GT4 Bugs

[Donn Engler]

Hey, I have just gotten a new GT4 and being PAL, for some reason it wouldn't load all my licences from GT3, so I had to go through all the licences again. Then it does exactly what you guys are describing. It goes into the red revolving clock-hand when I do a retry or exit and sometimes it will re-enter the session after 1 to 5 minutes, sometimes it must be rebooted. It is getting very annoying. Do you think this could be a defective disk? Do you think if I trade it in for a new one that it might work properly? All my other games work perfectly in this machine. It is old though SCPH-30004.

 

[Ragnar1211]

Hey, I have just gotten a new GT4 and being PAL, for some reason it wouldn't load all my licences from GT3, so I had to go through all the licences again. Then it does exactly what you guys are describing. It goes into the red revolving clock-hand when I do a retry or exit and sometimes it will re-enter the session after 1 to 5 minutes, sometimes it must be rebooted. It is getting very annoying. Do you think this could be a defective disk? Do you think if I trade it in for a new one that it might work properly? All my other games work perfectly in this machine. It is old though SCPH-30004.

Sounds like disk read errors. Are any of your other games dvd based? If they work I would try exchanging the disk.

Otherwise check out www.gamefaqs.com there is an excellent writeup on how to dismantle your PS2 and modify the laser lense voltage. My ps2 was having a problem reading blue-backs and is now fine after a small adjustment.

 

[Zardoz]

452 posts on this thread, and counting...

 

[356C]

I don't know if its always like this for the latest subaru rally car, but in the 1 lap magic mission #??: Subaru, When you look through the roof cam, In the area near the left side mirror is a big white box like object attached to the car. Kinda weird, like a stage of development that they forgot to fix before production, I don't like the car, so like I said I don't know if this odd object shows up on this car all the time. Anyone else see this?

 

[nissan man]

I don't know if its always like this for the latest subaru rally car, but in the 1 lap magic mission #??: Subaru, When you look through the roof cam, In the area near the left side mirror is a big white box like object attached to the car. Kinda weird, like a stage of development that they forgot to fix before production, I don't like the car, so like I said I don't know if this odd object shows up on this car all the time. Anyone else see this?

thats the camera
if u look at it from the outside and looking behind u should c it

 

[Specialized]

I dont realy know if you can call it a glitch, but it sure is hella annoying. With certain cars (eg: the jag you win after completing 50%) with long corners that require you to accelerate whilst turning, after you take of the accelerator the car continues to accelerate! This causes the car to understeer realy badly, and making it a real frustrating car to drive... has anyone else noticed this problem with other cars?

Im not an expert but could this because the traction control is on. If the front wheels are slipping while turning then the car may be trying to compensate for this by accelerating to get grip? This is only an idea and im sure my theory could be elaborated on but it seems a step in the right sirection

 

[Sycoarkantos]

i reckon this might be a glitch but when i was in my nissan MMR race car, one with no hp but wicked brakes, i was doing nurb ring when i went onto the side red/white bits and my car just flew afew metres into the air on one side and just stayed on the other side. very wicked, but i didn't manage to get a photo on replay.

 

[RenesisEvo]

I just finished the french competition under european events. I was doing 200 A-spec races in the championship. I got to the grand valley speedway reverse and could not do it 200pts. so I exit the championship and put some more power on it, go back and complete the race at 75pts. After I won I saved and finished the last race at 200pts. When I went to my status screen it said : prize cars 154, prize money 10,016,300, AND CARS OWNED 1 ? What the @#*? There goes my ford model T from 80 gold, my mission 34 car (nissan), ALL endurance cars and to much to count,130 cars gone, I saved the night before on a seperate memory car and that has only one car too ( a cintron I used during french competition) So I don't know if my memory cards got messed up or if it was the game, either way I'm pissed If this has happened to anyone who has information about this please share it with me thank you. B.P.

p.s.Something similar happened to me in GT2 or 3 when I had too many max. speed or 1/4 mile times)

This has been well documented elsewhere... never ever save on more than one memory card when GT4 is running. Only use the PS2's browser to make a back-up. What happens is that your cars are only saved on your memory card, not in the PS2's RAM: so if you take out the card, and save onto another, all the cars in your garage (bar the car you're in) are not there. they are only stored on the card. So you save and end up with no cars on that file - and of course then you save over your full garage with the empty one. As someone said, your memory card IS your garage.

For once, backing-up data is more dangerous than not! (irony alert)

 

[GregT750]

I don't know if its a "bug" or not, and I saw someone posted the same thing a bunch of pages back, but here goes. Got home from work yesterday, started the 24 hr Nur endurance race on B-spec, knew it'd take 8 hours doing the x3 speed except for pitting....no problem. In about the 12th hour of it, controller function went can't change display, can't change pace (allthough it wasn't needed) nothing....controller was dead. Didn't know if it was a game glitch or not, so I blew it off and let it race the race by itself real time. I'm using the minolta race car so I didn't care about the extra seconds pitting and the like. So it finally finishes, still no function, so the race is over and its counting down $1,200,000 with $10 dollar increments...it took a while, but after its done still no function, can't hit X go go on, lot of good that I won a formula car the I can't get to lol anyone hear of this...possible fix/cause ? Thanks .......and since I'm a glutton for punishment, I'm about 4 hours into it again to see if it'll do it again.

 

[Famine]

Unplug the controller and plug a different one in if it happens again.

