I need a little help i got caught on the ultimate heist mission and in the middle of escaping i forgot the scroll now i cant get into the tower to try again, if there's only that one chance I'm gonna be ticked. I'm on the 360 and need to know if i now gotta restart because I have no saves to revert to

You need to save more often, sorry. You have the one save, and do you have an auto save? But! don't load the auto save until you are sure it is from when entering the library. Or did a loading screen show up afterwards? If a loading screen showed up after, you only have that.
This is a Bethesda game. A minimum of ten saves is recommended, never overwrite them, always creating a new one, then deleting the old saves every once in a while.

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Well.. that makes sense. The mission is all about stealing the scroll after all. You just completed The Ultimate Failure of an ultimate heist

That actually is an interesting concept: how we save. I'm always overwriting. Actually, here's how I do it in Oblivion:

I usually make a save just after creating my character, and keeping that save.

Nowadays, my second save will be just before exiting the sewers, assuming this is a character that did the Tutorial. I keep this save, too.

I'll keep the very last save from Level 1.

From then on, I sometimes will "save" some saves forever (at a super-epic moment, if I want to relive it later).

...but otherwise, I'll usually have two saves going at the very top of the list. These are always my most current saves. They fluctuate from 1st to 2nd place, up and down, as I overwrite them. I figure if my game freezes or glitches out, I now have two options for saves which are both fairly recent. This is just in case one of them happens to not load up for some reason.

I read that on the PS3, we're not supposed to have too many saves. It can slow the game down...and I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the A-bomb showing up in a couple of my games.

Way to hi-jack a thread, Renee.

I never save over other saves, I just periodically go through and delete them when there are about two hundred, but I always keep the last twenty or so.
It really helps if you get stuck or something's bugged because I'm on xbox so no commands.

I have fifteen rotating saves, not including two at the sewers. Yes, it gets laggy if you have too many saves. I've experienced corruption when overwriting, so I never do.