If you were able to complete the Episode VI superstory, then congratulations!  You are apparently one of the lucky few who were able to overcome a nasty bug in the game.  This is especially frustrating for many, because it prevents people from achieving 100% completion in the game. 

***Any help is appreciated.  So consider yourself a hero if you can help the unlucky masses.  Thank you.***

Personally, I am having this issue as well as many others, so let's start an official thread concerning this.  Here is what we know:

There are two places this has reported to occur:

1) Crossing the river in chapter 4 - Endor

2) Flying out of the deathstar after blowing the reactor in Chapter 6 - Deathstar II

Known *possible* solutions:

Endor: Cross the river with everyone on screen.  Do not jump, cross at much as possible to the left, do not blow up the plants immediately in front of the river.  (none of these are yet confirmed)

Deathstar II:  It has been reported that turning off vibration while leaving the Deathstar.  However, this seems to have no effect on the Endor problem.

If any of the above solutions worked for you, then please let us know.

Theories:

Bad game disk batches and some esoteric bug are the main theories, but the cause is really unknown.  One thing to note is that this always seems to occur in the same two places.  Exchanging your game disc for a new one has worked for some. 

Questions for those that got through:

If you were able to complete the Episode VI superstory:

When, during your progress, did you go through the superstory?  i.e. - was it the first or last bonus mission for each episode? did you have all the minikits?  how many undefeated achievements? how many gold bricks, etc.?

Did you get through the first time? 

If not, what did you do differently?  

Thanks again for any help you can provide. 

Lastly, let's not create a flame war against the game developers here.  Believe me, I can personally understand the frustration, but this will not solve anything!  Instead, please use this thread to help research the issue, and hopefully we'll come up with the exact solution for the problem at hand.

Note To Forum Moderator:  A sticky on this subject would be really helpful.  Thanks.

The crossing the river glitch isn't apparently limited to SuperStory mode.  I had it freeze the first time I played that chapter by itself, in regular Story mode.  I didn't blow up the plants, and stuck to the left, and made it across the next time.

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Ok thanks.  I am going to try the "not blowing up the plants" this time.  I'll report back here when we have a verdict.

Froze again just as I was crossing the river in Endor.  I did not blow up the plants, and this time, I went all the way to the left (near the waterfall).  For a brief moment I thought I had made it, but it froze as soon as I landed on the other side.

I was hoping this wouldnt happen to me...it just did, at endor...this is the last gold brick I need...I am going to do it again trying the hints you just posted....hope it works

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GOOD NEWS!!!!  I just got through it!  Here is what I did...

FeralKitty got me thinking, so I tried to get the game to freeze in regular story mode.  I played just that chapter again, and no freeze.  However, I kind of got trapped in the river with R2.   Hmmm....

So...  I tried the superstory one more time trying to recreate my "mistake."  I took control of R2 when I got to the river, went into it BUT DID NOT CROSS IT.  Instead, I went a little to the left, and let everyone else cross the river before me.  Then, I crossed the river last.  No freeze.  Woohoo!

Fast forward to DeathStar II, and I am getting that sinking feeling again...  Only in this level did I turn off vibration.  Luckily, I had no issue and got the brick. 

Tad - if you can find it within you to try again, I would try this method at the river.  Now, it could be due to the fact that I played story mode twice, or that I did this river thing with R2.  I would give it a go on the regular level first to avoid any more frustration.  I sure wish you the best of luck, and look forward to your victorious post!  :)

Thanks FeralKitty for the info/idea about regular story.

If anyone else is having trouble with the game freezing and the solution above works for you, then please post here and let us know.

I have had it freeze on normal story mode when escaping death star II. I just started the level again and it was fine.

I just got through it...I am letting my dude stay bye the Spiget for awhile to get some moola to buy stuff

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Congrats Hermit!  Just completed 1000/1000 here.

 Recster wrote:

Congrats Hermit!  Just completed 1000/1000 here.

I cant get the glitch right...and there is no way I will be able to get it legit

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I have not had LSWII freeze on me unitl Endor Super Story.  Frustrating!  Thanks for the advice, I'll let you know how it works.

I had Death Star freeze 3 times in regular story mode and it was when the reactor was exploding and at the same time I was getting the true jedi so I focused more on the studs and got true jedi BEFORE the core detinating and I got through it.

 

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 Recster wrote:

GOOD NEWS!!!!  I just got through it!  Here is what I did...

FeralKitty got me thinking, so I tried to get the game to freeze in regular story mode.  I played just that chapter again, and no freeze.  However, I kind of got trapped in the river with R2.   Hmmm....

So...  I tried the superstory one more time trying to recreate my "mistake."  I took control of R2 when I got to the river, went into it BUT DID NOT CROSS IT.  Instead, I went a little to the left, and let everyone else cross the river before me.  Then, I crossed the river last.  No freeze.  Woohoo!

Fast forward to DeathStar II, and I am getting that sinking feeling again...  Only in this level did I turn off vibration.  Luckily, I had no issue and got the brick. 

Tad - if you can find it within you to try again, I would try this method at the river.  Now, it could be due to the fact that I played story mode twice, or that I did this river thing with R2.  I would give it a go on the regular level first to avoid any more frustration.  I sure wish you the best of luck, and look forward to your victorious post!  :)

Thanks FeralKitty for the info/idea about regular story.

If anyone else is having trouble with the game freezing and the solution above works for you, then please post here and let us know.

