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Bay-kun March 25th, 2005 6:37 PM

Bad experiences.
 
I was just wondering whether you guys have ever had any bad experiences with gaming that you'd wish to share. Not with actual games, (Becuase there is already a thread like that) but with things like accessories, the actual game software, or the hardware/consoles.

One of my bad experiences happened just last night. I had just bought some screen protectors for my DS that were made by a company I wasn't familiar with. It said on the box that they came off and on easily; no worries right? wrong. The screen protector for the top screen of my DS came on and off fairly easily, but was cheeply made, as well as scratched and dirty. The bottom screen protector was pretty good, but then it got really bad. Once I got the screen protector on, I couldn't get it off! I then spent the next half hour picking at the corners of the screen protector to peel it off, while trying not ti damage my DS screen at the same time. I finally got the screen protector off 30 minutes later, ripping it in the process. Thankfully my screen was undamaged. But I'm not buying accessories from that company anymore. >=(

So what about you guys?

DragonTrainer March 25th, 2005 6:39 PM

A year or 2 ago, I had been playing Sonic Adventure 2:Battle insanely, then all of a sudden, it stopped working when I tried to access the memory card, I was very ticked, and only this week did I repurchase it. Love that game

Eon-Rider March 25th, 2005 6:45 PM

I was playing my Silver version of Pokemon on N64(Pokemon Stadium 2) when it said something like: Please take out your game pack and put it in again. So I did. Then it said: Your file has been corrupted.

Does that count?

TRIFORCE89 March 25th, 2005 7:08 PM

DS screen protectors for me too. ><

When putting on the protectors they got covered in dust. I then removed them to clean off the dust. After putting it on, there was dust again. I repeated this process several times until the stikyness wore off. The top screen wouldn't stay on and the bottom one was full of air bubbles.

I decided to get the people at BEst Buy to put the protectors on for me. They have the same problem and end up goign through three boxes of protectors until they get it to work. Apparently they don't know how to use fingers, as to remove the bottom protector they went at my DS with an exactoknife. At which point I leapt over the counter and onto the person, grabbing the DS out of his hands. He could've sliced and diced my screen!

They finally got it. However the top protector has massive hunk of dust under it in one spot. It looks like dead pixel. @@ And the bottom one still has a few air bubbles.

The bottom protector looks like nothing more that a piece of tape and it's horrible scratched now. The bottom protector has little tears in it now!

Lion Heart March 25th, 2005 7:55 PM

Yeah, I have ahuge problem my computer won't read CD's at all, it acts if there is nothing in there and I can't fix it.

Timbjerr March 25th, 2005 9:20 PM

my GameCube wiped out my memory card a couple of months ago..., not much was saved on it, but it was devastating trying to unlock everything I had in SSBM again.

Arcanine March 25th, 2005 9:35 PM

Well once on Pokemon Stadium I was moving some Pokemon from Yellow to Blue. And when I was playing a thing poped up and said your game pack has been deleted. So my brother's Blue was deleted. And what made it worse was we had every Pokemon on it (even Mew), and before it was deleted we was moving everything from Yellow to Blue to restart Yellow (we was almost done, just a few little Pokemon needed to be moved). So in the end we lost both Blue and Yellow.

Lion Heart March 25th, 2005 9:53 PM

Why does it pop up and say your game was deleted?

Shadowfaith March 25th, 2005 11:28 PM

Well, I remember once...some time ago now, I was playing Final Fantasy 7 and I had gotten to the Crater for the first time. I saved it and my brother came up and asked if I could make a copy of my save for him. Thinking it couldnt hurt, I agreed to make a copy and as I was making one, the gmae froze and I had to restart.

As I cam to the load menu, I found that all my saved game Data had been deleated! I took out the disc to check the memory cards data and ALL of my saved game data of every game I had on that memory card had been deleated...let me tell you, I wasnt a happy bunny XD

Rhykasho March 26th, 2005 4:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bayleef
I was just wondering whether you guys have ever had any bad experiences with gaming that you'd wish to share. Not with actual games, (Becuase there is already a thread like that) but with things like accessories, the actual game software, or the hardware/consoles.

One of my bad experiences happened just last night. I had just bought some screen protectors for my DS that were made by a company I wasn't familiar with. It said on the box that they came off and on easily; no worries right? wrong. The screen protector for the top screen of my DS came on and off fairly easily, but was cheeply made, as well as scratched and dirty. The bottom screen protector was pretty good, but then it got really bad. Once I got the screen protector on, I couldn't get it off! I then spent the next half hour picking at the corners of the screen protector to peel it off, while trying not ti damage my DS screen at the same time. I finally got the screen protector off 30 minutes later, ripping it in the process. Thankfully my screen was undamaged. But I'm not buying accessories from that company anymore. >=(

So what about you guys?

Well after completing worms 3D (100%), I decided to restart it using my other memory card to save it however I accidently wrote over my 100% save after choosing the wrong memory to save the data in.
After that came the joystick braking part and then I need to re-complete it all (which took 4 months!!!)

And about a week ago, I was checking out a free disk which I got with a magizine, however the disk somehow managed to brake my PS2 in the terms of that I couldnt play any games on it so I needed to use the money I saved up for the DS just to buy a new one (I thru away the disk that broke my old PS2) :(

Bay-kun March 26th, 2005 6:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRIFORCE89
DS screen protectors for me too. ><

When putting on the protectors they got covered in dust. I then removed them to clean off the dust. After putting it on, there was dust again. I repeated this process several times until the stikyness wore off. The top screen wouldn't stay on and the bottom one was full of air bubbles.

