A famous save-based exploit: if you saved right before carving the Amatsu (storm serpent) and force-quit the game during the quest completion save, you could re-enter the quest and carve again. The save file didn’t flag the quest as complete, but kept the materials. This created a gray-market economy of “Amatsu talons” on GameFAQs trading threads.
Every long-time monster hunter has a story of a corrupted save file after 150 hours. Do not become that story. Corruptions can occur from sudden power loss, faulty memory sticks, or emulator crashes.
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Monster Hunter Portable 3rd was never officially localized. Almost all Western players use a fan translation patch. Here is the critical piece of information: The English patch does not change the save structure. A Japanese save works perfectly with an English patched ISO, and vice versa. However, saves from cheated or modded DLC quests may cause errors on clean versions.
