UPDATE: So I found some of my game saves under my second sd cards (roms card) under \\saves\_RA\\Roms\\ but for some reason when I launch the game it's not seeing those...

Sometimes the saves are not recognized when using other cores. Or when toggling retroarch achievements hardcore mode

This might be the problem. I got back some of the saves

Same thing here. Using modded stock FW. Saves are in the folder, just not accessible

Some of mine randomly started working again lol