29th November 2004, 8:30 PM
I tend not to visit the big name news sites, but honestly it wouldn't have helped this time anyway... I got this about a week ago, rather than just a couple days ago, and popped it in right away. I didn't play any PS2 games since those, I was busy playing a couple GBA games. Anyway, that article did little more than result in a "oh NOW you tell me" thing...
So... Huh... Oh yes, my Super Mario RPG game data was erased a few months ago actually. Unlike this, which is totally the designer's fault, the evil jerks, that one was all me. I accidently turned the system on and off rapidly. How did I ACCIDENTLY do that you ask? My foot is an idiot.
Anyway, it's odd, save data loss is just so UTTERLY devastating that my response seems to be a sort of layed back disconnection from the whole thing.
Very annoying, and the worst possible glitch that can happen. I'd actually rather damage the game disk than the save file :D (I can at least resurface that and get all that data back). But, if the worst punishment a gamer can face is "having to" play a bunch of awesome games again, then oh well :D. That's how I'll have to look at this. So, first off, Katamari Damacy again, then Megaman Collection, then I dunno maybe MGS2.
One thing, even though I can play the demo safely so long as memory cards aren't in there, I think I will BURN this demo disk. Aside from Viewtiful Joe 2, it didn't have many good demos, and there's just too much of a risk. Should a relative come over wanting to play a PS2 game and see that disk, I fear horrors shall happen twice over.
So... Huh... Oh yes, my Super Mario RPG game data was erased a few months ago actually. Unlike this, which is totally the designer's fault, the evil jerks, that one was all me. I accidently turned the system on and off rapidly. How did I ACCIDENTLY do that you ask? My foot is an idiot.
Anyway, it's odd, save data loss is just so UTTERLY devastating that my response seems to be a sort of layed back disconnection from the whole thing.
Very annoying, and the worst possible glitch that can happen. I'd actually rather damage the game disk than the save file :D (I can at least resurface that and get all that data back). But, if the worst punishment a gamer can face is "having to" play a bunch of awesome games again, then oh well :D. That's how I'll have to look at this. So, first off, Katamari Damacy again, then Megaman Collection, then I dunno maybe MGS2.
One thing, even though I can play the demo safely so long as memory cards aren't in there, I think I will BURN this demo disk. Aside from Viewtiful Joe 2, it didn't have many good demos, and there's just too much of a risk. Should a relative come over wanting to play a PS2 game and see that disk, I fear horrors shall happen twice over.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)