Star Ocean: Last Hope Freezing problems.

[Jdevil3]

blunty51 said:

Jdevil3 said:

I don't have Star Ocean but I do have Resonance of Fate, which is another tri-Ace game. I had some freezing issues in Silver Canyon... it only freezes in the Silver Canyon "World Map" when a random battle is about to begin.

I searched "Resonance of Fate freezing" on google and found a lot of people complaining about it. Some people never had any issues with the game and some other people couldn't even get to the first chapter in the game because it always freezes, even after formatting the HDD and replacing the game for another copy of it.

Luckily, it only happened in Silver Canyon for me so I just didn't go there anymore because I don't need to and the game hasn't had any freezing issues anymore (touches wood).

It seems to be a tri-Ace problem... the bad thing is that they don't even know about it and no one has found a way to stop the problem from happening other than buying a new PS3. I assume no one has found any solution for the Star Ocean freezing either.

 

You could try backing up your HDD (Since the SO save data is copy protected >_>), formatting your PS3 and then restore the backup. Go to that place where the freezing happens and see if it still occurs. If it does, try to borrow a copy of the game from a friend or something, if it still happens then... I don't know, I think there's nothing else you can do... I doubt you'd want to buy a new PS3 just because that specific game freezes.

I've always been a bit paranoid of losing stuff if I do a backup, reformat, restore. If I reformat, do I lose local trophy & account data etc? And backup...does it backup game & save data?

Unfortunately i don't know anyone else where I live with the game, and since this is the only game that freezes, I highly doubt it's the PS3.

tri-Ace has to be aware of the problem, 'specially when you look at the amount of threads complaining about their customer support, which are just automated responses apparently.

If you format your HDD, everything that's stored in it will be erased... If you want your trophies back, you must sync your trophies with PSN and the trophies you earned and synched with before formatting will be back... so make sure you sync your trophies before formatting so everything you've earned is stored in Sony's servers.

Yes, backing up backs up game and save data, among other stuff. I'd recommend to delete all installed game data before backing up though, because they can make the back up file pretty big and it will take long to back up and restore later... you can reinstall your games anyways.

Yeah, it's not the PS3, it's the game... it has a bug that causes the freezing... you could finish the game without having any freezes or you could have bad luck and have constant freezing everywhere... and the same game in another PS3 could have no problems if the bug never occurs in the other PS3.

Lots of people complained about the Resonance of Fate problems and tri-Ace didn't do anything to fix it... The freezing isn't widespread enough for them to take any action. It's a rare and random bug that could happen any time... It happened to me in Silver Canyon after around 30 or 40 hours of playing the game without any problems... some people get the bug in the beginning of the game and can't advance because of it.

 

It's been a long time since both games have been released and they still haven't given any solution to the freezing... and probably never will.

You can read about the Resonance of Fate freezing bug if you want and see if you can find a solution that could also work in Star Ocean.

This is from the official forums:

http://forums.sega.com/showthread.php?320869-Freezing-during-game-(-PS3-)&s=0948a76d0de2620d7f77781ca0ce7e72

 

Lol, there's someone that played the game for 100 hours without any freezing... but it started freezing in the final boss fight xD