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I've already had one corrupt gamesave from GT6, but because I religiously back up and save my data it only cost me a few hours of progress with a tune. If you follow some of this advice below it might just save you from catastrophe
1. Buy yourself a USB memory stick. Any size will do as GT gamesaves are really small but of course you can use it for other things if need be.
2. From the PS3 XMB menu "Save Game Utility" scroll down until you see the GT6 logo, hit triangle, then copy, then select the USB stick, and overwrite the current save when prompted. Copy your current game save to the USB stick as a minimum at each of these times. We're talking seconds of work here:
1. At the end of every playing session.
2. Before any major updates
3. Before utilizing any kind of glitch where you are deleting and reloading data as in the current VGT >>> v1.00 credit glitch.
4. Any other time you want to or feel the need..can't have too many.
3. Copy and paste all your saves to another device like a laptop or PC as a second backup. Again we're talking seconds here but it opens up another opportunity.
4. When you copy to PC, rename the save on the USB stick before copying. Important: Only rename the PS3 Folder, not the actual save itself contained in the folder. By renaming it, when you go to use the stick again, PS3 won't recognize the name as a gamesave and won't prompt you to overwrite, allowing you to keep multiple game saves on a single USB stick. If you don't do this, your current save is overwritten. Keep in mind, if you want to use the game save again to copy back to the PS3, you need to rename it back to simply "PS3" so the PS3 recognizes it for what it is.
If you adhere to that protocol, you'll likely never lose more than a days worth of data. Even if the HD crashes you should be able to reload the game onto another PS3 and copy the save and be right back where you started. Steps 3 and 4 might sound like overkill but they have saved me a couple of times so far. If all you do is 1 and 2 and one of your gamesaves ends up being corrupt you have no backup whatsover because each time you save to the USB you are overwriting your previous good save. You need to either change the name to get multiple saves on one stick and/or copy and paste those saves somewhere safe.
Another alternative is Online Storage but for me this is a backup to my backup, a kind of a last resort: http://uk.playstation.com/psn/suppo...52018/Using-Online-Storage-for-PS3-game-data/
If you have another protocol or some other way of saving that works for you feel free to share. Anyone that doesn't do this, especially with a brand new game we already know is buggy and acting funny, is flirting with virtual disaster
1. Buy yourself a USB memory stick. Any size will do as GT gamesaves are really small but of course you can use it for other things if need be.
2. From the PS3 XMB menu "Save Game Utility" scroll down until you see the GT6 logo, hit triangle, then copy, then select the USB stick, and overwrite the current save when prompted. Copy your current game save to the USB stick as a minimum at each of these times. We're talking seconds of work here:
1. At the end of every playing session.
2. Before any major updates
3. Before utilizing any kind of glitch where you are deleting and reloading data as in the current VGT >>> v1.00 credit glitch.
4. Any other time you want to or feel the need..can't have too many.
3. Copy and paste all your saves to another device like a laptop or PC as a second backup. Again we're talking seconds here but it opens up another opportunity.
4. When you copy to PC, rename the save on the USB stick before copying. Important: Only rename the PS3 Folder, not the actual save itself contained in the folder. By renaming it, when you go to use the stick again, PS3 won't recognize the name as a gamesave and won't prompt you to overwrite, allowing you to keep multiple game saves on a single USB stick. If you don't do this, your current save is overwritten. Keep in mind, if you want to use the game save again to copy back to the PS3, you need to rename it back to simply "PS3" so the PS3 recognizes it for what it is.
If you adhere to that protocol, you'll likely never lose more than a days worth of data. Even if the HD crashes you should be able to reload the game onto another PS3 and copy the save and be right back where you started. Steps 3 and 4 might sound like overkill but they have saved me a couple of times so far. If all you do is 1 and 2 and one of your gamesaves ends up being corrupt you have no backup whatsover because each time you save to the USB you are overwriting your previous good save. You need to either change the name to get multiple saves on one stick and/or copy and paste those saves somewhere safe.
Another alternative is Online Storage but for me this is a backup to my backup, a kind of a last resort: http://uk.playstation.com/psn/suppo...52018/Using-Online-Storage-for-PS3-game-data/
If you have another protocol or some other way of saving that works for you feel free to share. Anyone that doesn't do this, especially with a brand new game we already know is buggy and acting funny, is flirting with virtual disaster
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