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Is anyone having a problem with the memory card for the PS2?.
I do not know if this is happening to anyone else but, after saving your progress in a game, the game or the console corrupts the data in that slot!.
Being new to the Playstation scene, Is this a common thing or is something up with the card or the console?.
It is pretty damn annoying after a few days gaming and finding that you cannot load up where you last left off and have to start all over again!!!. AARRRGGGHHHH.
It seems to happen mainly with PS1 games when using the original type memory cards. The 8mg PS2 card seems to work well with all the PS2 titles, just the occasional machine crash every now and then.
Then again maybe it is a faulty machine.
Any help would be appreciated!.
I do not know if this is happening to anyone else but, after saving your progress in a game, the game or the console corrupts the data in that slot!.
Being new to the Playstation scene, Is this a common thing or is something up with the card or the console?.
It is pretty damn annoying after a few days gaming and finding that you cannot load up where you last left off and have to start all over again!!!. AARRRGGGHHHH.
It seems to happen mainly with PS1 games when using the original type memory cards. The 8mg PS2 card seems to work well with all the PS2 titles, just the occasional machine crash every now and then.
Then again maybe it is a faulty machine.
Any help would be appreciated!.
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This seems to happen only with the PS1 card not the PS2 card.We have three of the PS1 cards and it has happened, so far, to two of them. The third one is my save games but I never get a chance to put in the machine to get a go, I have been relegated back to the PC.
The games that seem to cause the problems are Final Fantasy VIII, Star Wars The Phantom Menace and sometimes Resident Evil 2. Note all PS1 titles.
Never any problems with the PS2 games.
The eldest has just been up the stairs to say it has crashed, again, while he has been playing Phantom Menace and would not load. I've been down and it had a blank screen ,reset the machine and it now works again!!!!.
I'm staying upstairs on the PC from now on, at least this only crashes once a night.
Nirvana
The games that seem to cause the problems are Final Fantasy VIII, Star Wars The Phantom Menace and sometimes Resident Evil 2. Note all PS1 titles.
Never any problems with the PS2 games.
The eldest has just been up the stairs to say it has crashed, again, while he has been playing Phantom Menace and would not load. I've been down and it had a blank screen ,reset the machine and it now works again!!!!.
I'm staying upstairs on the PC from now on, at least this only crashes once a night.
Nirvana
Yeah...doesn't stop me liking the game though. I seem to remember a problem with people using gamester steering wheels too, as well as my memory card and controller...
I had trouble with a gamester card once on my PSone, corrupted my GT saves, lost all my cars (never bought a gamester product again). Thinking about it, the game wouldn't even load past the copyright notice with a gamester pad in...
As for PS2, I have lost a Ready 2 Rumble 2 save, not much on it, but most of my trouble comes getting it out of the slots in the cases...
As for PS2, I have lost a Ready 2 Rumble 2 save, not much on it, but most of my trouble comes getting it out of the slots in the cases...
Nirvana,
I'm at a loss to explain it, but you're not the first person I've heard of with this problem; I just wanted to be sure there wasn't an obvious reason.
I've only ever had a problem with one memory card, and that was a freebie 3rd-party card that came with the first ever issue of PSW magazine... it screwed up the save of my GT2 game, so I binned it (the card, not the game!)
But that was on my PS1 - I've never had a problem (yet!) on the PS2. Is it always on the same card, or has it happened on more than one? Could it just be a dodgy card?
I'm at a loss to explain it, but you're not the first person I've heard of with this problem; I just wanted to be sure there wasn't an obvious reason.
I've only ever had a problem with one memory card, and that was a freebie 3rd-party card that came with the first ever issue of PSW magazine... it screwed up the save of my GT2 game, so I binned it (the card, not the game!)
But that was on my PS1 - I've never had a problem (yet!) on the PS2. Is it always on the same card, or has it happened on more than one? Could it just be a dodgy card?
My memory crad is working fine. As been said before, make sure its on standby before removing anything from the PS2. If this continues, get another card.
Wookie,
Well I hope the kids are doing that!.
What they do as they get further into a game is to save at every save point. When they then make a bad move or play badly is to restart the game, at a more favourable position, as they then know what to do!.
When they reload, that is when the error message pops up.
The only solution, that I have come up with, is to save the game on three slots and then at least you have something to fall back on!.
The thing that I have noticed though, is if you save another save-game over the corrupted slot the data appears to be alright. Puzzling is not the word!!.
They seem to be doing everything right, pressing the reset button to restart the game or turning the machine off before changing the mem cards.
Never seems to happen to me though, but then again I never seem to get a go of the damn thing.
Nirvana
Well I hope the kids are doing that!.
What they do as they get further into a game is to save at every save point. When they then make a bad move or play badly is to restart the game, at a more favourable position, as they then know what to do!.
When they reload, that is when the error message pops up.
The only solution, that I have come up with, is to save the game on three slots and then at least you have something to fall back on!.
The thing that I have noticed though, is if you save another save-game over the corrupted slot the data appears to be alright. Puzzling is not the word!!.
They seem to be doing everything right, pressing the reset button to restart the game or turning the machine off before changing the mem cards.
Never seems to happen to me though, but then again I never seem to get a go of the damn thing.
Nirvana
Another silly question...
Do you have your PS2 switched on when you switch cards? Your PS2 should always be switched off - or on standby - when you insert or remove a memory card.
I don't mean to talk to you like you're an idiot, but you'd be surprised how many people plug things in with the machine switched on! :-)
Do you have your PS2 switched on when you switch cards? Your PS2 should always be switched off - or on standby - when you insert or remove a memory card.
I don't mean to talk to you like you're an idiot, but you'd be surprised how many people plug things in with the machine switched on! :-)
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