12-12-2003, 02:14 PM
FSOD - Frozen screen of death. A 'bog standard' event in online PSO 
. You lose all of your unequipped items. Weapons, armour, mags, items everything that you do not have unequipped.
FSOD X/BSOD - Corruption. It's a FSOD during the save process. This is the worst thing that can happen to you. You will lose EVERYTHING. Your chars, your lvls, and your guild cards. There have been theories of escaping. There is no way to predict it and no way to really stop it from happening. Although this method of corruption seems a lot less likely now the double save feature has been removed from Ep 1&2.
You can also get corrupted if there is a power surge/shortage during the save process offline
To escape damage from FSOD, people again have come up with various mathods. The one that has worked for me twice, is to start an offline multiplayer game. You should start the game with all your items intact. Run along to the bank and deposit everything. It should save with everything in your bank. Then start an offline single player game and check. Save again and then you should not see the "Game not shut down properly. All items deleted" message on character select screen.
To minimise damage from FSOD, just put all your valuable items in the bank before you leave a game. Everything equipped is fine, just look at your unequipped items. You needn't bother putting in fluids and mates because they are easily recoverable.
To avoid FSOD all together is impossible. It just seems to happen. Many people say stay away from busy lobbies, have no dupes etc. I've done all there is and still got FSOD so just be careful and deposit your items before you go to the lobby.
EDIT: 24/11/2004
Posted by Sesshomaru:
When someone's PSO file on the memory card becomes corrupted (ie. when the power gets shut off during a save) the way to keep your characters and all of your items is to first bring up the memory card screen (holding 'A' at the GameCube screen). Then go to the "GUILDCARD" File and delete that instead of the character file. Then just start PSO and load up your character and it will give you a new GuildCard file.
This allows you to keep your characters and items without having to re-create them and level up again.
I've only been able to verify this method with a GameCube. And it 'does' work, I've had my file corrupted quite a few times bc of power failure in my home, which ironically enough happens to be when I'm saving a game. But this method has worked each time that it happened.
Hope it helps!
. You lose all of your unequipped items. Weapons, armour, mags, items everything that you do not have unequipped.FSOD X/BSOD - Corruption. It's a FSOD during the save process. This is the worst thing that can happen to you. You will lose EVERYTHING. Your chars, your lvls, and your guild cards. There have been theories of escaping. There is no way to predict it and no way to really stop it from happening. Although this method of corruption seems a lot less likely now the double save feature has been removed from Ep 1&2.
You can also get corrupted if there is a power surge/shortage during the save process offline
To escape damage from FSOD, people again have come up with various mathods. The one that has worked for me twice, is to start an offline multiplayer game. You should start the game with all your items intact. Run along to the bank and deposit everything. It should save with everything in your bank. Then start an offline single player game and check. Save again and then you should not see the "Game not shut down properly. All items deleted" message on character select screen.
To minimise damage from FSOD, just put all your valuable items in the bank before you leave a game. Everything equipped is fine, just look at your unequipped items. You needn't bother putting in fluids and mates because they are easily recoverable.
To avoid FSOD all together is impossible. It just seems to happen. Many people say stay away from busy lobbies, have no dupes etc. I've done all there is and still got FSOD so just be careful and deposit your items before you go to the lobby.
EDIT: 24/11/2004
Posted by Sesshomaru:
When someone's PSO file on the memory card becomes corrupted (ie. when the power gets shut off during a save) the way to keep your characters and all of your items is to first bring up the memory card screen (holding 'A' at the GameCube screen). Then go to the "GUILDCARD" File and delete that instead of the character file. Then just start PSO and load up your character and it will give you a new GuildCard file.
This allows you to keep your characters and items without having to re-create them and level up again.
I've only been able to verify this method with a GameCube. And it 'does' work, I've had my file corrupted quite a few times bc of power failure in my home, which ironically enough happens to be when I'm saving a game. But this method has worked each time that it happened.
Hope it helps!
