Late that night, he found an annotation inside the save's raw header: "For retrieval: owner=L. Last known: 2006-11-14." There was a phone number, one digit corrupted. He tried reverse lookups; the number led to dead forums and a web archive entry that simply said, "DO NOT DELETE — LENAFOLDER."

The community often shares "perfect save states" for notoriously difficult games. The r/PCSX2 wiki has a curated list of compatibility-tested saves.