Emulator Issues #9272
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Sonic Adventure 2 Battle saving problems
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Description
Game Name?
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Game ID? (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab)
GSNP8P
MD5 Hash? (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab, MD5 Hash: Compute)
46c84273d5cd803715988a33ca3e5664
What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.
In Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, when you save the game, exit Dolphin and start it again, the game says that the save file is corrupt and has to be formatted.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
It seems to happen quite randomly, but the game file will corrupt after finishing some stages.
Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which versions of Dolphin used to work?
This issue seems to apply only to Dolphin 4.0. I tried it on several dev builds. On Dolphin 3.5, this issue doesn't happen. The game saves normally and the
save file doesn't corrupt.
What are your PC specifications? (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)
Alienware M17
Intel Core i7-4900 @ 2.80 GHz (4.00 GHz Turbo Boost)
32 GB RAM DDR3
NVidia GeForce GTX 765M
Files
Updated by JMC4789 over 8 years ago
I've never ran into this issue on the NTSC version of the game. Could you upload a working save and a broken save?
Can you also try using GCI folder instead of Memcard or vice versa.
Updated by Korados over 8 years ago
- File 8P-GSNP-SONIC2B__S01 intact.gci 8P-GSNP-SONIC2B__S01 intact.gci added
- File 8P-GSNP-SONIC2B__S01 broken.gci 8P-GSNP-SONIC2B__S01 broken.gci added
Okay, here I have an intact and a broken save. I never used a GCI folder, I'll try that out.
Updated by Korados over 8 years ago
I used the GCI folder to reproduce the issue now and the game save is broken again. Interestingly, it seems most likely to happen
after the stage "Green Forest" in the Hero storyline but it can break earlier or later, too.
Updated by JMC4789 over 8 years ago
I need to ping LPFaint99 on this but I don't know how.
Updated by JMC4789 over 1 year ago
- Assignee set to JMC4789
I need some kind of reproduction steps to actually figure this out. Both save files look fine. Will test and see how they react to the game myself before accepting/closing.
Updated by JMC4789 over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Questionable
- Assignee deleted (
JMC4789)
I tested this a bit, it appears this actually is a known issue on the Steam release as well.
I don't have a good answer as to when/why it corrupts, the savefile itself appears to be okay. If someone can find an exact set of steps to reproduce the issue consistently, we could at least compare to console and see if this is a Dolphin issue, but based on reports I'm not sure anymore.
Updated by Billiard26 about 1 month ago
Are you using save states in combination with normal in-game saves?