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I think I just experienced my first corrupted save file (RDR2) ever. It f***ing sucks.

SmittyWerbenManJensen

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#blogrant #butwhy

So, nearing the end of RDR2 (Xbox One X), the story of which I am REALLY enjoying (gameplay, not so much), and I am literally (yes, literally) unable to finish the game because it immediately crashes upon loading the playable character into the screen. My Xbox then shuts itself off after a minute or so. It happens every single time now. I reinstalled the game...no luck. From what I have researched on AskJeeves, it seems like I might have a corrupted save file (my first ever). Every other game I play works just fine.

All 50 hours played so far...wasted. RIP. I guess I will just watch the rest on youtube, because I am not putting myself through that clunkiness again for 50+ hours.

Again, it fucking sucks, and this should not even be a thing.

Oh well. Back to the Outer Wilds again for now.

To all of my comrades who have been through something similar, I will pour out a glass of almond milk for you this morning as I am preparing my oatmeal.
To everyone who is still a corrupted save file virgin, good luck.

EDIT: FIXED. Please give u/SOR5 all of your karma and money.
 
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Z-Beat

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My first corrupted save file was KH1. I asked my dad if he knew what to do since I was in like the 3rd grade and had no concept of this and he ended up deleting it to see if that would fix it.
 
PlanetSmasher

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My first corrupted save file was Pokemon Soul Silver. I had just captured a shiny Lugia and I saved my game after the fight...and my handheld's battery died while I was saving.

When I turned the game back on my save was corrupted and I lost everything. Including my event Mew that I had used for the entire game up to that point.

I took the game out of my DS, brought it to GameStop and sold it immediately. I couldn't even bear to look at it.
 
Jamrock User

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Yeah I couldn't return after 50hrs. That would be it for me. I loved RDR2 but man was it long. Even just doing main story content triples the length of most games released.
 
Brazil

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PlanetSmasher said:
My first corrupted save file was Pokemon Soul Silver. I had just captured a shiny Lugia and I saved my game after the fight...and my handheld's battery died while I was saving.

When I turned the game back on my save was corrupted and I lost everything. Including my event Mew that I had used for the entire game up to that point.

I took the game out of my DS, brought it to GameStop and sold it immediately. I couldn't even bear to look at it.
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Don't the DS games have a weird hidden backup function that revert to a previous save when that happens?
 

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Doesn't sound like a corrupted save. Did you try loading into the online?

I had a similar issue on GTAV PC.
 
Mbolibombo

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Man I wouldnt want that to happen. Sucks.
Also - I didnt know anyone used Askjeeves these days :p
 
DRock

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Were you manually saving your game or just using auto save? If you manually saved just start a new game and then try to load your old game.
 

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Clear your locally saved games on the Xbox (it's in settings then storage) then download your save again

Had a dodgy save file and this helped.
 
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SmittyWerbenManJensen

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DRock said:
Were you manually saving your game or just using auto save? If you manually saved just start a new game and then try to load your old game.
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Both (I think). My most recent save would have been an auto save. I guess I should just try this out (I have nothing left to lose at this point). I also don't know how the whole cloud save system works, so if someone could help me out with that, I'd appreciate it/love you forever.
 
Lant_War

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SmittyWerbenManJensen said:
Hey. Could you please expand on this? From what I can tell, I cannot access the "load game" screen without hitting the start button when the game loads, and my game freezes before I can even do this
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I forgot RDR2 didn't have a main menu with options. Dunno how I did it but RDR2 gave me a "this savefile is corrupted" message and let me load another one. PS4 tho
 
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SmittyWerbenManJensen

SmittyWerbenManJensen

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Lant_War said:
I forgot RDR2 didn't have a main menu with options. Dunno how I did it but RDR2 gave me a "this savefile is corrupted" message and let me load another one. PS4 tho
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Hmm. I am gonna try some of the other suggestions in this thread. If I can somehow salvage this save and finish the game, I am going to throw a party (for myself/by myself, of course).
 
HalStep

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i've had a few saves corrupt over the years the first and worst i can think of is one of these:
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a 4 in 1 ps1 memory card,3 pages were full and it just randomly wiped itself.gutted.
 
sora bora

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Does the Xbox have game save granularity like the PS4?

More specifically, can you upload specific save files (whether cloud or external HDD) on Xbox? I haven't seen any menu options like that, so it would be good to know.
 
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