After some fiddling (and thanks to the many sources of back-up saves!) I managed to get it back to the original main save. The game locked up apparently part-way through the save, and on reload, it had remembered where I was and the time and such, but my inventory was not saved, and going back to the farm, all the plants and machines had been reset to the start of the day. After a good while trying to remember where the heck I was (apparently it was nearly to the day last year when I last played), I made a rush to Skull Cavern and tried a manual save before going in. I re-installed everything up to date and had a go. Still, at least it CAN be modded in SDV, which is more than can be done on some games. In the larger-than-SDV picture, in my personal opinion, now that the technical limitations of data are such that mandatory save points are (decades since) no longer a necessary requirement, they should have gone the way of the dodo (yes, JRPGs, very much looking at you specifically.) Especially if applied on one platform but not another. (I had honestly written off that save game, but I can now put it back on my ticklist of Stuff To Complete now, thanks to this.) (I hate having to redo stuff I've already done, for one, it's often the faster way to make me rage-quit a game.) Lack of ability for (free) saving can be a deal-breaker for me more often than not. I know for a lot of people this sort of thing isn't a concern (I mean, the existance and prevalence of ironman in games for one) and a lot of folk will say "well, it's just a few minutes" in SDV's specific case, but it's one that does bother me quite a lot. (It's especially odd to me to have it in a game that doesn't having a competative aspect (so you can't in any real sense "cheat") and otherwise one that is pretty much all about chilling out and stuff and not stressing.)Īs a case-in-point, less than a year ago I was having random and intermittant shutdowns on my desktop (which meant it took quite a while to track down the issue) and it was bad enough being terrified that you might lose your day-job work at any second (even with how frequently I save that), nevermind getting twitchy about your games.
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