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Playstation Holiday Demo May Erase Memory Cards
Audigy writes "The 2004 Playstation Underground demo disc (that includes a playable demo of Viewtiful Joe 2) apparently may contain a fatal bug that destroys all data on the memory card inserted into the system when the first save point is passed."
...I wonder how many other forthcoming demo discs will have playable copies of Viewtiful Joe 2 on them that do the same thing.
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Egad that would piss me off... 80 hours on FFX and 35+ so far on Star Ocean 3, plus months on other various games... yeah, I don't like to think about memory cards being erased; it gives me the willies.
Thanks, Slashdot, for posting this story and helping make others aware.
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Wonder if that'll make it into the final game. I guess it's a good thing the PS2 VJ2 got delayed, huh?
I can see the back of the box now.... "New Viewtiful Format Power! Keeps you playing over and over again!"
People who have the HDD can back up memory cards to that... sounds like a good reason to do so.
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Every PS Underground disk I've seen has a disclaimer that it's not final code, and may not work correctly...so you may have a little trouble getting it to work in court.
Kids these days. They don't know the difference between classic, and just plain old.
Vice City has had this feature for years now, stick more than two cars in a garage and bye-bye save game.
Of course this new, improved Demo Disc feature does do your whole memory card... I guess I'm out of touch with the modern gamer, in my day we wanted to keep our save games....
Though I would financially support this class action just to get the court records, which would include testimony from countless geeks screaming about their deleted Kingdom Hearts save files, you know where they had the UBER gummi ship...
PS2 HDD = backup of all saves on mem-cards.
It allowed me to dispose of several mem-cards and it's pretty easy to transfer back and forth...I also don't have to worry about demos causing problems w/ my saves on the HDD because none of them that I've played have the capability of writing to the HDD. Not yet, at least.
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
"Hey, buddy...it's been a while. Don't worry about sleeping with my girlfriend; that's all in the past. Anyway, check out this awesome demo disc. Viewtiful Joe 2 is so awesome. Merry Christmas!"
This is an e-mail I just got from PlayStation Underground. (The removed stuff generally has e-mail and other things that I'd rather you didn't click on like "unsubscribe").
Enjoy.
Dear PlayStation(R) Underground Member,
You are scheduled to receive the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc
including the playable Viewtiful Joe 2 - please take note.
It has just been brought to our attention that there is a
glitch in this demo which will erase all of your saved files
from your Memory Card(s). If you have not yet played the
Viewtiful Joe 2 demo, please remove your Memory Card(s)
from your PlayStation(R) 2 computer entertainment system
before you load the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc.
Sony Computer Entertainment America would like to express
our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may have
caused you.
http://playstation.mx0.net/r?[removed]
"PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are
registered trademarks
of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. The Sony Computer
Entertainment logo is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
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HENSHIN A BYE-BYE!!