Console games that crash
Anyone here ever play any console games that would frequently crash/lock up the system? Burning Rangers would freeze all the time after a while. Doom on Jag could be made to crash if you wanted. Headhunter on DC would either completely crash or it would erase/corrupt my save game files. I'm not 100% sure if it was just the game or because I was using a Code Breaker but it didn't do that on any other DC game. Others?
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my gta3 works fine but my friend has the same problem.
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The original Tomb Raider does not work in a PSOne or PS2.
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Doom 32X locks at random points during the game.
I've had probalems with Burning Rangers and Magic Knights Rayearth on the Saturn (skipping and locking up), and Knuckles Chaotix on the 32X locking up or just not starting.
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Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage for N64 BSOD'ed on me all the time...first time I've ever seen a console game actually get the blue screen of death.
And yet I finished it.
Way of the Warrior on the 3DO has a nasty habit of freezing in the middle of battles. It's especially annoying since the on/off switch on my system is broken and almost impossible to push down... you have to unplug the damn thing or turn off the power strip to get it going again.
Also: as everyone else pointed out, nothing on the 32X is reliable. You don't just get crashes and freezes from games on this system, but discolored graphics as well. There's nothing quite like a Virtua Fighter battle set against a pale green sky and ocean...
JR
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I could not get a Sonic Adventure to work on my DC. Only when I got the Sonic Adventure LE would it work. I tried about 8 different discs as well.
I've had many games lock up due to physical reasons (old rusty pins, bump the console, scratched CD,etc) but I've NEVER played a console game that would lock up due to shitty programming (tho I have heard bad things about Doom on the 32X).
However I HAVE had the WEIRDEST thing happen to me, and I made it happen a few times, I think I remember how I used to do it, I'll have to try again soon...
Anyone who's beaten X-Men on the Genesis knows about that FUCKED up puzzle where you have to actually RESET the console to finish the level. When you hit reset you get a screen full of green 1's and 0's and then the "Danger Room Computer Reset Screen"
Well in Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade's Revenge on the Genesis, when you play Cyclops' level and reach the second sentinel, reset the game. You'll get a screen full of 1's and 0's JUST like on X-Men only they're bright blue, almost cyan. And that's it, you have to turn it off and back on again to make it restart.
The latter is by Flying Edge, so I can't even consider it to being an easter egg that relates to an earlier X-Men game becuase X-Men was by Sega...
Alex Kidd
Once again, the point may be hazy, I was just indicating a "freeze up" that I know of.
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I don't know if it was unique to my copy or not, but the original release of Battlesphere would crash my Jag a lot (tried on 3 different consoles). This was the reason why I sold it, figuring it was just a programing bug that I wanted no part of.
Hey Alex Kidd--
Tell me more about X-Men on Genesis...My friend and I have been trying for bloody YEARS to figure how to turn off the bloody computer after you beat Mojo. Recently I saw a walkthrough that said to reset the Genesis. Is that right after you beat Mojo????!!!! When do you do that in relation to fighting Mojo???
I can't believe that!!!Why the hell would they program the game that way?!?! How the bloody hell are you supposed to know to do that?!?!
Anyway, now that I've gotten that out, thanks.
No, it wasn't unique to your copy. I read that the game would crash at around level 91. That part of why they released BS Gold, to include fixes.Originally Posted by Goblin
(whew) ranting about Genny X-Men takes a lot out of me...
In relation to this thread, I recently got BIONIC COMMANDO ELITE FORCES for Game Boy Color. As I've said on another thread, It will NOT work on GBA!!!
Try to enter level three, it freezes. It then froze on GBC!!!
It's a common problem--there is a review on Amazon.com that points it out.
Nintendo will repair it for free. I wonder how they can repair it...you have to send the cart AND your GBC. Oh well, we'll see what happens. I'll keep y'all posted.
1. Beat Mojo, continue onHey Alex Kidd--
Tell me more about X-Men on Genesis...My friend and I have been trying for bloody YEARS to figure how to turn off the bloody computer after you beat Mojo. Recently I saw a walkthrough that said to reset the Genesis. Is that right after you beat Mojo????!!!! When do you do that in relation to fighting Mojo???
I can't believe that!!!
Anyway, now that I've gotten that out, thanks.
2. Get to the end with the fading compyter terminal and 3,2,1, coutning down on monitors like old film reels
3. Destroy the fading computer, the 3,2,1's chould turn into Prof X's face
4. Hit reset
However, it's just as well you warp to the last level with the level select trick cause even if you get to the end of Mojo's Crunch with only one x-man and an inch of life left, you start the last level with all 4 x-men and they all have full health/mutant power.
So it's not like you have to try to conserve anything for the last level.
Alex Kidd
EDIT
I was stuck there myself for SOOO long, untill one issue of GamePlayers pointed out that fact... I even used to love the game so much, I'd get to the end and reset and play all over again (still do) and of ALL the time I reset I must have ALWAYS done it BEFORE smashing the fading computer cause I never got to the last level. What luck 'eh?
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Thanks!
Do you know the X-Men level select trick by chance?
I have had problems with these games crashing
serious sam for the xbox
NHL 2001 for the ps2 when 2 people are playing
ready to rumble and bang gun ship elite for the dreamcast
never had a cart based system ever give me any trouble though.
Donkey Kong 64. All. The. Fucking. Time.
Conform. Consume. Obey.
Final Fantasy VII would freeze 3/5 times on my old Refurbished PSX. Usually only during the FMV on the first disc. Then end scene when the port city blew up (IIRC) and during another one, but I can't remember which.
Well, Ikari Warriors for the NES had that crappy habit of freezing your character at a certain point late in the game. It wouldn't really freeze or lock up, but you just couldn't move. That pissed me off.
Morrowind for the XBOX is the only game I have that has crashed more than ones. Sometimes the image would just freeze and other times it would stop stating the disc is dirty and then restart. While the disc is perfectly clean.
Oh thats real easy
Ghost recon- PS2, Game Cube
Yeah, that one crashed nearly as much as Aidyn Chronicles did for me too. Never got the BSOD with Morrowind though...just the errors you described.
It can only be done in one player mode
At the title screen hold DOWN (yes the D-PAD DOWN) + A + C
While holding these 3 buttons press and HOLD START
Now keep holding all 4 buttons untill the difficulty select
then relase them all (doesn't have to be simultaneously)
Choose any difficulty and any x-man
When you appear in the danger room, walk to the right
You will see 8 things that look like old computer chips (like chips in Chip's Challenge)
Each one represents one of the levels
Stand in front of the level you want and press DOWN + C
The next two tricks work in both modes:
When using Gambit, as you jump into the Danger Room system to start the level, hold A as the screen fades to black, you'll skip the level, but this only works as you enter the Savage Land, The Shi-Ar Empire, and the Exaclibur Lighthouse, but not the area outside, you'll have to go thru that, but when you ENTER the light house, hold A to skip it.
Or if you don't like Gambit that much and have a game genie use THIS code
PZ1A-DAXO
and any time you press A you'll skip the current level
Alex Kidd
And yes, I've played the hell out of X-Men, I LOVE that game.
Tell me, do you cross the falls in the Savage Land the hard way or the easy way?
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The worst for me was the SNES version of Might and Magic 3. The game would constantly lock up. There was even an interesting glitch associated with this that would sometimes grant millions of gold to your party. After one lockup, the game simply stopped working for me. It would always freeze up when attempting to load a game or even create a new game rendering it unplayable. I ended up returning the copy to the store where I bought it for another one but of course the same things continued to happen and I just gave up on it.
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