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2K thaws MLB freezing

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Apr 17, 2006 10:52 am PT

Development team offers two solutions to fix problem with MLB 2K6 for Xbox 360--disable hard drive, or reset cache by loading three different games.

When Major League managers get in a jam, they often take a look at their relief pitchers, pick one who ate a healthy breakfast, cross their fingers, and hope their player's fresh arm gets the job done.

Developers of baseball games, on the other hand, have to tangle with their problems by quickly scouting out temporary solutions before they can issue a patch. The 2K Sports development team has now issued a workaround solution to the freezing problem that has plagued its MLB 2K6 game for the Xbox 360, but it isn't a simple call to the bullpen.

On a post on the official 2K Sports forums, an admin offers up two ways to "alleviate the 'freeze' issue." The first and simplest solution is to remove or disable the Xbox 360's hard drive, if there is one attached. The other is to put three different Xbox 360 games into the console, letting them fully load, and then put in MLB 2K6. This effectively resets any cached info on MLB 2K6.

It should be noted that these workarounds are only temporary solutions, and that 2K is working on a patch that will be released as soon as it passes "first-party compliance standards."

2K Sports apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused gamers.

58 Comments

  • jpmegami

    Posted Jul 15, 2006 10:21 am PT

    I am not putting three games in my 360 to screw it up more!!!

  • soxfan6978

    Posted May 15, 2006 5:01 pm PT

    What a waste of $60. Bring back MVP!

  • maxvo417

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 6:37 pm PT

    does that change the rating of the game

  • dcl1993

    Posted Apr 23, 2006 6:05 am PT

    I don't even like 360s...
    and its bull

  • G30R63

    Posted Apr 22, 2006 1:50 pm PT

    That's bull. I just did it then I took a break for about an hour and it froze. Thanks 2K sports for wasting my money. They better come up with the patch quick. Other than that, it's a pretty good game so.

  • djsupafly

    Posted Apr 21, 2006 7:44 am PT

    this thing happened to me while playing mlb 2k6, and then to top it off it seems to have affected all my games because the same phenomen has preceded to happen might have to send it in

  • Justin_Allen

    Posted Apr 19, 2006 12:52 pm PT

    Like Jonathan said, I think I need alot of lube. Never before have I seen so many people take it harshly up the ass.

  • stewart24

    Posted Apr 18, 2006 11:14 am PT

    come on whos working over there, how you don't discover a glitch like this is amazing. If ea did this they would be sending us new games for free

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Apr 18, 2006 4:46 am PT

    um....do they know what play testing is? LOL

  • pearlpunx85

    Posted Apr 18, 2006 1:01 am PT

    yeah, I've been waiting for this stupid game to come out on 360 for forever and after buying it I can't even play it! I'm glad they're gonna post a patch for the game soon though- I just feel sorry for all the people that don't have a way to download it (those without xbox live).

  • MetaMods

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 8:49 pm PT

    So much on Next-gen talk, I guess PC still best to play video game. Since most games develope on PC then ported onto Xbox or PS2 development kit.

  • japanesegoth

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 8:47 pm PT

    you know...it's probably not entirely the game. the 360 has been known to freeze before...what an overpriced piece of junk. apparently your not paying for quality these days.

  • derherher

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 8:40 pm PT

    I just picked up MVP 2005 for PC last week from gamestop and used those mods from mvpmods.com. The game is more fun than any current MLB game,and alot less trouble. I was looking foward to next gen baseball, but i guess it will not happen till they start getting more serious in testing of product.

  • VFA-102

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 8:05 pm PT

    Wow. What a bunch of garbage

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 6:25 pm PT

    Only with the 360! Those workarounds sound like trouble and hard work for nothing.

  • 2White

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 6:04 pm PT

    WOW! I cant believe you have to do all that just to play the game. You would think they would have it ATLEAST playable before releasing.

  • Pratt75

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 5:38 pm PT

    Let me start off by saying I have enjoyed most of the 2K sports games but this isn't the only game that has had freezing problems. Look no further than NHL 2K6 360 which was also has franchise killing freezing issues. Check their forums, the proof is right there but they ignore everyone's problems with the game. They are not addressing this issue though and claim it is not there fault. Lets look at NHL 2K5 and College Hoops 2K5 now. These games also had franchise killings freezes in the middle of franchise or legacy mode which made the game worthless. Now, today they released an auto update for NBA 2K6 360. They don't even post on their site what it fixes and then to top it off it causes an incorrect tally of the crib points when playing the game. Release an update and it causes other problems. Thats just beautiful. All of these gaming sites only want to publicize the problems with MLB 2K6. How about they break the story on the issues with almost every other game they publish. The whole truth("You can't handle the truth!") about all their games needs to be out there for everyone to know so they will feel the heat to make sure they ensure they make and ship quality games for consumers to purchase.

  • mumotuma_man

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 4:11 pm PT

    what'd they do? someone say "hey, we're outta options... Johnson! load up 3 games and see if MLB stops freezing!"... honestly how'd they even think to try that?

  • angrychair1123

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:24 pm PT

    I returned the damn game to the store and got another much better game...Ghost Recon...I was so disapointed about MLB 2k6!!!

  • JasonWI

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:15 pm PT

    I took off my hard drive to play a game and instead of freezing the game just crashed to a black screen. I just took my copy back and got a different game.

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