PS2 demo disc wipes save data

Losing save game data is one of the worst fates that can befall a PlayStation 2 owner. We felt bad enough when our Burnout 2, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia and Final Fantasy X saves were nuked by our curiosity in the seemingly cursed wares of Wipeout Fusion; we can only imagine what it\'s like for people whose gaming lives are reliant on a single slab of rewritable flash and not spread over several like ours. Except, in fact, checking around some US forums over the weekend, we did more than just imagine it; we witnessed the fallout first-hand.

See, Sony America has made a boo-boo. According to numerous reports from the States - since confirmed by Sony in a statement issued to registered PlayStation Underground types - a Viewtiful Joe 2 demo on the platform holder\'s latest PlayStation Underground holiday demo disc has the unfortunate side effect of wiping any save data on any memory card.

"It has just been brought to our attention that there is a glitch in [the Viewtiful Joe 2 demo] which will erase all of your saved files from your Memory Card(s). If you have not yet played the Viewtiful Joe 2 demo, please remove your Memory Card(s) from your PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system before you load the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc," the company said. "Sony Computer Entertainment America would like to express our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you."

Thankfully most of us won\'t have to worry about the problem, but we felt it was prudent to let our various American readers know just in case they haven\'t heard about it. But remember, Euro-folks, when it comes to demo discs you generally can\'t save the game anyway, so removing the card beforehand is almost certainly a good idea. Tread carefully.

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any victims here?

[Titan]

Damn. That really sucks. Glad I dont\' get demo disks

I got my disc over the weekend, but luckily had heard of this "Bug".

I checked out the disc, minus my memory card

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

I Just got the demo disc too..... i was gonna look at it last night too. Thank god i didn\'t.

[Kurt Angle]

Note even the ps2 is safe from viruses! :sconf:

[Cerberus]

I don\'t get demo discs, the only one I ever got, was one that came with the machine.

[Evi]

I got this warning in my e-mail a week ago. I\'m glad I got the notice before I put in the disc. That\'s why back-ups are nice

They really funked up on this one. I\'m never playing another demo disc again with my memory card inside. That\'d be funny if those discs that put game cheat codes on your card put the information on there and deleted everything else That\'d suck @ss...

Yeah I dont have that one thankfully. I used to get demo disks all the time from the OPM (US) and The Playstation Underground back in the day (and the beginning of the ps2\'s life).

I was playing the OPM demo disk with Killzone - Im pretty sure nothing has happened with that one.

I would go crazy if i lost all of my memory on my cards.

Originally posted by EviscerationX
I got this warning in my e-mail a week ago. I\'m glad I got the notice before I put in the disc.

A week ago?  So you were just going to keep it to yourself, huh?

...jerk.

[Evi]

I\'m sorry...it wasn\'t on my mind and then someone else posted it and I was like...OH YEAH!! Crap!! *my apologies*

It happened to a guy at our forums, needless to say he was pretty angry.