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"Fifa 2004 crashing on the gamecube"

Has anyone else had a problem with Fifa 2004 on the Gamecube where it freezes and you lose all your unsaved matches and it makes a loud grunting noise until you turn off the console?

Is my Gamecube/TV about to blow up?
Or have Amazon tampered with my disc? (it's cheap as chips there: £29.99)

I suppose it's a bit better but I still have a lot of complaints about this year's FIFA - has anyone tried playing in Old Trafford at night (or another stadium with strong floodlights)? It wrecks the replays and makes them look shoddy - all white and ugly. Also, I played as Real Madrid against Barcelona, and Beckham and that lot all had big white patches on their faces. If they were supposed to be reflections, they looked more like talcun powder.
I think EA have tried to be innovative, but failed.
Also, is Beckham the 1st choice penalty taker for the best club in the world in real life? (becuase he is by defalut on FIFA)

Well its half-time... Birmingham 1 - 0 Kidderminster and not one bit of slow-down in the entire half... like i say im playing in a different stadium but other than that no other settings changed... maybe 50hz does help the smoothness of the game (my TV is modern and new so 60hz shouldnt pose a problem) maybe the game engine just runs smoother on 50 hz rather than 60hz or maybe the gremlins will return again with more play... any opinions/experiences are most welcome on this matter.

My freind had exactly the same problem and he tried on 50hz and it did improve slightly but no promises it will work on yours

Cyclone wrote:
> Hold down B as the Cube starts up.

What will that do?

Any luck running it in 50hz mode yet? less slowdown?

Hold down B as the Cube starts up.

Whoa whoa, slow down Einstein

Hmm i just tried to play on 50hz instead of 60hz and the slowdown is ALOT less noticable... can you try this for me aswell please to see if were onto a winner?

Maybe its just the stadium that causes slowdown and not the Hz settings im not sure... all i can say is that i played on 60hz and 50hz with the exact same teams and same settings but with a diff random stadium... maybe if you test this aswell we could get a clearer picture and maybe a solution too :s

rabid wrote:
> I just played Birmingham V Kidderminster in a freindly and boy oh boy
> was there some severe slowdown throughtout the game at random
> points.
>
> Im not exaggerating when i say that perhaps 1 whole minute of the 12
> minute game was played at less than 10 FPS... it was stuttering
> terribly, anyone else having similar problems?

Yep, I know exactly what ur talkin about.

I just played Birmingham V Kidderminster in a freindly and boy oh boy was there some severe slowdown throughtout the game at random points.

Im not exaggerating when i say that perhaps 1 whole minute of the 12 minute game was played at less than 10 FPS... it was stuttering terribly, anyone else having similar problems?

]-[ØM€® B€€® §ØL!!D wrote:
> The only problem i had with Fifa 2004 is that it never saved my
> Profiles, so every time i loaded the game it reset the number of
> matches played etc. But never the Hall of kits, maybe thats saved
> somewhere else. How much space does it take up on your memory cards?
> It takes nearly the whole 8mb of the card i put it on....

If you want to do all that Bio stuff, you'll probably need a black 256 block card.

FIFA takes up 3 blocks for each profile created, and about 25 blocks for my career season.