 

[chinko]

is it me...or on the rally courses with road parts does the road react like dirt? as i took a corner i can normally take at 70ish on cathedral 1 and the car just slid into the wall....dirt tyres on road would be too grippy for their own good!

 

[~Sp33~]

well, i was free-running around tsukuba and saved muh best lap ghost of a honda accord euro R with an aditional spoiler. I got into a mazda 6 (concept), and loaded the ghost and started racing... after a few laps i beat the hondas lap time so the ghost car was now the mazda... but on the back of it wasnt the standard spolier that is actually on it, but instead it had the hondas spoiler on it, lacking the horizontal bit.. it was realy realy strange. usually a spoiler looks like --> -|--|- but instead it was just | |

strange times ten.

 

[1989therat]

My replay files change sometimes...it will wreck into a wall and then just go out of control and just sit there

 

[~Sp33~]

-_-` at 1989therat's sig. why tune your honda?.. coz there more affordable?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

If you ram another car from behind at Suzuka's Casio Triangle (that nasty chicane before the Finish), the enemy car will get caught in the crash barriers that are meant to stop you from blasting through. He won't go anywhere, but he will drive back and forwards and twitch from side to side for the rest of the race, even if he's lined up with the gaps between the barriers that allow drivers who do go off to get back on the track without reversing too much.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Another one: race on Deep Forest Reverse. Look up just before the Start/Finish Line and you'll spot the "Deep Foest Raceway" sign twice. There's only a narrow gap between them, but you can tell it's obvious because when the race is run in the Normal direction, the large sign points in both directions, but in Reverse it's only one way. Plus, there's nothing hold up the sign that shouldn't be there.

You can easily see is in the Boxer Spirit Race (might only be here though).

 

[EG1]

Speaking of S2000's, the dyno graph of the spoon s2k clearly shows it making peak power at 11,000 rpms and peak TQ at 9600, but the car redlines at 9K. ??? woops

 

[Jetboy.]

Oddly, noone yet has noticed this: Look at the Charger's base rims in the garage. They are non-descript, standard-issue silver rims. Now look at the rims while racing it, or against it. They change. They turn to black rims with dog-dish centers. I have the NTSC-US edition.

 

[~Sp33~]

i twas versing the Honda accord Euro and the opel vectra on the test track to see which had the highest top speed. In the honda i was watchng the speedo... 238 239 240... 240... *goes over finish line*.. record top speed shows up... only 239.2 kph..... but but.. i saw 240 ;_;

stupid thing

 

[chinko]

i twas versing the Honda accord Euro and the opel vectra on the test track to see which had the highest top speed. In the honda i was watchng the speedo... 238 239 240... 240... *goes over finish line*.. record top speed shows up... only 239.2 kph..... but but.. i saw 240 ;_;

stupid thing

yup, it does that alot. just imagine its going 1 slower than it says

 

[thebigmacmoomin]

dont know if this is realy a bug, but is anoying anyway.

You can buy the wheels that are on the Alfa 155 and merc clk touring cars from the used wheel section but you cannot buy new wheels for them

 

[Jetboy.]

Yeah, the same with teh base-model '63 Vette.

 

[chinko]

dont know if this is realy a bug, but is anoying anyway.

You can buy the wheels that are on the Alfa 155 and merc clk touring cars from the used wheel section but you cannot buy new wheels for them

thats normal. you cant change ANY racecars wheels as far as i know

 

[fd2diablo908]

yeah umm something really really bad happened to my garage, my 150 cars, gone cept my pescy, umm yeah, i think that it happened when i backed up my files, not sure tho, now i have 150 cars to get back

 

[Moloch_horridus]

You can't back up your files by swapping cards - you MUST use the PS2 browser

 

[metalgearpete]

That really sucks. Luckily it happened for me before day 694 so I didn't lose my black beauties as well. Also I only had about 80 cars to get back. It's been fun getting them back though.

 

[niky]

is it me...or on the rally courses with road parts does the road react like dirt? as i took a corner i can normally take at 70ish on cathedral 1 and the car just slid into the wall....dirt tyres on road would be too grippy for their own good!

Uhh... tread patterns won't give you the same grip. You've got to drive it like it has economy tires on. In real life, I've got one car on sports tires, and another vehicle on dirt tires... guess which one grips the road better?

If you ram another car from behind at Suzuka's Casio Triangle (that nasty chicane before the Finish), the enemy car will get caught in the crash barriers that are meant to stop you from blasting through. He won't go anywhere, but he will drive back and forwards and twitch from side to side for the rest of the race, even if he's lined up with the gaps between the barriers that allow drivers who do go off to get back on the track without reversing too much.

That happens on a lot of tracks, but rarely. I've seen it at Seattle Circuit before... and that was on the chicane in the middle of the track. AI drivers can't reverse very far before starting to turn, so if they're in a position where they have to back up just a little bit more, they won't.

 

[~Sp33~]

ive found a mistake, more then a glitch,

The Bmw M5, comes with a standard 7 speed gear box. In the tuning screen where you get the fully cust transmission, it states it adds an extra gear... but not the BMW.....

I WANTED EIGHT GEARS!!..lol.. (but cant be bothered with that stupid nike mobil)

 

[gt_masta]

In GT Mode>World Circuits>Susuka West course the little description on top of the screen is CRSINFO|susuka_west I don't know if it's been found but I didn't wanted to read some 500 posts

 

[sgtstix]

i found one my self.... take the ford gt concept to the oil change and tell me whats wrong with the picture???