Donkey Kong Country save issue

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Donkey Kong Country save issue

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So, I have been stuck every time I try to continue my savegame on DKC.

Everytime I boot the game, it is on 37%, I always end up in world Gorilla Glacier again

despite last time I saved, It was 49% on next world already. It simply erased my progress. It's odd because today, I got to 49% again, saved and then rebooted the game to check if it was saving, and it was 49%. Ok so far. But then I turned off mister and some time later I went to play it again and then...37%

I have autosave ON, on options, anything else I have to do to really save the game normally?

I have the no-intro set rom Donkey Kong Country (USA) (Rev 2)

I am afraid now to start playing some RPG on snes and lose progress like this :shock:
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Re: Donkey Kong Country save issue

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You need to open the OSD (F12) after each save, even with auto save set to on then your games will be saved
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Re: Donkey Kong Country save issue

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I got into the habit of always soft rebooting the MiSTer before turning it off, as that involves opening the OSD and thus triggers the auto save.
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Re: Donkey Kong Country save issue

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jlancaster86 wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:57 am I got into the habit of always soft rebooting the MiSTer before turning it off, as that involves opening the OSD and thus triggers the auto save.
I do exactly the same thing and so far I have had no problems.
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Re: Donkey Kong Country save issue

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jlancaster86 wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:57 am I got into the habit of always soft rebooting the MiSTer before turning it off, as that involves opening the OSD and thus triggers the auto save.
I have the mister io board. So after you save in game (or do you also manually use the save backup ram option?) you reboot the mister using the left button?

I wanna know exactly which steps to make everytime.

But it is odd, because after I saved in game, I pressed the right button on mister to reboot the game and then I checked and everything was saved.

Only when I turned it off and came back later is that the progress was lost.
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Re: Donkey Kong Country save issue

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All you need to do (provided you have "autosave" enabled) is open the OSD with whatever button is mapped to do that (I don't have an IO board, so it's a gamepad button for me). As soon as the OSD is opened, it writes the game's save to storage.

Rebooting has no effect on the save; it's just part of my own ritual. I don't have a physical reset button, so I have to do it via the OSD (and again, opening the OSD writes the save to storage).
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