HELP!! my garage is empty!!

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so heres what happened i just finished formula gt championship and 78.9% complete. i save and go to my garage. all of my cars are gone! 300 or something of them. i only have a formula gt and a sauber c9 prize car! where did they go? should i retive one of my backup saves from half way thorough the formula gt champ? it took me 3 weeks to do the formula gt championship.:crazy:
 
Quick guess...You saved onto a different memory card than the one you loaded the game with?
 
This is old news, if you change memory cards in slot 1 and save the game, the garage empties out except for the car you're in at the time. In this case, He'd just won a prize car and apparently that stayed, too.

The game save is actually 2 databases, the garage and the game status. You may have noticed that if you change cars, quit the game without saving, the next time you start the car is still the one you changed to. When you change cars you see the memory write icon. The garage database is being updated. When you save the game, the game database is being updated. If you've changed cards, there is no garage database, and you lose all your cars.

The only way to back up the game, i.e. have two full saves, is in the browser. If you've copied the GT4 save to another memory card in the browser, then you have a copy you can fall back on. If you've changed cards and saved, the original card MIGHT be OK, but don't try it without turning off the PS2 first.

There's no SAVE GAME and LOAD GAME process like there was in earlier GT games, this one (and Tourist Trophy, BTW) is different.

This is NOT the GT2 garage bug. Technically, it's not even a bug, it's by design. I haven't started a GT4 game in quite a while, but I believe you are warned onscreen during the initial setup not to change the memory card during gameplay.
 
That and it's common sense you don't touch the memory card at all when saving...something that's been common sense since PSOne
 
Seems to me like you have quite a new challenge ahead. If you have a Sauber C9 and an F1 car, you have all you need to get back those 300 cars in no time at all. :sly:

I just hope you still have your licenses. Losing those can be a PITA.
 
<_Spike_>
That and it's common sense you don't touch the memory card at all when saving...something that's been common sense since PSOne
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It doesn't matter if you're physically in the process of a save or not. If you swap memory cards, then save, you will corrupt your game.
 

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