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Good afternoon racers. Here's another good "Save your game" strategy. I have 3 memory cards for all the other games I have, but what I've done with GT4 is this.

1. I maked all 3 cards (#1,2,3)
2. Then I broke up the cars in my garage to a particular card. (I got all "American & Japan & Korea") cars on 1 card because it's so many.
3. Then I put all "European Cars" on card #2
4. Memory card #3 is for me to fool around with. Any Idea's I get in mind or read about from this forum will get experimented on this card.
5. All race memory from cards #1 & 2 are identical.

The reason why I choose to do this is because of fear of loosing/corrupt memory.
Think about it, the basic memory card is 8mm. It's to risky to try and put all 700+ cars one 1 card. That may cause these faulty problems, expecially if you have other games save on the card. I'm a guy who want ALL cars in the game in my garage, no matter what. I would never use just 1 card for a game car list this huge. If you only have 2 memory cards, this still can be done - Just be careful when experimenting.
 
Automotive
Good afternoon racers. Here's another good "Save your game" strategy. I have 3 memory cards for all the other games I have, but what I've done with GT4 is this.

1. I maked all 3 cards (#1,2,3)
2. Then I broke up the cars in my garage to a particular card. (I got all "American & Japan & Korea") cars on 1 card because it's so many.
3. Then I put all "European Cars" on card #2
4. Memory card #3 is for me to fool around with. Any Idea's I get in mind or read about from this forum will get experimented on this card.
5. All race memory from cards #1 & 2 are identical.

The reason why I choose to do this is because of fear of loosing/corrupt memory.
Think about it, the basic memory card is 8mm. It's to risky to try and put all 700+ cars one 1 card. That may cause these faulty problems, expecially if you have other games save on the card. I'm a guy who want ALL cars in the game in my garage, no matter what. I would never use just 1 card for a game car list this huge. If you only have 2 memory cards, this still can be done - Just be careful when experimenting.
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Why not just back up your data from one card to another once a week?
 
Na, I rather not. Having the region of cars seperated to a particular card really makes things easier and more soughtable. When I feel like driving a "BMW" I pop in card #2. When I feel like driving a Mustang, I pop in card #1. Backing your card up 1 a week Wouldn't cut it. There is still a chance of you data going bad.
 
JParker
Why not just back up your data from one card to another once a week?
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That's what I do. Back-up is done thru the PS2 browser, of course. I've also got a third card with a MaxDrive save with 700+ 0-mile cars and 9 zillion dollars just for goofing around. :dopey:


Automotive
When I feel like driving a "BMW" I pop in card #2. When I feel like driving a Mustang, I pop in card #1.
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So if you want to drive a BMW, then a Ford, then a Lotus, then a Nissan you're booting GT4 four times? No thanks... And there's still a chance of your data going bad - what if your Euro card dies, do you have it backed up anywhere else?
 
Automotive
When I feel like driving a "BMW" I pop in card #2. When I feel like driving a Mustang, I pop in card #1. There is still a chance of you data going bad.
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The sort feature in the garage makes doing this VERY easy. Did you know that in 5 seconds, you can display only the cars from any particular country/manufacturer. Then you can sort them by year, horsepower, etc.

If you happen to corrupt the memory of one of your cards, you have lost ALL of the cars on that save, and you don't have them backed up anywhere else. It is MUCH better to have copies of your complete game, and to back that up periodically. I do not like, or approve of, your method.
 
TigJackson
The sort feature in the garage makes doing this VERY easy. Did you know that in 5 seconds, you can display only the cars from any particular country/manufacturer. Then you can sort them by year, horsepower, etc.

If you happen to corrupt the memory of one of your cards, you have lost ALL of the cars on that save, and you don't have them backed up anywhere else. It is MUCH better to have copies of your complete game, and to back that up periodically. I do not like, or approve of, your method.
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I agree. Two saves with everything on is much more sensible.
 
CrackHoor
That's what I do. Back-up is done thru the PS2 browser, of course. I've also got a third card with a MaxDrive save with 700+ 0-mile cars and 9 zillion dollars just for goofing around. :dopey:



So if you want to drive a BMW, then a Ford, then a Lotus, then a Nissan you're booting GT4 four times? No thanks... And there's still a chance of your data going bad - what if your Euro card dies, do you have it backed up anywhere else?
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I know how to back up the cards through the browser and I wouldn't have to load the game data 4 times to dive a particular car. I would just trade it. There's a very slim chance of my data going bad because it's not flooded with info. That how people data do go bad, because the have too much info on it. The objective here is to minimize data info so you can rule out corruption. So, Keep backing up your 1 card. I bet you be the next one saying how your memory died. I bought GT4 the 1st day it came out and on my 2nd day, I put this into plan. I have yet to experiance any of the problems people are having on this forum yet. I just thought I would share my way with you all. Like "Hunter" It workes for me............
 
