help with my Gamecube Memory Card!

[Terra Force]

It's corrupted and every time I try to format it, nothing happens, and none of my games won't save at all! What should I do to fic this problem? There are no other GCN Memory cards in my house!

 

[Rayne]

Yikes.. Now would be a bad time to corrupt those as I'm seeing less and less stock of any GameCube Memory Cards. Last time I had this happen to me, there was something stuck in the slot and I think a piece of plastic was obstructing the leads of the Memory Card.

If you can, get a Q-tip or cotton balls if you don't have them and try to gently swab in and around the card. I'd recommend to start out dry, but if that still doesn't work, douse a bit of water on the cotton and swab again.

If that doesn't do it, there isn't much more you can do to remedy the problem other than just trying and trying again. It worked one time for my Blue version 2-3 years ago. I turned it off, blew gently reset, oh I don't know, 2 times? but miraculously my save file was back and in tact. To this day I don't know if it was a fluke or just being extremely lucky, but man I'm glad it came back and even the battery seems to be holding out since I still have my save file. Its even beaten out my Silver file which has long since ceased to be. Yeah if you're persistent, give it a couple of shots. But if it doesn't come back after cleaning/reseting/reformating a dozen or so times, I'd say chuck it. [sorry about that if it comes to that]

 

[Ben Cousins]

DON'T BLOW!

The metabolic water which leaves your lungs in tiny amounts will reach the metal connectors and possibly rust them. Just use a Q-Stick and/or a dust cloth to try and remove anything foreign which may have become trapped on and around the connectors.