Just corrupted an SD card in my Pi Zero

[Kilren]

Do you think it happened because it restarted 12 times quickly? or do you think its because of the hard shutdown?

I'm guessing it happened (at least to me) on a hard shutdown. Most SD/HD corruptions happen on a hard shutdown during a data transfer.

[Jman11]

Do you think it happened because it restarted 12 times quickly? or do you think its because of the hard shutdown?

I'm guessing it happened (at least to me) on a hard shutdown. Most SD/HD corruptions happen on a hard shutdown during a data transfer.

Yea thats true. Is it perfectly acceptable to just use the built in shutdown feature in retropie, then flip the off switch? Im pretty good about remembering to shut things down through software.

[Kilren]

Do you think it happened because it restarted 12 times quickly? or do you think its because of the hard shutdown?

I'm guessing it happened (at least to me) on a hard shutdown. Most SD/HD corruptions happen on a hard shutdown during a data transfer.

Yea thats true. Is it perfectly acceptable to just use the built in shutdown feature in retropie, then flip the off switch? Im pretty good about remembering to shut things down through software.

You talking about "sudo shutdown -now"? Yeah, perfectly fine to do it that way and then flip the switch. Popcorns graceful shutdown is a hardware/software solution to do the same thing.