I’ve been getting around to things I hadn’t had time for- like playing video games.
I had started playing Metroid Prime several months ago, and it’s a great game. I got to around 55% completion at 15+ hours (not so great I know), finally beating the Omega Pirate after fighting him many many times. Now it’s time to collect the Chozo relics. I have 4 of them.
However, there is now a slight problem. I got to a point in the game where no matter what I do, within 2 minutes of continuing my game it freezes. I’m in the save room in the Phazon Mines, just before the Omega Pirate, on my way back from getting the Relic of Newborn.
The Map thingy tells me I have to return relics to the Chozo shrine
place, but if I got to the map screen on this prompt, the game freezes. It locks up and even the music hangs on one buzzing note. I tried re-saving and even just ignoring the map prompt and making a run to the Phaedrana border. Nope!
So the breakdown:
- When the game restores, it nags me to look at the map.
- if I look at the map, it freezes
- if I don’t look at the map, and keep playing, I can get as far as the room past the Phazon refinery, and then it freezes.
At least GTA: San Andreas comes out in a week!
CHIA: i never got into GTA
CHIA: metroid prime 2 comes out in a month
BRAIN: maybe that will suck less
BRAIN: maybe I should mail them my memory card
CHIA: maybe it won’t have omega pirate
CHIA: maybe copying the save to a different memory card would help
BRAIN: hmm good idea
CHIA: of course, if the actual save is corrupted, it’s game over
BRAIN: I should mail them this thing anyway
BRAIN: maybe they could mail me a working one
CHIA: maybe you can beat the game in less than 2 minutes!
BRAIN: I hear if you do that Samus does a sexy pole dance
CHIA: justinbailey
BRAIN: who
CHIA: it was the secret password in the original metroid
CHIA: when you typed it in, samus would appear in a bikini
BRAIN: aha
CHIA: apparently, bailey was a popular swimsuit maker
CHIA: “just in bailey”
BRAIN: my brother was so good at the SuperNintendo version that he actually got her to appear at the end in a bikini
BRIAN: under 2 hours
CHIA: nice