Yeah, so ... I messed up! .. No what?! :(

Spungi

I just mannaged, for some reason to save over my savegame, and to make matters worse, I just got out of the Underdark, and for the first time actually took the time to do all quests and what have you.

Fool of me to forget to keep seperate saves, so now I have a Sorcerer sitting in Irenicus dungeon instead, yay me! >.<
I doubt anyone know of any ways to recover a save game? :P Or should I just make a ToB game, with the same part and EEKeeper them accordingly... *sigh* What a bummer...

SpaceInvader

If it is so, I fear there's no way to recover your saved game.

The real question is: have you already finished SoA?
If not, than I would start all over again

Spungi

I have finished it many times before, just never as thorough as this time

Gawd ... I'm so stupid.

Guess it's time to try the evil party then!

Sorc
Viconia
Dorn
Korgan
Edwin
Hexxat

And just be a major douche to everyone, and only in it for my own personal gain!

the_spyder

So can't you simply restore another of your saved games? They may not be as far along, but it would be better (or would it?) than re-playing the game all the way from Chez Irenicus.

Maybe I am dumb about the whole thing, but I tend to iterate my save games at every single save (making for hundreds by the end). Now, THAT's a bit extreme, but keeping a rolling 4 or 5 seems like a reasonable compromise. Right?

Montresor_SP

Perhaps a stupid question, but do you happen to have a reasonably fresh auto-save? Or has that been overwritten too?

Spungi

I have a save, from watcher's keep... Can't get myself to start from there hehe, silly thing is that I used my quick save to save to save, and just had to try something out... and accidentally hit quick save, realizing what I had done just a tiny bit too late... serves me right for always doing it the "easy" way, haha... And autosave got messed up, cause it autosaves when you make a new game, apparently.

But I guess I got a good excuse to make that evil party I've always wanted to try... haha

Most annoying part is i just made it out of the underdark, never liked that place.

meagloth

I usually make 20 saves through bg2, and about 5-7 for bg1, as I'm for familiar with it and less likely to screw it up. And that's for each game I play, so it's a bit crowded. It's nice to be able to have saves in each part of the game though, if you need to get there quick to check something.

panchocobro

I don't recall if this option is still a thing on pc, but in the past I've gone nuclear and done a full restore with windows recovery to a previously saved version of windows.Basically restored the entire hard drive to a previous date. It was on by default last i tried it but it has been a few years. It was called an image restoration iirc.

the_spyder

@panchocobro - man that is nuclear. I think I would play all the way through the game again before taking that step. But then that's just because I enjoy playing BG. And I'd rather spend hours struggling with vampires and errant mages than with Windows restore facility. That's just me.

atcDave

You all are making me feel like a reckless fool! I rely on three saves; auto, quick, and one named save I use at the end of every game session.
On the first couple play throughs I would add another named save into the mix. But never more than that.

Spungi

Sounds like me:P

Windows restore or whatever it's called doesn't recall documents, only installed programs etc.
Was my first idea aswell, tough luck I guess

jackjack

I have a named save from every time I take a break and quit playing.

Lemernis

Moral of story learned the hard way by most folks: regularly make archived (named) game saves.

Spungi

Amen to that hehe

fanscale

Use the console: MoveToArea Go collect your sorc then MoveToArea again.
Not cheating, just speeding up the game a little.

elminster

Edit: nevermind

kiwidoc

I save every time I enter a new area, every time I fight a moderate or a biggy enemy, every time I add a new PC and quite often every time I level up. I've also taken to saving every time I wake up after a rest. When the games start to add up I go back and delete the ones I KNOW I won't need again, but I normally keep at least 20 in hand. If I name them sensibly it doesn't confuse me, and since I hit the last 10 years it doesn't slow anything down. Saving after a rest comes in handy when trying to avoid getting fatigued.

btw I'm not a smug git who does everything right ... I've been playing BG since it first hit the shops and I can tell you I learned it the bloody hard way!

Archaos

I actually create a new hard save when I am done with each session.
I am playing for hours and relying on quicksaves. When I am done for the day, I create a hard save with a number and stop.

With BG1 I ended up on around 120 saves, I think.
It's very good when you want to test something old or rewind from an earlier save because you missed that item or quest or NPC or whatever.