Yes, if your a listener of our podcast you may have suspected this for some time. Today however I can confirm it, i’m an idiot.

How did this news come to light? After finishing Mass Effect 2 (a quick 36 Hour investment on my behalf) I went ahead and deleted the Mass Effect 2 folder on my 360. To ensure that the idiot test came back positive I proceeded to install Guitar Hero Greatest Hits onto my HDD.

Days later when I realised that the save game was in the folder I deleted I jumped onto my nearest computer & did a quick Google for “Recover xbox 360 save game”. I found that for $25 AUD I could purchase a HDD data transfer cable for PC, combined with either XPort360 or Xplorer360, I would be able to restore deleted data.

Upon receiving the cable & trying multiple times to restore my data, only to have both programs continually crash, another quick Google soon relieved I would only be able to recover my save game if nothing had been overwritten. Yup, you guessed it, I sacrificed 36 hours of game play (& i’m guessing a few achievement points once I complete Mass Effect 3 with the one character) for a few seconds less loading time when playing GH-GH!