Lost my savegame

SS-89 · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:42

suarve said:
When i was getitng slightly annoyed towards the end of the call i said:

"So if i was to go and play again for another 40 hours and the same happened again, you still wouldn't be able to offer an answer or solution even then". She says no (in so many words). Basically, if your save ever says "corrupted" next to it, its gone.

I think know what the problem was anyways.

As far as i know your gamerprofile is linked to all your saved games through some of hash code. If i tried to load up a save on another profile it wouldn't work. I pretty sure that when i recovered my gamerprofile (which took 40 minutes to download may i add!!!!) this hash was somehow altered, therefore all the saved games corrupted. I'm sure its something along those lines. bleh.

You know what i think that may be exactly why your data corrupted.

suarve · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:52

HAving rerading a bit on the xbox.com forums apparently each game save is linked to the console id and gamer profile id. So the fact i recovered my gamertag and changed consoles totally messed everything up i think.

suarve · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:54

sja360 said:
my thoughts aswell, they cant recover items i'd have thought. if they could then i'd have phoned ofcourse.
Any idea how it ended up being corrupt? i mean did you turn off the power when disconnecting the hdd?

lol of course i turned off the power rofl. Im not a total noob

I wasn't expecting them to magically make the save un corrupted, I just wanted confirmation of exactly why it happened. I mean i wouldn;t want to put 40 hours into another game and for the same to happen again, would i?

peetee · 10 Jun 2007 at 17:06

suarve said:
HAving rerading a bit on the xbox.com forums apparently each game save is linked to the console id and gamer profile id. So the fact i recovered my gamertag and changed consoles totally messed everything up i think.

HAH, id get on the phone and ask them do they think its acceptable for your save-games become invalid because you had claim a new console under warranty as it became faulty? surely they should be able to change something at their end so that it will work again?

suarve · 10 Jun 2007 at 17:15

peetee said:
HAH, id get on the phone and ask them do they think its acceptable for your save-games become invalid because you had claim a new console under warranty as it became faulty? surely they should be able to change something at their end so that it will work again?

Apparently you can clear the game cache for your chosen game if this happens (copy files from HD to a mem unit) and this should solve the problem. However, just tried and no luck.

I'd just really like to know 100% what caused this.

RoachycaL · 10 Jun 2007 at 18:00

suarve said:
OMFG OMFG!

Right, I got the dreaded red lights issue with my 360 a few hours ago. I walk into the shop where i bought it and exchange my faulty 360 for a brand new one within a few minutes (kept harddrive though). I now reconnect everything, recover my gamerprofile (as it is corrupt - wtf?) and load up my game of the moment - earth defense force 2017. I have put over 40 hours into this and am 3 or 4 levels away from complweting hardest.

Anyway, I am at the start up screen and select to load my saved game from the harddrive as normal. To my total disbelief (im still gutted as i type this out) i get a message saying there is NO, yes NO saved games. I quickly go into the memory option from the dashboard and see that the saved game file for EF2017 has a nasty yellow exclamation mark by it and has the words - "CORRUPTED SAVED GAME" by it. Yes you guessed it, over 40 hours of gameplay gone. I'm totally gutted. I even had 164 of the 171 weapons too.

Simply can't believe it.

Hey man,

I was in the same situation in January. My 360 died and got a replacement but being GAME, they wanted my hard drive too so I bought a memory unit and put all the data on there, now because I didnt want my gamertag on the hard drive when it was given back to game, I deleted it and it asked me "are you sure you want to delete blah blah.... will delete your saved data", I thought that was ok because my data was safe on the memory unit but the stupid piece of crap deleted everything on both the hard drive AND the memory unit.

I lost (literally) 70 hours worth of Oblivion which I still have not recovered *sobs*. I was absolutely devastated as I was playing Burnout at the same time too and had about half of the achievements. It just goes to show you have to be SO careful, I'm always paranoid when going into the system menu on the dashboard now.

I actually have my Gamertag on my memory unit now incase my 360 dies again

(NightListenerUK) (Yea its me

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Chris1712 · 10 Jun 2007 at 18:40

Yeah some games use console id save tags, to stop save 'piracy'. IE using other saves to gain achievements/cheats etc.

