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new PS3
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.
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Also, can I take a moment to lament the SEVERE LACK OF AREA SPELLS/ATTACKS at least early on? Seven against two is manageable when you have area attacks. When you don't, it's frustrating!
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Oh you certainly may. Gaaaaah...The impossibility of some of those battle set-ups... I mean I understand that with the stagger mechanic you're supposed to take them down one at a time but area spells/attacks are quicker in the long run and give you a chance to maintain the offensive while one character heals you up unlike the 'nick one at a time' system they've got going on. Ugggh.
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Seriously though, phew! I'm glad that you finally came up with a workaround (and that's a rather clever bit of outside the box thinking, if you ask me -- go you!) You'd think The Powers That Be would make things like data-transfers simple to begin with, but I think you deserve a pat on the back for getting things to work in spite of them, really!
(I love the Q and M methods, by the way... I'm rather less handy than your husband sounds so I'm largely confined to M as well ^^)
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I'd still like to know why the PS3 data transfer didn't work! Certainly having a system stop working isn't something a player should be penalized for, especially since Sony doesn't seem to support older units any more.
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The system is currently in transit back here, but I've been happy with their service up to this point. Here's hoping it stays that way.
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The sad thing is my PS3 is the slim one (120gb), I've had it about a year and got it solely because I was told that PSOne games would work on it. Fat load of BS that was when the game I really want to play won't work.
I'm just hoping it will read the disk before I purchase FF8 off PSN, it did actually do that with the first disk for a bit before I upgraded the software and miraculously started working.
Glad you found a way in the end ;)