So I have an xbox 360.
I also have a copy of Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise.
I also have a removable memory unit, which I made the mistake of making save data on.
When I made a garden, In the aforemantioned game, and saved it on the aforementioned memory unit. Unfortunately, the game is sort of buggy (not a huge shocker: in the first the first game, I had INVISIBLE CAT CREATURES which I found endlessly amusing).
Most recently, when when I tried to fire one of my migrant Security Guards (yes, you can hire those in this game, for the 99.97% of people that do not play this game) he decided (for some reason) to hang around, and was basically taking up space. I could not select him to pay and/or fire him, So I decided to ignore him. At some point he just because a DECORATION.
I dug a pond around him and planted flowers, thinking (at the time) that it would be extremely funny when I invited people to the garden for multiplayer sessions.
Eventually I realised that I had things I needed to achieve, and having random fixtures (i.e, dudes) in the garden was keeping me from actually getting anything done. In fact, he actually kept me from romancing pinatas a few times. (This is a bad thing.)
I have three different garden saves (which chronicle all of the money I have made, and pinatas I have collected) on the hard drive, so I got a bright idea that deleting the save data on the memory unit and starting a new game in the same place would fix my problem.
I logged out of the game and went to the 'system' tab and deleted the data on my memory unit (VERY clever, I thought). Unfortunately after I deleted the save data, the VP:TIP save data was no longer accessible in the main menu. I went out of the game, into the dashboard and decided to check that the data on the hard drive hadn't mysteriously dissappeared.
As I expected, there was nothing on the memory unit, but the same three saves were still on the hard drive. Calling shennannigans and spouting curse words, I rebooted the 360 in hopes that it would understand the error of its ways.
It didn't.
At this point I was very nearly in tears. (And just admitting that makes me feel like a retard, but please read on.)
Losing save data on 360s is sort of a running theme with me- it happened once when my first hard drive died (losing me 120+ hours of gameplay on Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and several hours (lots more 120,) on the first Viva Pinata. It happened again when I moved in with my boyfriend, and tried to free up some space on my hard drive. Similar amounts of data were lost. (which now that I think of it was probably a whole lot more.)
After a call to Microsoft Xbox support (I made Dave call because I was too frustrated to form actual sentences,) it became blatantly obvious that I was never going to get my save data back, even though it is still there. Taunting me.
I cannot believe I keep putting up with this abuse.
I must be a masochist.
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So when I finally break down and buy a next generation console, you're recommending I not buy the 360?
I'm not saying that at all. To be completely truthful, I have all three of the current gen consoles, and I get the most use out of my 360.
Just don't delete any save data that you /really/ want intact.
what ees dess dat you call? a blog?
when this popped up in my rss reader, i thought, "things and some other things? yeah right! what kind of crap is this?" turns out it's a blog.
my 10bo10 tree siggidy gave me red ring once. since then, it's been dedicated and loyal.
Thank you Ken its fixed now. I was drunk and sad when I made that post. Go figure.
And frustrated by tech support Hell, no doubt.
But you avoided my question: what did you think of PAX?
It was great. I played a lot of rock band.
I hung out with cool people.
I had a good time overall, and plan to go back next year.
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