Ever lost a game save?

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On 1/12/2020 at 10:49 AM, Cocokoru said:

Oh yeah. There is a pretty high chance of destroying the save file when saving in the puzzle sections in Virtue's Last Reward for the Nintendo 3DS. I saved my game in one of them a lot, because, ironically, there is another bug that can freeze the game when entering another room. Fortunately, they got rid of the bug in the Steam version of the game.

I bought my version from the Nintendo eShop on the 3DS and they actually made it so that you couldn't save your game when in puzzle mode of one of the rooms in order to help prevent you from triggering the bug. Though I make it a habit to save before puzzle mode begins with "Seek a way out" and immediately after I completed the puzzle mode and I switch back to novel mode with a "You Found it". 

On 1/21/2020 at 9:38 AM, Stone Cold Steve Tuna said:

Donkey Kong 64. Not only did I lose the save but every time I saved after that. I always had to start a new game.

Eventually (in 2013) I got the save function to work again. By repeatedly spamming the save button until I felt comfortable and then I had to hope for the best.

That's odd because in my physical game pak on actual N64 it seemed that the game automatically saves after every golden banana and other important item I picked up, even if I never hit the save button in the pause menu. And the same thing applied to the virtual console version on Wii U. Like the save button was more an optional thing than a requirement.

EDIT: yes just 10 minutes ago I started a new file on the Wii U Virtual console version and as soon as I got out of the starting area and onto the main island, I reseted my game without hitting the save button and the game still acted as though I went through all those training barrels and opening cinema. The time played numbers on the menu as I loaded the file even said I played for 9 minutes. And I haven't even picked up a single Golden Banana yet. So yeah as far as I know the game seems to automatically save whenever you hit important points in the playthrough