Autosave bug? (MR2)

[Persona non grata]

So, I just had my save file get corrupted. I was playing on an old computer and it crashed in the middle of a simple training event. I had saved 2 in-game weeks prior; I wasn't actively saving, nor did it APPEAR to be autosaving.

That having happened,
I restarted the game and, now, my save file isn't loading; it says it tries to, but fails.
Additionally, there isn't any data listed in the autosave slot, as other posts say there should be.

Because I wasn't even close to the file save screen but my file got corrupted, It's led me to hypothesize if the game was trying to autosave, was holding my file's data for some reason, but got stopped mid-write?

Any fixes or recoveries I can try? I wasn't super far in, and I just barely hit any sort of stride, so I'm sure I can pick up a new file, if need be.

Just in case; this sort of thing had been happening for the past day, while waiting on a new part for my primary computer. No issues until now, for some reason.

[Persona non grata]

Looking at the file, again, it's definitely suspicious that the in game date is for the week *after* it crashed... And, again, there was no autosave data.

So, again, I guess autosaving can corrupt main save files.
As a computer scientist, I am confused why it would function that way. But, as a professional coder, I'm not surprised.

[HiroDragon]

Originally posted by Persona non grata:

Looking at the file, again, it's definitely suspicious that the in game date is for the week *after* it crashed... And, again, there was no autosave data.

So, again, I guess autosaving can corrupt main save files.
As a computer scientist, I am confused why it would function that way. But, as a professional coder, I'm not surprised.

Probably and extension of thr double byte character thing?

Some people say it hasnt been fixed but I have weird directory names and it never happened to me.

Perhaps its unrelated and its related to the crash, I assume that its like you said, a mid-write crash can corrupt a save.

[Persona non grata]

Ah; Now I get to truly relive the nostalgia of the PSX days.
I guess I'll have to double up on save slots next time, in case the data gets corrupted. lol

[monsterfenrick]

I'd make sure to report it to KT. They are accepting bug reports on their contact form here:
http://koeitecmo.info/inquiry/kta

[Drizzy]

I just had this same issue today. Main save file corrupted and keeps saying "error loading game". My power went off without warning and when booting game back up everything was not able to be loaded. Starting a new game and save is possible, but really unfortunate 150+ hrs of work is unable to be recovered atm. Already sent an inquiry to: http://koeitecmo.info/inquiry/kta as well. Hopefully there can be a fix for this as I definitely do NOT want to start a whole new game.

[monsterfenrick]

A tip if you're slightly PC savvy. your save files are located in your Documents folder:
You can create a powershell (.ps1) script:

$Source = 'C:\Users\YourName\Documents\KoeiTecmo'
$Destination = 'D:\MR 1-2 DX BACKUP\'
Robocopy $Source $Destination /MIR

Then you can use Windows Task Scheduler to run Powershell.exe and point it to your .PS1 file and run as frequently as you want.

[Persona non grata]

Originally posted by monsterfenrick:

A tip if you're slightly PC savvy. your save files are located in your Documents folder:
You can create a powershell (.ps1) script:

$Source = 'C:\Users\YourName\Documents\KoeiTecmo'
$Destination = 'D:\MR 1-2 DX BACKUP\'
Robocopy $Source $Destination /MIR

Then you can use Windows Task Scheduler to run Powershell.exe and point it to your .PS1 file and run as frequently as you want.

That's hilarious and extremely useful! (I used to script in powershell for about 3 years straight for work. )
Yeah, I might! (if I have to use an unreliable computer, again)

Originally posted by Drizzy:

I just had this same issue today. Main save file corrupted and keeps saying "error loading game". My power went off without warning and when booting game back up everything was not able to be loaded. Starting a new game and save is possible, but really unfortunate 150+ hrs of work is unable to be recovered atm. Already sent an inquiry to: http://koeitecmo.info/inquiry/kta as well. Hopefully there can be a fix for this as I definitely do NOT want to start a whole new game.

I know the feeling. Luckily, I messed up a lot in my first game and kinda wished I could restart, anyways. lol.
Give it time, though. I'm sure in the next few months or year, people will make a save data editor... Unofficially, of course.
Old ported games tend to have that happen.

[Drizzy]

Originally posted by monsterfenrick:

A tip if you're slightly PC savvy. your save files are located in your Documents folder:
You can create a powershell (.ps1) script:

$Source = 'C:\Users\YourName\Documents\KoeiTecmo'
$Destination = 'D:\MR 1-2 DX BACKUP\'
Robocopy $Source $Destination /MIR

Then you can use Windows Task Scheduler to run Powershell.exe and point it to your .PS1 file and run as frequently as you want.

That sounds very helpful but unfortunately I'm not tech savvy at all. Don't know how to do any of that.

[Chaeng]

I have a problem wherein I switched steam accounts to play a different game and then when I returned to my steam account with the MR2DX it says the data loading failed. I made another saveslot and advanced a week, I tried switching accounts again, and when I loaded the new saveslot, it says data loading failed again. How do I fix my steam cloud data, and why does it allow to load the savefile I made a week prior?

[XXHughJaasXX]

I'd like to shed some light on this sore subject for a lot of people who didn't know better. The original game (MR2) had a save bug, where in it would do this forever load and ask if you'd like to retry. IDK if this applied to the JP versions but the US version had a lot of trouble with it. The simplest solution to be found was to reload your save after you saved the game. If it didn't work you would just save over said corrupt save and try to reload it again. If the load goes through you are clear until your next save, if not you just repeat overwrite til it does.

[Persona non grata]

Originally posted by XXHughJaasXX:

I'd like to shed some light on this sore subject for a lot of people who didn't know better. The original game (MR2) had a save bug, where in it would do this forever load and ask if you'd like to retry. IDK if this applied to the JP versions but the US version had a lot of trouble with it. The simplest solution to be found was to reload your save after you saved the game. If it didn't work you would just save over said corrupt save and try to reload it again. If the load goes through you are clear until your next save, if not you just repeat overwrite til it does.

That sounds like you'd have to anticipate the file was corrupted. I couldn't anticipate that it would be corrupted; it hadn't done that in the past!