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Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: juslight on September 04, 2001, 07:07:31 AM: I had just finished an endurance race in Gran Tourismo 3 and the Formula 1 car was shown as the prize car, when "CRACK" lightning struck and the power went out!!!!!

I wanted to club a baby seal I was so pissed.

This has also happened to me while playing Resident Evil: CV

What games have you played and what natural disasters caused them to come to an abrupt hault?
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Titan on September 04, 2001, 10:23:49 AM: It happened to me a few times and I was so pissed off :rpissed:. I was playing Snood on my computer, beating a high score when zap, no power. I yelled out literally "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". It happened when I was playing a game and kicking @$$ when out goes the power and everything is lost.
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Post by: Tetrad on September 04, 2001, 11:42:44 AM: Last time it happened to me was when i was just getting the last piece of equipment before becoming a dragon master in lunar.
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Bozco on September 04, 2001, 12:04:41 PM: My most memorable one was once when the power went out when I had played 3 hours worth of FF7 without saving, luckily I restrained myself and didnt crack the game over my knee
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Falcon4 on September 04, 2001, 12:07:33 PM: funny how it always happens when you are at a critical part of a game???

never happened to me though, but my brother turned ti off once, and i beat him down...
Title: Perhaps a battery backup....
Post by: Whizard97 on September 04, 2001, 12:28:04 PM: You know you CAN buy a battery backup like they use with PCs just to power your PS2 and TV (NOTHING ELSE!) or just your PS2...

That\'ll certainly give you time to save before the battery runs down.
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: markc111 on September 04, 2001, 12:57:51 PM: Quote
I was playing Snood on my computer, beating a high score when zap, no power

Snood is one of the most addictive games I\'ve ever played. I love Snood:D
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Tetrad on September 04, 2001, 02:07:01 PM: you play snood too i thought i was the only one
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Titan on September 04, 2001, 02:17:43 PM: I stopped playing Snood when my brother hogged all the glory. He wouldn\'t let me have a damn high score.
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Living-In-Clip on September 04, 2001, 03:02:48 PM: It has happened to me more times than I wish to remember...:(
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Stupid Mop on September 04, 2001, 03:06:06 PM: It happend to me while I was saving GT2. The rest of my memory card was ok but my GT2 data was corrupted. I lost my 97% completion and about 50 cars :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Ghettomath on September 04, 2001, 03:18:32 PM: I never had the power go out on me but i did have my mom pull the Secret of Mana cartridge out of my SNES when I was about 12 when I stopped doing chores. Never beat that Mana Beast...
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: OneGig on September 04, 2001, 06:43:57 PM: I haven\'t had any blackouts while playing a game, but these have happened:
1. I once accidentally pulled Super Smash Bros. out of my N64 without turning it off first. (No data loss.)
2. Power surges keep erasing the 4th file in my Paper Mario cartridge. (That file belongs to one of my friend\'s friends, who doesn\'t really play Paper Mario anymore.)
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: SonyFan on September 07, 2001, 11:42:25 AM: Yup, and at one of the worst possible times in one of the worst games to have a blackout on. I had lost a Parasite Wear: Del Rol that a friend let me dupe on PSO after my computer crashed and somehow managed to fry my character Tesla. (Damm you Bill Gates!!! HOW? I thought I was safe from your meddling on the DC!) So anyhow, I\'m leveling up my RAmar SludgeVohaul in the forest and come across an extreemely rare Rag Rappy. I kill it and low an behold.. he dropped a PW: Del Rol! 4 slots too. Unbelieveable. So as I progress to F2 I notice it\'s starts storming outside. No biggie, I\'d just turn off after I killed the Dragon Boss.

Now PSO is very touchy in that if you don\'t quit & save before your DC shuts off.. then you loose all the items you\'re carrying except for what\'s equiped along with any levels and stats you\'ve gained in that play session. Well before I knew it a thunderbolt struck closeby and knocked all the power out here for about 10 mins.

The brightside is, this was while my PC was down I bought a VGA adaptor and moved the DC in so I had it plugged into the powerbar my puter is normally plugged into. That powerbar in turn is plugged into a 4 hour battery backup. So the screen just flickered a bit and I kept on playing. Well, I deposited the PW in the bank and then quit. Figured I\'d already dodged the bullet once, better not push my luck. :)
Title: Re: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on September 09, 2001, 09:03:08 AM: Quote
Originally posted by juslight
I had just finished an endurance race in Gran Tourismo 3 and the Formula 1 car was shown as the prize car, when "CRACK" lightning struck and the power went out!!!!!

I feel your pain, I had the same thing with GT2, again on the last lap of my winning endurance race:eek: :mad: I had been playing for about 5 hours straight. Unfortunatly I hadm\'t saved at all, all my lil precious cars gone
:(
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Titan on September 09, 2001, 05:41:35 PM: That\'s one reason you keep saving in a lightning storm. The power is bound to go out. That really sucks though.
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Post by: shoe on September 26, 2001, 04:22:07 PM: i had went about 10 hors in zelda oot and the snow storm caused it to go out.i broke that dtv remote
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: Fei on September 26, 2001, 05:37:02 PM: Snood is God. Forget PC gaming, just play Snood. Viva la revolution!

Anyway, I\'ve only had one power outage. When I was playing Lunar: Silver Star Story about was about to finish off Ghaleon, it went. Now, that is bothersome on its own, but what really pissed me off was the fact that I had just died previously after I killed Ghaleon and forgot to use Alex\'s Ocarina. I ended up having to kill Ghaleon three times just to see the ending. :\\
Title: Ever had a power failure during a game?
Post by: SER on September 26, 2001, 10:46:55 PM: It happened when I was playing Super Mario Bro 2. I turned it on and it turned back off. That\'s all I remember.