ameratsu said:
Zlejedi said:
ameratsu said:
windbane said:
this crap just happened to me and I'm in the same position. Has anyone happened to find a solution yet? I've read that Sony usually sends a replacement PS3 and you lose your hard drive, anyway. It also can take a month for them to send the disc back that's stuck in the PS3 (since it won't boot up at all), but since my warranty is up I'm going to open it up and get my disc out, at least.
It is ridiculous to lock the save games. I wish they could encrypt game data by itself so you could still get your music, pictures, videos, and game saves. I had several videos that I haven't watched sitting on my PS3 HD that I deleted on my PC, hours of game saves, and hundreds of MGS4 pictures (nice export feature in that game). Oh well.
Anyone returned their system and actually gotten the hard drive back? I'd rather not pay $150 just for the slight chance that I can get my data back when I could try to reformat the drive and see if that's the problem. My fan still turns on, but it could be the power supply.
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Unless sony fixes your ps3, you will lose all your saves. Happened to me. I now backup my hard drive every two weeks. Every ps3 owner should do the same...
Seriously, if you're reading this and own an older ps3, especially a 60gb, back up your save files! unless you envy the idea of losing all your game progess.
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Comeone it's only video game system. Do you really lose all that much when you format your 100% completed Flower save game? :)
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Well i was 15 hours into Valkyria Chronicles and now I get to start over. I was also almost 100% complete pixeljunk monsters and encore, 49/50 spectra in pixeljunk eden, and almost done folklore. So yeah, it sucks that I lost probably 50+ hours of progress on those games alone, not to mention that I used my ps3 to store some ps2 save files. Since I never want to start over again, I will now back up religiously.
Anyone who doesn't backup at least once in a while risks losing all their save files. To me that's a big deal.
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yeah, I was using my PS3 to play some PS2 games, too, such as Beyond Good and Evil.
As for Pixeljunk and such, doesn't the PSN at least save your trophy progress for those? Also, it won't take you long to get back through that game, at least.
Oh, and the encryption is there to prevent people from trading PSN games. It's a simple reason, and a fair one, but I just wish they had a separate partition that wasn't encrypted for everything else, including photos, music, videos, and game saves. That's only fair.
