The loss of the** FFX** data is what really spites me. I’d completed all the mini-games (except butterfly catching and chocobo racing), activated and/or created celestial weapons for all the characters and (here’s the part that hurts) completed the incredibly tedious monster ranching tasks. I was working on defeating** Ultima Weapon** when the child did what she did…if she did it. Whether it was her doing or not, I don’t have it in me to play through all that shit again just to get back to trying to defeat Ultima Weapon.
I tried saving some stuff to the card and it worked fine. I’ pretty sure she was messing around in the management screen and just won’t admit it. We used the PS2 to watch a movie last night, and the machine would have been empty of discs when she went downstairs this morning.
There have been bugs in games, like in a widely distributed Sony demo disk (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23889), that trash the memory card.
Color me skeptical. Back when I had a PSX I never took my memory card out, ever, not for any reason, and also never had a problem with it or lost data. Most people I know don’t take their memory cards out of their PSX/PS2, either. Methinks your memory card or PS2 has a serious issue.
I would guess they didn’t want to fix or refund your card/PS2, frankly.
It, apparently, can happen with Soul Calibur III, depending on what the other games on the card are. I’ve never had this happen, myself (my Soul Cal game is on a card of its own, just in case, and before I got the ‘just in case’ Soul Cal card, the one it was on didn’t have any of the games it can have trouble with.), but it can happen, apparently. (Although wiping the entire card is a rare effect, if the people who report it are right about it being SCIII related.)
Not to pile on to you, Anaamika, but I’ve got to have a bit of a :dubious: at the story you were told by the people who said that.
I’ve had a PSX, a PS1 (the mini, white ones) and 2 different PS2s. I’ve left memory cards in all of them. My best friend also has a PS2, as does my little brother. They do the same. We’ve also left multi-taps with 4 cards in all of our various machines, and they’ve never, ever wiped a card. The only time I’ve ever lost any data was when hubby was playing Guitar Hero, and turned off the game in the middle of saving the file (and lost 2 weeks worth of song unlocking, natch). And even then, it only wiped the data from the Guitar Hero save, the rest of my saves were left unaffected.
I second the suggestion that someone was lying to you so they didnt’ have to comp for a dodgy card/PS2. Or that they didn’t know what the holy flying f*ck they were talking about.
I’ve never taken my memory cards out in the 2 or 3 years I’ve owned my PS2. If there was a problem with leaving them in, it would be general PS2 knowledge by now.
Ditto. I’ve never heard of anybody losing data like that and it goes counter to everything I’ve heard of how the ps2 works.
Personally, I think the guys in the shops you went to were running you around to avoid having to comp you for a replacement for your bum card.
When playing a FF game, I ALWAYS alternate saving between two cards. I’ve never lost data from one of them, but it’s a good precaution. Or at least regularly backing up from one card to the other.
I never remove my PS2 memory card before turning it off, never lost a save… and it’s a third party (Mad Catz) card.