I decided to get the people at BEst Buy to put the protectors on for me. They have the same problem and end up goign through three boxes of protectors until they get it to work. Apparently they don't know how to use fingers, as to remove the bottom protector they went at my DS with an exactoknife. At which point I leapt over the counter and onto the person grabbing the DS out of his hands. He could've sliced and diced my screen!

They finally got it. However the top protector has massive hunk of fust under it in one spot. It looks like dead pixel. @@ And the bottom one still has a few air bubbles.

The bottom protector looks like nothing more that a piece of tape and it's horrible scratched now. The bottom protector has little tears in it now!

They went at your DS with an exactoknife!? OO They must have been mental. XD

BulbasaurTrainer March 27th, 2005 11:17 AM

My yellow version got erased because it fall on the floor by accident my pikachu lv.100 with other cool pokemon

Naito March 27th, 2005 11:40 AM

Once, i was playing NBA Street V3 with my friendand the game froze.I checked the memory card and the data was deleted!I was almost done in street challenge mode and the file got deleted!

Allstories March 27th, 2005 11:47 AM

I lent my copy of Mario Golf: TT to my friend a month after I got it and he moved away months later. I suppose I should have been more persistent in trying to get it back. :\

Then another time my Gamecube got a disk read error and we had to buy a new one.

Draik March 27th, 2005 3:53 PM

My memory card wiped out. Pokemon Colloseum, SSBM, and DoubleDash were all gone! Along with some other games I had yet to beat.

EmeraldSky March 27th, 2005 4:14 PM

Back when I first got Fire Red, I was getting ready to face Brock for the first time...I had trained my Charmander, Sammy, up to a decent level but I used Wings, my Butterfree, in the battle. The Jr. Trainer goes down with no problem, so I save and get ready to face Brock.

The battle starts fine, and Geodude goes down after a few blasts of Confusion. Next up is Onix...a few more Confusions and he'll be down, right?

WRONG!

I had no idea that Onix knew Rock Tomb, so Wings went down in no time flat! I reset and try again....and again...and again....and again...

It took me six tries to finally clench the Boulder Badge

Arcanine March 27th, 2005 6:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lion Heart
Why does it pop up and say your game was deleted?

Well it only did it once on Blue.
But I think the reason was me running around on the bike in the Dodrio Tower at three times the normal speed.

John Denver March 27th, 2005 6:25 PM

When your DDR pads don't work mid song, ya, you get real mad...

Red_Lugia9090 March 28th, 2005 4:44 PM

One time, I lost the charger to my GBASP. I bought a new one from some company I hadn't heard of before. After one use, It wouldn't charge up anymore! I was so mad, I grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped it to pieces. Then I threw it in the trash and sent some hate e-mail to the company. I still haven't gotten a refund...

Also, one time I took my GBASP on a train trip to Chicago. My dad had put it in a duffel bag with a cooler. The cooler leaked all over the inside, and my GBASP was fried, along with the Fire Emblem game I had inside it! Luckily, the problem fixed itself, and my GBASP is fully operational. (and to think I was about to spend $50 to get it repaired by Nintendo...) Unfortunately, All my game data had been erased, and I was on Final Chapter: Light!

One more. Y'know that Missingno. Pokemon on Red and Blue? I captured it once, and it went to my PC. When I went to get it out, the whole game froze up! No matter how hard I tried, It WOULD NOT unfreeze. So I did a soft reset (A+B+Start+Select all at the same time). When the screen came back up, All my data had been deleted! ;_;

obelisk-kun April 25th, 2005 1:16 PM

i do not no if this counts but on my pokemon colliseum i finaly beat venus and i had a model space ship on my tv it fell and unplugged the gamecube

Dark Penguin April 25th, 2005 3:43 PM

once i was typing in a code for tactics ogre: the knight of lodis, and in the two seconds it takes to save a code, my batteries died and now my gameshark is fried.

Shinin April 26th, 2005 12:33 PM

While going through Mt. Battle in Pokemon Colosseum (I was at some level in the 50s I think) I left the game be while I went to school. When I came back, my mom told me there the power went down and now it was back up. I ran to the game and found it reset.

Draik April 27th, 2005 3:14 PM

Hey, maybe this thread should be closed. It kinda got a revival...[mini-mod]Quit necroposting[/mini-mod]
EDIT: Save! Three more days!

BigBoss April 29th, 2005 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yang Liu Vader
Hey, maybe this thread should be closed. It kinda got a revival...[mini-mod]Quit necroposting[/mini-mod]

3 more days after the revival, THEN it would have to be closed.

Anyway, It was with PS2, I had it in the standup positon, and I tripped the wire and it fell on it's top and messed up my San Andreas. Had to waste more money getting a new one.

Big Smoothin May 21st, 2005 6:35 AM

My XBOX went out. I don't know what happened to it to make it stop working. When it does work, objects and characters start to disappear and it cuts off.

DarkCircuit May 25th, 2005 3:01 PM

I bought a MadCatz memory card...everything was fine for awhile. But then I pushed the power button in, but not far enough for it to actually stay on, and it wiped the card! [GCN]

All my LoZ: WW and SSBM was deleted! ;-;


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