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Playstation 2 data deleted on the PS 3?
Filipino Box Spring Hog
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I'm looking at my friend roll around in agony right now. He turns on his PS 3 and finds all his PS 2 data not there. He's blaming the laterst firmware update for this. What's up with this?
Its not me with a PS 3 problem, but my friend looks ripped apart at the moment. I want to help him out.... any solutions?
Its not me with a PS 3 problem, but my friend looks ripped apart at the moment. I want to help him out.... any solutions?
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Seriously though, that would suck if it happened to me. I don't have a lot of time consuming games, but the ones I do have are near 100% completion, so saying I would be pissed is a major understatement
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Also, what a curse! He has to play FFXII again. Sucks to be him! Preferably without guide this time.
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Do yourself a favour and never use the data compression tools that come with Action Replay Max. All gone. All.
And I remember there was an OPM demo disk that also erased all of your save data. I forget which game did it.
Yah this.
Are you a jerk? That's 30 hours of time lost. He bought the game at release, with the guide of course, because it's nice. He's been playing on and off since launch, building his progress slowly, because he doesn't have the time to marathon the game. But guide or no guide, there's effort placed in that game that has been lost. A guide doesn't beat the bosses for you. Those hunts and bosses are hard regardless. Funny part is, he hasn't even beaten the game yet. He wanted to do all the sidequests and collect everything before doing so. Also, the randomized treasures... he took the time to collect the best items, lucking out with the draw on quite a few of them.
And beside FFXII, he lost data for other games. That's a lot of time invested, lost with use of an official device. I feel bad for him. He's living a gamer's nightmare right now. We sent off an email to Sony and all, but he's kinda frozen when it comes to playing those games again.
I can understand losing your saves if the card/HD dies but to lose it because of some corrupt file/bad block/gremlin bit munchers is stupid.
I'd like to have the game I'm playing save to 2 places automatically so when I go to load it up and 1 save is screwed the backup is there to save me from smashing something.
I do this on the PC because I was in probably my best FO2 game ever and my drive screwed up, lost the partition (MFT?), 25 hours of game time, down the drain.
So now after everytime I finish playing something I copy the save to a second HD, just in case.
TLDR: Make duplicate saves automatic on consoles, it's not like we have no space.
I spent like an hour on the phone with Sony complaining and finally got them to acknowledge there was a problem with the system that they were going to research. They wanted to try and send me an exchange unit, thinking my system was bad, but as I can see other people are having the same problem. They said they would put me on a call back to let me know what they find out after they do some research, but I am not getting my hopes up to high. I'll let you know what they find out though.
But damn to lose 90+ hours in a game like FFXII, breaks your heart
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I heard about this problem, but it mostly appears to be isolated incidents. Just in case, I backed up some MORE of my most important PS2 saves on to my PSP, and then moved them on to my PC just in case something ever goes wrong.
So far, everything is fine.
Two saves on the same system doesn't provide much protection (and someone in fact encountered a double-deletion). What you should probably do if you're concerned--though it can't be automated--is copy your PS2 saves to a thumb drive or SD card, and then also possibly to your PC. That's just good backup behavior.
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I thought Sony didn't tell what their firmware updates did?
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Or Blizzard.
"Fixed a bug that caused Frostbolt to bug out and stick in the air. Oh. Shit. It crashes the game now.
Huh.
We should fix that.
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We'll do it Tuesday."
It's like the bigger and more popular a company is, the more fucking stupid the updates are.
It didn't really bother me as much as I thought it would, like at all, but even so I hate replaying 30 minutes of game due to a death, much less 30 hours of Final Fantasy XII.
I remember about that viewtiful Joe demo too, that hella sucked(I didn't experience it, but I was on the message boards around the same time).
They should definitely find a way of reimbursement(though you can find saves online that are in the same area usually)
I'm not that angry. I didn't lose too much data. If it was an RPG I had been playing for 30 hours or so, I would've really been mad, but it was just a few short games so I can easily get back to where I was in a few hours of play if I so desire it. But this issue better be fixed soon, because I do want to play some RPGs and finish other long games (Valkyrie Profile 2, Okami, Rogue Galaxy, Beyond Good & Evil...).
Who knows, you may yet be hit. What is your firmware version, by the way? Everyone I've heard that has had this happen to them upgraded to 1.50 first. I do have a 64Mb USB drive, so I should make use of it from here on out. I guess I'll buy Rogue Galaxy and play it, but back up the save to the USB drive before I quit. I really, really shouldn't have to do this just to play a game. This thing better be fixed soon.
Well it wasn't the upgrading process that did it. Don't think you're in the clear just because it hasn't happened yet. I hadn't had any problems and I thought I was just fine, and then all of a sudden I wake up to find my saves were gone.