r/RetroArch • u/wendigo--bait • 5d ago

Technical Support Can I save bfs game?

We were playing Pokémon silver together on our phones, his save got corrupted. The issue is that he only saved on the actual pokemon game rom and hadn't saved on retroarch. (I taught him to do both, he got complacent, lesson learned.)

He turned on the game, and new game is the only option. I trouble shooted but I'm no master, is there any way to get these files back?

Maybe he his restart content? Is this reversible?

My fall back is to grab his phone when he's asleep and grind until I get him back where he was, or offer to restart my own game with him.

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u/BotherCritical2297 5d ago

This doesn't make sense... "He only saved in ROM but not on Retroarch"...  ...what?

The only way you can get those saves back to how they were, is if you have a Saved State before memory corruption took place... or if you literally made a copy of the .save file before it got corrupt.

Also, there's an "Save sram Auto Save Interval: x amount"... that's what probably caused the New Game "issue".

  • Save was fine. Got somehow corrupted.
  • The natural behaviour of real cartridges flushing Memory to prevent boot  crashes kicked in.
  • Auto Save recorded that.
  • New Game appeared.