SaveRAM cleared/rewritten itself?

[Kooogie]

I'm not too sure what happened but I can tell you the issue.

I was playing LOZ:OOT and I was trying to beat the game that I couldn't do when I was younger, but when I reached Ganon's Tower I closed out of the application and I my save data was gone. I did save and it did work before this.

I still have my SRAM of OOT, and .BAK too. But I can't get the Software to read it. Here are the files: (Yes they are in N64\SaveRAM)

Any ideas?

[YoshiRulz]

If you haven't moved the .SaveRAM file but it's not loading, then maybe it was corrupted. Upload it here in a .zip and I'll try loading it myself.

Which version of EmuHawk are you using?

[Kooogie]

I am using BizHawk 2.3

Heres the Zip: OOT-SaveRAM.zip

[CasualPokePlayer]

Does this issue occur on the latest version of BizHawk? 2.3 is quite old.

[Kooogie]

I downloaded the most recent one (2.8) and it's still doing what it did on the earlier release.

[Kooogie]

I did a little bit of investigating myself, so I compared two different save files together.

The unchanged one and a newer one which I created a save file.

I did noticed something about the newer one, it had a little bit of data on the very bottom of the file shown here

Compared to the older one which it's completely missing the data on the bottom

With this I think the older save file might of cleared itself. I am no professional but it's how it is looking at the moment. So I am afraid that all of my data was wiped clean. I did noticed an option on the Emulator that you can "Close and Clear SRam"

So that might be the culprit? I don't remember hitting this button at all, nor even acknowledged this before the investigation. Maybe I might of hit the right key combination?

[nature1996]

A bit of a late reply, but I think your issue is related to the fact Bizhawk automatically load the .bak in case of a missmatch between it and the .SaveRAM file. Made a Feature request #3385 about it