Hey can anyone help me with this game - my friend and I both have different copies of Harvest Moon, and both our games have stuffed up right after you get married. *Once you get a girl to a red heart, you propose, you get married a week later, and the ceremony happens at the local church (at 6 in the morning, I might add). *Then you take your bride home, she asks if you'd rather be called 'honey', 'darling' or 'dear', and once you answer her, it freezes up and you can't play any further. *All we got was a black screen. *Is there a bug in the PAL version? *Anyone (especially any Aussies) got any ideas? *Is there something else you need to complete first? *I am really screwed here... *Thanks *

According to Natsume there are a few known bugs with HM. The game tends to freeze when it gets hot(this happens after about 2 hours of game play), and it seems there is no solution to this bug. The other is the freeze-up that occurs when too many things are moving on screen at one time.

Although I have HM myself, and have had NO problems with freeze-ups…I have heard of this from other gamers.

Oh well…what ya' gonna' do??

I've got both NTSC and PAL versions of back to nature, I noticed a lot of freezing up with the ntsc version. *But here's a tip or two.

1. *the freezing will only last a short amount of time, well actually sometimes it can happen for around 5 - 10 mins, you'll usually come across it when entering or exiting areas. *You can try being patient, just leaving the game where it is and hope it comes back on. *(I've found it usually does come back...eventually!).

2. *Put the playstation on a flat table, if possible construct some sort of free stand (prop it up by all four corners).

3. *Put the playstation on its side, and position a large fan so it blows at the underside (for cooling purposes).

4. *Have a cuppa, and a cigarette if you smoke.

5. *Buy a PS2, (it comes complete with it's own fan!:holidays2 *and I've found it seems a lot better on the ps2 anyway with regards to speed and such.

6. *Keep that controller handy 'cos it'll come back when you least expect it! and we all know times a commodity we can't afford to waste on this game.

*So far (touch wood) I haven't had a problem with the PAL version of the game, but then I've had to restart due to the change in formats, so I'm only in the first year with the PAL.

Happy Farming (I hope):erm:

edit:
Lucifer was right about too many things on screen. *I found my problems got far worse after getting married, and having 10 cows, sheep, chickens, 7 sprites coming to work, and lots of harvesting to be done!

The game may slow down, lag, or shut down sometimes while you are in the cow/chicken/sheep pen.

This is because your pen is completely closed. Pull up at least one piece of wood to stop this.

well the same kinda thing happened to me.....i was just happily walking to my food bin when i jumped a piece grass straight into my food bin.......eventually after going throung different areas and through the ground...the little man landed back on the ground.

So i suggest you just wait and it will recover itself