MLB 09: The Show Patch Released 4/27/09 - Impressions and Discussion Here

[callmetaternuts]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

I'm going to post an update in about an hour or two

I'll echo everyone else and say thanks and hope its good news.

What is nice, is at least we are getting some communciation. They arent just hiding away ( I dont think). I'd rather have them tell us straight up what is wrong, what can be fixed or what will or will not be fixed than just let us all try to figure it out.

Thanks again Russell























*Disclaimer: I reserve the right to change into an angry consumer if all of our demands are not met

[cardsfan2222]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Chef

My crash happened right away. I read somewhere here on OS previously that when they fixed the schedules it didnt include all the teams in the MLB so now Im wondering if your team wasnt fixed or corrected will you not get these crashes? Maybe they didnt alter the Cardinals schedule at all?

I don't think anything changed with the Cardinals schedule, but if there is a problem with the Dodgers schedule, eventually I will play them. That's when I'm worried I could be affected by the issue, and the Cardinals don't play the Dodgers until July. I would hate to play that far, and then have it crash.

[dave_sz]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrUrsus

Brunnoce, I think patch 1.01 addressed online issues if I remember correctly. Edit: This is all I could find about Patch 1.01 from one of the SCEA guys Russell_SCEA I think: "Re: 1.01 patch..what does this do? This patch was made to fix issues we found before the game shipped. I'll see if I can get a list of what it fixed, but I wouldn't count on it." No list then was ever posted that I could find. There was speculation about the ticker and some people mentioned check swings (may have been placebo effect?) If someone did not download the newest patch (1.06) yet, but have the other patch (1.01), then possibly they could put the Game Data Utility information on a USB drive, zip it, and post it so that you could get patch 1.01 back. It is around 2604 MB. What I usually do on the Xbox 360 is use the xport to save the title updates (patches) on my computer. That way, if I don't like the new patch, I can put the old one back on (of course you can't play online then on the 360). I considered saving that PS3 game data utility information yesterday, but did not, and upgraded to the patch already. Having said that, I haven't had too many problems except my PS3 did reboot a couple of times last night when I was looking at rosters. I shut it down completely, and then did not have the problem again at all. For those people that have already downloaded the patch and are having problems (other than franchise freezes with existing franchises) this is what I would do: Delete your GAME data utility (don't delete SAVE data utility or you will lose your saves like rosters) by selecting it and pressing the triangle, then choose delete. You then can reinstall the patch (if you want it, if not you will go back to the out of the box version, but remember there was another version 1.01 that had some fixes, I think mostly online, you'll have to look back and check) and the game to your HDD when you put the game disc in. I actually did this yesterday, but I did it because I was hoping that is why the patch wasn't "working" (I was trying everything, lol) (CPU lineups, etc.). Maybe that is why I am not seeing some of the problems (crashes, videos not working, EDIT: I haven't actually looked about the replays, so I'm not sure about it yet) some people are reporting . Just a thought, it probably won't make a difference though, but may be worth a shot in the meantime for some.

what are the chances of the 1.01 patch causing the historical stats glitch or even the roster control problem? We all got the patch the first time we fired up the game so we don't know if any of the rosters have the stats glitch or not. We would need one of the roster saves that either knight or ridin made and from the people who have yet to go onto SC. That would be the rosters using the 4/13 rosters.
Or has this been done?

[brunnoce]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

I'm going to post an update in about an hour or two

thanx, appreciated.

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by Art1bk

I hope it's good news

lol...you and me both, Art.

I haven't been this hesistant to start a franchise in a sports game in some time (queue a witty Family Guy clip that is actually completely irrelevant to the point, but funny nonetheless)

[masterkembo]

Quote: Originally Posted by dave_sz

See, the thing is I'm not having any of those problems. The day I got the game, march 3rd, I started a franchise and RTTS. I played the franchise for maybe 3-4 days, about 25-30 games in with a few played. Left it alone after that and played RTTS. I'm in 2013 with rtts right now. I fired up my franchise after almost 6 weeks and it's playing flawlessly, no crashes no nothing, same with RTTS. So I'll say the patch isn't to blame. There was already something wrong with other peoples saves before the patch. It's more of the game creating faulty saves that end up being corrupted somehow.

Let me make sure that I understand what you're saying - 100's of people have franchise and rtts crash issues the day after the patch is released, and it's NOT the patch?? hrm.

I think it's only happening to west coast teams (that have had their schedules changed) but I have been unable to confirm that.

[The Chef]

Quote: Originally Posted by cardsfan2222

I don't think anything changed with the Cardinals schedule, but if there is a problem with the Dodgers schedule, eventually I will play them. That's when I'm worried I could be affected by the issue, and the Cardinals don't play the Dodgers until July. I would hate to play that far, and then have it crash.

Well with the Dodgers schedule they completely added a game to an off day at the start of the season so they obviously altered their schedule. I gotta go to work in a little bit but hopefully by the time I get home late tonight there will be some positive feedback about this entire problem with a gameplan to allow me to use the patch without my existing franchise crashing back to the XMB everytime. I would be very curious to see what would happen if they just deleted the schedule fix altogether and ran with the patch from there as I cant get away from the thought process that the schedule fix is whats causing all of this.

[JibbyTucson]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Chef

Could the "fix" made to the schedules be causing these crashes to existing franchises? Im playing as the Dodgers and when you guys made changes to the schedule you added a game to the opening day series with San Diego, previously it was a 3 game series and after the fix its a 4 game series, but since I was already well beyond this it appears to be throwing every subsequent game off which is what led me to believe that it had to do with the schedule being corrected. Ive mentioned this a few times but would like some more definite feedback from a developer here if at all possible. Side note, when deleting the patch off my system I can play the game just fine so my crashes has nothing to do with some pre-existing condition that I might have had prior to the download of the patch.

I would think that this theory would rate some merit. Perhaps those who are not having the problems didn't have the same schedule changes with the teams they are playing with as those who are having problems.
I can see where going from a 3 game opening series to a 4 game opening series could certainly screw up an existing franchise.
Worth researching.....
Jibby