I had the same problem as most of you. Come to find out it was the cart itself and sent it back a replacement will come soon. With some research only 10% of gateway users run into this problem. Of course I was the one out of 10. The problem happened clear out of the blue. I hope this isn't a persisting problem cause its a huge pain in the ass to dump 20 hrs into an RPG just to have it corrupt. As for backing up saves, even more time invested in troubleshooting or PM than playing the actual games. I'll back up until this problem is completely resolved. Hopefully the new update will be out soon. It looks sweet. New GUI I think, been a while since I read it. PEACE