Lost save data

[pwnit]

Just played it a few hours ago, now I launch it to find the all save slots empty.

Tried verifying the files, replacing the save file with the temp version and googling more for a solution, but alas nothing worked :(
Apparently it could've happened because my C drive (where the savefile is located) has completely ran out of free space, but I've no idea, that never happened before, and shouldn't have affected my cloud saves.

I've just beaten the whole "standard" map (except a dot in right-bottom part?), and been working on the first cluster on a flower-looking level, almost completed ABC.

Is there any way to edit a save file in a comprehensible way? I only found a way to turn on the debug mode, which gives access to every level (I think?) but that's not really what I want.

[Perseus]

A - Wait, just to make sure, did you play and get so much progress from the start of the game in one long session, or multiple ones?

Originally posted by pwnit:

Apparently it could've happened because my C drive (where the savefile is located) has completely ran out of free space, but I've no idea, that never happened before, and shouldn't have affected my cloud saves.

B - Well, do you actually not have enough free space left on your C drive? (Around 100 kilobytes would be more than enough, but even 30 kilobytes should be fine?)

C - In what way are you saying this affected your cloud saves?
D - And just to confirm, are you playing on multiple devices or just one?

Originally posted by pwnit:

I've just beaten the whole "standard" map (except a dot in right-bottom part?), and been working on the first cluster on a flower-looking level, almost completed ABC.

Is there any way to edit a save file in a comprehensible way? I only found a way to turn on the debug mode, which gives access to every level (I think?) but that's not really what I want.

E - If you remember enough about which levels you've cleared past the standard map, i could try to make you a new savefile myself if you want (you might need to wait a bit, however), but i don't know of any way to edit a savefile in a comprehensible way.

[pwnit]

Originally posted by Perseus:

A - Wait, just to make sure, did you play and get so much progress from the start of the game in one long session, or multiple ones?

Those were multiple sessions of course, spanning since 2022 :)
As I mentioned, when I wrote this post I had played the game successfully just a few hours ago.

Originally posted by Perseus:

B - Well, do you actually not have enough free space left on your C drive? (Around 100 kilobytes would be more than enough, but even 30 kilobytes should be fine?)

It constantly fluctuates based on my apps doing stuff (and trying to update I imagine), and at some point the space hit 0, so if that happened when I was playing, it could fail to record the data.

Originally posted by Perseus:

C - In what way are you saying this affected your cloud saves?

Seeing that cloud still seems to work, I can only assume that the game reset my data after failing to update the savefile, and then uploaded that to cloud, replacing that as well? Honestly I've no clue, I just didn't expect such a hiccup to happen when a game has cloud saving.

Originally posted by Perseus:

D - And just to confirm, are you playing on multiple devices or just one?

Just one.

Originally posted by Perseus:

E - If you remember enough about which levels you've cleared past the standard map, i could try to make you a new savefile myself if you want (you might need to wait a bit, however), but i don't know of any way to edit a savefile in a comprehensible way.

That would be really nice if you could do that, but how? Just playing through the levels manually? :o
As I mentioned in the post, it's really simple to explain: I beat everything on the first world map (and I thought it was the whole game...) EXCEPT the red dot in bottom right. I then proceeded into the secret area (I think it was named ???) or something that looks like a flower. I think I had to transform two levels into Baba and Flag to do that. Don't really care about the progress inside that flower, since I still remember the levels pretty well and I can replay them quickly.

[Perseus]

Originally posted by pwnit:

Originally posted by Perseus:

E - If you remember enough about which levels you've cleared past the standard map, i could try to make you a new savefile myself if you want (you might need to wait a bit, however), but i don't know of any way to edit a savefile in a comprehensible way.

That would be really nice if you could do that, but how? Just playing through the levels manually? :o

Yep, playing through manually. I can remember most of the solutions by looking at the levels, and i can figure out those i forgot. It should be pretty quick, but still a bit slow. I'll give you the save file when i'm finished.
I might even have an existing save file that hasn't progressed too far that i could use as a starting point, but i'm not sure.

[pwnit]

Originally posted by Perseus:

Yep, playing through manually. I can remember most of the solutions by looking at the levels, and i can figure out those i forgot. It should be pretty quick, but still a bit slow. I'll give you the save file when i'm finished.
I might even have an existing save file that hasn't progressed too far that i could use as a starting point, but i'm not sure.

Oh, I'm not sure you have to go to such lengths, but I'm not about to stop you of course :D
Honestly, any map with the majority of "standard" world beaten will do the trick, I'm ok with replaying a couple late worlds (since I've done that recently anyway), just not the entire map x.x
In any case, I'd really appreciate the help.

[Perseus]

The replacement save file isn't done yet, but i realized that i never asked if you checked your Cloud storage, in case some version of your save files were there :
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=736260

(When "downloading" a file from Steam Cloud, you'll be asked to choose a file to replace, you might want to make some dummy file for this.)

[pwnit]

Originally posted by Perseus:

The replacement save file isn't done yet, but i realized that i never asked if you checked your Cloud storage, in case some version of your save files were there :
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=736260

(When "downloading" a file from Steam Cloud, you'll be asked to choose a file to replace, you might want to make some dummy file for this.)

Yeah I checked, unfortunately they were already overwritten, they're the same files as on my drive.

[Perseus]

Here you go : https://pastebin.com/yv1yE3ZN
Copy/paste this into a text file and name the text file 0ba.ba to make the game detect it.

(It isn't impossible for Steam Cloud to try to overwrite the new save file next time you launch the game, so you might need to turn it off temporarily.)

[pwnit]

Originally posted by Perseus:

Here you go : https://pastebin.com/yv1yE3ZN
Copy/paste this into a text file and name the text file 0ba.ba to make the game detect it.

(It isn't impossible for Steam Cloud to try to overwrite the new save file next time you launch the game, so you might need to turn it off temporarily.)

Nice, seems like I need to finish a couple levels in Rocket Trip and spawn a Baba on the main map to get to the flowey one, but that should be easy.
Thanks a lot for saving my playthrough! :D

[Perseus]

Originally posted by pwnit:

Nice, seems like I need to finish a couple levels in Rocket Trip and spawn a Baba on the main map to get to the flowey one, but that should be easy.
Thanks a lot for saving my playthrough! :D

I also didn't complete A Way Out through either way.

I'm glad to have helped! It was fun replaying through the game. I was also hoping it would help getting me back into the game for playing custom levelpacks like the one where every level of the base game is made more difficult, but so far i'm struggling with it.
Good luck on your end, and have fun with the rest of the game!