Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Saves Reportedly Corrupting When Connected To Go
Monday's Pokemon Presents might not have included a new Mystery Dungeon reveal, but there was plenty for Scarlet & Violet players to enjoy. One of the more lowkey announcements about the newest games in the series is that they can now be connected to Pokemon Go. You might want to hold off on doing that right away though as a number of players have reported it has corrupted their save file.
Matthewcbayer has shared their own personal experience on the Scarlet & Violet subreddit, claiming to have lost 595 hours of progress and a Shiny Pokedex that was 85 percent complete after connecting to Go. The post claims around a dozen others have reported something similar happening to them, some of whom claim to have been affected after downloading the DLC and not even connecting to Go.
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To make matters even worse, Matthew added to their original post that an attempt to recover the backup save was unsuccessful. As for how it happened, they didn't even realize until hours later. The game didn't crash, but when Matthew left their Switch and attempted to jump back in a few hours later, the game displayed a “save data not recognized” message.
Serebii's Joe Merrick has also noted the issue and attempted to figure out what exactly might trigger it in an attempt to prevent others from being affected. Since the new feature is built around sending postcards from Go to Scarlet & Violet, and the location on the postcards affects the patterns that appear on Paldea's Vivillon, one theory was that saving near the altered Pokemon was causing the file to corrupt. That has been bravely tested and doesn't appear to be the case.
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