Corrupted Data problem!

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Okay about a day ago I went in to my garage to pull out my STI and the game said "date corrupted" and it had to options, try again or exit. Is there anything I can do to fix it, and I don't mind loosing the car I just don't want a car that cant be viewed to even be in my garage.
 
Did you mess with the memory card, take it out and put it back in at any point maybe when you bought the car?
 
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Okay about a day ago I went in to my garage to pull out my STI and the game said "date corrupted" and it had to options, try again or exit. Is there anything I can do to fix it, and I don't mind loosing the car I just don't want a car that cant be viewed to even be in my garage.
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umm... worst nightmare. Is it a Sony Memory Card? I've had problems with third-party cards losing the data in the past on my PS1.

Second that "better not happen to me" post.
 
I've had problem with SSX Tricky 4 times...but it wasnt a problem..i kept beating records when i restarted...heh.

but with other games iit's fine...
 
It happened to me several times, whith GT3 and with other games. Especially with memory extension card (the 16 mega cards) in which you have to put a 8 mega original card. Don't push too often on the switch button.

A tip: I always keep a copy on another memory card and with my Maxdrive, I put a backup on the harddisk of my computer.

5 years ago, I got a computer virus. If I had opened it, it would have reformated my computer's harddisk. I was working on a big professional projet and didn't yet make a back-up copy. If I had opened it (which I fortunately didn't do), it would have done terrible damage to my professional carreer. From then on, I always keep several copies of everything, in different places.
 
A similar problem happened to me in San Andreas. I went go load my game and it said "load failed, check memory card." I guess the file corrupted or something. I was at like 93% with 12 million dollars, had to give up. Now I make a back up copy of my game saves on my second memory card for important games, like GT4.
 
#$@#!!@%$ I lost completely my garage the game says 33.7% status 447 days and mp more car not even 1 I am going completely crazy I have past the last week and half playing madly and for nothing this is completely $%$ .. of Polypony to make such a .. bug. Anyways I do not know if I am going to restart everything I think I am just going to throw this stupid game away + I had a second memory card for backup since I had red about this issue but still no chance on the backup ...;(
 
Ha, blaime PD?. read the thread about auto save deleting cars. Only happens to people whio back up or try to cheat trhe game.
 
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Ha, blaime PD?. read the thread about auto save deleting cars. Only happens to people whio back up or try to cheat trhe game.
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Yep. Save the way it's meant to save, play the way it's meant to play, and you'll be fine.
 
Making a back up doesn't make someone a cheater.

As far as I'm concerned this is a nasty little bug. There is no documentation in the manual about this and quite frankly there should be. Same way it doesn't say on the box memory card required...it tells you how much space you need on a card but it doesn't tell you that you can't play the game without one. A buddy of mine went out and bought a ps2 just for this game and then got home and couldn't play. Shiesty....
 
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Making a back up doesn't make someone a cheater.

As far as I'm concerned this is a nasty little bug. There is no documentation in the manual about this and quite frankly there should be. Same way it doesn't say on the box memory card required...it tells you how much space you need on a card but it doesn't tell you that you can't play the game without one. A buddy of mine went out and bought a ps2 just for this game and then got home and couldn't play. Shiesty....
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Memory card required? Since when can you play ANY game like this without a memory card? That's just common sense...

And making a backup isn't cheating, you're right... however, hot-swapping the memory card in mid-game to bypass the autosave is. And it's very risky to boot, considering we don't know how the game saves the data. Chances are it only saves changes, not the full game. So if you made changes to Game A, but tried to save those changes into Game B, it's small wonder it goes berserk and loses everything.

And are you really surprised there's nothing in the manual? Considering how barebones that manual is, I'd be surprised if it even told you to turn on your PS2 in order to play the game.
 
It has nothing to do with cheating ??? All I was doing was changing memory card since before starting to play I had already read about this issue and all I was doing was making a backup copy using the browser before starting the game every night just to make sure that would not happen to me but I guess I saved one time without realising that there was no car in my garage. I did not have any problem doing so for the first week ?? anyways that really sucks and I did not touch the game since then
 
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And making a backup isn't cheating, you're right... however, hot-swapping the memory card in mid-game to bypass the autosave is. And it's very risky to boot, considering we don't know how the game saves the data. Chances are it only saves changes, not the full game. So if you made changes to Game A, but tried to save those changes into Game B, it's small wonder it goes berserk and loses everything.
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Just a warning for all you people out there...

I went over to a friends house for a little while, but left GT4 running on my PS2 (I was in the middle of the Pro Turbo Series, but I think that's probably inconsequential) but took the memory card out of slot one to play a different game at his place. When I got home, I did a few more races to complete the series, got the car, then exited. I had forgotten to put the memory card back in, so when the game complained, I got it and put it back in the slot.

Then when I went to save, it told me that the data was changed (no kidding???) and that it couldn't overwrite it. A little miffed, I went into "Home" and saved there, forcing an overwrite of the data. Then I went into my garage to find ONE car, the Mercedes SL 65 AMG I was doing the Turbo series with.
Nothing else.

Granted, I can do the Legend of the Silver Arrow race again to get my CLK Touring car, and replace all the cars I lost (I had already done the German touring series to get money trick in anticipation of the black LM cars on day 696), plus it gets rid of the worthless cars I had (really, has anyone ever *tried* driving the 1886 Mercedes-Benz Benz Patent Motor-Wagen?), but it's the principle of the thing!

Well, when I have some free time, I guess I have some work to do... :grumpy:
 
MAKE BACKUPS ONLY IN THE PS2 HOME SCREEN, DO NOT SWITCH MEMORY CARDS OR TAMPER WITH YOUR MEMORY CARD WHILE IN GT4, PERIOD. If you're switching memory cards in the game (like someone else mentioned above), its no wonder that you lose all your data. It doesn't make you a cheater, it does however make you look pretty stupid. This post should be stickied or something.
 
good thing for me is that it is just those three cars, nothing else. And as far as I know I didn't do anything funky, like I wan't trying to do anything but play the game.
 
That's why I never change any of the settings/memory cards in my playstation.. When I do removed them (Which is super rare) I make sure everything is off before I proceed to take the card out.
 
It's neither a joke nor an isolated incident. It just happened to my friend and he did not swap memory cards after saving (as some have reported to be the cause). He has been using the same card (a fresh Sony translucent red card) all along.

Fortunately he had a backup from 2 days ago. Knocked from ~39% back to 34.8%.

BACKUP EARLY! BACKUP OFTEN! BACKUP FROM THE MEMORY CARD MANAGER (not by swapping and re-saving!)
 

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