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Soul Calibur 3 - Serious Bug Discovered...

Sonozaki Maya

realized seraph
GameFAQs said:
kried wrote:

Source: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=927089&topic=24757041

"According to a Chinese Gaming site ( EMU-ZONE)
There exist a fatal bug that was discovered in Japanese version only for now. But it also happen in my English edition, so i suppose that this is a universal bug.

The detail is still unknown. All known is if you do some act (as ordinary as you would do, such as save, load, change setting, choose game mode to play)
THE RECORD WILL BROKEN AND IN SOME SEVERE CASE
EVEN NON SC3 RECORD WILL BE INVOLVED TOO!!!

More worse is, it seemed idiopathic, the most case is you accidentally find the record is broken.

I have encounter this in Chronicle mode.

The worst is the damned NAMCO stay silent!!"

Source --> Here

Apparently this bug can corrupt Soul Calibur 3 game files if you move/copy/delete files that have been saved BEFORE saving the Soul Calibur 3 file. Namco Japan already have CDs that have this bug FIXED. Check the serial number on the back of the CD, and if the number is higher than this ->
SLPS-25577 1
or
SLPS-25577 2
Then you have the bug-free CD (cite: mao2, GameFAQs)

Does this change your opinion on Soul Calibur 3? Discuss.
 
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creepy_kecleon

Guest
I never played soul Calibur 3 (Or Soul Calibur 2 and Soul Calibur 1) but since there could be a bug in it, It would be better if I don't buy it. I'm sure it's a good game and all though.
 

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
kaibachaoschampion said:
O_O Well its a good thing that I havn't done that yet then.

I hope this glitch doesn't affect me.

Apparently this bug can corrupt Soul Calibur 3 game files if you move/copy/delete files that have been saved BEFORE saving the Soul Calibur 3 file. Namco Japan already have CDs that have this bug FIXED. Check the serial number on the back of the CD, and if the number is higher than this ->
SLPS-25577 1
or
SLPS-25577 2
Then you have the bug-free CD
(cite: mao2, GameFAQs)
Try reading =)
 

Sonozaki Maya

realized seraph
If you have the patience to read the whole thing, you'll notice that there is a possibility that this bug has random symptoms, the fact that it occurs mainly in Chronicles of the Sword mode, and some information about Flash ROM and the EEPROM, that could affect the trigger of the bug.
 

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
Well if it's that bad then just trying doing what they suggested:
7. Possible Alternative Solution:

There is a way to reformat your memory card, because maybe your game files like SC3 are broken up inside the memory card...I'll explain what I mean later. But first, my friend used codebreaker where it gives you that option to reformat your memory card...and I think some Gamesharks or ARMAX offer it as well...don't know. Well, it turned out while he copied all his saves, including SC3, there was one other game file that he could not copy nor delete....corrupted. After reformating his memory card, so far his SC3 file is working good.

To go into more technical aspects, I think the game files in your memory card may have what I'll call, "Broken Blocks of Memory", "Broken Bytes", or "Broken File Clusters"....someone did talk about on this message board. And I think it's even worse if the game file uses alot of "bytes" like SC3 (300K). So, if you delete certain files in the game at the browser, you'll notice that your other game files will move in a direction (visually). During that time, these files will have to be redirected, and certain parts of any game file will be broken up. Just think of it in a PC sense.

So by reformatting, your memory card may become more stable. It maybe a good idea, especially if you have only one memory card, and even an older memory card, and you've been doing alot of saving, copying, or deleting of files. And it's also a good reason to buy another memory card, so you can copy all your files onto it and then do the reformat process with the other memory card. Too bad you can't defragment your memory card.
 
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