Ninja Gaiden is one of these, which really annoys me because i can't be bothered to play through it all again on 360!

RoachycaL · 10 Jun 2007 at 18:42

Chris1712 said:
Yeah some games use console id save tags, to stop save 'piracy'. IE using other saves to gain achievements/cheats etc.

Ninja Gaiden is one of these, which really annoys me because i can't be bothered to play through it all again on 360!

We need a list of games which don't use id save tags

Chris1712 · 10 Jun 2007 at 18:53

RoachycaL said:
We need a list of games which don't use id save tags

Not MANY do, i think ninja gaiden/doa4 certainly do. I'm sure theres a list somewhere...

Minto · 10 Jun 2007 at 19:29

suarve said:
...when i recovered my gamerprofile (which took 40 minutes to download may i add!!!!)...

This really annoys me, and I'm certain that MS make the recovery process slow deliberately to stop people from switching between consoles all the time and sharing arcade games.

NokkonWud · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:06

That's the reason I have a HDD and Memory Card, I always backup to the Memory Card every 'x' amount of hours of gameplay time.

suarve · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:43

NokkonWud said:
That's the reason I have a HDD and Memory Card, I always backup to the Memory Card every 'x' amount of hours of gameplay time.

yer, i may start doing that again. Or even saving to multiple game save slots in-game.

I'm kind lucky in a sense. Everything i have played since my last profile recovery (around 6 months ago) has been lost due to all game files in that period being corrupted. When i play a game i tend to whore it until iv got everything out of it i can, i know a lot of people play several games at once and progress like that. So everything apart from my EDF2017 save (and the MUA save - was close to 4000 kills) is of not too much value in essence. Also, EDF2010 is a seriosuly good game to play, I know for a fact ill regain my stats and get all my progress back, its just a shame i have to repeat stuff :/

suarve · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:44

Minto said:
This really annoys me, and I'm certain that MS make the recovery process slow deliberately to stop people from switching between consoles all the time and sharing arcade games.

Yer, im on a 2MB line. When i looked in the memory section of the dashboard my profile was 8MB, so i must have been downloading really slow.

RoachycaL · 10 Jun 2007 at 21:52

suarve said:
Yer, im on a 2MB line. When i looked in the memory section of the dashboard my profile was 8MB, so i must have been downloading really slow.

I dont know what it is in the profile that takes so long to download

. I do remember when I recovered my account it took AGES to recover it onto my memory card. You do the same with me at games, play them to death and never play them again? Which in this case is lucky

NorthstaNder · 10 Jun 2007 at 22:22

Before you start that game again....BUY A MEMORY CARD!!!

Oh, and backup your save games onto it.

peetee · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:52

if his console dies and he needs a replacement again a memory card wont solve the issue that you cant open save games from 1 console on another.

NorthstaNder · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:39

You can as long as the profile linked to the save games is on the hard drive, ie a recovered profile from live.

suarve · 11 Jun 2007 at 22:37

NorthstaNder said:
You can as long as the profile linked to the save games is on the hard drive, ie a recovered profile from live.

Thats exactly what i tried mate. After reading a bit on the xbox.com forums it seems that the saves are linked to the one instance of your profile - as each profile you create has a different hash generated to it. So if i was recover my profile again it follows my new saves since would be corrupt again. Please correct me if im wrong and there is another way of doing it im missing.

suarve · 11 Jun 2007 at 22:39

RoachycaL said:
I dont know what it is in the profile that takes so long to download . I do remember when I recovered my account it took AGES to recover it onto my memory card. You do the same with me at games, play them to death and never play them again? Which in this case is lucky

wouldn't say i never play them again, i just get borted very easily. Typing this I have just realised my Crackdown save (with maxed out abilities on everything) is now gone. Balls if i cba to do that again

RoachycaL · 11 Jun 2007 at 22:42

suarve said:
wouldn't say i never play them again, i just get borted very easily. Typing this I have just realised my Crackdown save (with maxed out abilities on everything) is now gone. Balls if i cba to do that again

Ugh... Its bringing back how I felt when it happened to me

I wouldn't say you need to worry though, you're gamerscore shows that you're an uber l33t pro not the game saves