20th April 2010, 8:06 PM
Damn that sucks. Okay so this is what I do:
First try it on your Wii, other Gamecubes, go to other people's houses and try it. It's strange, but sometimes the other machines will be able to read it.
Try turning on your system without the card in it, go to the data screen where you could normally view your files, then insert the card. Let it attempt to load. If no dice, reset (not power off) and see if it loads, if no dice again, power off, do a liberal count of 10 and power on to see if it can access and load your specific files. The issue here is a corrupt save which means that while the game was saving, there was either a jolt in the electrical system of your house, the Gamecube itself did not boot properly or the physical card has a damaged sector (like a unusable part of a hard disk because its cooked)
Using a penny (it has to be a penny) rub the contacts of the memory card (dont over do it, think of it like brushing teeth), often times contacts in the card can become corroded and get a build up of magic from elves who live inside our ears and hate copper things, rubbing a penny on it cleans the contacts and adds a fresh layer of conductive material. This will probably do nothing for your files, but its worth a shot.
If you have a cheat device such as Pro Action Replay, it may be able to read the data with swoogy info. If you have a device, load it as normal and look in the menu of the device, look for options to handle the memory cards and see if it loads. Here, you should be able to handle the file to delete or transfer as a valid file.
Datel Memory Manager and Memory Manager Plus usually come with a Pro Action replay, if you have one of those, you should be able to access your card or at the very least, directly format it block by block. If memory serves me right, there was even an option here to attempt to fix the data.
Ultimately, if its possible, you can delete the specific files causing you problems. This should get you back on track and save your other info, though your specific corrupt files will be gone. Can you manually delete these files? or do you get a message saying the data can be deleted? In these cases, if the physical card is damaged and has not been formatted, its possible it will happen again. If its just furky save data because Zelda hates you then I just dunno, Nintendo is so anal about their products I cant imagine a Zelda game having a save issue.
There is a much more involved way I did once for my N64 transfer pak because it had my PD player file on it, it requires you to basically make your own memory pak to USB drive and run some file saving software. >.> I would never go through that trouble again, but a GC card might be easier.
Lastly, did you use any cheat devices when playing games recently? If not, did you 'glitch' the game? Do anything bizarrely out of sequence or enter an area you're not supposed to be in? A lot of games have weird 'Fuck you' codes to people who use devices or glitch so that it corrupts the save file. Some of them are pretty funny, like if you emulate Chrono Trigger there's a specific gate that once entered the entire thing crashes since the game does a simple check to make sure its running on the proper hardware, things like that. In these cases it might be worth your time to look for Pro Action Replay or use someone else's save info that has the specific fuck you removed, blocked, or otherwise kept busy.
First try it on your Wii, other Gamecubes, go to other people's houses and try it. It's strange, but sometimes the other machines will be able to read it.
Try turning on your system without the card in it, go to the data screen where you could normally view your files, then insert the card. Let it attempt to load. If no dice, reset (not power off) and see if it loads, if no dice again, power off, do a liberal count of 10 and power on to see if it can access and load your specific files. The issue here is a corrupt save which means that while the game was saving, there was either a jolt in the electrical system of your house, the Gamecube itself did not boot properly or the physical card has a damaged sector (like a unusable part of a hard disk because its cooked)
Using a penny (it has to be a penny) rub the contacts of the memory card (dont over do it, think of it like brushing teeth), often times contacts in the card can become corroded and get a build up of magic from elves who live inside our ears and hate copper things, rubbing a penny on it cleans the contacts and adds a fresh layer of conductive material. This will probably do nothing for your files, but its worth a shot.
If you have a cheat device such as Pro Action Replay, it may be able to read the data with swoogy info. If you have a device, load it as normal and look in the menu of the device, look for options to handle the memory cards and see if it loads. Here, you should be able to handle the file to delete or transfer as a valid file.
Datel Memory Manager and Memory Manager Plus usually come with a Pro Action replay, if you have one of those, you should be able to access your card or at the very least, directly format it block by block. If memory serves me right, there was even an option here to attempt to fix the data.
Ultimately, if its possible, you can delete the specific files causing you problems. This should get you back on track and save your other info, though your specific corrupt files will be gone. Can you manually delete these files? or do you get a message saying the data can be deleted? In these cases, if the physical card is damaged and has not been formatted, its possible it will happen again. If its just furky save data because Zelda hates you then I just dunno, Nintendo is so anal about their products I cant imagine a Zelda game having a save issue.
There is a much more involved way I did once for my N64 transfer pak because it had my PD player file on it, it requires you to basically make your own memory pak to USB drive and run some file saving software. >.> I would never go through that trouble again, but a GC card might be easier.
Lastly, did you use any cheat devices when playing games recently? If not, did you 'glitch' the game? Do anything bizarrely out of sequence or enter an area you're not supposed to be in? A lot of games have weird 'Fuck you' codes to people who use devices or glitch so that it corrupts the save file. Some of them are pretty funny, like if you emulate Chrono Trigger there's a specific gate that once entered the entire thing crashes since the game does a simple check to make sure its running on the proper hardware, things like that. In these cases it might be worth your time to look for Pro Action Replay or use someone else's save info that has the specific fuck you removed, blocked, or otherwise kept busy.