20th April 2010, 3:59 PM
So, apparently my Gamecube memory card, the really big one I got, is corrupt now. I have no idea what happened. I was playing Ocarina of Time on it, had been for the past week. I actually had beaten the entire game, and had basically dusted it off completely. I reloaded the game file to take a look after "The End" to make sure I had everything, and suddenly the game starts glitchingly saying the data is corrupted.
Weird.
Now I think the whole thing is corrupt. The weird thing is HOW it's corrupt. My Zelda 1 and 2 saves seem to work, but OOT and MM don't at all. Neither does the Master Quest data. Wind Waker can LOAD it's saved games but can't save to them, it says the card is damaged. I don't recall any glitches, I didn't turn the power to my Wii off during a save or anything. It had worked fine all week while I played it. I can SEE all the saved files when I look through the memory card browser. The Wii (and the Gamecube I just tested it on) say it works fine. When I copy the saves to another memory card, they still show up as corrupted, except the Zelda 1 and 2 saves.
I'm at a loss here. I may need to format the whole thing, but I have no idea how.
I've got a lot of games to start from scratch if it's all gone... I had no idea that Nintendo's memory cards COULD get corrupted like this. It's first party. It's the large 1019 block size one. All I have other than this are two of the 251 sized ones and two of the smallest original sized ones. Those are older. I worry they could get corrupted too, since I have no idea how this happened.
If it's a problem with Gamecube memory cards failing with age, that worries me. It also means I really hope Nintendo eventually adds some Wii firmware support for "virtual" Gamecube cards in the internal memory. I don't even know if Nintendo still sells new Gamecube cards, and if they can fail like this, then buying them used is a shot in the dark I'd rather not take. It's nut, I mean my saved data on my original Zelda 1 cartridge is fully functional to this day. Heck, my PS1 memory cards still seem to work just fine. I used them to play Silent Hill 1 glitch-free a while ago.
Any thoughts here?
Weird.
Now I think the whole thing is corrupt. The weird thing is HOW it's corrupt. My Zelda 1 and 2 saves seem to work, but OOT and MM don't at all. Neither does the Master Quest data. Wind Waker can LOAD it's saved games but can't save to them, it says the card is damaged. I don't recall any glitches, I didn't turn the power to my Wii off during a save or anything. It had worked fine all week while I played it. I can SEE all the saved files when I look through the memory card browser. The Wii (and the Gamecube I just tested it on) say it works fine. When I copy the saves to another memory card, they still show up as corrupted, except the Zelda 1 and 2 saves.
I'm at a loss here. I may need to format the whole thing, but I have no idea how.
I've got a lot of games to start from scratch if it's all gone... I had no idea that Nintendo's memory cards COULD get corrupted like this. It's first party. It's the large 1019 block size one. All I have other than this are two of the 251 sized ones and two of the smallest original sized ones. Those are older. I worry they could get corrupted too, since I have no idea how this happened.
If it's a problem with Gamecube memory cards failing with age, that worries me. It also means I really hope Nintendo eventually adds some Wii firmware support for "virtual" Gamecube cards in the internal memory. I don't even know if Nintendo still sells new Gamecube cards, and if they can fail like this, then buying them used is a shot in the dark I'd rather not take. It's nut, I mean my saved data on my original Zelda 1 cartridge is fully functional to this day. Heck, my PS1 memory cards still seem to work just fine. I used them to play Silent Hill 1 glitch-free a while ago.
Any thoughts here?
"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)