I've got a 64MB mem card and somehow it keeps on saying that its corrupted.. its OK somehow when I'm playing with original games but one of those times it suddenly become corrupted when I play backup games.. does PAL / NTSC stuff affects the memory card ? Like, you arent supposed to save PAL and NTSC savegames in one memory card or what ? please shine a light on meee... T_T
Congrats, you're the one who made me break down and register to help out! ;)
Quick question, are you streaming or burning your backup?
If you're streaming, try just pulling the card out for a moment then plug it back in, before you power on if you get the corruption message. It happens to me all the time, and I do the streaming method. After I put the card back in, there's no problems, no data corruption, no nastiness. It seems to happen if your cube crashes to a frozen, non-stream state while playing a game.
It might work the same way with burned backups, so try doing it that way and see if it works.
hehe, nice to know I actually persuade someone to join.. =)
BTW nope, I burned the image and played the backups that way. Havent got luck finding a cheap, nice GC broadband adapter..
and usually after I got the corrupted issue, I turned off the GC, go into the original BIOS and they asked me straight to format the Mem Card.. well, I thought I've lost everything anyway so I formatted it.. T_T
so actually there's a way to go around that prob huh.. ? plug out and then plug in again.. ? Will try that later..
Yeah, give it a go. It's something I discovered in my first trials of GC streaming. The only thing I've had to reformat my card over, was when I tried doing backups... Don't have an official card, so it didn't work too well and I didn't read that the utility was ONLY for official Nintendo cards. x.x
Something funny is when people say it's so incredibly difficult to stream GC games. I do everything on my computer, thanks to a fairly decent tuner card. And with a router, no less. And I actually find that the whole Phoenix utility is just way too much bloat, takes forever to load, and is a pain in the ass. So, I have it set to load the server and streamer at the touch of a single button. ;) [/off topic]
just to re-confirm, so it has nothing to do with PAL and NTSC savegames saved in one file, issit ? So that its safe to do so or I better separate them in two memcards .. ?
It shouldn't have any problems. They save as the same data type, same wordlength. Any differences between versions is just in how it handles the information within the file.
I have both PAL&NTSC gamesaves on my mem. card and I haven't had any problems. Don't try phoning Sony, exactly what I did and their customer service sucks, they tell you to buy another one if yo can't fix it yourself :-|
