Saves that go "Poof" in the night.

[Turkishchocolate]

Last night as I played my old copy of Pokemon Sapphire, the unthinkable happened. The internal save battery died, taking with it five years worth of play time. In order to turn this into a discussion I ask you this: Have any of your saved games become corrupt, leaving you wondering why this had to happen to you?

Hoping that this post is long enough to satisfy you all,
TurkishChocolate

 

[Galletea]

My Morrowind save died after I had completed the expansions. I was gutted. Then I started again a week later.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

I once had a PS2 memory card lost in the mail (long story). If I had to guess, I'd say there was at least 1200 hours of game time on that thing, including 200 hours of Final Fantasy X and 350 hours of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

I didn't touch a video game for about three months after that incident. I was, to say the least, crushed.

 

[ace_of_something]

Mine just inexplicably vanished in City of Heroes/Villains this is how I came to stop playing the game though.

 

[Kabutos]

My Morrowind save died after I had completed the expansions. I was gutted. Then I started again a week later.

Same thing happened to me. I had just finished the Bloodmoon main quest after the other two ones (with plenty of sidequests, mind you) and then woke up to a corrupt game file. I had already played that game to death so I just exploited the permanent stats glitch and messed around.(Whizzing around and breaking through the inside of a building is fun.)

 

[Fightbulb]

My save file for the first GoW vanished, I got to the 4th campaign. Then I probably went; "fuck this", and I haven't touched the game since.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

I lost my save data on Supreme Commander.

I was just about to get the 100 ACU kills and completing all campaigns all difficulties achievements. I have the achievements for completing each campaign on hard, but not "completing all on hard".

 

[MorsePacific]

I've had at least two GameCube memory cards corrupt on me. Made me lose all of Chao data for SA2:B and loads of other stuff.

 

[Fenring]

My Morrowind save died after I had completed the expansions. I was gutted. Then I started again a week later.

That happened to me once, still was a great game.

I lost my Dead Rising File at .5 days left.

 

[Altorin]

I've lost memory cards.

lots of them.

oh, and in "wtf" lost saves moments, I lost a save for Gauntlet Dark Legacy that had 3 level 99 characters on it, a few 50s, and all the bonus classes unlocked.

I was a little miffed.

 

[Milkatron]

Same thing happened to me on my original Red version. I was, needless to say, less than pleased.

 

[the_tramp]

Lost my FFVIII save having gotten pretty much everything and was just about to fight Ultimesia (I had yet to fight her so had not completed to game yet) I was not happy. However it worked for the better because with my stats I probably would have annihilated her.

I did a quick run through the game again (which in hind sight isn't quick...) and actually had a challenging final boss fight.

 

[Tomw1812]

My farcry 2 save files didn't load past 60% but before that it will load before then, i've given up on that game

 

[CIA]

I had a house sitter who deleted all my Oblivion save data. I'm still getting over it *sniff*.

I don't know if that counts.

 

[Deadarm]

I randomly had my white GC memory card go completely blank once out of nowhere... but I think my cousin had something to do with it. I had like 50 different games saved to it and when that happened I sold half of them.

 

[Veekter]

my pokemon silver did that to me, and took my uber team of kick-ass pokemon along with it, then i played it again, and got a team somewhere around the same goodness as the last

 

[Turtleboy1017]

My Dragon Quest Monsters save file went ahead and killed itself. I had almost all of the ??? class monsters (a real ***** to get) and had beaten the game and unlocked every gate like 12 times over. Regardless to say when it vanished I was mentally crushed. However I started it again a week later, got about 90 percent to my previous save, and then lost the game...

 

[Turkishchocolate]

I had a house sitter who deleted all my Oblivion save data. I'm still getting over it *sniff*.

I don't know if that counts.

Of course it counts! Those house sitters are positively evil, getting paid to live in your house for a week while mucking up your things. That happened to me once, only it involved not a house sitter, but a favorite pet cat.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Similar to yours: Pokemon Gold. It didn't just erase one save though, I couldn't save on that game again at all.

 

[Good morning blues]

None of my saves have ever become corrupted, unless you count a couple of amateur adventure games where I downloaded patches that weren't compatible with old savegames.