User blog:TrevorPhillips/Redoing my Gran Turismo 4 pasta

Tuesday, Jan 3, 2006: 11:00 AM
My mom has ordered a pre-owned copy of Gran Turismo 4 from EB Games as a late Christmas present. The mail truck stopped by and put the game in my mailbox at around 10:55 AM. I went up to the mailbox, grabbed the copy of the game, and went back in my house. When I opened the case, I found out that the CD had "GT4" written in brown ink. But I ran downstairs to my PS2, opened the disc slot, put my game in there, and everything was fine. Then it told me to put my name in, so I did so. Then I decided that I would try out the game by doing a test drive on arcade mode, so I did so. Everything was fine. I was getting my game on at the time, so I decided to start up Gran Turismo Mode. There, it told me I had to buy a car, so I went on to buying a car. I went into the Used Dealership, and found a bunch of bargain cars I can have. So I bought my first car, a dark blue Infiniti G20 '90. But then there was static. Very long static.

Tuesday, Jan 3, 2006: 1:10 PM
After the continuing static, I decided to clean the PS2 disc lens, as well as the game. I thought that now was the good time to reboot the game. Everything was fine when I booted it up. It showed the information, the intro, and the main menu was fine also. No blood and all that on the menu screen. I realized that my car that I bought is still there, despite having to shut it off after the continuing static. After that, I went and raced at the Sunday Cup, set at Autumn Ring Mini Reverse. I started the race, then I noticed something after the race has started. The opponent cars were not moving at all, until I passed them. Then they started going crazy fast, and they even went out of the map. From that point, I knew that the game was somehow hacked by the previous owner. When I finished the race, I ended up in 1st place. I was awarded with 1,500 credits, and I went on to the next race set at High Speed Ring. The opponents all did the same thing as they did at the last race. But this time, I finished in 2nd place. I was fine with that, so I moved on and decided to start my B License. I went back to the menu, but an error popped up saying, "You have lost the game." I clicked okay, but I was followed by another error, this time saying "Thanks for playing Gran Turismo 4. Please eject the disk from your PlayStation 2 console." Now there was nothing I could do but eject the game out of the console. So I took out the game from my PS2, then I told mom I have to return my game.

Monday, Jan 9, 2006: 7:00 PM
My mom has taken me to EB Games, so I told one of the workers to examine my game. The guy told me there was nothing he could do about it. After, I inserted one of my other games, GTA Vice City, but when I loaded it, it would not work. It seems like the haunted copy of Gran Turismo 4 has also affected the PS2 disk drive as well.