Can official US PS2 memory cards save Japanese data?

[gtmtnbiker]

I do have Japanese Loderunner on my combined U.S. saved Gamecube memory card. Nintendo site mentions something about formating or preparing a memory card based on country. Could be an issue if my save might eventually wipe out other saves.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/system ... essory.jsp

Here's the quote you're referring to:

If the system asks you to format the card, it means the card has been corrupted or was formatted for use in another country. You will need to format the card. All saved game data will be lost.

Yes, I can see how a card formatted for a different region might not work properly. I have no way of checking this since all of my consoles are NTSC. By using a mod chip or Free Loader, you can fake the console into accepting an out-of-region game. It saves the data with the only real difference being the GameID AFAIK.

So what happens if you put a NTSC formatted memory card into an NTSC-J console? Will it ask you to format the card?

[CRTGAMER]

I do have Japanese Loderunner on my combined U.S. saved Gamecube memory card. Nintendo site mentions something about formating or preparing a memory card based on country. Could be an issue if my save might eventually wipe out other saves.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/system ... essory.jsp

Here's the quote you're referring to:

If the system asks you to format the card, it means the card has been corrupted or was formatted for use in another country. You will need to format the card. All saved game data will be lost.

Yes, I can see how a card formatted for a different region might not work properly. I have no way of checking this since all of my consoles are NTSC. By using a mod chip or Free Loader, you can fake the console into accepting an out-of-region game. It saves the data with the only real difference being the GameID AFAIK.

So what happens if you put a NTSC formatted memory card into an NTSC-J console? Will it ask you to format the card?

Only have a U.S. Gamecube and lucky has not asked for any reformats.

[Hobie-wan]

I don't really have any ideas for you, but I too have Japanese game saves mixed with US ones on my Madcatz and Sony memory cards.

[the7k]

Bought another new memory card and it works.

The memory card I was using was a dud, apparently. Even though I could save American games to it, everytime I'd read the card, it would be empty. Also, even though it was an 8mb card, it said it only had around 5mb of free space without any data being on the card.

[blackmagepwns]

Yeah, I've bought a few duds too back in the day.

[CRTGAMER]

Bought another new memory card and it works.

The memory card I was using was a dud, apparently. Even though I could save American games to it, everytime I'd read the card, it would be empty. Also, even though it was an 8mb card, it said it only had around 5mb of free space without any data being on the card.

Congrats on replacement card is working out.

Not sure but if you haven't stomped on that corrupt Memory card for losing your saves yet, maybe you can reformat it somehow. Action Replay Memory Manager and certain PS2 games have a format option.