Funny Thing Happened Last Night...
I was playing my 40 hour save file last night when I had a bad storm in my area. I was saving my file and the saving was RIGHT at the very end and I lost power. A few seconds later, my power came back on and I put this game pack on and guess what?! My 40 hours of game were GONE!!!
Oh well, I guess and excuse to start a new game and try for the Zodiac Spear.
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I'd be pissed too, however, I'd love to see Ghis again <333
Quote Renmiri on FFXII
She loves it more then X!I bitch about the game a lot, mainly for the lack of story and weak characters, but it is still the best of the series out there.
This is why you always have at least two save files, where you always overwrite the oldest.
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i'm focusing on your image
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Same here.Originally Posted by Mirage
Yeah, I'll probably do that next time...
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two ?
Pfft. Amateurs!
I have 30
Me and my kids have dragon eggs:
Good lord, I dub thee Renmiri FFXII Save File Addict
Quote Renmiri on FFXII
She loves it more then X!I bitch about the game a lot, mainly for the lack of story and weak characters, but it is still the best of the series out there.
I only have one, so I better not save when there's a storm.
I said at least. The bare minimum to prevent yourself for technical problems like that.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Weird that it caused it to delete all of it. But yeah, I probably use 4 or 5 save spots, I save on a new spot when I think I messed up somewhere.
In a computer system (such as the PS2 is), if writing to a file is interrupted, the file usually becomes corrupt. Seeing as each FF12 save is one file, the file that was being written to when the power was cut becomes corrupt. This is why you're told to never turn off the power while the game is saving. The only thing that would have been unusual in this case, would be if other files on the memory card also got corrupted. Sometimes you can get lucky though. I've accidentally pulled the power cord while saving, and the file didn't become corrupted.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Being paranoid, I have a good twenty or so files.
FFX, on the other hand, has around 50, due to me playing that game far too much, and far too often...
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20? 30? Thats ridiculous, saving would take forever. You're all crazy... CRAZY I SAY.
But having 2 is a good idea, I shall implement this. Yes.
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I'd fill as many slots on the memory card I could with saves and then when I get to the end I'd save over the very oldest. I'm borrowing someones PS2 and memory card though to play FF12 and it only has 3 slots so I usually save over the same slot until I do something in the story, or kill a very hard mark/boss etc.
If you're just levelling and returning to save crystals to refresh your team and save your progress theres not much reason to use a new save slot, however if you're progressing through the story its a good idea to use a new slot for many reasons.
Ten save files takes forever for the card to read. Two makes it pretty snappy.
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