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Offline Cobra951

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Re: Banjo-Kazooie: N&B - Update: My carousel is a winner!
« Reply #80 on: Monday, August 29, 2011, 08:12:14 AM »
The blueprints are saved separately from your game progress.  So yeah, you may have left the game without saving.  I think it's safest to go back to the menu before quitting to the dashboard or turning the system off.  Again, it's been so long that I don't remember the quirks of this particular title.  Sorry you lost some progress.

Side-by-side vehicle and trailer in one blueprint are fine.  That's how I did the plane and the trailer truck, though I had to move the truck's trailer above cab when I added wings.  (Would no longer fit side by side.)  They're staggered enough that the trailer falls mostly behind the cab when I select it for use.  A bit of quick work on the gas pedal, and it hitches right up to the, er, hitch.  Heh.

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Re: Banjo-Kazooie: N&B - Update: My carousel is a winner!
« Reply #81 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 07:12:12 AM »
The blueprints are saved separately from your game progress.  So yeah, you may have left the game without saving.  I think it's safest to go back to the menu before quitting to the dashboard or turning the system off.  Again, it's been so long that I don't remember the quirks of this particular title.  Sorry you lost some progress.
Usually it saves every few minutes or when something happens.  But I usually do just turn the Xbox off when done right in the game.  Maybe I did it when it was trying to save and corrupted it and it reverted back to a previous save?  Don't know.

I had another bug earlier in the game.  I unlocked the laser in the Jiggoseum, but it didn't show up on my trolley.  I Googled that and I actually found the answer in a post you made on another forum (complete with the same sig pic you use here)... you have to beat the prior Grundy challenges to truly unlock the later parts.

I'm surprised Rare made such a big mistake there.  It seems like it's a pretty big problem because I saw a lot of people asking about it.

One thing I found odd about the game was the box vs. tray.  You finally get the box well after you could really use something like that.  I had tons of different types of vehicles with a large tray with cages built around them to hold more objects, large objects, and to keep them from falling out.  When I finally got the deeper box late in the game, I exclaimed:  "I could have used this ages ago!"  But I still had about 50 jiggies to get (not to unlock the last level, but to get all of them), so I thought there was still some use.  I ended up getting about 30 more jiggies before beating the game, but I did most of it without needing a vehicle with storage capability.  I also wish the trolley could get upgraded to a box instead of the small tray.  Annoying, to say the least.

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Re: Banjo-Kazooie: N&B - Update: My carousel is a winner!
« Reply #82 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 07:33:03 AM »
Usually it saves every few minutes or when something happens.  But I usually do just turn the Xbox off when done right in the game.  Maybe I did it when it was trying to save and corrupted it and it reverted back to a previous save?

Quote from: HypnoticCoqui (me)
I highly recommend backing up saves to as many memory cards as you have, always preserving backups from at least 2 different dates.  Also, never exit the game straight to the dashboard, and never turn the 360 off in the middle of a game.  Pause and unpause, wait for "Saving game . . ." text to come and go, pause again, exit to Title Screen.  Only then can you shut off the system or go to the dashboard safely.
http://forums.banjo-kazooie.com/forums/thread/25967.aspx

That's from early '09.  Damn, my memory sucks.  I remember now.  Yes, the game has save-file issues.  It also attempts to have 2 save files, the current one and a backup of the previous one.  Consider yourself lucky.  In your case, the backup actually worked.

To be fair, I never lost a save file or had to resort to a backup.  I found out early about the corruption if you quit (or lose power) during a save, and I always followed my own advice after that.  I sunk hundreds of hours into this game as a Lego/Erector set/sandbox, without save file problems.  So don't be put off from the game if you don't have more than one storage device.  Just follow the safeguards; you'll be fine.