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goodbye starships
Jul. 8th, 2011 11:41 amJust watched the last shuttle launch here at work. I can't believe that the era of the starship is already over. Losing the space program makes me unutterably sad.
Jul. 8th, 2011
Last weekend, our 4-year-old 60GB PS3 decided that it didn't want to read games any more. It would play a game for a while, and then freeze up. Or, it wouldn't read games at all. Asking the almighty Internet about the problem pointed towards something unfixable for the amateur, so my husband and I bought a new slim PS3.
I thought that copying the saved games over would be an easy thing. Just plug in a memory stick, copy the games, and go, right? Wrong! Some saves would load, but then the game wouldn't let me save a new game from there; in other cases, like Gran Turismo 5, the system would flatly refuse to load data from another user. My husband was understandably distressed, as he has sunk a huge amount of time into GT5. I wasn't too happy either, because I did not want to start FFXIII over from the beginning.
Asking the almighty Internet oracle once again, I found a data transfer procedure that was supposed to move all data from one PS3 to another. Great! thought I. Easy peasy, and then we'd both have all our saves. I spent a fair amount of time plugging in cables and messing about with remote controls to get it to work, but for whatever reason, the two PS3s would not talk to one another no matter what I did.
As an aside, we have two methods of dealing with problems in our household. There is the Q method, which is preferred by my husband's family and amounts to "Do/Fix it yourself." This method has saved us quite a lot of money, because husband is very handy around the house and can do many advanced Homeowner Projects. Then there is the M method, which is preferred by my parents and boils down to "Throw money at it."
With all my Q options failing, I resorted in desperation to the M method and bought a three-month subscription to Playstation Plus, which brings 150 MB of online storage with it. Since you have to sign in to PSN to use it, I theorized that the problem of using save data that the new system interpreted as being from a different user would be circumvented. If not... well, I'd be out $17.99, and my husband would give up on Playstation gaming in disgust.
Thank the gods of pixels, it worked. Husband is downstairs right now, thrilled to death that signing into PSN before he played gave him the opportunity to purchase a GT5 Formula 1 car, and I don't have to start over from scratch in FFXIII. I don't think I can take a whole lot more of Snow as it is.
I thought that copying the saved games over would be an easy thing. Just plug in a memory stick, copy the games, and go, right? Wrong! Some saves would load, but then the game wouldn't let me save a new game from there; in other cases, like Gran Turismo 5, the system would flatly refuse to load data from another user. My husband was understandably distressed, as he has sunk a huge amount of time into GT5. I wasn't too happy either, because I did not want to start FFXIII over from the beginning.
Asking the almighty Internet oracle once again, I found a data transfer procedure that was supposed to move all data from one PS3 to another. Great! thought I. Easy peasy, and then we'd both have all our saves. I spent a fair amount of time plugging in cables and messing about with remote controls to get it to work, but for whatever reason, the two PS3s would not talk to one another no matter what I did.
As an aside, we have two methods of dealing with problems in our household. There is the Q method, which is preferred by my husband's family and amounts to "Do/Fix it yourself." This method has saved us quite a lot of money, because husband is very handy around the house and can do many advanced Homeowner Projects. Then there is the M method, which is preferred by my parents and boils down to "Throw money at it."
With all my Q options failing, I resorted in desperation to the M method and bought a three-month subscription to Playstation Plus, which brings 150 MB of online storage with it. Since you have to sign in to PSN to use it, I theorized that the problem of using save data that the new system interpreted as being from a different user would be circumvented. If not... well, I'd be out $17.99, and my husband would give up on Playstation gaming in disgust.
Thank the gods of pixels, it worked. Husband is downstairs right now, thrilled to death that signing into PSN before he played gave him the opportunity to purchase a GT5 Formula 1 car, and I don't have to start over from scratch in FFXIII. I don't think I can take a whole lot more of Snow as it is.