Help Cosmo Canyon glitch help???

alright so... i'm getting stuck watching the display about the lifestream.. the guy finishes his spiel says thats the common knowledge then the game freezes doesn't let me do anything but run around with cloud still stuck under the model... i'm going to try the disk swap... i'm going to try finding this mechanic... but for some reason my memory tells me that for some reason i have to watch buganon's lil projection to get out of cosmo canyon before i can to nibelheim
 
I just watched a video of it on youtube (it's been a while since I played). It looks like once he finished his little demonstration, the platform lowers back down. You talk to him about Nanaki after that and then leave out of the door on the left. I'm guessing it's not finishing the cutscene then? If that's the case the disk swap thing will probably work. I got through many freezing cutscenes by doing that. xD
 
Hmmm...? I'm in Cosmo Canyon right now, on my save I'll be doing this bit today when I find someone to take with me. So I'll have more info later, but do you need tolook at the materia pieces as well?
 
The huge materia won't be there yet. The huge materia missions aren't until disk 2. :8F:

It's basically just watch the scene and then go to the camp fire. After the camp fire and talking to Nanaki, you do the Gi cave, I believe. :hmmm:
 
ok soo.. disc swap was no go for me.. i tried 4 times in for different spots although i did enjoy watching some disk 2 cut scenes.. and i talked to the construction worker and he runs off to go fix the car but the guy at the gate won't let me leave until i go check out bugonon's lil machine soo.. i'm thinking if i replay all the way thru again and just totally ignore bugonon's mountain top all together and just talk to the work hopefully that will work and i can move on? this is so (%*# frustrating.
 
I didn't do the machine bit yet, I fell asleep instead *blush*

Um... So you not done the machine-y bit yet now that you spoke to the construction worker?

I did have a mooch about, and after you send the worker he runs off saying having a look around, I think if you send him off to fix the buggy then do the machine with Bugenhagen, when he finishes his speech you may have to talk to him again to lower the machine?
 
right thats the problem i'm having.. he finishes his spiel and then freeze, no lowering, no getting out.. just cloud running around the little platform underneith the model with nothing to do.. so i'm trying to figure out a way to get thru this part of the game without having to watch the whole speil... disk swap did not work for me.. and i have no friends that play/have this game to borrower to get thru.
 
I just did this bit, and yeah the platform should lower itself after the presentation, and unfortunately there is no way to avoid cosmo canyon, it's a compulsary town.

I mean, you have to go past Cosmo Canyon to get to Nibelheim, you travel over the mountain and then down the other side, but the buggy breaks down before you can do down the other side forcing you into the canyon.

You can't skip the canyon because you need the buggy to be fixed so that you can cross the river to Nibelheim.

I know this doesn't help you in anyway whatsoever, but I would maybe to and clean the disc and/or the lens of the PS2 to see if either are dirty and causing the freezing issue you are having.
 
Cosmo Canyon early .... cant get out

All the things that were needed to be done arent working ..... cant get into the room with kid beating on the door ... other than that talked to everyone and done everything


Any help is good

Thanks
 
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Room with the kid beating on the door? :hmmm:

I don't remember that. If you went to cosmo canyon after Gold Saucer than you didn't go too early. What part of the game are you on?
 
I was milling around before gold saucer went to cosmo canyon ,.,,, now I cant get out of town the guy at entrance just says " I think your friends would like to learn more about the earth ...." something like that

Guy in the bar says " your friends are in front of the cosmo candle " ...


The little kid is at the door just before the stairs up to final level of the tower area


hope that helps

Right after acquiring the buggy is when i went to cosmo canyon
 
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That's when you're supposed to go to cosmo canyon. I think you need to go to the cosmo candle and gather two more people to go up to the machine with you.
 
There should be a fire burning in the middle of the village. Go up to it, pressing the select button helps to see where to go (it will be marked as a red arrow), then talk to everyone around the fire. I've had to talk to everyone two or three times just to get by. Spoiler -->
Then you will see Red XIII's grandpa come to the fire and tell Red XIII to come with him to find out about his father. From there pick a member... you can only pick 1 cause Cloud and Red XIII are forced to go. Then head up to the materia store area and before you go in the materia store, you should see Red XIII's grandpa. He will take you to the Gi Cave. Remember though this is your only chance to be in this cave. After your through it there is no return. So you might want to try and get everything while your at it.
 
I am having this problem too. It doesn't really freeze, the vid just stops. Right where the man and the tree "dissolve" and merge is where the FMV stops. It goes back to the screen that shows all the characters standing there, can't move or talk. I can also hear the sound from the FMV, just no more video. Happens every time, can't find a way around it.
 
I think your suppose to talk to bugenhagen (?) and to the two people you took with you, i took tifa and aeris. and then you speak to bugenhagen again and it goes down ( from memory i havnt played vii in around 6 months)
 
wrxracer1983 said:
I am having this problem too. It doesn't really freeze, the vid just stops. Right where the man and the tree "dissolve" and merge is where the FMV stops. It goes back to the screen that shows all the characters standing there, can't move or talk. I can also hear the sound from the FMV, just no more video. Happens every time, can't find a way around it.
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Not even sure if this is the problem, but are you trying to play the game on one of the fat PS3s? Because whenever I try to play it on mine, (the first disc especially) it freezes at certain cutscenes, certain locations, and whenever I try to summon or use magic. I remember it acted up at the Cosmo Canyon scene, froze the first two times I tried to get it to work and then did something similiar to what you described the third time. I finally got it to work, but I'm pretty sure it was pure luck.

Like I said, this might not even be the problem, but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
 
wrxracer1983 said:
I am having this problem too. It doesn't really freeze, the vid just stops. Right where the man and the tree "dissolve" and merge is where the FMV stops. It goes back to the screen that shows all the characters standing there, can't move or talk. I can also hear the sound from the FMV, just no more video. Happens every time, can't find a way around it.
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That used to happen to me too constantly, but to be fair, but CDs were about as scratched as a head through a windscreen. And it only occurred during FMVs, the cut-scenes just shuddered unpredictably and sometimes froze. I got around the problem by buying a disc-cleaner. It cleanses the disc and makes it a smidgen easier for the laser to read.
 
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