Today, I was playing some Sonic 3 Complete on my laptop.
Unfortunately, I forgot I had moved Kega Fusion from the desktop to a different folder where I keep all my programs that don't bother with an installer.
So, my save RAM file location was pointing to a folder that no longer existed.
I didn't notice until today, since nothing I'd been playing up to now had save RAM on the cart.
Played Sonic 3 from the start up to Launch Base, had five emeralds at that point [could have had all 7, but apparently I took a particularly fast route through Hydrocity on accident, so I didn't hit the big rings I usually do there], then shut the game off for a bit.
I came back a few hours later, no save. It's gone.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
as an aside, last time I played Sonic 3, I remember enjoying myself a hell of a lot more
today, I was annoyed and paranoid the entire time, except when going through Ice Cap, where I felt a hell of a lot more relaxed
Sonic 3 has absurdly unreliable collision, and the older I get, the more I wonder how they even fucking shipped this. Every fucking moment, I felt like I was going to die for no fucking reason because lol crushers.
and this is S3C, which has a bunch of little bugfixes and shit