Gamers that we all are who owns a Gamecube?

[Maleficent2]

and have you ever had a Nintendo Memory Card go bad?

if so what did they do?

DS is extremely upset we bought a 1019 and he has alot of games on there...Harvest Moon and the most important his new Starwars Legos which he had almost beat the game well this week-end we kept getting error messages when ever we tried to play a game that was stored on that card....he was in tears over the Starwars game.

I do not know whether to buy another card and transfer what is on the bad card over and then return it for another one or contact nintendo.

Any ideas?

Mal

 

[Jumangi]

That happened to me. Had an entire season of NHL Hitz wiped out. Didn't really care about that, it was the team I created and and powered up every player to the fullest that ticked me off.

Since then I always back them up on 2 differet cards to prevent it from happening to me again.

 

[VirtuallyMe]

Ok- I am not the gamer person- my ds (17) holds that title in our house- but in the past any time we have had any trouble with Nintendo items we have always gotten great response in fixing them.

I know my son as early as 6yrs wrote an email to Nintendo about something and they sent him a box of stuff including a new controller (IIRC).

So call Nintendo or the company that made the item- they should have some customer support line info on there- and see if that will help... I do know though that we always got better results when my son called himself- because he knew the problem and I suppose they respected the fact that a kid was doing the calling...

I'm sure though- that someone here can give you a "real" answer to your question though...

 

[Sora Necross]

No, but something simmilar happened to me. My friend had SSBM, a Nintendo fighting game, and I got it for my birthday and was doing well on it. So I took my memory card over, rather than bringing the whole GameCube, and when we were done playing on my file we switched to his. All of the sudden he had lost his best character so far and gained Luigi and Ganondorf, ( two fighters I had gotten) and it ended up our memory cards had copied! Weird, I know. ( I tried to copy his MKD game b/c he was W---A---Y farther than me, but he didn't want to! lol

 

[Maleficent2]

I think Sora that was because of auto save.

I think I will let my son call today when he gets home from school.

 

[NJ Mike]

Mal, dont have a gamecube, we have a ps2 but the same thing happened here.

Some stupid person (lol) decided to play final fantasy x AND kingdom hearts at the same time a few years ago. I had about 30 hours in on each game, and the memory card went, everything (including other games) was gone. I am pretty sure they heard me yelling in california that day.

We never were able to ever save anything on it again, and ended up tossing it. And good ol dad had to start all over lol.

So i feel the little dude's pain. I am with jumangi. If it is a game that i know i am putting a lot of time into, then i save it on 2 cards, always. But for games like kingdom hearts, and all the final fantasy games, i now do this...

Another tip to give him, if it is a REALLY important game (like his star wars) do not overwrite the old saves with new ones. Simply dedicate a card to that game until he beats it. Every time you save, make it a new save. That way if any of the files get corrupted, he can always go back to the last working file and not lose absolutely everything. Will he have to do some backtracking? yeah. But at least he wont have to start over.

So what i now do is a mix of both. I have 1 memory card where i keep making a new save (a dedicated card to that game), and then i also save on another card, my most recent progress and overwrite that one. So in the end, i have 1 card with all my saves, and a backup card with my most recent save.

Hope that helps some in the future, but let him call, and see if they can do anything for him now.

 

[Mcbain]

I agree to always back up your saves. I have both PS2 and a Gamecube (as well as PSP, DS, etc.), and I've only had problems with 1 of my 3 PS2 memory cards. It just stopped working in one of the memory card slots one day, and it had my more "important" saves on it (games I've spent a long time playing). I just copied the contents of the "bad" card to another one. Now, I have a card that only works in 1 memory card slot Some games look only in slot 1, but my strange card only works in slot 2.
Basically, always back things up, especially if they're important.

 

[pokemon_master]

I have a gamecube, but I haven't have a card gone bad before. I am sure that customer service should help you, if not the local video game store could always retrive the data for you (at these, in theory)

 

[Saxsoon]

I have never had ANYTHING from Nintendo break. I have that same memory card. But yes you should call them, they have great customer service

 

[iluvcountry]

No, but something simmilar happened to me. My friend had SSBM, a Nintendo fighting game, and I got it for my birthday and was doing well on it. So I took my memory card over, rather than bringing the whole GameCube, and when we were done playing on my file we switched to his. All of the sudden he had lost his best character so far and gained Luigi and Ganondorf, ( two fighters I had gotten) and it ended up our memory cards had copied! Weird, I know. ( I tried to copy his MKD game b/c he was W---A---Y farther than me, but he didn't want to! lol

I am not the only one that plays SSBM! Woohoo!

 

[Shaymojack]

I haven't ever had a card go bad, but I would contact Nintendo for sure.