My 1500+ day Gran Turismo 1 save. My favourite game ever and my save was lost. Still have my GT2 save, but it's just not the same. Notable mention: My GC memory card giving up just after I'd completed Wind Waker and got all the map pieces - I was also 80% of the way through Skies of Arcadia. :/ Luckily me and my friend were at the same place so I just copied his save and continued. >_>
A Phantasy Star Online character (no hacks) at level 90-something. I learned never to buy third party memory cards ever again.
I screwed my japanese PS2 hard drive which had rare games from the now defunct PSBB network while playing with PS2 linux... I could salvage only two games (luckly I didn't lose Bishi Bashi Champ3 but I lost the online only games) and my Playonline/FFXI install. Tetramaster bit the dust along with the other games. At least I got to keep Word puzzle Mojipittan and Bishi Bashi Champ 3 (which is a PS1 game demo that boots from the PS2 hard disk)
I once lost an hdd partition while fiddling on linux. At first I was like: AAHHH, my data. Then I was like: hey, cool, 60gb of free space
What online only games? It reminds me I should share the contents I saved from the PSBBN servers sometime...
That is interesting. Wonder how they implemented that. On a somewhat related note, now that we're veering slightly off-topic anyway, my laptop once got stolen, with the sources of my half-finished GBA shmup engine on it... I had no backup. Damn, that hurt OH:
Bomberman Online, Pop'n Music Puzzle Dama Minna no Golf Online... These were online only so having them on the hard drive was just a matter of being able to remember them. Or possibly extracting files from them. (slightly offtopic) The games on Hudson channel used the generic midi player for the PS2 (SCEI's sq.irx) but the files were encrypted. Recovering the songs from the HU channel games would be a cool project, huh ?
Back when i was in college +/- 9 years ago, I had a few shady roommates... either they or their stoner friends took (stole's a bit harsh as they probably didn't intend any harm, but who knows) about half my saturn games (thankfully not pdsaga), my multipage (for archival) psx memory card and the current one i had at the time... lost all my unlocks and general gamesaves since I had gotten my first psx.
Without ever having looked at this game, three possibilities come to my mind: The game engine has been ported to the PS2. The HDD partition contains an ISO image of the PS1 game (that also boots on a normal PS1 :nod, but that doesn't need to mean anything; there might be another version of the game engine included somewhere that just reads its ressources from the ISO, leaving the PS1 EXE untouched. It uses a PS1-emulator running on the EE only, but lets the console run in PS2 mode. Therefore, it can access the HDD just like any other PS2 game. As the emulator can be taylored to a specific game, they can also implement shortcuts allowing it to run at full speed. A full PS1 emulator is a lot more work, so I think Sony would have used it for more than just one game if they had really written one :110:. Or Bishi Bashi was just the guinea pig, and the full emulator is now used on the PS3 to play PS1 games :katamari:. Extremely unlikely, but anyway: there is a way to run the IOP in something like a PS1+2 hybrid/virtualized mode, so it can run both PS1 code and PS2 IRXes at the same time. This way, the PS1 code could run as usual (using PS1DRV on the EE for graphics), but all accesses (or system calls?) targetted at the CD drive would be redirected to the HDD. Would be really cool if they had done it this way, but I assume the IOP lacks the speed, additional memory and hardware virtualization support for this . Back on topic: in the good old days, I turned my SNES on one morning just to find the title screen of Yoshi's Island garbled (false colors in the top half, pure garbage in the bottom one). Didn't react to any keys either, so I turned the console off and on again (once). The game ran fine afterwards, but had wiped an ~80% save :noooo:. I didn't count how many hours had gone into it, but it must have been quite a lot, as I'm generally not too good at this kind of games :banghead:
not exactly a memory card issue but still the most horrible (lost proggress) related thing i've ever had. playing FFVII trying to beat it without saving and when i had just gotten in disk3 my brother walks in, turns off the psx and tells me to "let it cool off a bit" i facepalmed. Then i cried
Not a data loss, but I once lost a Sega Saturn console to a first-party Sega branded backup cart. Somehow, the backup cart got loaded up with static electricity. I can't remember how. Not only did the cart brick itself, but it bricked the entire Saturn console to the point where it would no longer power on. I got a replacement Saturn at Target. All the savegame data I just eventually rebuilt again - I played the games enough. No big loss.
Gamecube 1000 block mem card with every single save on it for every single one of my games from the past 7 years. Removed it while the Wii was in standby, never was able to access the data again.
Definately go to asda get some SFC ready for saturday night watch gladiators i downloaded and eat that then stay up allnight playing it like we used to dowhen i was 6 (2001ish)
I like your style. Being a total Sonic nut from the age of 5 (24 now) unlocking hyper Sonic was a religious experience for me and my friend. With no internet and a lack of funds to pay for magazines we had no idea it was going to happen.
How many people lost saves due to crappy 3rd party PS1 memory cards... I remember a friend of mine needing to by a PS1 memory card in the early days when they were hard to find and setteling for a third party one.. the saves didn't even last the day!!! Needslees to say he was mad!
I remember Argos has Competition Pro memory cards for the PS1 back in the day for 10 GBP. I went through 4 before giving up. Every single one of them would not even save out of the box. Perhaps it was a bad batch, but each time Argos replaced it the same thing would happen. In the end I bought an official Sony one. Back then, memory cards were a costly endeavor if you happened to have more than a handful of games.
my First party PS1 mem card only curropted on me once. unfortunatly i had a FF VII save right near the end with max level characters, A Lunar: SSS save right near the end*my first playthrough*, my chrono trigger save that was maxed out and all i had left to do was get the endings and a FF VI save that i had got pretty far in needless to say it was a sad moment. especially since it was my first system i completley owned on my own. almost lost faith but it never happened again. i still haven't got the FF VII file back up to snuff and i haven't made it that far in FF VI since however
