have i come upon a really bad glitch???

[Numisma]

please help me.

i just got the Highwind, and i took it straight from Junon over to Wutai. i saved at the save point in Wutai, and this was the first time i'd ever been there (i never got Yuffie). but now, whenever i try to leave, and take the Highwind elsewhere, it looks like no matter which direction i go in, there are black barriers that close in on me after 10-15 seconds of flying, and the screen darkens. it goes all black, and then i hear a null buzzer go off every once in a while. on the black screen i see a grey box w/ a flashing red question mark that sometimes disappears.

i have restarted this f***ing game about 10 times from the save point, and i can't get very far without this happening to me every single time. is there some wierd-ass glitch in the game that cannot be fixed? is there something wrong with my copy of FF7 on disc 2? can anyone help me? has this happened to anyone else? do i have to start my game all over again?

if i DO have to start all over again, i'ma be piss-angry cuz i've already spent 30-something hours to get this far. grrrrrrr.....

[o_O]

Wow, that's weird. Does this 'glitch' only happen when you're flying the Highwind? You could try leaving Wutai and saving on the world map, or creating a new file, then loading from that.

EDIT: Are you using a gameshark?

[Numisma]

it happens in midair while i'm flying the Highwind. i didn't think about saving on the world map, though. i will try that. if i still get the same error, i will post about it here.

ah, if only i could videotape the passage so people could see exactly what happens. it's so wierd.... you really need to see it to understand how frustrated it makes me. and, this is the first time i've ever played the game, too.

and no, i'm not using a GameShark.

[Big D]

[q=Numisma]no matter which direction i go in, there are black barriers that close in on me after 10-15 seconds of flying, and the screen darkens[/q]
This sounds remarkably similar to what happens when I pop open the disc cover whilst in the Highwind... since the disc's not being read, the area of available world map becomes smaller.

Perhaps something is preventing your PS from reading the disc at the proper speed?

[Numisma]

but the game just freezes...... no matter what buttons i press, nothing will happen, and all i can do is hit the reset button *annoyed with game*

well, if worst comes to worst, i can take the game back to EB Games and get a replacement copy. i bought the game and a PSX used last Thursday, and the game is returnable/replaceable if i bring it back within 14 days.

[Burtsplurt]

Do you know anyone else who has FFVII? That way you could check if it's your disc or the PSX that's broken.

[Raistlin]

What disk are you on?

I heard a rumor about a glitch which was something about being on the third disk, and then going to Wutai without getting Yuffie, and you'll be unable to continue and forced to restart the entire game. I thought it was just a rumor, though, so I didn't pay it much attention.

[Shoyku]

Well, if what Raistlin said is true, I feel sorry for you, Numisma.

[Numisma]

i'm on disc 2. anyway, after i posted on here about my problem, i went back to the game, only to notice that i had just left the game as is (rather than restarting), and sometime in between when i left the game to go online and when i came back, the correct screen was on (the Highwind in midair not far from Wutai).... wierd...

i'm going to guess it was what Big D said, that the console was reading the disc a lil slowly or something. so, things are fine, and i am glad i did NOT just start a whole new game over (plus, i ran into Yuffie near Mideel, so she's in my party now. whee!).

thanks!

[Rostum]

Originally posted by Numisma
...PSX used last Thursday...

There's your problem, a used PSX, if the game takes longer than it should to load, it's just the PSX's fault. It happened with my PSX, cept no games loaded past the "Sony Playstation" screen. It was unfixable!

Anyways, good luck!

[Numisma]

well, i have a six-month warranty on it. it was a used and refurbished PSX console. EB Games was having a special deal: get a used and refurbished N64, PSX, or DreamCast for $29.99, and they'll throw in a free used game w/ a marked price not exceeding $14.99 ... and it was $6 for an extended warranty on the console. so if there are further problems, i can get some kind of reimbursement. whee.

meh... i'm too cheap to get a PS2 or even a PSX brand new.

but that was the only time when i ever had any problems with the game. no problems until more than 30 hours into the game...

[zacks_clone]

I heard a rumor about a glitch which was something about being on the third disk, and then going to Wutai without getting Yuffie, and you'll be unable to continue and forced to restart the entire game. I thought it was just a rumor, though, so I didn't pay it much attention.

I really dont think that is true.Maybe for some people or disks,but not me.I went to Wutai without yuffie on disk 3.I could leave.I beat the game a week later,when i went to play again.I got yuffie near the time i was about to go into the crater to Sephiroth

[muchacho]

[SB]. It happened with my PSX, cept no games loaded past the "Sony Playstation" screen. !

your going to laugh when you here this but i had the same thing happen to me. so what i did was turn the PSX upside down and started playing, now it works wonders. dont ask me how i herd this but it works.

[Shoeberto]

The read-error thing is caused by the fact that the CD lense, after so much use, begins to burn out, so flipping the PSX on its side makes the beam go through a different part of the lense, making it read correctly. I have to prop up my PSX in order to get it to play a lot of games, and sometimes even have to tilt it completely vertically so it'll load.

[muchacho]

yeah thats it.....