Heya ! I've had my flashcard for a super long time (I got it ~10 years ago and it belonged to my stepdad before that). I've never had any issues with it until recently.
Ive never rlly tinkeerd bit the options too much until I wanted to play Kirby Mass Attack, which required to switch to clean mode to run;. But ever since I did that, all of my games started not saving properly. I play the game normally, save, and when I turn my console off and go back to playing it's like I never saved at all. What I find especially weird is that sometimes it goes back to even older saves rather than the last one. For a specific example, i'm playing Monster Racers and my save file reverted to when I only had 30 mins of play time when I saved several times in my last play session.
Kinda like this : [save 1] 30min -> 1h [save 2] 1h -> 1h30min [save 3] 1h30min -> 1h45
So you'd assume it would revert back from save 3 to save 2, but it didn't.
Another examples would be with Elite Beat Agents, which automatically saves between songs. Then again, at times it reverted me back to several levels before.
Of course it also happens with Kirby mass Attack.
It's kind of like it just... doesn't save at all when in-games it displays that it did. It's quite frustrating to play for over an hour and not have any progress saved, as you can imagine.
I'm running on EOS. I have a backup of all my files before the save issues started, but I haven't tried to put it back in my card. I sometimes switch between clean and patched because some games I like playing only work on patched mode, much like kirby with clean mode. The .sav files themsemvles look alright, they're all 512 Ko.
Are there known issues with the clean mode that I'm not aware of ? I try not to switch between these 2 modes too much because I feel like it's the switching that causes saving issues. Though I don't remember having those issues in patched mode. Might have been, but I don't remember.
I would appreciate any guidance on this issue. Ive made a backup of the current state of my sd card (it's a 2gb SanDisk, never changed it since I got the flashcard). I haven't tried re-installing eos, but I don't see how doing so would fix the issue though.
Ive never rlly tinkeerd bit the options too much until I wanted to play Kirby Mass Attack, which required to switch to clean mode to run;. But ever since I did that, all of my games started not saving properly. I play the game normally, save, and when I turn my console off and go back to playing it's like I never saved at all. What I find especially weird is that sometimes it goes back to even older saves rather than the last one. For a specific example, i'm playing Monster Racers and my save file reverted to when I only had 30 mins of play time when I saved several times in my last play session.
Kinda like this : [save 1] 30min -> 1h [save 2] 1h -> 1h30min [save 3] 1h30min -> 1h45
So you'd assume it would revert back from save 3 to save 2, but it didn't.
Another examples would be with Elite Beat Agents, which automatically saves between songs. Then again, at times it reverted me back to several levels before.
Of course it also happens with Kirby mass Attack.
It's kind of like it just... doesn't save at all when in-games it displays that it did. It's quite frustrating to play for over an hour and not have any progress saved, as you can imagine.
I'm running on EOS. I have a backup of all my files before the save issues started, but I haven't tried to put it back in my card. I sometimes switch between clean and patched because some games I like playing only work on patched mode, much like kirby with clean mode. The .sav files themsemvles look alright, they're all 512 Ko.
Are there known issues with the clean mode that I'm not aware of ? I try not to switch between these 2 modes too much because I feel like it's the switching that causes saving issues. Though I don't remember having those issues in patched mode. Might have been, but I don't remember.
I would appreciate any guidance on this issue. Ive made a backup of the current state of my sd card (it's a 2gb SanDisk, never changed it since I got the flashcard). I haven't tried re-installing eos, but I don't see how doing so would fix the issue though.
