Sarah Saved the Game!

Started by Palamon June 29th, 2019 8:31 AM
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Palamon

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Age 26
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Snezhnaya, Teyvat.
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14.3 Years
How often do you try to save your games in Pokemon? Do you often save multiple times in one minute? Have you ever had a save file corrupted or lost?

I save my game usually once after every major thing I did in the game. But, if not, I save every time I'm ready to close my system, but I usually save five times per session. And...yes I'm victim of "did I save the game? *saves again* mentality. Sometimes I'm scared I forgot to save, because there are times I do when my DS is about to die. I also tend to save more often when my DS is in the red. (My 3DS battery is broken, so I don't rly play Pokemon games on there anymore). I've had a save file lost on me before, but never a main series Pokemon game, only a Mystery Dungeon game. But I never deleted it, so maybe it glitched itself into deletion. More on that, btw, one time, a Mystery Dungeon game FAILED to save and froze on me upon the save failing, this was Blue Rescue Team, iirc. @[email protected] I've had save files corrupted, too, because when I was a kid, I thought it was totally okay to shut the power off while saving, but there were times my system died while a save was occurring, so. ;; Aha.

Sorvete

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Brazil
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Posted March 25th, 2023
3,110 posts
5.1 Years
I save very often, ever since I had a crash where I lost 2 or 3 badges of progress. It's not fun

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gracidea fields
Seen December 30th, 2022
Posted December 29th, 2022
8,974 posts
18.1 Years
All. The. Time.

I'm really paranoid because sometimes I would think that I've saved the game, but I really haven't. So to prevent that, I try to pay extra attention to when I do save the game so I don't become forgetful and wonder "huh, when did I last save the game?" and like... forget that I did it already. @[email protected]

Sheep

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Australia
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39,253 posts
16.6 Years
I used to save constantly because I was paranoid, now a bit less so, so maybe once every 30 minutes?? Seems like a good spot. Or after a bigger achievement like defeating a gym leader, since I want to make sure nothing happens and I won't have to redo. Fortunately never had a save file corrupted from what I remember (unless I was using cheats, which I did way back in the DDPt days) so there is little reason for me to worry!

Sydian

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Age 30
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Georgia
Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
33,354 posts
15.2 Years
i usually only save when i'm about to be done w the game or go into a battle w a legendary or smth. but then like i'll save 4 times bc i'm like DID I SAVE????? THE GAME???????? BETTER SAVE!!!!!! MUK DID THAT SAVE GO THROUGH WAS THAT REAL
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MargatroidCA

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Sinnoh (but actually Canada)
Seen December 4th, 2021
Posted December 24th, 2019
88 posts
4 Years
Yeah I save after every other corner tbh. Hell sometimes I'll save like 5 times before even making it to the next corner, and then I'll save 5 times more after just for good measure!

I can't help it, games like heavily modded Skyrim sorta drilled it into my head that I must save before and after every little thing I do. o.o
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starseed galaxy auticorn

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Age 34
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the land of magical unicorns
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6,648 posts
18.9 Years
I probably save a little too much. I have a habit of saving the game multiple times... just to make sure that I actually saved. ;w;

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Seen December 30th, 2022
Posted December 29th, 2022
8,974 posts
18.1 Years
finally I'm not the only one!!

Megan

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17,752 posts
10.3 Years
Back in the day, at the end of gen 1, when I was on my very first team based playthrough (before that I used to solo the game with my starter), I got a pretty cool team together that I was particularly proud of. We went on vacation at some point and I took my game with me. At the hotel, when I started it up I was greeted with a message that the data was corrupted and I was forced to start a new game. I was not that the battery had run dry. In fact, it was still working a couple months ago.

I tend to saver relatively often, especially in the newer, more cutscene heavy games, because I don't want to go through all of it again.
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Brendino

The Ruins of Alph
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Posted April 6th, 2023
8,567 posts
13.4 Years
I really only save right before major plot points, or right as soon as I'm finishing up with the game. I know I should probably be a little more cautious and save more often, but nothing all that bad has happened to me yet, so I probably keep doing what I'm doing until something dumb happens and I regret it lol.