18-09-2005, 12:38 AM
Personally I believe that accepting an illegit wep with identical percents cancels out FSOD loss and becomes "your" legit weapon. I have done this once or twice. The difficulty is, most commonly passed-around weapons have 90%s or 100%s in several places, including hit. You can't really accept those to cover FSOD loss because you get a huge advantage by doing so.
About that BSOD thing: that method also covers disc read errors. A couple weeks ago I got two disc read errors in the same day (perhaps from a lot of piping that week, but I haven't piped anything since and no more after that)... the first was in game and happened while trying to load a character. I stupidly turned off the cube and got the FSOD effect. The second time was just entering a lobby once, it tried to load my character and BSODed. I opened the disc cover, wiped the disc off, popped it back in, and the screen came back on with a frozen lobby and a DC message. From that point you can soft reset (X-B-Start) and save your data, then restart instead of losing anything to the FSOD effect.
Maybe that's been covered here, but I missed it.
About that BSOD thing: that method also covers disc read errors. A couple weeks ago I got two disc read errors in the same day (perhaps from a lot of piping that week, but I haven't piped anything since and no more after that)... the first was in game and happened while trying to load a character. I stupidly turned off the cube and got the FSOD effect. The second time was just entering a lobby once, it tried to load my character and BSODed. I opened the disc cover, wiped the disc off, popped it back in, and the screen came back on with a frozen lobby and a DC message. From that point you can soft reset (X-B-Start) and save your data, then restart instead of losing anything to the FSOD effect.
Maybe that's been covered here, but I missed it.
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