Since the mighty powers of google haven't given me much luck and I'm not literate in Japanese, I thought I'd ask here.

Basically I'm having an issue with the first Justice Blade game, an eroge about sentai brainwashing.

There appears to be some issue with the save files. I can save the game and load that save, but as soon as I close the game, the game can't detect the saves anymore and I have to start from scratch.

It's not deleting the saves, I can find them in their appropriate folder. The game doesn't seem to have an comprehensible ini files for me to leaf through. I've also tried disable the text grabbing programs to see if that was somehow screwing it up, still no effect, so I'm kinda at a loss.

In theory I could go with the awkward solution of having an eroge on all the time in the background...less than ideal.

Any idea of what's going on would be much appreciated.

My google-fu has also turned up nothing.

This is a peculiar issue. If it were very common, I'd imagine there'd be posts about it in more than one place.

Have you tried just reinstalling?

What happens when you save over a save slot where there SHOULD be a save? Does it replace the old save file? If not, then there may be another place where it checks for save data.

I know that many eroges have a single file that acts as a list of saved games for the save/load menus, which tells the game what save slots to look for files for. If something happens to a file like that, the game wouldn't even know to check that there is an individual save file, even if the save file itself is fine. If the game has one and you can figure out which file it is, maybe it has something to do with that file? Is the file/folder marked as read only?

I'll assume you tried running the game as administrator...but, if you haven't try, that.

I did some further experimentation.

Administrator privileges seemed to have fixed it. Strangely, I only needed to run it in admin mode once. After that, running it as a normal user worked just fine. Odd. I'm not entirely convinced the issue is fully fixed, but fingers crossed.

Thanks for the help.

If you only needed to run it as administrator once, it may have been that "save list" file I mentioned. My best guess would be that the game uses one, and that it didn't have permission to CREATE the list file for some reason. Thus, what slots actually had saves was only stored in the system's memory, and disappeared when the game was closed.

Really, I'm just guessing here, though.

Glad it worked for you. Hopefully that's all there was to the problem.