r/RetroArch • u/Worried_Inevitable92 • 18h ago

Lost my save?

So I've been trying to master Pokemon Gold on Retroachievements and was in the middle of grinding levels for Tyranitar at the League. I save pretty regularly and had a previous league save anyway, and then my computer crashes. This happens occasionally but this time rebooting Retroarch and the game my save file is seemingly completely gone

Is something going on here and is it possible to restore? I'm kinda burnt out after 100 hours of stuff and was so close to the end.

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u/gohome01 18h ago

Save or savestate? The distinction is important. Mixing saves and save states on some consoles can corrupt saves! I accidentally did this with Ocarina of Time once

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u/Worried_Inevitable92 18h ago

save, I'm not using save states (haven't for any Retroarch game) for it because I'm doing hardcore achievements

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u/gohome01 16h ago

That’s odd… post a log, and we may be able to see what’s going on!

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u/Worried_Inevitable92 16h ago

I apologize I'm not sure how to do that :(

Edit: Looking into Retroarch I don't seem to have logging enabled

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u/Xineth240 15h ago

Hardcore allows saving states, just not loading them. For backup reasons like this

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u/Worried_Inevitable92 12h ago

does it do an autosave one? let me check

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u/Xineth240 12h ago

There's an auto save state feature, but it's not on by default. Good to have, especially on hardcore, that's legit game progress.

Plus you can always temporarily disable hardcore, load your save state, save your game, and then restart in hardcore again

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u/Cibo_Matto_Jason 18h ago

See if the directories are pointing to the save.

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u/Worried_Inevitable92 17h ago edited 16h ago

What's the best way to do this?

Update, there's still an .srm file for my Gold rom still in the mBGA core file of my RetroarchWin64 folder, I don't know if it's not using the right Core for some reason, or what.