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Post by Sporlo on Feb 16, 2010 1:42:19 GMT
My GameCube memory cards are starting to become corrupt. I've had a 251 block and a 1019 block card since the GameCube came out, ~9 years ago.
A couple years ago, I accidentally brought the 1019 card into a swimming pool because it was in my pocket (I was going to use it later in the day at someone's house). It said the card was corrupted for a day or so, but then I left it out to dry for a while, and then it worked fine. For years after.
Then, a couple months ago, I start seeing that certain files are getting corrupted again, after working fine for so long. I then copy all my important game files to the 251 card that I haven't used for a long long time.
I eventually started using the 251 card exclusively because I was afraid that the 1019 card would give me more problems.
As time went on, I noticed more and more files get corrupted. Then, yesterday, I found out that basically all the files on BOTH cards were corrupt! After copying files between both cards, nothing would work still!
So, I took both cards out of the Wii, and I set them aside away from electronic devices and I'm going to leave them there for a week or so and then test them again. If I can manage to access at least one file, I'm going to copy everything I have to a new card I'm going to get.
Now, I have no idea what specifically caused this. It's either: -the swimming incident caused the 1019 card to deteriorate years later, and then it corrupted its files, and when I moved them to the 251 card, certain files still had corrupted data. -both cards are just naturally deteriorating due to old age, but I haven't even used the 251 card much at all compared to the 1019 card.
Either way, BEWARE OF GC MEMORY CARD FAILURES! IF YOUR CARDS ARE OVER 5 YEARS OLD, YOU SHOULD GET A NEW ONE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR DATA!
I have a total of 13 games on the cards, and I've beaten almost every game, and some games I even have perfects, my most recent perfect being Super Mario Sunshine. I just resumed playing that game last summer after leaving it alone for like 5 years.
I really wouldn't want to lose my thousands of hours of playtime I've put into those cards. I've already lost the contents of an entire laptop, and I don't want to lose my GameCube data.
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Post by Pablo on Feb 16, 2010 1:52:02 GMT
Interesting story. I hope you don't lose anything.
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Post by davidjl123 on Feb 16, 2010 2:00:45 GMT
Sad. I hope you won't lose anything.
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Post by SonicW1 on Feb 16, 2010 2:13:28 GMT
I have a memory card that I bought a year or two ago and it works fine. and Super Mario Sunshine = one more star that I have no clue where it is, so I stopped playing >3 months ago
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Post by davidjl123 on Feb 16, 2010 2:15:48 GMT
I have a GameCube that is 7-9 years old and it works totally fine. Super Mario Sunshine is finished years ago. Two months ago it is beaten again.
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Post by ridley^2 on Feb 16, 2010 2:24:20 GMT
I have an old gamecube, too. I mainly used the gamecube for games such as SSBM and super monkey ball. I also played super mario sunshine, but i got stuck at the final boss. Gl not losing anymore
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Post by phil on Feb 16, 2010 5:58:00 GMT
I've got a Memory Card 251 and 54 (it's 54, right?), and they've been working fine for 6-7 years. The only problem I have is that I don't have much space left
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Post by Ness on Feb 16, 2010 22:39:56 GMT
I hope you don't lose anything, Sporlo.
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Post by Sporlo on Feb 17, 2010 2:29:19 GMT
I've got a Memory Card 251 and 54 (it's 54, right?), and they've been working fine for 6-7 years. The only problem I have is that I don't have much space left 59
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Post by Ian on Feb 17, 2010 2:50:03 GMT
"Looks like your data is corrupted" -Phsycho Mantis Seriously though, that sucks. Unless Metroid Prime was not in your save data. In that case you deserved it.
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Post by IsraeliRD on Feb 17, 2010 14:01:12 GMT
Wow, that really sucks. Seriously. Ian, wtf with you. Old consoles actually have a really good shelf life compared to today's 7th generation consoles since their warranty expires within 1-2 years and most die within 3 years unless you don't use them as much-- but go figure. The memory cards, the components etc were made to live. During SDA's marathon they played on 3 NES's which all just now started to screw up during the marathon (hilarity ensued in TMNT, I HAVE to watch that video!) but SDA speedrunners still speedrun on their NES consoles and controllers, and they're still working great. Amazing, eh? If you can, find someone who has a gamecube/wii and see if you can copy anything out. It's definitely sounding like an old age problem but anything can happen. I had a computer in Israel which is probably still alive; it's.. 20 years old? Anyway, it gave up one day and we couldn't run it again which really sucked because it has some of my most fav games on it (all DOS based and all ran and installed through the 5 inch floppy disk drives [going off-topic: I had dozens of them, they were awesome. I wonder if we have any left, doubt it though]) and after a year of the computer just staying there doing nothing but dust collection, my father decided to throw it out. Before that, he tried to run it once more and hold and behold, the PC ran again! It kept running until we left to Australia and put it into storage. If anything, a few tips: - Waiting game, as long as needed. - See if you can cleanup the cards, gamecube and wii : be gentle, careful and make sure you clean them with the proper stuff. It could be an error resulting from dust or something on the reader that screws up. Be VERY gentle. - Try other people and see if they get the same error - Back up more often, but note that it won't stay forever and in a few years you probably wouldn't care. I won't care about MB
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Post by Stal on Feb 17, 2010 22:56:34 GMT
I won't care about MB D: How could you? The reason for newer things breaking faster is that they're more complex. I have a crappy DOS comp which is what, 30 years old? It still works, (last tried like last month) but barely
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Post by IsraeliRD on Feb 18, 2010 2:49:35 GMT
No, it's because it's made in china/taiwan/india/thailand/korea/indonesia/pick-an-asian-country-with-loads-of-cheap-labor-in-it and made to last for just a bit above the warranty period. Nothing about complexity whatsoever.
