Biggest Gaming Blunder

[NeoZeedeater]

I thought the whole "generations" thing in PS3 was a neat idea. It's too bad that the various endings didn't vary much at all.

[gamevet]

Ampersand,

Have you tried replacing the battery, in your Saturn?

[bahn]

Originally posted by Apokryphos
...(edit: changed title - oh well, I guess we can't all appreciate vernacular comedy)

Booo. you changed it the title...???

Bah.

[The Ampersand]

Heh, that wasn't the problem.

Here's the story:

I bought my PAR to play Silvergun, and the day I got it, I popped it in. . . to see it not work.

I first thought that it was not making contact, so I made a little modification to the plastic case, and after I plugged it back in, it worked great. For about 5 months. One day, I had problems getting the PAR work, as sometimes it would just go straight to the Saturn CD player, or I'd get to the PAR title screen and it would freeze with glitches.

I ended up reinserting the PAR about 10 times before I finally was able to access the memory manager. This was when I found out that all my saves on the Saturn's memory were gone. I first thought that the battery died, but I tested it by quickly saving a game of Dragon Force. And it worked. So I'm not totally sure if it was the PAR's or the Saturn's fault. I don't want to go through that again so I haven't really played or bought any new games for my Saturn since then, which was a while ago.

I'm going to work on my N64 collection (I only have 3 games for it. . . ) and then finally switch back to work on my Saturn collection. It's just that I've made a lot of poor choices with it so I'm not very interested in going back right now.

[Johnny Undaunted]

Originally posted by Regus
A few years ago, I heard the legends about people actually playing through all 500 levels of Rampage for the NES in a single sitting. So me and a friend tried to recreate this ourselves.



Well, 150 boring levels later, my friend was sitting on the floor, along with the NES. He descide to stretch out his legs and accidentally taps the edge of the NES.

The game froze, of course.


Several explatives later he rips out the game and tosses it across his room.



We've never played the game since.

What kind of idiot plays a boring game like Rampage 500 times in a row? Let alone, 150?

[OmegaFlareX]

I can think of a few...

1) I used to work at a FuncoLand, and I would generally have a ton of shit in the "hold drawer" for myself. It usually got out of control before I finally bought some of it, and since this one time I was a bit strapped for cash, I traded in almost all of my Game Boy games to get some store credit. I got a shitload of store credit, but I lost a bunch of really cool games (R-Type, Catrap, Castlevania: Belmont's Revenge, Mega Man, etc.).

2) Sold my Atari 7800 w/ all my 2600/7800 games at a yard sale for $20 when I was in 5th grade. I want them back, dammit.

3) Buying Everquest. >_<

[Rumpy]

Lets see-
Rented Rampage for N64 and played through the entire game in one day with 3 others. By the end we were ready to kill each other. And the end...it was like a shit static rendering of the monsters and "Congratulations!". Grr.

Selling my NES and entire game collection for like $35 total at a garage sale years ago. I sold away classics for like $3 each...total dumb ass move.

Buying an interact mem card for N64. Onof those 4x ones. Piece of crap deleted everything about 4 times before I never used it again.

[rezo]

By the end we were ready to kill each other. And the end...it was like a shit static rendering of the monsters and "Congratulations!". Grr.

heh, reminds me of when I beat the japanese copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2, which took entirely too long, probably because I had no idea what I was doing for the most part. Anyways, it finally ends, and I see a picture of my general smiling with some Kanji under it. I translated it and it said "Congratulations! You are big country winner!" or something like that. x_X

[gamevet]

Originally posted by The Ampersand
Heh, that wasn't the problem.

Here's the story:

I bought my PAR to play Silvergun, and the day I got it, I popped it in. . . to see it not work.

I first thought that it was not making contact, so I made a little modification to the plastic case, and after I plugged it back in, it worked great. For about 5 months. One day, I had problems getting the PAR work, as sometimes it would just go straight to the Saturn CD player, or I'd get to the PAR title screen and it would freeze with glitches.

I ended up reinserting the PAR about 10 times before I finally was able to access the memory manager. This was when I found out that all my saves on the Saturn's memory were gone. I first thought that the battery died, but I tested it by quickly saving a game of Dragon Force. And it worked. So I'm not totally sure if it was the PAR's or the Saturn's fault. I don't want to go through that again so I haven't really played or bought any new games for my Saturn since then, which was a while ago.

I've heard rumours of the ST Key, pushing back the pins in the cartridge slot. I'm not sure if the Pro Action has the same problem, but my Pro Universal Adapter caused problems like this, thus making it hard for my Saturn, to notice the memory carts. I have'nt had the same problem, with my 4 in 1 plus as it slides into the cartridge slot, as easily as the Sega one does. As far as the internal memory goes. You can have a dead battery in the system, and I think it will hold game memory, if you leave the unit plugged into an outlet.

Try using a cartridge/system cleaning kit, like those used for the Genesis, and SNES. You can clean the Saturn's cartridge port, which is probably one of the reasons, the Pro Action Cart is flaking out.

[Shooting Love]

Biggest blunders:

Selling my extensive Atari5200 collection to get money for my $189 AlteredBeast Genesis.

Selling most all of my Genesis games to pay for my $299 frontloader SegaCD.

edit:
Oh, and buying Sword of Sodan because the screen shots on the flip-card at ToysRUs looked so cool -worst game ever.
-shoulda got BoxyBoy instead...