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Just had something odd happen. Been playing Advance Wars and using the save state on exit of retroarch option. I completed a level this afternoon and pretty sure I exited then powered down as per usual. When I fired the game up a bit later it started as if I hadn't played that level. I set the save state slot to auto and tried to load that and it went right back to midway through field training before I even started the campaign. When i changed back to 999 it was the same as the auto state so I've lost all progress.I've looked into how save states work since and located the folder for it and it only contains 999 and auto which are effectively the same thing. Now it's quite possible I forgot to exit for today's playthrough to disappear but how would it have reverted back to earlier in the week if there was only 1 save state in use?
 
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I try to remember to make manual saves as I go and not rely on auto save entirely as I've had similar experiences and don't trust it anymore.

I've though about setting up syncthing, not so much to sync across devices but to act as a backup.
 
I'm debating turning off auto save and load of states and just rely on the games save options for most cases and use the saved state for 1 off's etc. I've done a bit of searching on it and found a few people saying things have reverted back too.
 
Turned off auto save and auto load state for Retroarch and when I continued the campaign it took me to the very furthest campaign level that I had reached previously. Absolutely no idea how that is possible.
 
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