anyone else having problems save scumming?

If im gonna be using a tt and a pssh im just gonna use the same one and not beg for gear from the barman, ive played stalker and tarkov.

im stuck on this games redudant "anti save scum" feature???

so i make a backup folder and die, i drag and drop the folder and it loads after the death... so the copied save is synchronicity saving with the game so i cannot save scum it, despite everyone online just saying they "copy paste the folder and replace it when they die".

So i turn off the cloud saving and its stuck at a "4 minute life" despite me doing a raid, extracting, saving, it loads at a 4 minute life, so now its the opposite of save scumming its not saving properly.

I have to completely overwrite that save slot to fix it, but the same problem i cant get a back up save. im not even playing on perma death but if im picking up forks and garbage on the starter level why am i going to die and enter with a starter bag?

either way what is wrong with this, i same scum on 100's of games

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u/GladiatorMax — 3 days ago

256g ssd windows boot drive "died" but was "repaired" help

so i have 3 drives in my computer, C drive is a 256g ssd which boots windows, D drive is a 2tb HDD for games and video storage, E drive is an m.2 nvme for only games.

last night gaming till 5 am perfectly fine, wake up 2 pm go to costco come home, pc not working.

it cant get past its gigabyte boot page, so we fuck around all day long with a computer upstairs and we got an 80gb drive from 2006 with a windows boot on it, and windows booted to desktop so we know it wasnt GPU or CPU or MOBO it had to be the dead 256.

so my pc would try to repair the 256 but it would seize the computer and crash it everytime. I was able to plug the "dead" drive into the working upstairs computer and crystal disk info said it was perfectly fine, all blue no red no yellow emergencies, and still at 71% life, same as crystal on my computer from yesterday.

so i restarted that computer and a countdown counted down, and the drive repaired itself on my dads upstairs computer, but couldn't repair itself downstairs on my computer.

obviously going to look into a new drive, but what can anyone say about this? thanks for discussing

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u/GladiatorMax — 23 days ago

can anyone confirm boot screens of JAPANESE version of ORACLE of AGES and ORACLE of SEASONS

Specifically, after the "Nintendo boot screen" before the "NINTENDO CAPCOM" label screen there is that screen which states "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA oracle of seasons DEVELOPED BY CAPCOM Co. LTD PRODUCED BY NINTENDO Co. LTD (c)2001 NINTENDO" both games contains text that pertains to that game, seasons displays seasons, and ages displays ages. I just had seasons in the GBC right now

I cant find that screen online anywhere, every video of a game boot goes straight from NINTENDO to NINTENDO CAPCOM, and any info i can get on my screen is that early 2000s flash carts labled the cart data like that.

Ordered off ebay from ontario, with a reputable seller.

https://i.redd.it/7rsbyv7w7geh1.gif

https://preview.redd.it/e5uj3q7w7geh1.jpg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a27eca460528c1351477aeab1bfe147570b87d2e

Any help appreciated

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u/GladiatorMax — 1 month ago
▲ 15 r/Gameboy

Recently completed my DMG/GBC pokemon and pocket monsters collection

We had some since my childhood, and they where my older brothers like red and pikachu.

I "fixed" usa pikachu years ago it just needed a battery replacement, and that was my "entry" into gameboy repair

Silver i got a few years ago, and Blue i just got recently in my city

crystal with no label im pretty sure i got from a kid in my neighborhood when i was a child.

And ive collected the japanese ones myself over the years, starting with red and green off of amazon, gold off of amazon after those ones. And then blue and pikachu a few weeks ago from ebay, and silver and crystal came in today from the same seller.

Japanese pikachu had a battery leak during transit which aggravated decay, but not too aggressive as only one via was blocked causing sprite data not to be able to load, this was my major entry into gameboy game repair, and i learned how to use the multi meter, and read the PCB design, and then micro solder a jumper cable to fix the sprite issues. along with re soldering all bridges because it was having crashing issues as well.

Suffice to say its good they are all together and working. We also have all the GBA games but my brother has emerald and some others like black white, black and white 2, x y, AR and OS, all in a different city right now.

probably gonna get japanese GBA versions, and i need a new american Ruby and sapphire because both labels were removed and taped to a GBA by my brother, still intact, inherited to me. And ruby has a cracked cartridge.

u/GladiatorMax — 1 month ago

why do we get sieged from a bunch of zombies specifically IED bulls and explosive guys and screamers while setting up a mission finale?

specifically new york episode 4, me and a duo cannot beat insane because it is absolutely fucked, and the friendly AI is absolute dog shit. we can blitz through the entire map and the end fight is just stupidly unfair.

you get 1:30 to set up the most shitty defenses on 3 fronts of battle, and you get assaulted by IED bulls, bombers, screamers, so you cannot set the defenses up, and if you do get anything set up your friendly AI has died completely, or my teammate gets fucked by bulls. or i get fucked by bulls.

and the zombies do not fucking stop, its easy to hold off but you cant stop 2 IED bulls at once and spitters screamers gas bags every fucking thing its ridiculous. and then the incompetent military "DO THIS DO THAT DO THIS DO THAT DO THIS DO THAT DO THIS DO THAT" "THEYRE GETTING THE WINDOWS THEYRE GETTING THE DOORS"

its so fucking stupid, weve done new york lvl 4 probably 50 times and cant beat it

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u/GladiatorMax — 2 months ago

Pocket monsters yellow repair

I just obtained a pocket monsters yellow off of ebay along with a pocket monsters blue shipped from japan. the blue works perfectly however the yellow suffered a battery leak, i presume within its 3 week transit due to rapid temperature changes from high altitude flight and the current Canadian heat. and the fact that there is not much degradation and the cartridge wants to live i think it was relatively recent, or accelerated recently.

So first i put the game in and it had a bad Nintendo logo and no boot, so i took it apart where i found the clear alkaline fluid in the top right corner of the cartridge and along the PCB. At first i cleaned everything off with iso and then tried booting the game again. where i was able to enter the game but was presented with black squares instead of professor oak and pokemon.

I then neutralized all the acid with vinegar and then evaporated the vinegar with iso. and cleaned corrosion from pin 1 and 4, and corrosion from the right side ground contact. and removed the battery.

the back side of the pcb has 2 dark vias, which are now white because i tried scraping them. they did not turn gold again. Every single pin has continuity to a leg, and every single via has continuity except these 2 dark/scraped vias. the via has continuity from a chip on the front of the board, but the continuity does not travel to the back of the board.

current symptoms are a failure to present a clear nintendo logo and a failure to boot, crashing on nintendo logo, crashing on game freak logo, or crashing on the cut scene start up.

when not failing to boot, sometimes the game boots with a fractured nintendo logo and sometimes a full nintendo logo. and booting changes with the cartridge sitting and not being removed from a DMG.

when possible to boot, always have black squares, and i made it to professor oaks lab once and it crashed. just before writing this, i made it to the professor oak battle with no crash, but black squares

All pictures provided, ask to see more.

Blue = corrosion

Green = continuity

Red - no continuity

2 scraped vias

https://preview.redd.it/a2ou0a0ujw9h1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f3914b1b69ab9e84cf665c0db886176a62c008a

is re soldering legs all this one takes?

any help greatly appreciated

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u/GladiatorMax — 2 months ago

looking for someone to help me get the online play achievement in metal slug 1 on steam

as title says, i need to play multiplayer with someone but no one makes matches, if anyone wants to add steam and play a quick match for the achievement let me know and ill provide the steam name

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u/GladiatorMax — 3 months ago