Well i got this problem recently, my DraStic app was at a good condition until i was unconditionally pressed the home button on my smartphone while palying pokemon. Then, of course i wanted to back to my game as it was before but what happened?
The DraStic crashed and all my progress through almost all of the map (i played this game in one go from the no gym badge to 4 gym badges) and started from the beginning. Of course i dont want this to happen, so is there any suggestion about autosave or anything even if you crashed?
Crashed DraStic
Re: Crashed DraStic
So odds are nothing will recover your sadly lost run, but here is some advice moving foward.
Savestates - saves made outside the game using the emulator. These can be found on the quick menu (the half circle thing that pops up when pressed) for a single quick save slot, or in the main menu area for a lot more slots if you don't like saving over older saves. These are nice for quick places that you can recover to in case something comes up and you are not in a position to make a in game save (like in a gym battle). The down side is that if there is something going wrong with the game thar will cause it to crash the save state will record that unstable-ness too.
In game or cartridge saves - these are the saves that you could make if the game was really being played on a physical DS. The advantage of these saves is that they should be very stable and even ongoing cheat effects tend to not survive saving and loading an in game save. The downsides is that the number of cartridge save slots are usually limited sometimes very limited and even thoigh the DS was a portable system a lot of times games don't have well thought out or convenient save locations for players.
What I usually do is make a savestate every 10 mins or so just incase something unthinkable happens and before I stop playing for the session if I can I update the cartridge save to make sure nothing will happen to my data. If it is a game like pokemon where saving is a lot easier then I tend to do more cartridge saves (like after any major event) and still do savestate saves in between so I have less backtracking if my whole device crashes.
Savestates - saves made outside the game using the emulator. These can be found on the quick menu (the half circle thing that pops up when pressed) for a single quick save slot, or in the main menu area for a lot more slots if you don't like saving over older saves. These are nice for quick places that you can recover to in case something comes up and you are not in a position to make a in game save (like in a gym battle). The down side is that if there is something going wrong with the game thar will cause it to crash the save state will record that unstable-ness too.
In game or cartridge saves - these are the saves that you could make if the game was really being played on a physical DS. The advantage of these saves is that they should be very stable and even ongoing cheat effects tend to not survive saving and loading an in game save. The downsides is that the number of cartridge save slots are usually limited sometimes very limited and even thoigh the DS was a portable system a lot of times games don't have well thought out or convenient save locations for players.
What I usually do is make a savestate every 10 mins or so just incase something unthinkable happens and before I stop playing for the session if I can I update the cartridge save to make sure nothing will happen to my data. If it is a game like pokemon where saving is a lot easier then I tend to do more cartridge saves (like after any major event) and still do savestate saves in between so I have less backtracking if my whole device crashes.
Re: Crashed DraStic
additionally, for the love of everything unholy about pokemon, do not fricking check the option to save the ingame with the state. i know it was done by the devs to help but from what i had experienced, doing this fully renders whatever in game saves corrupted if the state is saved with an issue.TkSilver wrote:So odds are nothing will recover your sadly lost run, but here is some advice moving foward.
Savestates - saves made outside the game using the emulator. These can be found on the quick menu (the half circle thing that pops up when pressed) for a single quick save slot, or in the main menu area for a lot more slots if you don't like saving over older saves. These are nice for quick places that you can recover to in case something comes up and you are not in a position to make a in game save (like in a gym battle). The down side is that if there is something going wrong with the game thar will cause it to crash the save state will record that unstable-ness too.
In game or cartridge saves - these are the saves that you could make if the game was really being played on a physical DS. The advantage of these saves is that they should be very stable and even ongoing cheat effects tend to not survive saving and loading an in game save. The downsides is that the number of cartridge save slots are usually limited sometimes very limited and even thoigh the DS was a portable system a lot of times games don't have well thought out or convenient save locations for players.
What I usually do is make a savestate every 10 mins or so just incase something unthinkable happens and before I stop playing for the session if I can I update the cartridge save to make sure nothing will happen to my data. If it is a game like pokemon where saving is a lot easier then I tend to do more cartridge saves (like after any major event) and still do savestate saves in between so I have less backtracking if my whole device crashes.
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