Console games aren't supposed to lock up.

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
KOTORII for XBOX has tons of glitches, and freezes up commonly in big battles.

I played this for 16 hours straight (i am teh luz0rz) and no lockups, not even with 15-20+ characters on screen.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
KOTORII for XBOX has tons of glitches, and freezes up commonly in big battles.

I played this for 16 hours straight (i am teh luz0rz) and no lockups, not even with 15-20+ characters on screen.

I've never had a total freeze up, but it definitely lags pretty bad, even when navigating through the menu. makes me wonder if the initial game design was for the PC platform, rather than the Xbox.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: Zanix
I don't know what you're talking about... my NES locked up alllll the f'ing time. Then you have to do that ritual blowing on the cart, then jiggling it, jamming another cart in with it, and punching it.

That brings back memories... The jiggling and blowing, yup. The best part is that such simple troubleshooting really fixed the problems.

Ahhh the memories 🙂

:laugh:

I used to use q-tips with rubbing alcohol on the cartridge contact surfaces

 

[flamingelephant]

R U KIDDING? they all lock up.... my old Intellivision, NES SNES SEGA XBOX... the only one that never did was super pong!

 

[Deeko]

My cube has never frozen

 

[Demon-Xanth]

<-- has had his PS2 lock up twice. GC has never locked up.

Screenshot of one of the PS2 lockups:
http://mspencer.net/Demon-Xant...e-crime-porn-of-la.jpg

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: nycxandy
Which game?

Metroid Prime (the first one)

this was actually a big problem i believe, and i remember when it first came out hearing about it. nintendo made a statement saying you could mail them your copy and they will send you a fixed one for no charge.

did you just get this game or is it a used game that was purchased around release date?

 

[StageLeft]

I've had some bugs with PS2 games and Xbox games.

 

[Anubis]

ive seen games on all systems lock up from the NES to todays consoles

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: Zanix
I don't know what you're talking about... my NES locked up alllll the f'ing time. Then you have to do that ritual blowing on the cart, then jiggling it, jamming another cart in with it, and punching it.

That brings back memories... The jiggling and blowing, yup. The best part is that such simple troubleshooting really fixed the problems.

Ahhh the memories 🙂

:laugh:

I used to use q-tips with rubbing alcohol on the cartridge contact surfaces

Winnar!

The reason the NES would freak out is because the contacts were dirty on both the game and in the console.

A quick cleaning would always fix it.

 

[rh71]

I've had lockups on ESPN Baseball and ESPN Hockey for XBOX...

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: Zanix
I don't know what you're talking about... my NES locked up alllll the f'ing time. Then you have to do that ritual blowing on the cart, then jiggling it, jamming another cart in with it, and punching it.

That brings back memories... The jiggling and blowing, yup. The best part is that such simple troubleshooting really fixed the problems.

Ahhh the memories 🙂

:laugh:

I used to use q-tips with rubbing alcohol on the cartridge contact surfaces

Winnar!

The reason the NES would freak out is because the contacts were dirty on both the game and in the console.

A quick cleaning would always fix it.

the shirt blow worked better

 

[Chadder007]

Two things....is the disk clean? The gamecube can be picky about the disks sometimes. Also, you don't have the cube sitting on carpet do you? ...possibly covering any air vents.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: rh71
I've had lockups on ESPN Baseball and ESPN Hockey for XBOX...

Yup, once about every 5-10 games.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
KOTORII for XBOX has tons of glitches, and freezes up commonly in big battles.

I played this for 16 hours straight (i am teh luz0rz) and no lockups, not even with 15-20+ characters on screen.

I've never had a total freeze up, but it definitely lags pretty bad, even when navigating through the menu. makes me wonder if the initial game design was for the PC platform, rather than the Xbox.

haha. so, I get home from work this morning, load up Knights of the Old Republic 2... and 45 minutes into it, the xbox freezes up. lol.

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
Two things....is the disk clean? The gamecube can be picky about the disks sometimes. Also, you don't have the cube sitting on carpet do you? ...possibly covering any air vents.

I don't think there are any air vents underneath; just the expansion ports.

 

[MechJinx]

Here's some insider info. I used to be a test lead at a major game company making Xbox games. I know that M$ tried to crack down on this before I left, so I'm not sure how rampant it is anymore. But, I do know that if developers had a crash that they just couldn't track down close to RTM(release to manufacturing), they would mask the crash with a dirty disc error. So, even though it pops up a dirty disk msg, the disk might be perfectly fine and you have, in fact, found a crash in the game that was spackled to pass certification instead of being fixed.

Testing = Red-Headed Stepchild of game development