While EA has yet to release an official statement regarding the problem users have found success with two bandaid solutions -- which point to cache problems in the game. According to the EA Forum users clearing the cache of the Xbox 360 and disabling the auto-save feature in NHL 09 may help fix the problem but as gamers play more of the game the issue returns.
Let's hope we'll get a fix for the game soon. Actually, it's cool. We'll just play our 82 game seasons in one sitting. No, really.
Update: EA Sports actually responded to this issue late last night recommending the cache clear route as a possible solution. They have yet responded to the cries for a patch.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
9-13-2008 @ 4:13PM
Gerson said...
This game sucks anyways...
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9-13-2008 @ 4:26PM
bigC24 said...
No.
You suck.
9-13-2008 @ 4:37PM
Erik Stroud said...
in my opinion, all sports games suck. They are good every once in a while, but adding slightly new features isn't enough to warrant a new release every year.
9-13-2008 @ 5:33PM
Maximun2k10 said...
@bigC24
Canadian speaking...
9-13-2008 @ 4:23PM
roach said...
An EA game with a bug/glitch?
Must be lies!
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9-13-2008 @ 4:24PM
roach said...
Is the comment system messed up again?
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9-13-2008 @ 4:25PM
jeff said...
First of all there has been a response.
http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/blogs/view/bid/5601
Second, I have been having this issue and their solution does not work. I have had to clear my cache with the yxxRBLBxx twice b4 every play through. and even then sometimes it does not work. How did this get throguh certification.
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9-13-2008 @ 4:30PM
Xav de Matos said...
The cache clear combination is actually:
Y (in X360 Memory menu) then X,X,LB,RB,X,X
9-13-2008 @ 5:03PM
rask said...
Peter Moore knows people...
9-13-2008 @ 5:22PM
John said...
I haven't had any problems yet, and I've played over 40 games.
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9-13-2008 @ 5:44PM
Edog said...
Good luck guys.
When Halo3 came out there was a similar issue that caused DREs on certain 360s but not others. Without going into too much detail... it was not the 360 itself, or bad Disks (which was my guess). There was a 400 page thread with something like 3K post on xbox.com forums of this Halo3 debacle that mysteriously disappeared one day. We were left out in the cold! A patch never came out. The only "fix" from M$ on this issue was clear the cache.
It worked for very few on that deleted thread. My Halo 3 issue went away after clearing the cache about 15X, once every boot. What I hated the most was the lack of transparency. We didn't know if they fixed the problem quietly or even if they were working on it.
Make noise and good luck.
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9-13-2008 @ 6:34PM
GameCollector said...
I have no problems whatsoever and been playing like crazy (and it's on a refurb console after my first one died), but my best friend cannot play more than 10 minutes with his relatively brand new Elite...
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9-13-2008 @ 7:47PM
ciscomancer said...
there was a similar issue with Nascar 09.
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9-13-2008 @ 9:23PM
Bryan T said...
Come on EA, this is the same thing as last year. Fix the game so we can enjoy it. (If this was madden it would have already been fixed)
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9-13-2008 @ 9:48PM
Ryan.Whitney said...
Fact.
9-13-2008 @ 9:42PM
psychohog said...
Wow, yet another EA title with big problems. If it weren't for tiger(which has server problems all the time and is the only decent golf game on 360), I wouldn't play any of there glitchy server-problem based games.
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9-13-2008 @ 11:36PM
el sworodo said...
i must have played over half a season already with no problems
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9-14-2008 @ 12:53AM
Familyguyrokz said...
EA seems intent on shipping games with game-crippling bugs this ye- Oh wait, that's no different from every year.
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9-14-2008 @ 1:02AM
+++volume+++ said...
So I'm almost positive there's been at least one huge problem with every EA Sports game this year.
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9-14-2008 @ 2:08AM
stinger503 said...
What the hell is it with hockey and game destroying problems, the NHL 2k series had a problem like this twice! And it wasn't patched either time!
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