For the first time in my life I’m playing Spyro, the original from 1998.

I played around 20 minutes in the starting fields, found the required ten dragons to go on the hot air balloon but then I had some real life problem and I had to turn off. In all the playtime it didn’t ask me to save and once a dragon freed said “the game saves a check point every time you free a dragon”.

So I restarted the console and… No save…

How to save?

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I tried to manually save at the dragon pads and it worked

    It was the era of manual saves, auto saves like we’re used today would have shortened the life of the small flash in the memory card

    • feartheflame@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it did autosave in world transition like the other poster mentioned but definitely not the regular autosave intervals that are more common today. I could be wrong about that but I’m not sure why the transition save isn’t working for you. Regardless, glad you could get some save functionality working.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Maybe it’s just because it was the initial worlds which are an extended tutorial and are super short to go in and out

        Or maybe it’s a problem of my card lol