Latest update deleted Save file?

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Latest update deleted Save file?

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Title. I updated the TG-16 core and went to play some Rondo of Blood, but my save was gone after the update :(

Has anyone else had their saves deleted?
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No such issue here.
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Interesting...thing is, this happened to me once already with this game. That was when I was testing a controller adapter and that adapter was throwing random inputs at the MiSTer for a minute before I was able to turn it off. When I booted back up and went to play, my Rondo save was gone.

This time, I'm not sure what happened. I had been playing, had saved my game, died and turned off the MiSTer. the next day I updated then went to play and the save was gone.

Just really weird behavior...guess I just need to really pay attention when I'm using that core for a bit so if it happens again I can retrace my steps to see what I may have done :lol:
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The first time, it could well have formatted the backup (it's one of the menu items after all).

Do you update using scripts? Maybe something went wrong at a step of the process? Just speculating.
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LeftEmpty wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:12 pm Do you update using scripts? Maybe something went wrong at a step of the process? Just speculating.
It would be an exceptional stunt by the updater, since there’s no line of code touching saves dir...

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is your SRAM set to auto-save? Otherwise you need to save it manually in the OSD every time...
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LeftEmpty wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:12 pm The first time, it could well have formatted the backup (it's one of the menu items after all).

Do you update using scripts? Maybe something went wrong at a step of the process? Just speculating.
I did indeed update using the regular updater script.
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Pupil wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:54 am is your SRAM set to auto-save? Otherwise you need to save it manually in the OSD every time...
It is set to autosave and I even made sure the OSD was showing when I shutdown my MiSTer.
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I'm playing Ys IV for the last 4 weeks and had no problems, so maybe it was a SD card fault.
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Yeah, I guess I’ll have to do some more testing with games that save and see if I have any issues.

Also, I’ll probably just start backing up my Save folder more often :mrgreen:
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There is a script that allows you to upload the saves to google drive, comes in handy.
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Chris23235 wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:33 pm There is a script that allows you to upload the saves to google drive, comes in handy.
I’ve been meaning to take a look at that! I think I may have a project for this weekend while my lady is away :D
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Chris23235 wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:33 pm There is a script that allows you to upload the saves to google drive, comes in handy.
Do you know where I could access this script? Would love to use this, but I can't find it by searching the forums or google
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It's in the scripts section on Github. If you run the official updater script, then you'll already have it downloaded and ready to use.
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