Have you (or anyone else) ever accidently your game data?

[ggbhtg]

I lost my flash drive with Metroid, Zelda, and some other games on it yesterday, which now motivates me to ask:

Have you ever finished/nearly finished a game only to have the data destroyed via device damage (internal or external), accidental erasure, etc?

[biggles1]

no, but 3 times while playing crash bandicoot on Gameboy, my brother deleted my files when I was 70-90% complete >_>

[ggbhtg]

That counts too.

[TheOcean]

My best friend deleted my fallout three file on his computer by accident when i was 99% done. All I had left was getting into the base.

[Zairak]

I have a nephew and niece who I'm constantly redoing game files for, due to said pair accidentally deleting the files from the DS.

Eh 5 year olds.

[AsterGray]

when playing through americas 10 most wanted, i lost on the last level. because this game has an autosave thing it was in my intrest to reset the console before the game autosaved. at one point i forgot about that and i was going to lose all my cool stuff or something, so i yanked out the memory card before it finished saving. lost all my data for that game.

[ggbhtg]

I had to restart my Tekken 5 game data over multiple times due to a wonky memory card. Re-unlocking all the characters and such was getting tedious.

[Ninjasplaycardgames2]

I had 2 files of Kingdom Hearts 2, one had the Ultima Keyblade and in the other it was impossible to get it (cause I wasted an Orichalcum+). They were both level 99 and I wanted to get rid off the one without the Ultima Keyblade. Sadly, I failed (badly) and ended up deleting the one with it. I was sad moments later.

[ggctuk]

Yes. I almost completed LEGO Star Wars II on the PSP, bought a new memory stick and transferred the contents of two older memory sticks onto it... forgetting that I had a LEGO Star Wars save on the older memory stick that was only 4% complete.

[JesusRocks]

Originally Posted by ggbhtg

I lost my flash drive with Metroid, Zelda, and some other games on it yesterday, which now motivates me to ask:

Have you ever finished/nearly finished a game only to have the data destroyed via device damage (internal or external), accidental erasure, etc?

[ggbhtg]

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

[musigal]

No, but I have had a very similar experience with a piece of artwork I was working on, and forgot to save. I was pretty much done, so I went to bed. my computer ran windows update while I was asleep, and I lost everything. :|

[Ohara]

Off the top of my head:

- Accidentally overwrited a file with over 120 hours of playtime on Oblivion with a file that I was only experimenting with.
- Deleted a file I'd invested significant time into on Pokemon Blue accidentally - I was testing to see if a cheat I heard of worked (that required a new file to be made (it actually did work, fyi)) and saved out of habit without realizing it.
- Several emulator problems with save states not saving properly and whatnot.
- My second gamecube memory card broke, losing save files for about 6 or 7 games. Can't remember which.

Probably more, but those are all that come to mind right now...

[JesusRocks]

My Dead Rising save game inexplicably keeps deleting itself off of my Xbox >_>

[biggles1]

Originally Posted by JesusRocks

My Dead Rising save game inexplicably keeps deleting itself off of my Xbox >_>

Maybe it just want a new home? *cough ps3 cough*

[SupermewX300]

On Final Fantasy Tactics A2 I had two files, one was okay, but cheated so it was just boring, and the one that I had done the story and 210 quests on that I had poured my heart and soul into, creating my perfect teams and units.

Guess which one I saved over with the other by accident ¬_¬

[Syth]

I accidentally my Crash Bandicoot 3 save with the first Crash Bandicoot a few weeks ago. ._.