ocarina of time - problems with native save

[bep2@njit.edu]

As the manual suggested, i was saving both native and state saves regularly. All of a sudden, my native save won't save anymore. When I load the state save and attempt to overwrite the native save, it does not overwrite, and when i load the native save naturally, play for a little bit, and then attempt to save it also fails to save to the native save file.

The native save file has had a constant "Last Modified Date..." in windows explorer.

If anyone knows anything about this issue, please let me know.



Thanks.

[snesmaster40]

The solution to your problem is....

Don't use save states

[bep2@njit.edu]

thanks for the tip. but is there any solution to the immediate problem?

[nevinsb]

I had this exact same thing happen. When I ran out of HD space OOPS

If you aren't actually out of HD space... Try deleting your native save, start up PJ64, load your save state, then try saving it again. In the worst case, just keep using the saved states.

[Smiff]

check for zombie instances (OR: restart your computer)

@snesmaster40
i don't think you read his problem carefully

what nevinsb suggested is a good idea if that doesn' work, although i've never heard of this problem that wasnt either

1) out of hard drive space/file permission error
2) file locked by another instance of pj64

try those

[bep2@njit.edu]

I tried restarting, and also found no zombie pj64 instances. The file has proper permissions and i have sufficient HD space. The strange thing is, the native save file has updated for the past 3 nights within one hour of midnight...

When i try to do what nevinsb suggests, deleting my native save, loading my state save, and trying to native save again - it creates a save file of only 1KB, which doesn't load

[Smiff]

what happens when you make a new game (slot), without using states and try to native save?

[bep2@njit.edu]

when i create a new game slot and try to do a native save it updates - but that seems to be one of the few times it updates... after that its pretty random