The game saving bug again...

[Levdr]

I bought Super Meat Boy some 6 weeks ago and am enjoying the game quite a bit.

However, yesterday I went back to the Salt Factory to get a difficult to get bandage, and today I have to get it again. That is so discouraging. Is that a known bug?

I never played a game like this before and, having completed most of the light worlds, there are a few very hard to get bandages left; the idea that once I finally manage to get one and it's then not saved, is just depressing. It's happened before, also with a hard to get bandage, but I thought it was a fluke. But now it happened again. Anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

I'm on a Mac and I didn't play offline.

[Levdr]

Okay, so it happened again! Yesterday I finally get a hard to get bandage in the Salt Factory Dark World and today it's not there anymore. So I have to get it again. This is annoying as hell.

I know there was a game saving bug years ago but I was under the impression that is was fixed. So why do I have to get some bandages twice then?

[Levdr]

I didn't play SMB for a year as I was unable to finish the more difficult Dark World levels (Rapture and Cotton Alley) and struggled with some bandages and most of the glitch worlds. So at some point it wasn't fun any longer and I quit playing.

A week or so ago I started playing again and I'm getting stuff now that I wasn't able to do a year ago. Yesterday I finally got the bandage in Hell X3. Today I open the game and it wasn't saved. I'm so mad right now, I feel like smashing my poor computer to bits.

Sorry for the rage. It's just frustrating...

[EdgarAllenSwole]

Same thing just happened to me. I got all the bandages in Rapture's Dark World and came back to find my progress erased. Completely unacceptable.

[Levdr]

It is unacceptable. Hard to understand why this bug was never fixed.

Of course getting a difficult bandage once makes it easier to do it again, so I got the bandage in Hell X3 again and this time it was saved. Phew... :)

[EdgarAllenSwole]

I've started quitting to the main menu after every clear. It's a good failsafe against losing progress in bulk.

[Levdr]

Really? I still have a few hard bandages to get so I'll keep that in mind! Thanks for the tip.

[Mathwar10]

This game is the best game

[firestar587]

Originally posted by Mathwar10:

This game is the best game

how does this have anything to do with the thread?

[Levdr]

So, I now got the bandage in Rapture 5-4X three times and it's still not saved. I think this is a record. I now wonder if it can be saved at all.

Anybody else having problems with saving that particular bandage maybe?

[EdgarAllenSwole]

I lost multiple bandages in that world, one of which was probably from 5-4X. Does it not save if you quit to the main menu immediately after beating the level?

[Levdr]

Yes, I followed your advice and quit to the main menu immediately after finishing the level every single time but it didn't work. What I find funny is that I now have 3 saved replays of me getting the bandage and finishing the level and a game that doesn't know it...

Good to know I'm not the only one this happens (or happened) to though. I will just have to keep doing that level until it sticks then.

Thanks for replying, by the way. It's nice to know somebody is listening and trying to help. :)

[Mathwar10]

Originally posted by firestar587:

Originally posted by Mathwar10:

This game is the best game

how does this have anything to do with the thread?

cala a boca carrapato

[Techbane #FreeHK]

Given how many bugs were in the game at launch and introduced over the course of its post-launch bugfix and feature releases, not to mention how many were in from the START and never got addressed, and with the level editor abandoned half-finished, I'm frankly amazed the PC release of SMB still runs. There are timer issues somehow related to framerate that can cause moving platforms to kill you, lock tiles to collapse too fast or too slow, character physics got SEVERELY screwed up on more than one occasion leading to utterly busted leaderboards, and leave us not forget that the game first launched without the chapter 3 boss, causing an inescapable softlock because the level-end trigger isn't when you reach the end of the level, it's when Brownie does.

There's also this old gem (seriously, turn your volume down):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKazbeelfaM

[3000]

Originally posted by Techbane:

Given how many bugs were in the game at launch and introduced over the course of its post-launch bugfix and feature releases, not to mention how many were in from the START and never got addressed, and with the level editor abandoned half-finished, I'm frankly amazed the PC release of SMB still runs. There are timer issues somehow related to framerate that can cause moving platforms to kill you, lock tiles to collapse too fast or too slow, character physics got SEVERELY screwed up on more than one occasion leading to utterly busted leaderboards, and leave us not forget that the game first launched without the chapter 3 boss, causing an inescapable softlock because the level-end trigger isn't when you reach the end of the level, it's when Brownie does.

There's also this old gem (seriously, turn your volume down):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKazbeelfaM

Actualy, that slowed-down/sped-up thing just happened to me. First it was fast af, tried to uninstal and instal again, and know its slower than usual. If you know how to fix this, I'll appreciate it.

[Techbane #FreeHK]

Getting a new computer was my solution.