Loss of Save Data/Memory Card Horror Stories?

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#1 Speeny
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I don't have many. I guess it's back when I didn't have a memory card for the PS2 and the power would cut out or someone would turn the system off without realising. Hours of gameplay lost.

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#2 omegaMaster
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The only time it happened was my PS3. One day I switched on my PS3 and it gave me a black screen. After investigating, I had to reset it and lost all my PS3 games and game saves. At that time, I was trying to get beat Caius in FF13: Lightning Returns. Since then I have not returned to that game.

Another story was my PSN account, long story short I forgot my password and Sony was unable to retrieve my account details. I had to start everything from scratch. Both of these stories took place 4 years ago.

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#3 Speeny
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@omegamaster: The PSN one is scary. :(

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#4 Black_Knight_00
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Lost all progress in FF7 and multple other games twice. I also knew a guy who would delete his brother's and my saves on SNES cartridges, just for the hell of it.

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#5 Speeny
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@Black_Knight_00: Yeah. There’s always that one sibling...lol

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#6  Edited By RSM-HQ
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Little Big Planet 3 save corruption. . Because the save file is connected to the Install files; this removes your in-game progress, your creations in the moon, all downloaded kits, and everything else.

And It's common due to how poorly the game is made, and still happens even in 2018. I do not know this first hand, I gave up a while ago, I'm still keeping in contact with a LBP community group as we attempt to build hype for Dreams. At least Sumo Digital isn't working on that one, I have faith Mm will make a game worthy of following-up LBP2 and Tearaway.

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#7 Clefdefa
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I did have a corrupted save files for Fallout 3 on PS3. It was because of the DLC that you go into an OVNI. Those DLC were very badly made on the PS3. I had many slow down or the game would freeze for no reason ... then at one point in that DLC you have like 4 or 5 shit to get and bring back at the center ... well I decided to do the wrong one first and so my game did froze once I came back so I had to restart the game and well the save was corrupted. I had to get back my save from the cloud.

I did lost a few hours of game because of it. I did try it again and sure enough it did it again once I put my feet in the center for the first time. I didn't even have to time to do anything and it froze.

So now ... never gonna play something developped by Bethesda ever again.

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#9 Speeny
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@Yams1980: Thank-god for cloud saves these days. I’d even go to the extent of storing some saves on Dropbox or something.

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#10 Johndmgs
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The one time I beat GTA San Andreas, my save corrupted itself shortly after. I was playing around with the dual wielding weapons I had unlocked and the game froze. I reset the PS2 and the file was gone. No cheats or anything were used.