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?

  • feartheflame@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    On what are you playing? OG consoles need a memory card to save to. Sorry if this is known to you but more information is needed to diagnose. (I looove the spyro trilogy, both the original from back in the day, and the remake)

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      yes it has a memory card, it asked me in the beginning to create a save and also it remembered the language (pal) but it’s all “new game”

      • feartheflame@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Hm, perhaps double check if there’s any settings you may have to adjust. Then as the other user mentioned try testing the save-at-dragon-statue. Also maybe try playing /saving a different game just to test if the memory card is working properly too

        • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          2 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
            1·
            2 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
              1·
              2 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

  • ineffable@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been playing on an emulator, and after you free a dragon you can return to the pad where the dragon was and a menu will let you save

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Thanks, it looks like this is the way to save

      The user manual said it autosaved when changed the world but in my ten minutes of play only the manual saves on the dragon pad worked

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    According to the user manual it saves each time you enter or exit a world. So it should have saved at least 4 times…