I have the same bug.
Hi everyone.
I have a very strange bug. This is what i sent to Konami Germany HQ/Europe:
I have been playing 'Pro EvolutionSoccer 2012' on my PS3. But there seems to be a bug in the 'FootballLife' gamemode where players that have been on a loan to other clubs,would never return to your team.
Three players have been out on a loansince season 2011/2012. But after 7 years (season 2018/2019), theynever have returned (the maximum contract for a loan in the game is 5years), but they still are being listed in my squad list and fillingthe slots for max. 32 players.
I have created a second save-file andstrangely enough, one player that was on a loan, left my team when iopened it. In my main savefile he retired and his young version tookover the contract . So i tried the same procedure again, but theother two still remain in my list. There is no end date of thecontract when i look at the player stats. It just says "-".
My team is "Standard Liege'. Ihave all the latest updates of the game, and the datapacks. My PS3has the latest firmware. I have a PS3-fat the one with thePS2-emulation chip in it. And i am running this game in English. (PS3 language is dutch)
Players that are in the loan-loop:
Giersen
Liebermann
Van den Berg
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Update march 2012:
So my Fat PS3 died. So i bought a new one (slim). A fresh start i thought, so i decided to start a new 'Football life' game with a complete other team. I re-used the system file, for my PES- points and used my points to enable all of the extra football life features it had in the shop, to get an easier start again. And guess what's happened after one season... My three loan players would not return. (yes they had a one year contract). In the last month before the end of the season, they weren't even in my squadlist anymore. A week before the new season starts they where back, on loan it seems filling my 32 player slot again.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Konami doesn't give a response for two months, i even send them my files. I can't be the only one who is having this bug? The only thing that is differently from what other players do, is setting my game colours to (R -6) (G 0) (B +6) (Bright +6), to reduce the HDR effect of the game.
And what is the influence of my system save file on football life? Is there data in it that could influence the mode and trigger this bug?
Thank you for your help