ROM Hack [warning] I lost my Dragon Quest Builders 2 save...

[Cortexfou]

be careful that this does not happen to you

hello,
my save became corrupt when I traveled to an island. I got a black screen and I waited for 30 minutes while mashing button but it didn't worked. Black screen. I shut the game off and that's it... corrupted. I didn't used checkpoint (the worst thing is that I was going to use checkpoint because I was looking for a save editor without success... and I didn't do it...)
idk if i'm just unlucky or is it possible to someone to have the same thing but it took my more than 70 hours of playing into nothingness ..
I had finished the story, I did almost all tablet goals, full of rare items ect

Be carefull

 

[Cubuss]

Im currently on 2nd island with the mine i can give you my save if you want,
Gonna back up a save to now just to be safe,

 

[Cortexfou]

it's nice of you but I'm not ready to redo a part of the game like that. If nobody has a save close to mine, too bad, I'll stop playing but what a sadness ...

 

[Hayato213]

Just curious what is your SD card brand and format?

 

[Cortexfou]

Just curious what is your SD card brand and format?

samsung 32gb but doesn't matter because the game in is cartridge and the update and save are in the console. I played it in ofw, not even in cfw (because i have the card)

 

[Falo]

Just curious what is your SD card brand and format?

Saves are stored on NAND not SD card.

@Topic:
DQB2 has a huge memory leak problem, this can cause several issues (missing text/npcs, freezes, blackscreens), not even restarting the game can solve it, only restarting the console works.
Better save and restart the console after a few hours of gameplay to avoid this.

 

[Hayato213]

Saves are stored on NAND not SD card.

@Topic:
DQB2 has a huge memory leak problem, this can cause several issues (missing text/npcs, freezes, blackscreens), not even restarting the game can solve it, only restarting the console works.
Better save and restart the console after a few hours of gameplay to avoid this.

Yea I know save are stored on the NAND. Didn't know that he was using a physical card.

 

[Cortexfou]

Saves are stored on NAND not SD card.

@Topic:
DQB2 has a huge memory leak problem, this can cause several issues (missing text/npcs, freezes, blackscreens), not even restarting the game can solve it, only restarting the console works.
Better save and restart the console after a few hours of gameplay to avoid this.

didn't know that
don't be a fool, use the checkpoint tool

 

[Lacius]

It's a good idea to use Checkpoint to periodically backup all important save files. It's also a good idea to store those saves somewhere online, such as Google Drive.

 

[Cortexfou]

It's a good idea to use Checkpoint to periodically backup all important save files. It's also a good idea to store those saves somewhere online, such as Google Drive.

I'll definitively do that now. but it's supposed to work normally. I never thought it was going to be like that ...

 

[Cortexfou]

And if you don't have a save but you have cheats or a save editor, it can help me
I saw those cheats already

Spoiler

Dragon Quest Builders 2 - Update 1 (v1.6.1)
TitleId: 010042000A986000
BuildId: 1A0B233DC70B7F6E

Untested codes, see previous code post for more item ids.

[Infinite HP]
580F0000 013C5BD8
780F0000 00000060
581F1000 00000000
780F0000 000954C4
640F0000 00000000 03E703E7

[9999 Gratitude Points]
580F0000 013C5BD8
780F0000 00000060
581F1000 00000000
780F0000 007E5144
640F0000 00000000 0000270F

[Itemslot 00 x999 (All CFW)]
580F0000 013C5BD8
780F0000 00000060
581F1000 00000000
780F0000 00B87B22
620F0000 00000000 000003E7

[{Mastercode} - Inventory]
580A0000 013C5BD8
780A0000 00000060
581A1000 00000000
780A0000 00B87B20

[Itemslot 00 x999 (Atmosphere only)]
980BA100 00000000 00000002
620B0000 00000000 000003E7
[Itemslot 01 x999 (Atmosphere only)]
980BA100 00000000 00000006
620B0000 00000000 000003E7
[Itemslot 02 x999 (Atmosphere only)]
980BA100 00000000 0000000A
620B0000 00000000 000003E7

[Life Seed]
620A0000 00000000 0000000D
[Storage Bay]
620A0000 00000000 00000079
[Builder's Workbench (Lv5)]
620A0000 00000000 000003AF
[Erdrick's Sword]
620A0000 00000000 00000138
[War Hammer]
620A0000 00000000 0000013E
[Ultimallet]
620A0000 00000000 00000140
[Wrecking Ball]
620A0000 00000000 00000575
[Debug Block - Freshwater]
620A0000 00000000 00000316
[Debug Block - Lava]
620A0000 00000000 0000031B

 

[simsimsim]

damn that's awful...i feel you since this is one of my worst nightmares. Currently 115 hours into the game and trying to finish the last few tablet targets. The story was an absolute chore and took me 70 hours to rush through and i would DEFINITELY NOT want to go through it again.

So I will back up my save and give it to you through checkpoint. Though i noticed how slow it takes (last time i backed up my save it took checkpoint 20 minutes and the resulting file is huge). Is this normal? Should I be giving you that whole file?

A pity that it is such a pain to back up save for this game when normally it takes less than a second, since this game really benefits from doing periodic back up.

edit: oh i forgot to mention that i have all DLCs installed and lots of builds also used DLC only recipes. So I don't think you can use my save if you don't have the DLCs purchased and installed.

 

[Cortexfou]

I don't have dlc indeed. Nice of you thanks.
But it's okay. I don't want to play this game anymore. Leave that topic sink. I'm gonna play other games now.
Thanks everybody

 

[simsimsim]

I don't have dlc indeed. Nice of you thanks.
But it's okay. I don't want to play this game anymore. Leave that topic sink. I'm gonna play other games now.
Thanks everybody

damn that sucks
Well hope you will enjoy other games and from now on always have the habit of backing up save.

 

[cheungpakwan]

i saw in my switch system setting - game save data for dragon quest builder 2 is very large filesize its 1.1 GB ?
if i backup with checkpoint, is it will backup all 1.1 GB ?

 

[Mythical]

i saw in my switch system setting - game save data for dragon quest builder 2 is very large filesize its 1.1 GB ?
if i backup with checkpoint, is it will backup all 1.1 GB ?

If you attempt to back it up and it takes more than ten seconds I'd say yes it'll be that size probably due to some way they store stuff. You could also be looking at the update data

 

[cheungpakwan]

thanks for your answer..

anybody here already backup save with checkpoint ?
just curious is checkpoint can backup so large file (1.1 GB) for savedata...

If you attempt to back it up and it takes more than ten seconds I'd say yes it'll be that size probably due to some way they store stuff. You could also be looking at the update data

 

[simsimsim]

thanks for your answer..

anybody here already backup save with checkpoint ?
just curious is checkpoint can backup so large file (1.1 GB) for savedata...

yes it can. It just takes forever. So rather than backing up after each day like i do with most other games, for this I only do it once in awhile since it's so slow.

 

[Cubuss]

Lol thanks for the heads up my dragon quest got corrupted to, and it wasnt even while playing,
When i started the game it says cant start the game return to home and try again,

But luckly i got a backup safe file,

 

[Reploid]

How long is it to beat story and is there anything you recommend to do to prevent your save from dying?