remiaphasia
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...who would do that?!
Ways to avoid corruption
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...who would do that?!
lauraplays1
Marukaite Chikyuu
but dont worry, it isnt THAT common. it happens about 10% of the time.
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i cant even performe a dupe properly and i dont know if resetting countless times will corrupt your data but heyyy..
Wholockian
Midochlorians are the power house of the force
Well, for me once my dog knocked me and because my hands were in a weird position it knocked the game out. I almost lost my town, but luckily I just got the saving complete thing come up
When I read the opening post I thought there is going to be a lot of angry denial about this - particularly about duping and resetting.
Data corruption happens when the game is saving - but can it happen at other times?
Duping - never done, but I take it that the wifi switch is flipped at a certain point in the save process, which to my mind must carry some risk.
Resetting - I have done to get the Resetti centre (so the game means you to reset at least once) and it can happen cos of power failure. Normally it does not happen at the same time the game is saving - so in my mind it does not carry so much of a risk.
I would reset if say I sold a gold tool by mistake (haven't done it yet!) or destroyed a rare hybrid.
But I wouldn't do too often or regularly - the reason is I read in the 3ds manual that continual resetting can cause problems - can't remember if it actually said data corruption and I can't now find the sentence in the manual (which is pretty long - nor can I remember whether it was the original 3ds manual or a later 3dsXL one (I'm in the UK so that also may be a factor).
Sorry, but the sentence surprised me when I read it, hence it stuck in my mind and has made me somewhat wary of resetting.
The BigJC77777 did post a fair amount about the game crashing when it first came out (Japanese version) and this was mainly sorted with the US & Europe/Aus releases.
And I think he also talked about data corruption (sorry this is all from memory, he posted here & on AXA forums) One of his solutions was to keep saving to a min - saving being the most common point for corruption.
This is very hard and one I've not been able to get round - the game does save at a lot of places, to my mind a lot of them unneccesary - when you visit HHA, when you go to save letters at the post office, when you visit Tortimer Island, have wifi visitors.
The game should be and does seem to be fairly robust and able to weather most of this, the player has to decide what level of risk there is.
Folders - do you mean putting the game within a folder on the 3ds? Something I've not thought of doing. Do you mean the cart, the digital version or both.
I have physical versions of the game and I tend to leave the cart in the console most of the time - just to save wear and tear/dust as presumably over a few years that could increase the risk of the game no longer working.
Data corruption happens when the game is saving - but can it happen at other times?
Duping - never done, but I take it that the wifi switch is flipped at a certain point in the save process, which to my mind must carry some risk.
Resetting - I have done to get the Resetti centre (so the game means you to reset at least once) and it can happen cos of power failure. Normally it does not happen at the same time the game is saving - so in my mind it does not carry so much of a risk.
I would reset if say I sold a gold tool by mistake (haven't done it yet!) or destroyed a rare hybrid.
But I wouldn't do too often or regularly - the reason is I read in the 3ds manual that continual resetting can cause problems - can't remember if it actually said data corruption and I can't now find the sentence in the manual (which is pretty long - nor can I remember whether it was the original 3ds manual or a later 3dsXL one (I'm in the UK so that also may be a factor).
Sorry, but the sentence surprised me when I read it, hence it stuck in my mind and has made me somewhat wary of resetting.
The BigJC77777 did post a fair amount about the game crashing when it first came out (Japanese version) and this was mainly sorted with the US & Europe/Aus releases.
And I think he also talked about data corruption (sorry this is all from memory, he posted here & on AXA forums) One of his solutions was to keep saving to a min - saving being the most common point for corruption.
This is very hard and one I've not been able to get round - the game does save at a lot of places, to my mind a lot of them unneccesary - when you visit HHA, when you go to save letters at the post office, when you visit Tortimer Island, have wifi visitors.
The game should be and does seem to be fairly robust and able to weather most of this, the player has to decide what level of risk there is.
Folders - do you mean putting the game within a folder on the 3ds? Something I've not thought of doing. Do you mean the cart, the digital version or both.
I have physical versions of the game and I tend to leave the cart in the console most of the time - just to save wear and tear/dust as presumably over a few years that could increase the risk of the game no longer working.
Wholockian
Midochlorians are the power house of the force
Some people load all their files onto the Sd card to dupe/hack/whatever. Certain factors need to be changed in folders, but if done incorrectly, however, it can lead to corruption or gameplay being messed up.
Many people, from what I've heard, still find a way to do this, digital or physical. The only evidence I've seen of this though is pokemon.
Also, sometimes nintendo like to... Take revenge? on those who exploit the game through files. An example being bad egg (another pokemon thing... but just giving an example), which basically deletes all your pokemon over time. (yay!) Maybe there's something implemented for ACNL doing the same sort of thing.
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I love you. Marry me pls
But not if you don't ship John x Sherlock and Merlin x Arthur
The 'bad egg' thing didn't happen in X/Y, to my knowledge. (The one person who got it wasn't because he hacked, but because of a glitch, I believe.)
If I recall correctly, someone deleted a file on their 3ds which caused the entire system to stop working. (I'm pretty sure the folder was empty.)
Wholockian
Midochlorians are the power house of the force
Who doesn't ship them?
And that must suck... Then again, what good could have came from deleting a file?
The221Believer
Baker's Only Detective
Oh my goodness, fellow Johnlock shippers. Hi dere. xD
Ahh, the X/Y Bad Egg rumours at least scared me off Wonder Trade for like a week? Then I did more research and found the truth of the matter. Just goes to show: always do your research.
Ahh, the X/Y Bad Egg rumours at least scared me off Wonder Trade for like a week? Then I did more research and found the truth of the matter. Just goes to show: always do your research.
Pearls
Island representative of Oakwood
I used to dupe ALL THE TIME with my friend before I recreated my town and it never corrupted. The most that happened is that it seemed to disconnect a tiny bit more. I haven't duped much in my new town. Mostly because I didn't get in contact with my friend and people stopped coming to my town :c. By the way I never sold and duped items! It was mostly money to get the badge/pay off my rent!
I agree with 1 and 3, but so many people do 2 and 4 (more so 4) and I've never once read or heard anywhere of either corrupting anyone's game.
From what I've seen posted on this forum digital games tend to corrupt more than physical cartridges, and I've seen a few threads saying physical cartridge games corrupted after accidentally popping out the machine.
TheGreatBrain
Senior Member
Exactly.
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