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[Kazz]

On a complete whim, I got The Movies, and after a few days of being monumentally frustrated, I figured out how to completely ignore the retarded trash-can-placing movie-star babysitter sim aspect of the game and just make movies.

Here's an educational film called Sex Demons and here's a movie about a gorilla kidnapping a cowboy that got fucked over by whatever retardo light filter the game arbitrarily opted to apply.  WMV format.

So I was just working, for about three hours, on a WWII movie in which a pair of US soldiers are walking through a city, and then one of them gets shot and the other is taken hostage by a Nazi, and the US soldier tells him he'll do anything if the Nazi spares him, and the Nazi kisses him deeply and they go into a room and fall in love and I must have gone through, like, every romantic action that you could apply, and then the US soldier wakes up to find an effeminate black man in the bath with the Nazi and he becomes enraged and drags him into the street and stabs him and sets the building on fire and he was JUST ABOUT to chase the Nazi with an axe when the game crashed.

The autosave evidently only works while you're in the god damned studio sim portion of the game, so everything I made was completely fucking lost.  I mean, playing video games is a waste of time, we all know that, but playing a video game and then having everything you just did erased or nullified is way the fuck worse.  Especially if the result of your work would be a movie about gay Nazis.

So I guess this can be a thread about horrible crashes that have erased your shit that made you want to drown things.

[Arc]

Warning:

Never connect the system's power cord to a socket that corresponds to a light switch on the wall.

Never go for four hours of power leveling without saving.

Never try to power level on the first screen.

Never discount that some random asshole will pop in, flip the switch, and run away like a cackling hyena.

Oh, Secret fo Evermore, to think of all the time we could have spent together. OH WELL, BACK TO THE RENTAL DUMP WITH YOU. FATTY.

[Kazz]

Once, my brother dug our old N64 and connected to the same power strip as a computer.  He played Star Fox 64 for a few hours and he thought he was about to seal the last few medal requirements in the game.  I tried to turn on the computer to check.

[R^2]

I've discovered that about the only thing worse that having a power outage destroy your progress is to just have all your memory cards stolen, never to be seen again.

[Kazz]

I was 2/3 of the way through Ocarina of Time when a kid who lived here for a short while stole it and saved over my slot with a garbage file before I got it back.  If you live anywhere near retarded children, use slot #2.

[A²]

I had a farm on Harvest Moon PSX that was at least two years realtime of work on it.

I boot it up one day, the entire memory card has been erased.

[Kazz]

That's 17520 hours.  Are you sure?

[Kayma]

I had a farm on Harvest Moon PSX that was at least two years realtime of work on it.

I boot it up one day, the entire memory card has been erased.

Same, though not quite so much work. I NEVER FARMED AGAIN.

[Lady Duke]

Having your memory cards stolen is totally worse.  I still miss my Kingdom Hearts perfect data ;-;

[McFrugal]

Well if it was perfect data, at least you never had any reason to play it again.

[Thad]

I was once playing an emulator on one computer in-between troubleshooting another one.  I powered the wrong one down.

That's when I discovered that zSNES, at least at that time, didn't actually write save data to the hard drive until exit.

[A²]

That's 17520 hours.  Are you sure?

I had been playing the same game constantly for two years, across one apartment move. So about a few hours each night. That is what I meant by real-time. Since the game itself uses years I wanted to emphasize that I had spent two years in the real world, not the game world, making it the best fucking farm ever

[Beat Bandit]

I was just starting the second fight with Tyrano in my no-save runthrough of Megaman Legends 2 before the east coast super power-outage.

[Brentai]

I know I've said this a million times, but my PSX memory card died on the final dungeon of Xenogears.

Meaning that I know that one day, I will have to sit through the entirety of disc 2... a second time.

[Dooly]

I suppose it's not really a crash, but my damned Playstation memory card back in the 90s kept eating my FF7 and Megaman Legends files.  I'll never buy third-party storage cards again.

[McFrugal]

Anachronox froze on me after about an hour of wandering around all the towns I had already been in, looking for things to pick up with my new tractor beam.  I was in combat, and used the Analyze (or whatever it's called) spell for the first time.

I haven't played it since.  I suppose I may have overreacted, to be honest.

[Classic]

Grand D&D running computer RPG! ALL OF THEM.

Today's complaint:
BGII/ToB IMPORTANT PLOT NPC X APPEARS BUSY, SO YOU CAN'T FUCKING TALK TO HIM! AND YOUR ATTEMPT TO TALK TO HIM BROKE WHATEVER IT WAS HE WAS DOING TO LOOK BUSY SO NOW IT'S STUCK UNCOMPLETED AND YOU CAN'T TALK TO HIM WITHOUT RELOADING!

More a bug than a crash, plus there's not a million hours of data lost. Weak entry.

[Kashan]

The save battery on my FFIII cardtridge died the day after I finally got the paladin shield.

[Thad]

FF7 froze right after I beat Ruby Weapon.

[S D S]

I was one save rioght before the final round of question in the 2nd Pheonix Wright gave. I saved, quit, went to let the dogs outside.

Turn the DS back on, and the save file had gotten currupted.

I loved that game but know way in HELL am I slogging through 96 percent of the text in a game I've already seen just for the ending.