Halo: Reach

[Chux]

I do like a bunch of points....

[kedawa]

Shortly after finishing this game, I noticed there was 11MB more free space on my memory card than usual. I checked and sure enough my Halo Reach save is nowhere to be found. I started the game just to see what would happen, and it loads my save just fine. Once again, I check my storage devices, and there's no Halo Reach save.
What the fuck.

[Dolemite]

Odd.

[Joust Williams]

Some things are tied to your profile. I cannot speak for Halo: Reach but that isn't surprising. Not sure what would take 11 MB though.

[JefmcC]

Cloud storage?

[kedawa]

My system hasn't been online in several months.
Halo 3 and ODST have 11MB saves too for whatever reason.

[Rumpy]

Memory Card?

[Darmonde]

I never really paid attention to the save files themselves, but my guess is the 11mb file is for current campaign progress. So you'll have one of those if you have a campaign checkpoint, and you'll get the option to 'continue campaign' instead of just 'start campaign'. All of the game system data is probably tied to your gamertag as previously mentioned.

[kedawa]

It's just weird that it was there and then it wasn't.
I can't imagine the developers saving control options and customizations in my gamertag.

[Darmonde]

If you beat the campaign, you would no longer have a campaign in progress, so the save would go away. This is all a guess, but it makes logical sense, to me.

I'm almost positive that the customizations are saved to your tag. Lots of games do this- scott pilgrim for example saves EVERYTHING to your tag, so you can't even delete your progress and start over without a crazy trick. That's why a new gamertag is less than 1mb, and I'm guessing yours is at least several- mine was 15mb last I checked.

It's an interesting system. Mostly invisible, and probably works for a lot of people without them realizing it. It sounds like you don't have a HDD- you could test it with some USB sticks if you wanted. But you'd have to be pretty curious and pretty bored.