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Nintendo Reports Problems with its Latest Memory Card

malebolgia   on 15 June 2004 - 19:11 · 17 comments & 758 views

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Nintendo’s new Memory Card (1019) is having some problems. This new card holds four times the amount the original card did. Because of this some older games may encounter problems with this card. The games that have been identified are Backyard Football, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Darkened Skye, WTA Tour Tennis, Disney Sports: Skate Boarding, NHL Hitz 20-03, and Mark-Kate & Ashley Sweet 16. So far the 1019 memory card has only been released in the US.

Nintendo of America released a statement regarding problems that older games may encounter with its new Memory Card 1019. With a capacity four times that of the original, some (predominantly more low-key) games will cause errors or not run at all. Games with known issues are as follows:
  • Backyard Football: When trying to format an unformatted Memory Card 1019, the game will freeze. Games save normally on a formatted card.
  • Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: If there are more than 999 free blocks on the Memory Card 1019, the game cannot display the amount of free blocks. Will work normally with less than 999 free blocks.
  • Darkened Skye: If multiple save files are created, the game occasionally will not allow any new files to be created, even though there are enough free blocks on the Memory Card 1019. Removing and reinserting the Memory Card 1019 when this happens should solve the problem.
  • etc...
News source: GamePro


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(6 replies) #1 HellBender on 15 Jun 2004 - 19:21
haha nintendo is teh suck sony all teh way!!11!11//
#1.1 Mav Phoenix on 15 Jun 2004 - 20:04
Don't be a cock.
#1.2 Chouzan on 15 Jun 2004 - 20:59
HellBender
#1.3 Dale on 16 Jun 2004 - 00:55
nintendo was always the best and will always stay the best...
#1.4 Yvo on 16 Jun 2004 - 01:51
Jeez why do you post useless crap. Let me guess? To raise that "post count" of yours and to annoy other members.

Damn trolls
#1.5 BTallack on 16 Jun 2004 - 03:52
Nah. It's just Hellbender being Hellbender. You get used to it after a while.
#1.6 Bugu on 16 Jun 2004 - 06:27
Yes Nintendo sucks. This has of course nothing to do with games developers not following the specification Nintendo set up for communicating with memory cards.
Come on! All the mentioned flaws are obviously due to code that is too restrictive, it has nothing to do with hardware!
#2 Steffan on 15 Jun 2004 - 19:26
It looks like there's only minor problems.
#3 Danrarbc641 on 15 Jun 2004 - 19:50
I'm noticing all the games with problems are from third parties.



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This new card holds four times the amount the original card did.

Actually it holds sixteen times the amount the original did. It holds about four times more than the 251, which came out about a year ago.
#4 zi0nx5 on 15 Jun 2004 - 21:00
I suppose these problems arise for the Nyko 64MB card that was released a long long time ago. I've never played these games though and don't ever plan to.
(1 reply) #5 Cryptic_Night on 15 Jun 2004 - 21:15
I love how they end with "etc". It's like they are saying "Yeah and more problems here, and there, and there, oh and there too"
#5.1 Bant on 16 Jun 2004 - 02:06
actually if you read the whole article, youd know what the other problems are. should i translate? its like saying, read the news source before opening your mouth next time.
(1 reply) #6 mr_da3m0n on 15 Jun 2004 - 23:57
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Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

Noooo, curse you to hell nintendo and your magical memory card problems!

.. wait, my gamecube is broken.

Oh. Carry on then.
*goes off to play the dreamcast version*
#6.1 HappyCar on 16 Jun 2004 - 06:43
god bless the DC version

i recon the DC version has crisper image quality
but the GC is my new pet **pats jet GC**
#7 DsnBehind on 16 Jun 2004 - 02:42
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Mark-Kate & Ashley Sweet 16

Aww, how sad.
#8 Notsnarc on 16 Jun 2004 - 04:00
hey I saw that game Mary Kate and Ashley Sweet 16, looks life anyone who buys it should have their gaming priviledges taken away for life
#9 jago_lfn on 16 Jun 2004 - 20:30
and this affects me how? I mean come on who actually plays THOSE games?

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