GT4 corrupt data club, 6 new members

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After seeing a lot of people saying "oh noes!!!11 my data is corupted!" I have just came across the idea and want to see if anyone else thinks this should be a "club". It has happened to me many times, luckily I have a maxdrive and have many back up saves on my PC.

So, have you seen this screen?
coruptdata.jpg


So anyone that has had there GT4 data corupt, post here and let it out, its ok...
btw, thanks Diego440 for the idea

So far the members are:

Opendriver19a-X4
Master_Yoda
De@tthwi§ho0
DRLgain
MugenVTEC
G.T
lthiele
9D8TSIAWD
SPEEDSTER SAM
SineSierra
rheinaoi
aznsklndrftr
SouthSideSlider
DLRgian
Radicool02
rockrapdude
MasterFocus
Mpower56
King Crockery
Tomf4i03
Pink_the_Floyd
-Cheezman-
Keishi
I-Runner
Gumball-AMG
Dude?
<_Spike_>-X2
HONDATYPER
MasterStorm
Qu!k1-X3
Dave^
SandStorm
Janro
Mouser1286
get_it_sideways X2
ChampCarFan
daddy-o
CCX
Mr.M
93coupe
boy
Sheron
imxaxweirdo
Gingiba
samj_13
(major bump) pwfd2135
Ev0 4 drifter
rentay
Saabeh
P.J.
thegt4masta
pvbwerjr
fdRX7
Pagan_2k
GT_Jim
KinetiK
-Will-
HiQQory
dking
GEMu
stllmn8j
futuredrifter
texanidiot25
jeepster2982
TEAMDiablo3
Rayquaza
nosturbo
Michael88
mouser
jeffreypang911
M0nk3yBaIIz
Mr.ThunderMakeR
speedster502
Pagan_2k
kikie
Aquendwato
Torana XU-1
szymoniec
Vince247
meister_dan
gibson

Tips on how to beat the corruption:

Turn auto-save off!
Do not turn off the PS2 when in the middle of saving
(really stupid)Do not upload a corruped game save from a maxdrive Xport ect

Anything else I missed?
 
What a funny club :lol:

Can't really laugh, I might join this club one day - only got one memory card, too poor to afford another one.
 
I hated that garage glitch. Lucky I never got mine deleted though. You can get it if you test your car's maximum speed on the test course too much.
 
Happened to me after a month I got the game. I turned the console off by mistake because I forgot it autosaved! :dunce:
 
it happened with gt4 prologue on mine does that count?

i hate autosave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

autosave sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
i had saved a ghost replay, and deleted it through my ps2's browser when cleaning up the memory card, then went straight to load gt4, however, i was greeted with "file corrupted." my evo collection, my licenses, 24hr enduros, everything......all flushed. :eek: i wanted to puke
 
Might seem like a stupid question and I.m sorry if it's been asked before- What IS the safest way to copy a GT save? :scared: :scared:
nige
 
nige
Might seem like a stupid question and I.m sorry if it's been asked before- What IS the safest way to copy a GT save? :scared: :scared:
nige
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@ Nige, use a 2nd mem card, preferably a Sony original. Use the browser option of your playstation to copy across.
1 place two memcards in PS
2 dont insert any (game)disc
3 Switch on PS
4 use browser option to get to the copy option and copy.
5 When done switch off. Remove and store safely your 2nd memcard.

AMG.
 
Just a question here.

Does turning off the PS2 while the game is in progress increase the chance of corruption? (i.e. while my car is at a track, I pause and turn off the game because I lost the race)
 
It says, corrupt data club, so I think anyone with corrupt data can get in. Opendriver just put this thread on the GT4 section so that he will have more readership, or at least I think that's why he did it.
 
GT4_Rule
Just a question here.

Does turning off the PS2 while the game is in progress increase the chance of corruption? (i.e. while my car is at a track, I pause and turn off the game because I lost the race)
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Yes, for some odd reason it does, I have no idea why

OK, ill change the thred title to "GT4 data coorupt club:(" due to the confusion. Although this thred is posted in the GT4 section,and anyone with some sort of comprehension can figure out that this thred is pertaning to GT4 since it is posted in the GT4 section if GTP and not the GT1 section.

Common sense is the best tool you could have, to others it is a curse not to have it. I suggest trying to repeat what your typing in you head. It makes more sense when some one else reads it

/rant

EDIT: Feel free to link this club in your sig if you want to
 
I politely request admission into this tragic little club:sly: . After playing since day one of the North American release, over several months of hard fought battles, 80 golds, over 300 cars, 99.6% completion, all missions completed (mission 34 completed... twice:crazy: ), running the Nurb' in under five minutes in mad Sauber C9, 40,000+ miles driven in A-spec and close to 100 different set-ups, I had on that fateful day planned to delight in tuning my 86 MR2 and running her in an endurance only to be greeted by that most unpleasant message. You could hear my cries echoing off the walls.

The most painful part of this wasn't losing the percentages actually. I've paid my GT4 dues and can do this all again if I wanted, and I could probably do it a lot faster- and with more A-spec points no doubt. No, the most irksome part of all this is losing my tuned cars.

After playing so long and then losing it all was an odd experience. It's been a week since I've even looked at the game (yes that is a VERY long time for me) and I really don't know if I want to start over. This experience really illustrates what so many members have been saying about GT4 for the longest. The GT4 experience is more akin to reading a finely crafted editorial in your favorite auto magazine or a history special singing tribute to rolling masterpieces, or forgotten automotive gems far, far ahead of their time. The feeling is there, the love of the automobile is there: it's so overflowing sometimes I wonder how the Playstation can handle it all.

GT4 is engrossing, consuming. It's an obsession at times. GT4 is the kind of driving experience that if you are a car fanatic to begin with, playing it is only going to make your condition more incurable. It's full of the kind of feeling you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else in gaming, but with all that said to it's credit, at its worst it's not all that much fun to actually play.

I knew this already, but it never really hit home until I had to consider reinvesting my time. I've reached that stage where using "lesser" cars was the only way to really have any kind of racing experience. That never really bothered me because I enjoyed the driving so much, but now that I have to actually go through the trials of acquiring my favorite cars again, I understand now GT4's faults as a game. After about 25% completion a lot of it feels like work.

There are wonderful race series that open my eyes to cars I’d have never given a second glance to that turned out to be incredible drives, but then so much more of the GT4 experience is just plain boring.

If anything GT4 has shown me there is real poetry in the world of the automobile. It does its best capturing the kind of beauty and feeling that leaves us without the need for words.

I still don't know if I ever wish to play the game again, but for making me into a terminal car nut, for that much, I am thankful.
 
AMG.
@ Nige, use a 2nd mem card, preferably a Sony original. Use the browser option of your playstation to copy across.
1 place two memcards in PS
2 dont insert any (game)disc
3 Switch on PS
4 use browser option to get to the copy option and copy.
5 When done switch off. Remove and store safely your 2nd memcard.

AMG.
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AMG- Cheers for that! Time to make a backup!
nige
 
my GT4 data has been curupted TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was so mad both times at aroung 90% complette in the game... the first time i turned the PS2 off while it was autosaving. the second tie it was autosaving and the power went out.
 

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