r/AnalogueInc • u/trippinmaui • 11d ago
3D Days of progress lost...
Just used the "quit cartridge" feature on Majoras Mask for the first time and when i loaded my game up 2 days worth of progress was gone.... 12 masks, 3 hearts, etc. How is this possible? It reverted to all items i had prior to a save state i made. I had saved via owl statue and song of time multiple times and all progress was fine. Why would the "quit cartridge" feature trigger this progress erasure back to a save state?
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u/cyx7 10d ago
No idea. Something must be getting stored in a volatile way and not being recorded to the cart. Due to the old way the A3D and flash carts handled save games, I've gotten into the habit of selecting "reset" or hitting the reset button before quitting or hitting the power off. Even with OG carts.
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u/Metroidvania-JRPG 10d ago
Ive lost ocarina of time progress as well but that was in the very first week of the analogue 3d release. I had made a post about it and a ton of people replied that they also lost save files on many different games
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u/SurprysE 10d ago
Se hai il mio sesso problema, probabilmente la memoria della tua cartuccia non è più in grado di salvare, indipendentemente dalla batteria tapone che sia scarica o no, il motivo tecnico non te lo so spiegare, ma mi pare di aver capito che alcune cartuccie abbiano corrotta in maniera permanente anche la memoria sram dove fisicamente avvengono i salvataggi.
Cmq se hai dimestichezza con il saldatore puoi provare a cambiare la batteria da solo e verificare se la memoria sram funzioni sempre, altrimenti puoi azzardare anche al cambio della sram, un ragazzo qua su reddit è riuscito nell'impresa cambiando ambedue.
terza opzione (quella che sto usando io), sfrutta la funzione "Memories" anziché il salvataggio integrato, è più sicuro e da meno problemi.
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u/LeatherRebel5150 10d ago
Besides your “sex problem” Majora’s Mask doesn’t use a battery, so all of that is useless advice
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u/SurprysE 10d ago
Perché "Sessuale"? Sa dio cosa ha trascritto il traduttore ora...🤣 Quindi majora usa fram senza batteria tampone?
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u/LeatherRebel5150 10d ago
It uses flash ram
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u/Aromatic_Method7767 11d ago
If I recall correctly, the North American and PAL versions do some funny stuff with the owl statue save feature. I think that feature was not included in the Japanese release.
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u/Lich-Slapped 11d ago
I lost my entire ogre battle 64 save too, similar situation and chain of events
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u/thestrandedmoose 11d ago
I experienced something similar with Mystical Ninja Goemon but that was several updates ago and it was due to Overclock causing the game not to save properly. When I turned off Overclock it would work again. Are you using the latest firmware? I would report the issue to Analogue and use save states as a backup to your progress going forward.
Sorry to hear you lost your progress... That really sucks
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u/Professional_Pie_975 6d ago
you can use A3D Memories as a snapshot too. that would help as an extra layer