diff --git a/src/dusk/ui/frame/game/uigamemenu.c b/src/dusk/ui/frame/game/uigamemenu.c
index e3e2664c..2e4d0111 100644
--- a/src/dusk/ui/frame/game/uigamemenu.c
+++ b/src/dusk/ui/frame/game/uigamemenu.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #include "uigamemenu.h"
 #include "ui/frame/uiframe.h"
+#include "ui/frame/uiconfirm.h"
 #include "ui/frame/settings/uisettings.h"
 #include "ui/frame/backpack/uibackpack.h"
 #include "ui/rpg/textbox/uitextboxmain.h"
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
 // slot-select UI yet, and SAVE_FILE_COUNT_MAX > 1 exists for later.
 #define UI_GAME_MENU_SAVE_SLOT 0
 
-static void uiGameMenuSaveComplete(errorret_t result, void *user) {
+static void uiGameMenuSaveWriteComplete(errorret_t result, void *user) {
   if(errorIsNotOk(result)) {
     // Generously sized - stringFormat asserts (crashes) rather than
     // truncating if the message doesn't fit, so this must comfortably fit
@@ -46,6 +47,43 @@ static void uiGameMenuSaveComplete(errorret_t result, void *user) {
   uiTextboxMainSetText("Game saved.");
 }
 
+static void uiGameMenuSaveCreateConfirmed(const bool_t confirmed, void *user) {
+  if(!confirmed) {
+    uiTextboxMainSetText("Save cancelled.");
+    return;
+  }
+
+  saveWrite(UI_GAME_MENU_SAVE_SLOT, uiGameMenuSaveWriteComplete, NULL);
+}
+
+// Determines whether there's actually save data to overwrite (not just
+// whether the medium is present) by attempting a real load first - this is
+// what lets a fresh memory card/stick, with no prior save on it yet, be
+// told apart from one that already has our data on it. Cheap either way
+// (a single sector/file read), and correct on every platform without any
+// platform-specific UI code - saveExists() already reflects each
+// platform's own notion of "found something."
+static void uiGameMenuSaveCheckComplete(errorret_t result, void *user) {
+  if(errorIsNotOk(result)) {
+    char_t msg[256];
+    stringFormat(msg, sizeof(msg), "Can't save: %s", result.state->message);
+    errorCatch(result);
+    uiTextboxMainSetText(msg);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if(saveExists(UI_GAME_MENU_SAVE_SLOT)) {
+    saveWrite(UI_GAME_MENU_SAVE_SLOT, uiGameMenuSaveWriteComplete, NULL);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  uiConfirmOpen(
+    "No save data found. Create a new save?",
+    uiGameMenuSaveCreateConfirmed,
+    NULL
+  );
+}
+
 static void uiGameMenuSave(void) {
   if(!saveIsAvailable()) {
     uiTextboxMainSetText("Can't save - no save device found.");
@@ -53,7 +91,7 @@ static void uiGameMenuSave(void) {
   }
   if(saveIsBusy()) return;// A save/load dialog (e.g. on PSP) is already up.
 
-  saveWrite(UI_GAME_MENU_SAVE_SLOT, uiGameMenuSaveComplete, NULL);
+  saveLoad(UI_GAME_MENU_SAVE_SLOT, uiGameMenuSaveCheckComplete, NULL);
 }
 
 uigamemenu_t UI_GAME_MENU;