Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic: Game save corruption

[Shoegzer]

Title

https://xemu.app/titles/4c410003/#Star-Wars-Knights-of-the-Old-Republic

Bug Description

After playing the game for 15-30 minutes, the game will attempt to auto-save. Sometimes this works, but often it doesn't. This results in a corrupt game save that cannot be resolved from that point forward. Of course, this renders the game unplayable.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start a game, create a character and play for 30 mins or so
2. Leave the main ship via Escape Pod
3. Explore the planet below for a few minutes.
4. Observe game attempting to auto-save and failing, resulting in "Damaged Game" appearing whenever loading is attempted:
   

Expected Behavior

Games should save without corruption

xemu Version

Version: 0.7.85
Branch: master
Commit: 065c74a
Date: Tue Mar 14 06:34:06 PM UTC 2023

System Information

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10870H CPU @ 2.20GHz
OS Platform: Linux
OS Version: Linux Mint 21.1
Manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
GPU Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
Driver: 4.0.0 NVIDIA 525.85.05
Shader: 4.00 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

Additional Context

I made a copy of the hard drive and tried playing the game multiple times, but each time the save became corrupted at roughly the same time in the game as noted above.

Also, this game's status should be changed from "Playable" to "Starts" on the compatibility page.

[Shoegzer]

Note: Others have experienced this issue as well - see the comments on this YouTube video. Interestingly, the video's creator has not experienced the problem. Curious if the issue is platform-specific such as OS.

[ShalokShalom]

This seems like a rather drastic issue. IDK about the tradition around labeling with Xemu, but is this still worth calling the game playable at the time?

[Shoegzer]

Agreed. I would certainly not say it's playable. I gave up on trying to finish it.

[ShalokShalom]

Who can change the status?

[dracc]

Note: Others have experienced this issue as well - see the comments on this YouTube video. Interestingly, the video's creator has not experienced the problem. Curious if the issue is platform-specific such as OS.

@Shoegzer Sounds more to me like a game dump specific problem. The CPU and PATA bus are quite well understood, and the main players in save handling for xemu. File system specifics are handled by the BIOS dump the user provides.

Does your game dump work on your physical Xbox?

@ShalokShalom

[Shoegzer]

The dump tested does work on an xbox. It's not a dump issue..

[ShalokShalom]

@dracc Thanks a lot. I am not using Discord.
May you be interested, to report the new status?

[JerryBerry117]

This issue still persists, I just got save corruption issue. Game should be relabeled as it this behavior makes it not playable,

xemu Version
Version: 0.7.118
Branch: master
Commit: 03f40b1
Date: Tue Mar 10 16:19:06 PM UTC 2024

OS Platform: Windows
OS Version: Windows 10