was saved from corruption!

 

[Chere.]

Oh wow thanks for sharing this! Hopefully it won't happen to me, though if it does I'll try doing this. ^^

 

[Kristen]

I'm glad to hear your game wasn't corrupted. I'm super scared that mine will corrupt someday, but the thing is, I don't know how a game gets corrupted. I heard it's most common with digital copies. Do you or anyone else know how a game typically gets corrupted? I'd like to prevent this from ever happening. I even heard somewhere that turning off the DS power while on the title screen can corrupt a game. Not sure what to believe though. I had my game since it's release though, and nothing happened. Same with my mom, brother, and sister. We all have physical copies. I recently restarted my town, but have never had an issue.

Usually just turning off while saving will corrupt a game because it's trying to overwrite the old file but it can't finish, but it can't load the old one because it was in the process of overwriting the last one. I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that's what happens.. I've turned off my game on the title screen, and when the train thing comes up going to the title screen and my game (digital copy!) is in perfect condition.

 

[Chere.]

Usually just turning off while saving will corrupt a game because it's trying to overwrite the old file but it can't finish, but it can't load the old one because it was in the process of overwriting the last one. I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that's what happens.. I've turned off my game on the title screen, and when the train thing comes up going to the title screen and my game (digital copy!) is in perfect condition.

Ah darn yeah I'm paranoid it'll happen to me someday too. I was wondering how a game got corrupted too, but what you said makes sense. I would be so sad if a I lost all my progress. ;_;

 

[asuka]

Usually just turning off while saving will corrupt a game because it's trying to overwrite the old file but it can't finish, but it can't load the old one because it was in the process of overwriting the last one. I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that's what happens.. I've turned off my game on the title screen, and when the train thing comes up going to the title screen and my game (digital copy!) is in perfect condition.

yeah i've heard shutting off the game while the train loading screen is up can make it more likely for corruption so i've tried to stop doing that >.<