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LittleBigPlanet glitch may erase parts of your save data

Some users are reporting a terrible glitch in LittleBigPlanet which affects the game's save data. According to a forum post at littlebigworkshop.com, random things will go missing from one's save. For example, progress in the MGS4 level pack may disappear. "I've completed all five acts, and when I turned off the power and played again, all that was unlocked was Act 1-3. However, my scores from Act 4 and 5 were still in place-- it's just that I need to unlock them all over again as well as collect the prize bubbles," says SuperPhillip.

The more frightening consequence of this bug is the deletion of user-created content. "I lost four costumes and she lost all 12 of her saved costumes, as well as losing the level status. Also we found that all of our community and saved photos were erased too," says justsayno2girls. Some are theorizing that the glitch is caused by bloated profile data. Since the release of the game, players have collected tons of objects from community members. The MGS pack also adds a large amount of data to one's profile. The game may be automatically deleting content when a profile gets too large.
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Published: 361 days 23 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3
 
 

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thor - 361 days 23 hours ago
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This happened to me. Twice. I lost all the stuff I'd added to my level. It might be just because it's not saving, that's what I thought. But if it's a bug it just adds to the long list of game-breaking bugs in LBP which is a shame. Most of them are very minor, and yet can be very irritating.

Before you disagree, try these things:

Glue a block of dissolve to a backplate of metal.
Glue a block of metal to the dissolve, such that it is touching the backplate but is not glued to it.
Attach a switch to the dissolve.
Press the switch, and the block falls, as you would expect.
Rewind, or adjust the backplate in any way, and it will NOT fall when you press the switch.

This sounds like it wouldn't matter but it DOES because this is the fundamental problem happening when something more complex goes wrong. Doesn't have to be metal either, could be any material.

Now, create a backplate of metal, and put an emitter that emits a moving object onto it. Also put a magnetic key switch on it, set to inverted (so it's on) and 1-shot. Connect it to the emitter. Press play, and the moving object will be emitted. Press rewind, and the game will be paused, but the moving object will be emitted and WILL BE MOVING in pause mode. Each time you rewind a new object will spawn which can be annoying.

There are other bugs regarding wobble bolts. The behaviour of a wobble bolt on top of another wobble bolt seems to change dramatically when the angle is changed past 360 degrees. Wobble bolts in general are not easy to tweak because their appearance is poorly designed, but that's another issue.

There are the well known bugs about stickers disappearing when you join objects together, and now there's this which I thought was just me forgetting to save, but it could be a glitch as well.
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Milky Joe - 361 days 20 hours ago
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Not exactly 'game-breaking', though are they?

Although, I'll admit there are a lot of glitches in the game.

I Also think that the headline is really misleading. It won't erase save data, it just won't save it in the first place, so anything you've got so far is completely safe.
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Armyless - 361 days 20 hours ago
1.2 - Gluing tip
if you gently "press" the objects that you only want glued together, whether by moving it with the Left Analog stick into the other object or by gently pressing L1 or L2 into back and front planes (objects will glow red) then hold X as you normally would to glue those specific objects together. (Same works with detach by "pulling" objects apart)

I have found that gluing without adding pressure can glue or UnAttach the entire multi-piece object, moving parts and all.
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thor - 361 days 20 hours ago
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@Armyless - I know this, that's how you glue them like that in the first place. But the game doesn't seem to remember it if you have two _indirectly_ glued objects touching each other; it sometimes assumes they are glued.

@Milky Joe - Not completely game breaking, BUT I had a floor in a tower I wanted to make collapse. I did this by connecting the floor to the side walls with dissolve blocks, then dissolving them. But when I adjusted the back of the tower, without me knowing, the floor would not fall down and I had to glue it all back from scratch which took ages. In the same level I had the other problem I described which meant EVERY time I rewound there was another attacking enemy that spawned that I needed to delete.
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Hi-def freak - 361 days 23 hours ago
2 - I havent lost anything
and i have the mgs pack...ill have to check again later on when i get home just to make sure
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Nuclearfish - 361 days 21 hours ago
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A few hours after playing through the MGS levels on Christmas Eve my save progress stopped saving. Deleting some old levels and most of the community objects sorted it out, although I have heard that this doesn't always work.
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ultimolu - 361 days 21 hours ago
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That really sucks. Hopefully they're ironed out.
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ThatArtGuy - 361 days 20 hours ago
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This happened to me last night. The game constantly tells me to delete things from my profile, which I do. However, last night I quit out of a game, and started this morning to find that I lost the last three levels I played.

Very aggravating. The game is wonderful, but this bug needs patched.

Oh, and I haven't downloaded the MGS pack yet.
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Alvadr - 361 days 20 hours ago
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Gulp! Hope they find the cause of this soon :/
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el72125 - 361 days 19 hours ago
7 - Whew...
Thank godness I'm not the only one that had this problem. This happened to me three times. I had go back and beat/ ace the last three levels in the MGS pack. Damn it sucked.
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cond3m3r - 361 days 18 hours ago
8 - SIGH!
I stopped playing little big planet b/c anything i do in the game won't save after i quit the game. I've finished the story mode with 100% and now its trying to screw me over b/c i can't save anything. I had aced like 4 lvls of mgs pack and when i turned it off...none of it saves..it keeps reverting back to my last save b4 i had purchased the mgs lvl pack. I tried to delete the game data and it doesn't do a thing. Feels like i have to make a new save file or something b/c i can't find a way around it...
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Horny Melon - 361 days 18 hours ago
9 - My game isn't saving at all
anymore. I've gone through the MGS levels multiple times now and nothing saves. Costumes, stickers, user levels, and completion data all erase as soon as I turn the game off. I'm frozen at the point of the MGS download.
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Dark General - 361 days 15 hours ago
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Same here. I'm stuck on act 3 of the MGS pack. My levels won't save etc. I've been holding off on playing it until it's fixed.
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Faelt - 361 days 12 hours ago
10 - Ok...
this happened to me after I bought and played all MGS pack acts aced em etc. but a couple days before that I got an in game message that said something like "you are running out of space, delete some items before your profile gets full"

I went to LBP official forums looking for an answer to my problem and found it!

the thing is... you have like a... maximum amount of space for your profile so, if your game its not saving any progress costumes or else go to your moon and enter any level or start a new one and just go to object menu and scroll to the right and delete everything or at least what you don't need from community objects and um... community pictures helps too, then go back out without saving anything and you should see the saving icon (sackboy inside a circle formed by two arrows on the bottom left of the screen)

if you see that you should be fine now, also you can double check exiting the game and going to your LBP save then press "Triangle button" and information, you should see the time of your last save and should be pretty close to the time on your PS3 clock.
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Dark General - 361 days 9 hours ago
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Thanks for the helpful info! I'll do this right now. Bubbles for the help.
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cond3m3r - 361 days 8 hours ago
10.2 - Thanks!
I had to exact same thing happen to me..said my profile had no more space...n nothing is saving now...ill try ur advice...thanks
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