24th April 2010, 3:15 AM
Well anyway it's certainly no security measure, or if it is it's a particularly reckless and evil one. Physically damaging the card is no way to do a thing, and clearly it would have to be a false positive.
So I'll say one more thing. One thing I discovered while looking at my files is that, until the last week where I was playing Ocarina of Time, I hadn't touched any Gamecube games or saves for nearly two years, the latest file being Melee updated in 2008, as I had updated to Brawl by then. Considering that Melee was about the only thing I touched in my Wii up until then, and I barely played it in my Wii, I can safely say that there's only a very small handful of saves on that card before it went up in smoke.
Well, now I'm rebuilding. Out of worry of "hidden corruption" in the small handful of files I saved (and because that small handful didn't really consist of anything too hard to rebuild), I simply wiped the backups clean (except for what was on the 251 card that couldn't be moved anyway and thus wasn't in danger of corruption) and went to work. I've got two 251 cards. One's got a massive Animal Crossing save on it. It'll take a bit of clever management but I think I can fit all my saves across those two cards.
Ya know, another frustrating loss is Crystal Chronicles. That's got some history in there from playing with my friends after all. Oh well. Again, the very worst loss would have been Animal Crossing, but that's the one thing I can say isn't corrupted at all. Well, aside from the desolation the town is in due to me being the ONLY thing keeping it in working order. That mayor is worthless.
So I'll say one more thing. One thing I discovered while looking at my files is that, until the last week where I was playing Ocarina of Time, I hadn't touched any Gamecube games or saves for nearly two years, the latest file being Melee updated in 2008, as I had updated to Brawl by then. Considering that Melee was about the only thing I touched in my Wii up until then, and I barely played it in my Wii, I can safely say that there's only a very small handful of saves on that card before it went up in smoke.
Well, now I'm rebuilding. Out of worry of "hidden corruption" in the small handful of files I saved (and because that small handful didn't really consist of anything too hard to rebuild), I simply wiped the backups clean (except for what was on the 251 card that couldn't be moved anyway and thus wasn't in danger of corruption) and went to work. I've got two 251 cards. One's got a massive Animal Crossing save on it. It'll take a bit of clever management but I think I can fit all my saves across those two cards.
Ya know, another frustrating loss is Crystal Chronicles. That's got some history in there from playing with my friends after all. Oh well. Again, the very worst loss would have been Animal Crossing, but that's the one thing I can say isn't corrupted at all. Well, aside from the desolation the town is in due to me being the ONLY thing keeping it in working order. That mayor is worthless.
"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)