Author Topic: Playthrough Request (Read 8938 times)

insydr · « **on:** 2004-07-19 08:33:30 »

Long time reader, first time poster.

Well, I've been hit with the infamous crashes at Cosmo Canyon and the Gold Saucer gondola. I tried patches up the yin-yang with no results, so I finally gave up at Cosmo and downloaded the Eidos saved games. Of course, it was a pain in the @ss to Jenova and ff7che the save to look like mine (and having to get Yuffie over again was also annoying), but I got past the crash.

Unfortunately, there's no magical save game file for the gondola crash during the date at the Gold Saucer. I was wondering if anyone here would be kind enough to play my game through that point so I can continue.

The file's here (it's in the second slot, saved at Ropeway Station), and my email address is in my profile.

Thanks in advance!

FLiXD · « **Reply #1 on:** 2004-07-19 09:23:42 »

Done. Check your email. I got the Choco & Cosmo crashes, but for some reason the gondola one and Black Materia ones haven't affected me. Bizarre.

Darkdevil · « **Reply #2 on:** 2004-07-19 10:11:13 »

Remember, EVERYONE gets the chocobo crash, And the unlucky few also get blessed with every other crash god can send at them >_<

insydr · « **Reply #3 on:** 2004-07-19 17:40:02 »

Quote from: FLiXD

Done. Check your email. I got the Choco & Cosmo crashes, but for some reason the gondola one and Black Materia ones haven't affected me. Bizarre.

Thanks FLiXD, much appreciated!

Quote from: Darkdevil

Remember, EVERYONE gets the chocobo crash, And the unlucky few also get blessed with every other crash god can send at them >_<

Seriously... I think playing the PC version on Windows XP is just asking for it huh.

Hopefully I won't have too many more "blessings" to count before I finish this game!

Darkdevil · « **Reply #4 on:** 2004-07-19 19:23:15 »

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Seriously... I think playing the PC version on Windows XP is just asking for it huh. Hopefully I won't have too many more "blessings" to count before I finish this game!

Exactly why I double boot with Win 98...But i want to use Linux too....I wonder if I can tripple boot >_>

insydr · « **Reply #5 on:** 2004-07-19 23:13:20 »

Sheesh well it appears that my freedom was short lived (either that, or I'm going through the game way too fast

). Now it crashes right at the end of disc 1 where it asks you to save the game before you continue to disc 2.

I hit OK and it asks me to select a save slot, but when I hit OK on any slot it just freezes up. Just like the other crashes, the only thing you can do is hit ctrl-Q to exit the game (gee, thanks Eidos). Has anyone ever had this happen? If so, is it possible to avoid this crash by electing not to save at this point?

Er, and for anyone who wants to beat up on Jenova-Life and get me to the start of disc 2, I've got my save game file up again here (should be the Forgotten save in the first slot). Gracias!

Topher · « **Reply #6 on:** 2004-07-20 04:00:11 »

I'm doing it now...

Edit:
Sorry, FF7's decided to not work... *fiddles with stuff*

Edit 2:
Got it working. The save is in the mail.

insydr · « **Reply #7 on:** 2004-07-20 06:18:10 »

Woohoo thanks alot Ramza! Hopefully this doesn't happen again (fat chance on XP huh?).

Topher · « **Reply #8 on:** 2004-07-20 09:16:42 »

As explained (by Cyberman?) in a previous topic, aside from the chocobo glitch, all other crashes and glitches in Final Fantasy VII (PC) are induced by a random quantum event.

I am beginning to doubt this however, I now believe it is caused by the exact universal co-ordinate of the moon in relation to the Andromeda galaxy when you installed Final Fantasy VII.

That, or it was just poorly coded.

Darkdevil · « **Reply #9 on:** 2004-07-20 09:35:41 »

I dont think its poorly coded, as surely these problems will have shown on previous systems....

Messiah99 · « **Reply #10 on:** 2004-07-20 09:49:24 »

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I dont think its poorly coded, as surely these problems will have shown on previous systems....

But if you remember, the Cosmo crash, Black Materia crash, and the crash when you first jump off the train at the beginning, these were all present on older systems, even ones running Windows 95 and 98.

Darkdevil · « **Reply #11 on:** 2004-07-20 10:51:50 »

Were they?? I never knew that....Probably because it never showed in either systems im running.....God im lucky.

Threesixty · « **Reply #12 on:** 2004-07-20 16:31:10 »

Yeah...but they all had workarounds, except for the observatory crash.

The crashes that this guy is having.....look more like a disk problem, than a common crash problem.

And if I remember correctly, the changing disk part is messed up to begin with, in that it asks you to save "after" you switch disks, and not before. It defeats the purpose....if you think about it.

If anything the computer would have hung up during the changing of the disks, not after it reads the new disk. It would have been smarter to save before swapping, not after. I think they fixed that in FF8PC.

insydr · « **Reply #13 on:** 2004-07-20 21:53:35 »

Ah cripes... just when I thought I'd passed all the bad parts, it crashes when they fire the big gun at Weapon during the execution scene in Junon... is this common? I'm beginning to think my computer is cursed.

Well here's the traditional "bail-me-out-please!" link. TIA for a new save or a workaround!

FLiXD · « **Reply #14 on:** 2004-07-20 22:27:10 »

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Ah cripes... just when I thought I'd passed all the bad parts, it crashes when they fire the big gun at Weapon during the execution scene in Junon... is this common? I'm beginning to think my computer is cursed.

on it... sounds like u have a major problem with FMV - have u tried Software Rendering/320x240 or 640x480 Quarter Screen to get through these? Seems ridiculous to have to get someone else to play through any part of the game where there's a video...
You could also try the True Motion codec, it might help

Here... slot 6. You need to head for Mideel in the south-east

insydr · « **Reply #15 on:** 2004-07-20 23:10:44 »

Quote from: FLiXD

on it... sounds like u have a major problem with FMV - have u tried Software Rendering/320x240 or 640x480 Quarter Screen to get through these? Seems ridiculous to have to get someone else to play through any part of the game where there's a video...
You could also try the True Motion codec, it might help

Here... slot 6. You need to head for Mideel in the south-east

Thanks man! Yea it is a little ridiculous... but it still gets through most FMVs just fine. It even got past the Black Materia handoff with no problems. I've been on Software 640 the whole time since I have an ATI Radeon on my laptop, and I tried downsizing to 320 with the same results. Right now I'm running FF7 with all the movies on my HD (using the registry edit of course).

Is the True Motion codec the one that the upsidedown video patch installs? Cause I have that one already.

sfx1999 · « **Reply #16 on:** 2004-07-21 04:48:36 »

It sounds like your disk is damaged.

insydr · « **Reply #17 on:** 2004-07-21 07:48:01 »

Hmm that doesn't sound good... and certainly doesn't bode well for my quest to finish this game.

So far so good tho, I've gotten past all the Huge Materia stuff with no crashes.