Post by: TiK Fisher on November 10, 2004, 05:00:57 AM
I live in Europe (Portugal), but I'm staying in the US for a semester.
I bought on ebay a 3rd party 2043 Gamecube memory card.
I've shipped it back home, so my brother could start using it, but he got some problems:
he said that after copying some saves to the new card, these saves would become corrupt and could not be used.
The game icon that appears on the block doesn't appear, he says, and the two line description of the save were all "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY". The only thing that was correct was the amounts of blocks used by the save!
I've made some research over the internet, and I can´t find out wether or not the memory cards are region specific.
Can someone help me out here?
Thanks
Post by: smf1978 on November 10, 2004, 05:08:29 AM
Post by: Zero on November 10, 2004, 05:12:37 AM
problem is, i dont remember what you have to do in order to format the card
Post by: TiK Fisher on November 10, 2004, 05:15:49 AM
What about if it is an official memory card? Because now I'm thinking in buying a genuine 251 card so I won't get more trouble.
I've found this:
"The card is international: if one Japanese save is on it, only Japanese games can be saved, if American games are saved on it, only American games will be saved. It can be formatted later. DOL-008"
This is about the 59 card, but I guess you should be true for the 251 card also?
Post by: TiK Fisher on November 10, 2004, 05:20:03 AM
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Originally posted by: Zero
the GC memory cards are formatted differently for different regions, so you can't have Japanese saves on the same memory card with North American saves (for the most part), luckily your GC can reformat a memory card for your GC's region
problem is, i dont remember what you have to do in order to format the card
Formatting won't be a problem, I guess... I'm just concerned that there is hardware issues.
By the way, I've sent an email to nintendo costumer service, saying that I bought "a memory card" here that doesn't work on a PAL GC, and they said that the voltage difference was likely to be the problem. They didn't exactly said that it souldn't work...!
Post by: KDR_11k on November 10, 2004, 05:34:30 AM
If a game gives you trouble about reformatting, give it another card, reformat that and copy your save over to your main card (for convenience's sake)
It could be your memcard being defective, copying saves around doesn't corrupt them, no matter whether your card is formatted for western or eastern usage.
Post by: RABicle on November 11, 2004, 12:50:34 AM
However keep in mind that all the cards I've bought have all been bought in Australia, as was my Cube.
Post by: Renny on November 11, 2004, 02:12:13 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on November 11, 2004, 09:07:41 PM
The japanese game reformatted the card I gave it on first use but it could still read the save after I copied it over to a euro-formatted card.
Post by: Renny on November 13, 2004, 05:41:39 AM
Maybe it's only the system that pays any attention to formatting. If you try to view a card's contents through a differing region's system it'll prompt to format it.
Post by: GothicFaerie on December 15, 2004, 05:58:46 PM
Gothic Faerie
Post by: GothicFaerie on December 15, 2004, 06:01:36 PM
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Originally posted by: smf1978
I believe that they are, I know a buddy of mine ran into this with a PS2 memory card, and if I remember correctly I saw somethign about this on TV. It could also be as it is a third party memory card. I bought one for my cube when I first got it and it corrupted all my save files within a few days, I returned it and got a offical Nintendo one. You may save a bit of cash by getting a 3rd party card, but they usually cause more trouble then thay are worth. They only third party card I can reccemond is the ones by Nyko, no problems there.
I own a Nyko and that's the one that we are having problems with.
Gothic Faerie
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