13th June 2006, 9:58 PM
Animal Crossing, F-Zero GX, and Pokemon Colloseum. I can understand if they want to prevent some sort of cheating, but that should only mean they disable the "copy" command. I can't see any reason to also disable "move", which could easily be made secure by doing the deleting of the save file on the first memory card first (keeping it in system RAM) and then doing the writing of it onto the second one (meaning don't turn off the system mid-copy because it's GONE). Yeah that is annoying. I got the newest mem card and copied it all from my two 251s, and wow having two spread out was not exactly "fun".
You know, when I first noticed the MASSIVE size of those save files (and yes, 30 MBs is about right according to the save I created on the 360 (I did it only as a test to see what games I had would run on the system)) when playing it the first time, I thought so too. However, if you read further you would see that I found out that isn't the case after all. Jade Empire, for example, has save files that COULD in fact fit on a memory card, but they aren't flagged either. The last bit of evidence is that I've got a few save files that are also too big to fit on the memory card aside from that that DO still have copy and move commands (they just state when you try that the memory unit doesn't have enough space, which I could guess just by looking at them anyway). So basically that is a very clear statement that they purposefully flagged those save files as not savable/movable. Still not sure why.
You know, when I first noticed the MASSIVE size of those save files (and yes, 30 MBs is about right according to the save I created on the 360 (I did it only as a test to see what games I had would run on the system)) when playing it the first time, I thought so too. However, if you read further you would see that I found out that isn't the case after all. Jade Empire, for example, has save files that COULD in fact fit on a memory card, but they aren't flagged either. The last bit of evidence is that I've got a few save files that are also too big to fit on the memory card aside from that that DO still have copy and move commands (they just state when you try that the memory unit doesn't have enough space, which I could guess just by looking at them anyway). So basically that is a very clear statement that they purposefully flagged those save files as not savable/movable. Still not sure why.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)