{"id":3887,"date":"2009-07-28T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2009-07-28T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:58:48","slug":"region-locked-saved-game-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Region-locked saved game woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3889 aligncenter\" title=\"DSC00135_reduced\" src=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC00135_reduced.JPG\" alt=\"DSC00135_reduced\" width=\"507\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC00135_reduced.JPG 507w, https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC00135_reduced-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look what I received last week! Despite my earlier comments about <em>Freedom Unite<\/em> only adding minimal stuff to the existing <em>Freedom 2<\/em>, I ended up buying it anyway. It&#8217;s my first purchase from Youbeli.com after its merger with Pcgame.com.my too. Oddly enough I thought that the purchase had failed when I was led to an error screen after inputting my credit card information but someone called me the next day to confirm the details.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I bought <em>Freedom Unite<\/em> only because I knew that it had a saved game transfer function so you could bring over your existing character from <em>Freedom 1<\/em> or <em>Freedom 2<\/em> with all of his or her gear intact. Except when I tried to actually do it, it didn&#8217;t work. After a bit of investigation, I found that this was because the copy of <em>Freedom 2<\/em> I&#8217;d been playing is an EU-region version while the copy of <em>Freedom Unite<\/em> I&#8217;d just bought in Malaysia turns out to be a US-region version. While the PSP itself happily acknowledges that there&#8217;s a <em>Freedom 2<\/em> saved game file on it, <em>Freedom Unite<\/em> simply won&#8217;t recognize the file as a valid saved game to import from.<\/p>\n<p>This means that I&#8217;ll have to restart my <em>Monster Hunter<\/em> career basically from scratch. This actually sounds more daunting that it really is. Even though I&#8217;d put more than 30 hours in <em>Freedom 2<\/em> I&#8217;d only ever worked up to the Elder 3 quests. Now that I&#8217;ve developed the skills necessary, I&#8217;ve managed to reach the Elder 2 quests in just a couple of days of playing. Plus, this gives me a chance to diversify away from the noob-friendly longsword to the formidable but incredibly unwieldy greatsword.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest visible change, apart from some very handy tools to make inventory handling easier, is the addition of the felyne comrades. So far, my pet cat doesn&#8217;t seem to very good at actually fighting (he can&#8217;t even kill a vespoid mosquito by himself!) but he&#8217;s proving to be a very handy distraction for the monsters. Still, it seems that I need to be careful whenever he decides to toss bombs arounds because that thing can hurt even me when it lands too close! More updates as I get further into <em>Freedom Unite<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look what I received last week! Despite my earlier comments about Freedom Unite only adding minimal stuff to the existing Freedom 2, I ended up buying it anyway. It&#8217;s my first purchase from Youbeli.com after its merger with Pcgame.com.my too. Oddly enough I thought that the purchase had failed when I was led to an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Region-locked saved game woes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[298,74,322],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-monster-hunter","tag-psp","tag-saved-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}