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Dead or Alive 4 Data Corruption Issue Confirmed

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-your-saves dept.

Eurogamer reports on an issue with Dead or Alive 4 game saves. Tecmo has owned up to the problem, which erases fight information, leaderboard positions, and unlocked items. From the article: "'We're aware of the issue... We're working to identify and resolve the potential problem with the technical folks at Microsoft.' A patch is on the way shortly, apparently. There's still no word on precisely when Dead or Alive 4 will be released in Europe, but chances are they'll have fixed the bug by then."

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  1. It happens... by Ykant · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...all the time, many platforms, several games. And it sucks to lose your entire history of gaming on a console for one bug.

    I've got a first-run PS2 and memory cards that are getting a little long in the tooth, and I have concerns about data corruption on those cards. I really wish some manufacturer would bring a first-party backup device to market. On the other hand, some might consider that an admission of flaws in their product.

    Can't someone make a console that takes CompactFlash or SDs? Heck, I'll take Memory Sticks if I have to - at least I could back up saves to PC if nothing else...

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    1. Re:It happens... by Golias · · Score: 3, Funny

      The PS3 is supposedly going to support a variety of standard flash storage devices including SD and MemoryStick.

      I hear it also cures cancer and controls the orbit of the moon.

      At any given moment, there is no device in the universe more powerful than whatever the next upcoming Sony game platform is.

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  2. Taking a beating by GoNINzo · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Actually, it's a feature not a bug. If your ass gets kicked so badly at a game, losing some unlockables is great modivation to get better. 'Wow, Tina just knocked my socks off! And Survival mode! Damnit!'

    The question I have is if they will be replacing discs for those people without the HD. Because the HD is an option and not manditory, I don't think a patch should be the only fix they implement. And if people can't return the game, then they are stuck having to spend another hundred bucks on a HD. (Not like any real gamer would get a core system but... heh)

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    1. Re:Taking a beating by C.+Mattix · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Didn't a manufacturer have to agree not to send patches that didn't related to additional content down the network in order to use XBox live services?

    2. Re:Taking a beating by Keeper · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The lack of a harddrive with the core system is irrelevent. You still have to support the set of users who do not have a broadband connection.

  3. "Patch?" by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A patch is on the way shortly, apparently"

    Then the people who are playing on an Xbox 360 Core System are up a creek?

    Whatever happened to "No Xbox 360 game will require the hard drive?"