Off chance question. Did you put the game in the default windows or programs folders? Windows can have issues with that, since it sometimes doesn't like letting programs edit files there.
It's in the "Downloads" folder. I have since moved it elsewhere, but it didn't help.
make sure that the game folder does not have this checked, many save problems happen because of that.
Read-only was indeed checked, but I have unchecked it now. No change, when I tried to save it's like it overwrited the stats in the save file, but not location or play time.
Also the folder reverted to read-only, but none of the save files had that checked.
EDIT: And now I'm completely stumped. I have used the locale emulator to run in jap admin and it rewrote the location but not play time... Once.
When I tried again it once again did not rewrite the location or play time (or equipped magic), but did rewrite the stats.
EDIT2: And next try. It overwrote the location, but not play time on the first try, then I changed some of my setup (equipped a magic spell), and saved again and
now it overwrote the play time. Reminds me of SC2 and its "Save Failed" problem.