How to fix Dead Rising 2 - Off the Record's corrupted savegame file (Linux instructions, may work on Windows)

DR2-OTR_corrupted_save_fix.txt

Okay, so DR2:OTR has a save-game glitch if you had a savegame around or prior to 2015 (This glitch may persist for 
new players as well, who knows). At some point after 2015, a patch was pushed to the game which corrupted all save 
game files (this was back when I was using Windows 7). I am very sorry to report that there is no way to fix any 
savegame file around or prior to 2015. You have to start over, (I lost so many achievements). if you decide to play 
the game anyway, you won't be able to save any progress. The game will act like it's saving or overwriting a save 
file, but it won't save your progress.

The dead giveaway if you have this glitch (other than it not saving), is that on the load level screen, your level 
and/or money will have random numbers, sometimes negative numbers (like -$1286236298 for instance).

If you were unlucky to have one of these save files (and transferred it manually over from Windows to Linux like I 
did or through Steam Cloud), Steam Cloud may have still synced the data to their cloud anyway, which means you have 
to take some steps to get the game working again because if one of those corrupted saves is in the cloud, then even 
starting a new game won't work. Here are your steps:

(1) Install and update the game

(2) Run the game the first time, try to load a savegame (may or may not work), if it does work, try to re-save the 
game over your savefile (This probably won't work). If it does, quit the game and reload that save (I guarentee it 
won't work).

(3) Make Steam go into offline mode

(4) Right-click DR2:OTR, go to settings, then updates, and make sure Steam Cloud is unchecked

(5) Go to your Steam Cloud save game folder which will be here:

...Steam/steamapps/compatdata/45770/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/

and delete the entire Dead Rising Folder (your corrupted savegame files will be deleted, back them up if you really 
want them).

(6) Go to your actual savegame folder here:

/home/<username>/.local/share/Steam/userdata/<randomNumber>/45770/remote/

and delete the entire randomly-named folder (your corrupted savegame files will be deleted, back them up if you really 
want them).

(7) Start DR2:OTR in Steam's offline mode, create a new game, get to a save point, save the game IN ALL THREE SLOTS.

(8) Quit the game, put Steam back in online mode, and restart the game.

If you did this right, you can now safely play the game without the corrupted savefiles messing you up. (Pic related 
to my new working savegame).