A lesson for those who don't save much...

Retro Hero

Retro Hero

I've just been spending most of my night playing Pokemon Sapphire on my Gameboy Player. I must of been at it for at least 4 hours, which may not sound like much...but in those 4 hours I accomplished a LOT, especially evolving my Pokemon and catching brand new ones in the Sarfari Zone. And then there's all these berries I planted in as many patches of soil as possible because I only had a few left (it takes a while to grow berries everywhere and is VERY boring, but I felt like doing it). Anyway, I finally caught a Pikachu and took it a Pokemon contest, and that's when the game decided to freeze for a little while before dissapearing into a fuzzy green/grayish background and telling me I had to change the game pak. This would be fine normally, except this time I didn't save the game at all. So that's over 4 hours (which is way worse than it sounds considering what I acheived) wasted. So right now, I currently look something like this ::D.

Anyway, to make more of a topic out of this, has anyone else had any situations simular (or worse) then this?
 
Haha, well, I'm currently playing through Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and although I didn't lose 4 hours worth of playing, I did lose about one hours worth of playing by hitting an exploding barrel. I didn't bother healing because I'd killed everything in the room, and the exploding barrel was up against the wall that I couldn't see because of the camera angle, and it was surrounded by a bunch of regular barrels, so I hit it, and it killed me. I didn't pick up the game for a week. Now I save about every 10 minutes if I can.
 
:lol

Never happened to me, but I remember when I was playing Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty without a memory card and I beat the game! I didn't save not even once, I just paused the game overnight and continue playing it in the morning and so on after school. Took me a week to beat it though. I know my PS2 was hot, been on non-stop for a week. *pets his PS2*
 
Once I accidently turned off my GC when it was saving a game of Soul Caliber II. I lost EVERYTHING on that memory card. All those SSBM trophys, all Metroid Prime data (all four galleries), Viewtiful Joe, Kirby Air Ride, everything. I worked so hard for Kirby Air Ride, too :'(
 
Ya, sometimes Autosaving scares me. I've caught myself a couple times holding down the power button when I look to the screen and it says "DO NOT TOUCH THE POWER BUTTON OR MEMORY CARD!". Especially when the game saves really discretely, like, up in the right hand corner it will show a tiny little icon of a memory card indicating it is in fact unsafe to turn off your system.
 
I was playing All-star baseball 2000 for my N64 and I was 145 games into the season when I accidently erased everything. I did it again when only 30 games in but after that I learned my lesson.

:af
 
Well losing saves by accident is one thing, but the game losing your save files on purpose is worse.

WWF No Mercy for the N64 actually has a bug in the cartridge that erases your save files after you turn the console on so many times. I don't think THQ did anything about it, either.
 
Ya, they had a recall on it. They fixed the bug and if you had a receipt you could get a newer unbugged copy. Unfortunatly yours truly never kept his recent, assuming any major bugs would have been caught in testing (honestly, how long did they even test it for?) so I was proverbially screwed. The bug also seemed to get worse as time went on, at first it would save for a couple months, then a couple weeks, and by now I can't even get to use a character I create because the time it takes me to set up a match with him in it the memory erases itself.
 
I was worried about saving in Tales of Symphonia because some reviews mentioned a "stingy" save system. I was pretty relieved to find out that it wasn't that stingy at all. I mean in dungeons there usually was just one save point, but as much as I save, I never had a problem with having to do stuff over. *^_^*
 
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