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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Are the memory cards region specific?

« 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...!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Are the memory cards region specific?

« on: November 10, 2004, 05:15:49 AM »

Thanks

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?

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Nintendo Gaming / Are the memory cards region specific?

« on: November 10, 2004, 05:00:57 AM »

Hi.
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