Xbox 360 + 64Mb memory card + BioShock + crash = _RAGE_. Any way back?

October 4, 2007 3:28 PM

Xbox 360 + 64Mb memory card + BioShock + crash = _RAGE_. Any way back?

I have an Xbox 360 but no hard drive, just a 64Mb memory card. BioShock saved games fill it up pretty quickly, so each time I just saved in the same slot. Meaning that the autosave never worked, but that was fine - I just saved manually every time I started a new level. I was having just a grand old time.

Then, in a rather unexpected turn of events, the machine crashed, and took my saved game with it. The previous save is, I would estimate, 10 hours or more behind where I last was. I found the Microsoft KB article which informs me in corporate speak that I am shit outta' luck. I don't want to spoil the game for anyone who's playing it, so exactly where I was is explained here.

There is no sign of the saved game anywhere on the memory stick (well, I assume that quantum-mechanically there is, but not a hint through the 360), I can't find any 'skip levels' cheats online, and the hard drive is in the post as of this evening. Is there any way I could obtain a saved game from some mysterious source, transfer that to my 360, and play on from there? (I can't find anything on that on the nets). Is there _any_ way to get back to where I was? Or do I just need to accept that everything is easier the second time around?

Thanks hive-mind.

posted by StephenF to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

I don't know, but I have tons of saves at various points on my drive, so if someone more savvy than me can tell me how, I'll be happy to send you one. I finished the game a few nights ago -- saving, not harvesting, if that matters. The problem is that my saves have my choices in them, not yours, so you might not like my plasmid build.
posted by The Bellman at 4:38 PM on October 4, 2007

Response by poster: Hmmmm. That's an excellent point I hadn't thought of. Oh well... One more time from the top with feeling.
posted by StephenF at 4:44 PM on October 4, 2007

P.S. you were nowhere near the end of the game :)
posted by puddpunk at 5:48 PM on October 4, 2007

Yeah, it should theoretically be possible to swap game saves from other sources, people trade them all the time. this is a torrent of supposedly 100 different saves. I'm not sure how you'd load them, you'd probably need an adapter for your save card.
posted by delmoi at 6:15 PM on October 4, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks puddpunk... I was going to ask, but decided not to :-) Cheers for the links delmoi.
posted by StephenF at 1:30 AM on October 5, 2007