WARNING: Gamecube Region Switch Mod and Memory cards

[Propheshor]

attack of douchebags LOL (intro)

[TheGoldenMarioBro]

thank god my gamecube memory cards are working perfectly again :)

[hewey999]

OMG dont u ever clean your room young man!!!

[alecjahn]

@hewey999 No. No, I don't.

[hewey999]

@alecjahn LOL, no shit sherlock ;-p

[max536drago]

what do i need to play jp games, do i just need a free loader or whaterver its called, where can i get one.

[IanNewYasha]

I have a friend who gave me a Japanese Gamecube, unmodded, and I just got a new HK EMS USB GC memory card, and I find it amusingly frustrating that I'm re-formatting it back and forth between the NTSC-J GC and my NTSC-U/C Wii. I must have figured by now in 2010, and since it is a USB memory card, there would be a way to format the card itself to multi-region or region free.

[bigjake52]

You know I have a cube with an xeno chip. I have plenty of jap games on my memroie card with my northamerican games.

I have no clue what you are talking about. Same with pal games.

I own a 16x mad cats one. it works just fine.

Trust me I would be shiting bricks if my pso was deleted

[alecjahn]

@bigjake52 Interesting. I've got a Xeno chip that I haven't installed yet (got it after I did the switch mod). I guess that makes sense, perhaps? Maybe the chip fools the right stuff?

My dumb Naruto game definitely deleted my save, though.

Yeah, It's a good thing my PSO saves are on my brother's card. Wherever that is. :D

[bigjake52]

@alecjahn It could. I know on the wii with game cube backuplauncher it does the same stuff. but for games like paper mario 1000 year door it just crashes on the stupid intro. (with an error of "no message" :)I think the switch also changes the languish of the cube does it not? I've always wonderd that.

But trust me chiping a cube is a bit of a bitch because of the pot adjustemnt. also for all of your "backup needs" go to thepurplecube(dot)org they have all of the games backed up for you. XDXDXD

[alecjahn]

@bigjake52 Ah. Yeah, the chip looks easy to install but... yeah. I hear the silver cubes magically read easier? Or maybe "newer" cubes? Seemed to be the consensus on the ASSEMbler Games forums' thread where I nabbed the chip.

[Propheshor]

wow 2 gamecubes , PAL and NTSC right?? you're HARDCORE.

[kudgcn43]

"pay attention when you can't read things."

Well said.

[Vip3rC4in0022]

yeah it sucks losing your save reminds me when my data corrupted on pokemon

yeh thx for the "WARNING"

[AmidstStorm]

good heads up on this

[Atarix777]

Nice video - good to know that memorycard thing (I have a t japanese stuff, but I never get a word ^^)

[Monodi91]

Hmmm that's an interesting feature. Thanks for the advice.

[MrGoomba909]

Lesson- Always backup your saves (goes to back up saves)

[InfiniteGears]

tidy your room boi! lol

[alecjahn]

@InfiniteGears Yeah.... Haha! Every time I clean it, I realize I have more space to put junk! What a cycle.

[TanukiKGA]

Aw, man, that sucks :/ Nice of you to warn the rest of us though! :)

[ShinmaRyuu]

This is the big reason i have ass looking copies of games laying around and haggard controllers. I learned the lesson long ago if you care about it doesn't get attached to a modded device till after testing. I have fried carts, blown out lights, blew up speakers, the whole nine yards. If you do enough of this sort of thing your going to screw yourself eventually. Kinda goes with the hobby :D.

[shwink]

I've known about this for years based on what i read. Just used an old 59block one I didn't use as my Japanese one. Play sonic gems Japanese version with it. Good thing you did the switch mod, cause the swap disc doesn't solve the garbled text you get in some Japanese games (it has to do with the game accessing a Japanese font found on the bios).

[lukemorse1]

Lol, good advice man, I couldn't believe that it happend either

[pocketmego]

Attack of the Deuchbags something or other...LOL

Classic!

[silverperzon]

Its the Naruto Virus Don't play Naruto Games!!!, sorry for your loss Alec =(

[therealAgerbon]

lets pop that in and fuck some of that!

[kreeboy411]

Wow...that sucks :(

[ldisc66]

When you F with Naruto... Naruto F's with YOU! Thanks for the Surgeon General's Warning

[alecjahn]

Hahaha!

[bigbaddaddy11]

man that sucks ass! and you were almost done with sunshine as well....i feel for you bro.

[159329]

You Got Joked .........

[GamerBoyGU82]

Man it sucks you lost your saves, but I suppose it's all in the name of discovery. so the moral of the story is to have an extra mem card I guess?

[alecjahn]

@GamerBoyGU82 Yeah, exactly. (actually I have two cards... and one was basically blank and I meant to swap all my saves over and use the old one as backup... but I never did. Fuu-!!)

[SplatterTrigger]

Years ago I learned that lesson myself with my Gamecube.Thanks for sharing

[JmanRBS]

Damn alec, that suuuuuuuuuucks. I know how it feels to lose all memory card data. Live and learn ya know

[PearlJammer07]

Toshiba makes a good TV. I am going to get a Game Cube to play Resident Evil remake game I own. If anyone would like to make any suggestions for games to purchase. I would appreciate that. The region lock out thing on all game systems is just plain stupid. Glad the PS3 does not have region lock out!

[Branlol]

@PearlJammer07 Paper mario defenitely, and melee!

[Treasurefan02]

Damn that sucks, what a weird way to implement a saving system. Thankfully, this current gen of systems has a much better saving system (nearly limitless saving!), with the exception of copy "protected" saves >=[

[dbozan99]

Wow, that sucks dude, Thanks for the info. though. If I ever mod my GC, I'll set aside a memory card just for Japanese games.

perhaps it's time to buy an AR to cheat your way back to where you're save games were...

[zeldajunkielol2]

Aww that sucks dude, I would hate to lose my gamecube saves.I have this game called medabots infinity and it took me like 3 years and 60 hours of gameplay just to beat it and once I beat it guess what I didn't collect some stupid flower pots so I can't play the special levels.They pulled a new super mario bros on me...

[bignukkaplaya]

medabots infinity was the tits!

[zeldajunkielol2]

It was but damn was it a long game.

[youtubasoarus]

That blows. I love Luigis Mansion. I should also mention, if/when you are close to beating the game. If you have another memory card, save that game. Then you can run through the game again, whereas if you beat it, you can play through it again, but you'll have to unlock everything all over again (pain in the ass!)