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Gamecube game saves becoming corrupted/unreadable - Amul2004 - 08-21-2020
Recently the saves of my only two GCM games become unreadable by dolphin.
Luckily, for one of them I had a savestate, but the other one was meant to start over.
And still my when I load those two games, it shows save file failed to load.
RE: Gamecube game saves becoming corrupted/unreadable - ExtremeDude2 - 08-21-2020
What games are the saves from? Did they become corrupt after using savestates?
RE: Gamecube game saves becoming corrupted/unreadable - Amul2004 - 08-21-2020
Wind Waker and Twilight princess (GCM one)
I don't really know because I use both savestates and saves.
But savestates is a feature of the emulator and shouldn't really interfere with the game saves.
RE: Gamecube game saves becoming corrupted/unreadable - ExtremeDude2 - 08-21-2020
(08-21-2020, 01:02 PM)Amul2004 Wrote: But savestates is a feature of the emulator and shouldn't really interfere with the game saves.
This isn't the case for some games, but I don't think TLP is one of them.
RE: Gamecube game saves becoming corrupted/unreadable - JosJuice - 08-21-2020
(08-21-2020, 01:02 PM)Amul2004 Wrote: But savestates is a feature of the emulator and shouldn't really interfere with the game saves.
Savestates absolutely can interfere with game saves. As far as I know, it's impossible to create a GC/Wii emulator where there is no situation where they interfere, unless you're willing to have the memory card/NAND revert to its earlier state when you load a savestate (which would mess up the progress in all other games that have game saves on the same memory card/NAND!)
RE: Gamecube game saves becoming corrupted/unreadable - KHg8m3r - 08-22-2020
I've corrupted Wind Waker saves with savestates before. If you don't have a backup of the .gci file or memory card you're out of luck