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Magicalsushi:
I've been playing A0666.  I'm on level five hundred and fifty something, with 100% kills.  I'm not a very fast player; it usually takes me 8-10 minutes per level.  My PC just crashed while I was playing and I had to power it off.  I've just turned it back on and DoomRL is not giving me the option to continue the game.

Have I just irrevocably lost a game I'd spent 80+ hours on and was quite close to finishing? :|

thelaptop:
If it's a crash outside of DoomRL, you are SOL.  It's gone Jim; sorry.

If it's a crash inside of DoomRL, there will be a save state generated.

Magicalsushi:
Outside of DoomRL.  [insert many swear words here]

This seems a bit ridiculous to me.  Surely I can't be the only person whose PC is less than completely infallible?  Why doesn't the game keep a backup while you're playing?  I understand that it's a rogue-like tradition not to let people save and reload, but it does make the game very exposed to external crashes/power cuts, which is really no joke when you're doing Ao666.  On the other hand, I've seen people here talking about save-scumming, or posting save states, so it's not like the current system actually prevents abuse of saves.

Before the crash wiped it out, presumably there would have been a save file that got written each time I saved and quit.  Where would that have been?  Would I have been able to make a copy of it and put the copy back later to continue the game?  If so, then I'll make sure to do this periodically if I ever try Ao666 again.  I'm not planning to bother though - I can't really justify chucking another hundred hours at the game.

It's all a bit depressing. :(  Thank you TheLaptop for your speedy response though.

Magicalsushi:
Oh, also...I noticed some files called player.wad.backup and score.wad.backup, with the date of my most recent non-crashed session on them.  Could those still be useful in any way?  If the game at least gives me credit for the tonnes of uniques I found and kills I made, at least it won't be a *complete* waste of 80 hours... :\

thelaptop:
The two wad files store player statistics, so they are less useful for restoration of an active game.

You may attempt to recover the file using standard file recovery software; however due to how undelete software works, there's no guarantee that things work well.  DoomRL never dumps state to the hard drive because it never tries to mitigate hardware failure of any sort.

I feel for you for AAo666, but, well, sometimes some things are beyond dev control.

PS: Just call me thelaptop.  There's no strange capitalisation involved.

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