22nd April 2010, 12:33 AM
Heard about what? Corrupted data? I can assure you it predates the iPod, even on flash memory. I've mentioned before how cheap 3rd party memory cards often got corrupted, and that's why from that point on I only bought more reliable first party cards.
This is the first time an officially liscensed memory card for the system it was intended for has gone bad on me. I'd normally simply consider it a fluke, if not for all those anecdotal stories that suggest more. Unfortunatly I have no idea what to conclude. It "needs further study".
Anyway, I've come to the end of my investigations on this card. As of a few hours ago, my last attempt to check the data on various game saves ended up with a message saying the whole card was corrupt. Now no files appear at all, and I decided to go ahead and format the whole thing, since with that message, the ability to do so appeared. After doing that, I tested making a new save with one of the games that couldn't save before, and it suddenly corrupted that save once more. I can safely conclude that after formatting, the card STILL isn't reliably storing data, and so this is now a useless little device. I'm stuck with two 251 cards for saving. Combined, they should just BARELY be enough to store all my saved data, though the vast majority of my games never did allow me to individually select a card slot and would just automatically use Slot A, so I can look forward to switching cards, and then eventually buying a 3rd 251 so that I have even more switching and some searching to do. Until I find something more concrete, I can't trust the 1019 model. A shame, considering I bought the thing both for space and sheer convenience. I had everything on it, except Animal Crossing which was unmovable and could load automatically from slot B anyway so it was fine on the 251 I originally saved the data on (I didn't bother with the 59 sized card that came with the game).
I've called Nintendo, they've got no information on this. I ended up asking them to pass on what I've found so far and also pass on a suggestion for a firmware update allowing virtual memory card support on the Wii. The person on the line said they'd send this information along to someone that could do further research, but of course I've no idea if anything will ever come of it.
This is the first time an officially liscensed memory card for the system it was intended for has gone bad on me. I'd normally simply consider it a fluke, if not for all those anecdotal stories that suggest more. Unfortunatly I have no idea what to conclude. It "needs further study".
Anyway, I've come to the end of my investigations on this card. As of a few hours ago, my last attempt to check the data on various game saves ended up with a message saying the whole card was corrupt. Now no files appear at all, and I decided to go ahead and format the whole thing, since with that message, the ability to do so appeared. After doing that, I tested making a new save with one of the games that couldn't save before, and it suddenly corrupted that save once more. I can safely conclude that after formatting, the card STILL isn't reliably storing data, and so this is now a useless little device. I'm stuck with two 251 cards for saving. Combined, they should just BARELY be enough to store all my saved data, though the vast majority of my games never did allow me to individually select a card slot and would just automatically use Slot A, so I can look forward to switching cards, and then eventually buying a 3rd 251 so that I have even more switching and some searching to do. Until I find something more concrete, I can't trust the 1019 model. A shame, considering I bought the thing both for space and sheer convenience. I had everything on it, except Animal Crossing which was unmovable and could load automatically from slot B anyway so it was fine on the 251 I originally saved the data on (I didn't bother with the 59 sized card that came with the game).
I've called Nintendo, they've got no information on this. I ended up asking them to pass on what I've found so far and also pass on a suggestion for a firmware update allowing virtual memory card support on the Wii. The person on the line said they'd send this information along to someone that could do further research, but of course I've no idea if anything will ever come of it.
"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)