For example cars have a certain amount of warranty because they know very well for how many KMs all the parts will go for and how much therefore there will be warranty.
I found out the booklet from the service station in the car where I noticed a trend where every 7,500 or 12,500 KMs (can't recall exact number, but this isn't important) the price of the service hiked to be FOUR (4) times then the one before it and after it (they go every 2,500 KMs). Why? Because there are certain parts that are estimated to die out around these X KMs and they charge a lot for them. If you go to a service station when these parts died but you are at a different KM number (say 17,500), then they charge you whatever is listed on that number regardless of what part died (even if the expensive one died only there), so you get a "saving" of a couple hundreds.
And sorry for talking about cars in this topic, but another thing I learnt about them is the car battery (yes, that expensive piece) is made to die on purpose every few years. Wanna extend the lifetime by a lot? Tilt it 90 degrees. Chemistry takes its place next and you won't have to get a new car battery so soon. Purposely they don't tilt it so it will die out no matter what... don't bother going into car manufacturing and tilting in by 90 degrees, the money you'll make is too good.
Anyway, 7th generation consoles also have a nasty habit of collecting dust (like all previous generations, but now even worse) so you must have them cleaned very carefully. You'll be surprised at the number of "dead" consoles which only really needed a cleaning to make them "resurrect". Ditto for CD/DVD/VHS readers and many more. Keep them away from rug so they won't heat up and won't collect dust; I keep my computer on 2 pieces of wood well above the ground but they still collect a lot. Aayrl's computer is like hanging in the middle of the room so it probably collects the least. Go figure. Clean your comp btw, important. Very.
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Post by Sporlo on Feb 18, 2010 3:02:53 GMT
note that it won't stay forever and in a few years you probably wouldn't care. I won't care about MB Yeah I think I'll probably want to keep my stuff till I go to college, which is in ~2.5 years. So I've got 3 summers to finish up some games and reminisce over my amazing accomplishments, and then after that I'll just leave my memory alone, let it rot if it feels like it, and probably sell/throw away/give away some of the worse games I have. I think maybe during college I'll pick up multiplayer-only gaming. It's best not to get absorbed into a good single player story and instead only play friends locally/random ppl online. Do you think it's best to delete games like MB, Halo, etc. off your computer when you're done with them (I'll save my records regardless though), or leave them on your computer in the .01% chance that you'll play them again?
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Post by IsraeliRD on Feb 18, 2010 3:06:07 GMT
Sorry Sporlo I edited my post, go check Edit to my post in reply to your post: Technically you don't have to delete any games even in college; look at Andrew, myself and many others (such as SDA speedrunners). We don't give up some entertainment College won't keep you busy 100% and you will find out you DO have free time. So you got MORE THAN 3 summers. Multiplayer only games wouldn't be the most recommended (World of Warcraft comes into mind, or other MMORPG) but singleplayer ones would definitely get boring after a while. Singleplayer/Multiplayer will keep you entertained because they got good stuff on both sides, so don't make judgement calls so soon. TBH I usually purchase games (even C&C) purely for the singleplayer experience, because multiplayer just sucks (plus im crap at it, but thats not the reason-- i play multiplayer with some peeps but its not fun for me). Sometimes card games end up being the best, both in singleplayer and multiplayer experience. I play hearts, spades, euchre, 500 and others there and there (in the past in a very regular basis) because they're simple and straight to the point and always fun (until some random player becomes a gaywhole and fucks up everything). Finally, why delete all the games you currently have? You might pick them up in the future, or you might wanna show your kids what games YOU played in the past; who knows, they could pick them up too. I'm all for saving the games I got while it's still possible to play them or will be possible in the future. Also, since most of my games are still "old" for today's age, I won't move from XP to 7. No chance.
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Post by SonicW1 on Feb 18, 2010 13:52:02 GMT
I agree with Matan. Keeping your old games is good. You may not want them but other people might or something else. Like me, I had MK:DS for quite a while (back in '06/'07) and I took a break in late '08 and got back to it a few weeks ago. I'm still epic awesome and even beat some of my old times. Don't ever say you don't want to keep your old games as in the future (like me) you're gonna want to play it. Oh and btw my computer is dusty :x I'm gonna clean it over the weekend.
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Post by Sporlo on Feb 19, 2010 0:04:17 GMT
Multiplayer only games wouldn't be the most recommended (World of Warcraft comes into mind, or other MMORPG) but singleplayer ones would definitely get boring after a while. Singleplayer/Multiplayer will keep you entertained because they got good stuff on both sides, so don't make judgement calls so soon. I was mostly refering to PLAYING multiplayer. I'm not against a game just HAVING a singleplayer mode. And that post was just sort of what was on my mind. I have no idea what I'll end up doing I'm just thinking I might have other things to busy myself with later on, not necessarily that I'll drop all videogames for life. Plus, after high school, everything gets mixed up a bit. I'll have my own computer, I'll be living somewhere else, etc. But I'm only a sophomore, so none of this really matters at the moment
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