MY SNES is eating my saves!

[thom_m]

This has been happening for a while now. My SNES doesn't always boot right the first time; sometimes it just doesn't boot, and other it garbles the game. Whenever this starts to happen, it wipes my saves!

I know there are some threads about it, but I didn't find one about the SNES specifically. I also know there's some obvious safeguard that envolves reseting the game before turning the console off, but for some reason I'm not 100% aware of it.

Anyways, if any of you guys have a solution for it, I'd be very pleased. I found out today that I lost my Zelda LTTP save (while testing a pad that I'm giving away to a friend), and I was kinda far through the game! :(

[dendawg]

If you haven't, try cleaning your contacts; both on your carts and your SNES. What you described sounds like classic dirty contact symptoms.

[FoxNtd]

This is an additional reason why it is important to keep game contacts clean, and consequently the system cartridge slot clean as well. It's not a common side-effect but I have experienced this myself once or twice in the last few years, where a bad boot of a game causes save data to be lost on the subsequent successful boot.

[skaar]

Obviously you aren't holding reset while you press power off :)