21st April 2010, 12:50 PM
Metroid Prime 1's data is corrupt. Metroid Prime 2's data is okay. Eternal Darkness, the first save block is okay but the second is corrupted (odd since in terms of how the memory card manages things, the Eternal Darkness save is just one file). In Mario Sunshine, the first save file is okay but the second is corrupted (odd, for the same reason).
I think I'm starting to get an idea on the nature of the corruption. I think some flaw in the file system they used in the 1019 memory cards occasionally allocates garbage to the ends of files. Different games handle it, or fail to, in different ways, but the very last save file being fairly consistantly the only corrupt one in various game saves I've been trying suggests that's what's been going down.
I think I'm starting to get an idea on the nature of the corruption. I think some flaw in the file system they used in the 1019 memory cards occasionally allocates garbage to the ends of files. Different games handle it, or fail to, in different ways, but the very last save file being fairly consistantly the only corrupt one in various game saves I've been trying suggests that's what's been going down.
"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)