What's Wrong??

[Kiweki]

Hello everyone!

I am trying to connect with Ep.3, and at the point when a little window should pop up with the ship select, it does nothing. I just see the ladies at the counter.

Is this the dreaded FSOD. Pretty sad, I got my HL today, and I already have probs. Oh yeah, where do all the Ragol.co.uk people hang?

Thanks!

[Kiweki]

Ooops, just noticed the Help!!! Forum. Guess this topic is more suited to that. If any moderators want to move it, be my guest!

[Ria]

FSOD is when the whole screen goes black. Check to see you are on 60hz. If this error occurs never switch your console off (I found out the hard way) just take your cable out of the console (which goes to your phoneline).

If this keeps occuring, I'll let someone else answer ^_^;

[Gotien]

Yeah, what she said:S

[Lee-yoshi]

FSOD i'd class as when the screen actually freezes and it makes that annoying tone constantly. Normally happenin when you change ships or enter lobbies, etc. Its at that time theres nothing you can do except reset! What happens then is you lose everything you've done in that one time you played, and maybe lose all unequipped items on you aswell. A black screen id say was a general disc reading error.

What your saying here Kiweki i can't quite understand. Are you refering to the time when you first connect and the Hunters license screen has appeared, because i dont know anything about Episode II but theres no people at counters r there? In which case id say u were just generally changing ships at a Counter. If nothing happens then it's most likely a connection problem, or you're being disconnected by your ISP for no reason (Normally happens with Dial-Up if you've got it like me!). When you're being slowly disconnected, the game tries to load while you have no connection and the gamecube can't process everyone at the sametime! So it just stays at the same screen time and time again retrying to send data streams to load the next scenario up.

Basically what i'm saying is you should disconnect yourself because otherwise your in for a never ending wait! You can do this by removing and then re-inserting your phone cable from either the phone socket or the Gamecube modem. Then leave it for a while and eventually the screen saying 'You have been Disconnected - Game Over - Press Start to Continue'. Then you can either go online again and play or just do something else lol. DONT RESET YOUR GAMECUBE you will lose all your unequipped items. its worth it just waiting for a while. It could take a while.

Thats all the help i can give you really! Hope it helps.

[Kiweki]

Well, first of all, I live in the U.S., so I don't think I need to do anything with hz's.

@Lee-Yoshi:

I am using Ep. 3, not 2. But what I am saying is, I go to online mode (I got broadband), and pick my Character, Kiweki. Then I say "Agree", and "Yes" to it's questions. Right after the point where the game says something about connecting to the DNS servers, it stopped. Usually a Ship select screen will pop up. I did reset the game though . I don't think I lost any cards....

But, now it is working fine!

Oooh, I dunno if I can do this, but I am gonna see if my hunters license works with my PSO+, prolly not though. It's worth at try!

[Ria]

Oooh what you described as FSOD Lee happend to me about 2 or 3 times. Funny enough it always happens before I even start playing in a team or quest xD

[Lee-yoshi]

Sorry i cant really help you further without having playing Episode III! But good to hear it's all sorted now!

And yes Ria, it always seems to happen to me too... kinda what i'd say happened last night during the Falz battle, very strange, dont know what happened there! O well.

[Ria]

Yeah you just vanished after we went back. I can;t belive Falz killed me! Sorry about that. But... WE WILL GET HIM BACK BWAHAHA :evil:

[Lee-yoshi]

lol, he killed u! I didnt no that! After i died uneccesaryily falz got stuck continuously attacking you... while you were alive, which is when i knew sumin was wrong so i eventually quit left the game n then came back onine in Alphard06 but u werent there so after a while i left n went to sleep instead! O well... we'll get our revenge! ^_^

Time for topic re-establishment i think!