Automotive
There's a very slim chance of my data going bad because it's not flooded with info. That how people data do go bad, because the have too much info on it. The objective here is to minimize data info so you can rule out corruption.
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Is this something you heard somewhere, or just thought up yourself? The most common cause I've heard is shuffling memory cards while the game's running. Just realize that you're not really backing up anything and your 'slim chance of data going bad' is more likely than both of my saves dying at the same time.

But it's like you said: If it works for you, that's fine by me. :)

Automotive
I bet you be the next one saying how your memory died.
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I'd totally take that one - I'll bet you a memory card! :D
 
some people..........

How does that work someone please explain???
Your playing with an american car and you think i wanna swap for a Japanese car so you have to turn the ps2 off swap the cards boot it up again phew thats a bit long mate!! Or do you do it with the ps2 still on? Surefire way to muck up your save data!!
 
I think the guys fear of data corruption is a little over the top! If I managed my cars this way it would drive me nuts because:

A) wasting credits unecessarily trading cars between save games
B) the frustration of making sure you had the correct memory card in for the types of cars/races you want to do.
C) It just seems stupid doing it this way.

If anything just keep a seperate memory card specifically for gt4. Having a save game with 700+ cars in the garage is not going to overload an 8 megabyte memory card!

To keep things in perspective I also play Colin Mcrea 2005 quite a bit, but the savegame on that is far bigger than GT4, the current size of the save game is about 4mb, which i also have my gt3, gt prologue, gt concept, as well as other various save games on the card.

As unfortunate as it is GT4 has actually corrupted peoples memory cards as reported in several threads on the forums. Though the rate of corruption from what I have read is very minimal.
 
I don't back up my saves.

I'll race and try to finish the game until it gets corrupted, once that happens, I'll just sell my PS2 cause I don't play video games much...
 
I wonder how many people who's GT save has gone corrupt are using third party memory cards? I NEVER use third party cards...I think there's a reason they are cheaper.
Alan
 
I am trying to figure out how you figure the 700 cars will corrupt the memory card when some peopel got corrupted with less than 200? I don't think the garage size matters because it is the same size save no matter how many cars are in it.

I just back up my memory card to a second memory card every time I shut down after playing. I also make another backup to my fiance's memory card whenever I get a chance. I figure that is the backup in case of a fire or some other physically destructive event at my house. It may be paranoid but it only gets done once every three weeks or so. It isn't up to date but it is better than losing everything.
 
Hey, Thanks you all for you replies. Weather you agree or not. This the first time I've done this to a game and it's not fustrating at all because I marked the cards. I know that you can sought the cars out by region, and ect. Once again, I feel that my cards are well kept this way. Someone said that they read about people who's memory has gone corrupt with just 200 cars. My point exactly. All races on both of my cards are done. I'm at 100%, so there is nothing left to do but just mess around with the cars specs and inplement my driving style for each one. This was another reason why I choose to do this. It also my personal way of getting a little more realism out of the game. Instead of 1 garage, Now I have 2, becuase there is no way you could get 700 + cars in 1 garage realisticly.

On another note, I thought this forum was about new ideas and suggestions. I had a Idea and I was willing to share. At lease I don't post really silly things like other people hear do.
 
Sounds confusing and tedious. Too much room for error. Rather just back up fully using the browser. 👎

Edit: Plus, isn't the term 3 Card MONTE?!
 
This seems like overkill, I have heard of "corrupted data" but it seems so rare it is not worth worrying about. The occasional backup onto a second card seems the most reasonable but the three card system appears to be too much effort.
 
Automotive
Someone said that they read about people who's memory has gone corrupt with just 200 cars. My point exactly.
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But what does the number of cars have to do with anything? Whether you have zero cars or 1000 cars the file size is the same.

And I fully welcome your idea. I am just trying to understand the reasoning. Considering the majority of people with data corruption had the problem happen due to trying to switch out memory carsd during teh auto save I believe the bug is in the autosave feature and it somehow gets easily disrupted. So I have taken to always doing a manual save before shutting down. I have yet to hear of anyone who did a manual save losing their data. If anyone knows otherwise it would be great to know so we could assume if it is just an autosave glitch.
 
You're a genius! You are so correct about a garage having only 350 cars being more realistic. When I first heard that GT4 was going to have over 700 cars I said to myself, "Self, that 700 number is way to unrealistic. It should be about half of that."

With your ability to reason you may be destined to work the burger assembly station at the local Mcdonald's
 
You only corrupt your save when you remove the card while playing. Do remove it!
You have a 1000 car garage, why split it? You do know that everytime you trade, you pay for that car right? Just keep them all in the same save.

Everytime you turn on your PS2, backup your save onto another card....start the game...if something happens, you already have a backup to go to instead of starting over....

no need for 3 cards....
 

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