Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: r_227 on August 01, 2003, 10:23:40 AM
Title: gc memory card
Post by: r_227 on August 01, 2003, 10:23:40 AM
has any one elses memory card message went like this it says : 'data on memory card is corrupt, formatting will erase all data'
because i was checking my memory card without putting a disk in at the menu with the calendar and was checking the contents and when i popped a game in it said that the memory card data was corrupt.
anyone know why this happened?
Title: RE:gc memory card
Post by: joeamis on August 01, 2003, 04:32:14 PM
did you put the game in while you had it powered up with no game in it?
it could've confused the system, and just been a small glitch. usually putting a game in after you turn on the system is no problem, but that could've caused it.
don't format it, try using games with the power off before you put them in, test it out a bit see how it goes, then let us know.
Title: RE: gc memory card
Post by: KrazyJ1098 on August 02, 2003, 11:02:35 AM
i have had the data on my memory card erase for one of my games. the data got corrupted and i had to do everything all over again.
Title: RE:gc memory card
Post by: r_227 on August 02, 2003, 11:06:57 AM
no see this is what happened i was just checking my calendar and time settings and just seeing what was on my memory card and then i turned the console off then put a game in and it said my data was corrupt and needed to be repaired
Title: RE:gc memory card
Post by: kennyb27 on August 02, 2003, 01:51:43 PM
Is it by any chance third party? If so, well, there's your problem. If not, then I'd say just bad luck.
Title: RE: gc memory card
Post by: r_227 on August 02, 2003, 02:21:24 PM
yea it is third party it is orange and see through, i will probably pick up a 1st party one soon. Because this is about the 2nd time it's happened
Title: RE:gc memory card
Post by: joeamis on August 02, 2003, 04:15:31 PM
if someone on the boards hasn't already told you, 3rd party memory cards have had problems since the first appeared on the playstation 1.
the same problem you're having, was the same one way back then... they go corrupt and lose all of your data.
(although memory cards even appeared before playstation 1, on the SNK Neo Geo system I don't know if 3rd party memory cards were released for Neo Geo)
go out and get a memory card 251 for 20 bucks, watch out some stores will try to rip you off, charging $25-30 for it.
