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"Why memory cards are utter toss!"

Just lost my 40+ hour Zelda save, Resident Evil save after completing it on all difficulties, Wave Race save and 10+ hour Eternal Darkness save all because of the bast*rd game known as Burnout 2. I can't believe this has happened, there is no way I am going back through Zelda or Eternal Darkness so I might as well lob them on Ebay in a minute. I can not believe this has happened, absolutely bollo*ks. All because some pasty faced programmer left a glitch in the game.

Edgy wrote:
> Never had a problem with my Xbox copy - so I assume so.

I don't have a problem with my Gamecube copy either.

Alastair do you have someone who has completed Zelda? Copy his save file and go through the game again on this extra mode... there isn't much difference but it'll make doing it all again far less annoying... you can do the Nintendo Gallery, wear different clothes and of course the Hylurian is now in English.

That's the main reason Microsoft won't be including it in XBox 2, stupid tw@ts using it for pirate games.

There can't be that many benefits if Microsoft are not including a hard drive as standard in the successor to the X-box. One of the arguments were it was underused by developers, and mainly used for piracy.

Yep, he rang Customer Services, basically he was told he was out of warranty and could pay for a repair. I'm not sure what price he was told but he didn't go for it. Only see him at Uni so I'll ask him.

Has he tried phoning Xbox customer services? Sometimes they are sympathetic and will repair out of warranty Xboxes for free.

That is also probably the first instance I've heard of hard drive failure. Sure it would be a bummer, but the benefits of having a hard drive are numerous.

Besides, you are even more likely to have problems with memory cards dying on you. I've had it happen, even with official ones. Whereas most hard drives are guaranteed for 50,000+ hours without failure. That is roughly 5 and a half years non stop continual spinning. Or 16 billion revolutions.

Hard drive failures are rare.

Thats is a REAL bad story. I would hate that!

Strafio wrote:
> I'm sure there's something in the Data Protection Act that should
> make these sorts of glitches illegal.

Erm nope, the data protection act is about how information is shared and recorded.

Anyway I still think memory cards are best. My mates Xbox hard drive died on him - well it won't let him load or save to it - last weekend so he has to get a new console.

AfroJoe wrote:
> Unofficial cards are actually the culprit. They shouldn't be so crap.

Yuppo, I never use anything unofficial, they've always been a bit erse

Never had a problem with my Xbox copy - so I assume so.

Maybe I shouldn't buy Burnout 2 then...

Is the screw-up on GC only?