50% Complete, $4 mil, almost 100 cars...gone...

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Okay, so I have no life and I have been playing GT4 pretty much non-stop since it came out. Im in college and I have skipped a few classes each week to play the game as much as possible. Well, last week I had spring break and I was right at 25%, so I vowed to get to 50% before coming back to school. Sometime last week, I was doing the 24h Nurburgring race with the CLK-GTR on B-Spec mode, and I decided to let it run its course (no pun intended) and go shoot pool with a friend. I pulled the memory card out while the race was going, so when I got to my friends house I could show off my 70+ cars. (He is only at 15% - I like to rub it in). When I came home later that night, put the memory card in and let the race finish, I ran into a problem. When I went to save the game it told me that I had inserted a memory card with the wrong data and would I prefer to over write it. I thought, sure, why not? ....bad idea. After over writing my old save file, I went to the garage to find that I only had 1 car (The CLK-GTR) Noooooooooooooooooo - all my cars were gone. But I thought, okay...dont freak out...you still have 2 million dollars and a CLK-GTR, no big deal....I continued on. Well, I came back to school sunday, hooked up my PS2, loaded the the game and guess what?! My save data was corrupted. Noooooooooooooo....even worse. :yuck: :sick: :nervous: So I had to start all over. I had every liscence, 1/2 the missions done, completed Beginner, Professional, Japanese, American and European events. I had 4 million dollars. I was 1/2 way through the endurance races. I was about 1/2 way through the game, and I had to start over. So, here I am....3% through the game. A, B, and IB licences....I just slept my way through the Lightweight races. $96,000.....162 A-Spec points....10 cars.....and I still love it. :sly:
 
now that sucks dude !! looks like the game writes data to the memmory card all the time when you race !! or some thing ?!?!!?
 
I would have jumped out of my 6th floor window.
 
Ouch...

I dont mean to go like "omg u puld out teh frekking memmyri car whil teh gayme was on omg u fryeakin fagot omg wtf!!!!!?!?!?!?11", but this just confirms rule no.1 of GT4:

NEVER take your memory card out while the game is on.

I feel sorry for you.
 
dude...that bites big time!
Glad you can keep a positive outlook on all this....as for me, this past weekend I was attempting to complete a few of the Mission Races....and wound up putting my hand through a wall because I got so mad at myself! BOY OH BOY! Did that tick off the Girl-Friend...to say the least that is!

Lord knows what I would have done if this had happended to me! :crazy:
Glad you still enjoy the game! Keep up that positive outlook! 👍
 
i take mine out all the time...ist ok to take it otu when not saving, but the thing was he went and loaded it up to a freinds hosue and he probably switched cars to show it off and it autosaved and then it autosaved bakc over when he got back to his place and it only knew he had 1 car, the clk
 
Sorry to say but you could have avoided this, by performing the RTFM command.. Maybe you are the 50th guy here with the same problem.
 
That has got to hurt though, GT4 takes dedication and to see it all wiped.....ow!
 
SimRaceDriver
....and wound up putting my hand through a wall because I got so mad at myself! BOY OH BOY! Did that tick off the Girl-Friend...to say the least that is!

Yes, I can see why :dunce:
 
CincyReds
Google it
Did that. thanks understand why you told me to google it.
Still trying to understand "RTFM", because in this situation that does not apply. The manual does not state anything about taking your memory card out and reinserting it into another PS2 then reinserting it into your system.

EDIT: Sarscam if you didn't know. :sly: :sly:
First day found out about saving to different memory card while in game.
 
BaronCAD
Did that. thanks understand why you told me to google it.
Still trying to understand "RTFM", because in this situation that does not apply. The manual does not state anything about taking your memory card out and reinserting it into another PS2 then reinserting it into your system.

EDIT: Sarscam if you didn't know. :sly: :sly:
First day found out about saving to different memory card while in game.

I was referring to the good common sense manual.
 
JBR-Man
I was referring to the good common sense manual.
Oh sooo sorry. Your quite correct, never heard "RTFM" before.
Please forgive this poor moronic fool. :crazy: :crazy:
 
SimRaceDriver
dude...that bites big time!
Glad you can keep a positive outlook on all this....as for me, this past weekend I was attempting to complete a few of the Mission Races....and wound up putting my hand through a wall because I got so mad at myself! BOY OH BOY! Did that tick off the Girl-Friend...to say the least that is!

Lord knows what I would have done if this had happended to me! :crazy:
Glad you still enjoy the game! Keep up that positive outlook! 👍

This is some funny ****, I crumples 4 soda cans with soda in them, beat the **** out of my arm chair, made up all kinds of curse words and still lovin it.
 
mkpelto
I pulled the memory card out while the race was going, so when I got to my friends house I could show off my 70+ cars. (He is only at 15% - I like to rub it in).
kamikazekoala
Can you say the word 'backup'?
Can you say Karma? How about sabotage? Have you checked the card for prints or epithelials?
 
i did 40% of the Japanese version

but ive started again in the PAL version. :o
 
MaX800XT
Don't Touch The ****ing Memory Card Unless The Ps2 Is OFF!

Damn right, most of the time mine stays in, even when it's off. Not taken it out since I 1st put the game in
 
Hell Im scared to even touch my PS2 when GT4 is in there let alone take out a memory card!!! :scared:
 
I feel your pain! :guilty:


First (as has been said loads already) I would never trust GT4 and what its doing with that memory card at any given time! Don't take it out.....AT ALL.....actually :rolleyes: EVER!!!!! :banghead:

and second maybe invest in a second memory card to save a copy to every once in a while just to stay safe in the knowledge that it will be OK!

Why OH why couldnt GT4 just have Save...........yes or no!
 
Nurburgring is run off of the GT4 DVD because it's too big for the PS2's ram to handle.
 
I have 3 Official Sony Memory Cards, 2 I've had since I got my PS 2 & the other one I had delivered 2 days after getting GT4. I moved a few files around so Main one had only GT3 A-Spec, GT4 Prologue & space for GT4 & the new Empty one is sitting in the GT4 Box incase it's needed
 
another victim of saving-data-to-the-incorrect-file....

prob ur game got saved in ur friend's PS2 when u change car.... that'll mess things up... ;)
 
MaX800XT
Don't Touch The ****ing Memory Card Unless The Ps2 Is OFF!
What he said !...

When will people learn to just leave the friggin' card in the PS2 when it's turned on ?.. How effing' stupid are you ?...
 
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