This worked great for me THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had the game freeze as well when trying to escape the death star at the end of ROTJ. Tried a couple of atempts with the vibration off only for it to continue to freeze at the same point. Finaly managed to complete the level by having the vibration on and delibratly allowing the flames to catch up and kill me (twice) right before where the game would freeze.

Don't know if this is just coincidental or what....anyway took about 5 attempts until I got passed it using method above.

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I've had no trouble freezing in the Chapter but I tried it once and I couldn't get though it in time lol. Any tips.

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I didn't have a single freeze throughout the entire game but I'm also playing on the 360 version, not the Xbox version that's on the BC list which isn't the same.  Not sure if thats the problem but BC games do tend to freeze a lot.

I really don't think it's a problem with the game itself, rather a problem with your systems.  It may be triggered at the same spot but it doesn't mean it's the game.

As for not getting through the level in time, I also had this problem no matter how quickly I went through the level.  I was down to the last second on the last chapter and thought I was going to make it but ended up running over a minute and a half.  I let the level complete since I was going to give up but I recieved the gold brick anyways.  I did collect over 100,000 studs but the completion time was over an hour.  I'm not sure if it was a glitch or the requirement for completing it in and hour or less to get the brick is inaccurate.

 YeaNoSKill wrote:

I've had no trouble freezing in the Chapter but I tried it once and I couldn't get though it in time lol. Any tips.

You should be able to just get 100,000+ total studs, and it will give you the brick.  Ironically, I had tried this so many times before finding the Endor river workaround that I actually completed Episode VI on time.

thx for the post

First try on superstory mode - locked up exiting the death star. No change was made to my gamplay as I was unaware of the potential lock up

Second try, tried turning of rumble (for the whole of the story) and ended up getting the endor lock up. Did this after reading posts on the forum, so perhaps the endor lock up happens because the rumble had been turned off??

Third try, left rumble on up until I came to do the death star. Completed successfully this time.
So perhaps rumble off causes the endor one, and rumble on causes the death star one??

That's very interesting.  Did you let everyone cross the river in front of you when it locked up on Endor? 

This has happened to me now aswell, I was R2D2 at the time and I had destroyed the flowers just before.

Has anyone contacted Lucasarts support about this? I have emailed them and am waiting a reply which they say should be within 48 hours.

 John Fox 1976 wrote:

Has anyone contacted Lucasarts support about this? I have emailed them and am waiting a reply which they say should be within 48 hours.

I can't imagine for a minute that LucasArts don't know about this, pretty much every LSWII forum, including their own, has threads on it.  Just for the record, I got lockup #4 this morning:

- Endor river on Free play.
- Endor river on Free play (again).
- Whilst showing the Ep VI "Finish Story" cut scene - NOT on the Death Star level itself.  Thankfully the game had already saved so I got the gold bricks & canisters.  It froze with the fireworks in the sky, though the audio kept going.
- Endor river on Super Story.

A lot of people elsewhere seem to blame it on hardware trouble.  My 360 is well ventilated and the 4th freeze hapened this morning after being turned off all night.  The reproducibility of the freezes suggests it's not a hardware issue.

I'm off to try Episode 6 SS again, will bear the tips here in mind.  Don't think I'll make it in the hour though, I was at 36 minutes when it locked up last time.

When I get done with some more Hitman I will try the R2D2 method again.. Getting kind of tired playing the first two Jabba levels though.. It's been about eight times now.

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I got through this last night without any problems!  I crossed the river first with Han and just kept going.  No freezes.

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Just done it - nailed it in 55:55:06 too!  Pretty much followed the advice above.  Crossed the river with Han, didn't shoot the plants and made sure the enemies behind me were gone.  Crossing slowly to the left, I heard the disc access kick in when I was in the middle of the water.  I waited until it spun down again before continuing by hopping up onto the bank and walking up the slope.

I also turned off vibration for the Death Star level, just to be on the safe side.  Thankfully it didn't freeze during the end of Episode cinematic - boy was I praying to the gaming gods...

Yes Yes YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!

Finally completed it moments ago.

Ok here's my "superfreeze" story XD

1st- freeze at Death star 2
2nd- as above

3rd- after read this topic....endor stage: My bro takes R2 just before the river...I say Im that if he cross the river with r2 the game might freeze...he switchs to Leila and...the game freeze -_- (rumble off from the beginning)

4th- (rumble off)endor river: I cross the river alone...others aren't on the screen (fear) but I manage to go ahead....Death Star...3rd escape section.....as someone said (sry I can't remember the nick atm)  I die 3 times...stage complete!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I'm very happy!!!!!

(sorry for my English, is not my best language ^_^)

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i havent unlocked super story for episode 6. but i cant play during the week and got it sunday... but im just posting so i can eaisily refer to this if i ever "freeze"

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I done it!! Just, 59 Mins 10 Secs!!

I crossed the river with Han and didn't destroy anything in that area, I just ran as fast as I could!!

No probs with part 6.

 

 Raymond Babbit wrote:

I had the game freeze as well when trying to escape the death star at the end of ROTJ. Tried a couple of atempts with the vibration off only for it to continue to freeze at the same point. Finaly managed to complete the level by having the vibration on and delibratly allowing the flames to catch up and kill me (twice) right before where the game would freeze.

Don't know if this is just coincidental or what....anyway took about 5 attempts until I got passed it using method above.

Not a coincidents at all, happened to me too.  I even sent an email to LucasArts about it.  No response yet.  but I did finish that level too, just kept trying. :)

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3 times its froze on me on super story mode episode 6, crossing the river on battle of endor. nothing works. any help

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