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My PS3 has been ever-so-slightly malfunctioning lately. (Primary noticable sign: Assassin's Creed 2 stopped working. I verified nothing had gone wrong with the disk; it looked flawless and played perfectly in the PS3 at Gametraders Carillon when I took it there to check. They were very friendly about the "yeah, this game doesn't work, so..." with the testing it and I was all, "Well, that clears out a variable, cheers.")
Turns out it was definitely a slight data corruption somewhere, which would be fine, except some games don't let you back up your save files. The data is flagged as copyright and you can't copy it off, which, NOT COOL, GAME MANUFACTURERS.
Fortunately, Final Fantasy XIII is NOT one of these games; important FF13 saves were all copied to an external hard drive. (Hilariously, I did have to pull out my ancient 120GB hard drive that hasn't been booted up in probably five years because the PS3 requires a FAT32 file system on the external drive to interact, and my other drives are all NTFS.)
Tragically, all the games housemate.Dave actually cared about were all "no the savegames are copyright" games. But he's agreed to blame Sony, not me.
Anyway, reformatting to factory defaults fixed it. There's a warning on the "quick format" option that some of the data on it may be recoverable, but... I don't exactly keep ultra-private data on my PlayStation.
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