Zelda Vs Fox Woah...

[A Black Falcon]

And this only applies to N64 games really, do not remove the game with the power on. You'll short the chips in the cart. Sometimes rendering the cart dead.

Ouch... still doesn't explain how one of my N64s broke its on-cart-save compatibility and erased SSB's savedata and failed to recognize the savefiles of all N64 games that save to the cart, while still working with memcard-save titles...

Yeah, I have one third party memory card that occasionally says 'Corrupted' and asks me to wipe it clean. So I just power down and restart and then its fine. I'm never getting third party memory cards again. I had problems with third party PS2 memory cards as well, so yeah. Nomo.

As I said, I had this happen with a first-party N64 card (taking the card out and putting it back in fixed it), and with that corrupted file on one of my firstparty NGC cards... so I've had about as much bad luck with first party as I have with third. More, really, probably... of course, I just have one third-party N64 card, versus one firstparty N64 card and three firstparty GC cards, so it's not exactly a fair comparison. :)

So anyway, if you could give me something to go on here, I could just ask the guy myself.

I won't be back until next break, which is Thanksgiving...