Hacking creating new save game files when there isn't space

[caribou007]

What happens when the system tries to create a game save when there isn't enough space? I've heard it can lead to data being overwritten.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Depends...
Most likely it will fail to be created and either not load or cause problems with the game.
It could attempt to write a save, but run out of space giving you a corrupt save.
I doubt it would overwrite something else, but with all the crap clones out there it's not impossible.

 

[caribou007]

Ah, thanks for the info. Well, it is a clone of the original, R4 Revolution for DS, with "www.r4ds.com" on the box. It was the best R4 clone I could find and it's supposed to be good.

I saw a forum topic somewhere where somebody wrote that (I believe it was Wood?) stopped being able to boot after they attempted to create a WarioWare DIY save. They had to reinstall the OS. It wasn't confirmed, however, that creating the save file is what caused the issue, and I don't know what hardware was being used, but it was speculated that lack of free space caused the data corruption.