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"Dead Memory Card..."

Okay, so for a while now one of my memory cards kept on saying certain game files were corrupt, but usually I'd pull it out, do the whole blow in the card and in the card slot on my Cube and it'd be fine.

However, I'm now getting a message every time that the entire card is corrupt and needs to be formatted... Which is going to erase all data.

I don't expecially want to do this as I have a recently completed Resi 4 game on it with The Mercenaries mini game complete (ie. 5 stars on every level with every character, which took damn ages...), as well as much other stuff like my Smash Bros savegame, Viewtiful Joe saves on the last level, a Rogue Leader game with gold medals on every level, Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Paper Mario... You get the picture...

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I might get the data without formatting or if I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and delete everything.

Either way I'm gonna be buying a new big memory card from SR... The trouble seems to have started as the card got more full... Bah. Damn memory cards. Bring back good ol' cartridges...

I found BK today, it was going for 37.99.

Needless to say I didn't buy it.

That happens with one of my memory cards quite a lot. If blowing in it doesn't work then I just replace the memory card with one of my other ones and turn the Gamecube on. Then I turn it off and swap it back. If that doesn't work then I just reformat it anyway(although, it usually works) as I only have SSBM, Pikmin, Mario Party 4, Jeremy Mcgraph and 18 wheeler on that card. All of which are pretty easy, though, and I don't play JM or 18 wheeler at all anyway :P.

Yep. There were obviously loads about the first month of release.

I'll get it for christmas or something.

Hedfix wrote:
> I just bought myself a logic 4mb one for 2.99 which is just enough for
> Paper Mario, Tales and Zelda. :)
>
> I also had a look for Resi 4 and Baten but as usual they weren't
> there despite it being Edinburgh. :(

Baten Kaitos is SO hard to find. I just managed to scrape it out of the second hand section - £25? Not bad at all - it's sooo amazing!

And don't you just love it when you sit down, you think you have played an RPG for about an hour, and really about 4 hours have just flown by! Love it! A sign of a very good RPG there.

I've always bought official cards ever since my old unofficial PS1 card ballsed up. Never had a problem with official ones on all consoles since.

i look forward to the hardrive-less Revolution then.

Hardrives are good. :P

Especially as games can copy parts of themselves to it and save on loading times.

Also putting in a faster CD Drive does wonders too.

oh how i miss the days of battery backup

I just bought myself a logic 4mb one for 2.99 which is just enough for Paper Mario, Tales and Zelda. :)

I also had a look for Resi 4 and Baten but as usual they weren't there despite it being Edinburgh. :(

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> When it comes to memory cards ... always buy official.

Official memory cards can fail as well. A file got corrupted on my PS2 card, luckily I only had to dump the data for that game rather than the entire memory card, but it's still worrying that even the cards that are supposed to be the best can be corrupted.