Animal Crossing GC = NES Compilation!

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a1
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Animal Crossing GC = NES Compilation!

Postby a1 » April 2nd, 2007, 1:37 am

Animal Crossing files, chao data in Sonic Adventure (as Adamant noted), and F-Zero GX files are the only files I can think of that you can't copy onto another memory card. For Animal Crossing and chao data in Sonic the data is unique to everyone, so I guess the makers didn't want people to be able to transfer their towns and chaos over because it would kill the point of the game. For F-Zero GX it is purely because the makers are sadists and wanted everyone to have to play through the hardest game ever to unlock things.


Steerforth

Animal Crossing GC = NES Compilation!

Postby Steerforth » April 2nd, 2007, 8:54 am

Well, this is fizzling out. I may one day buy
 a card, but I would have to find AC on clearence to make it worth it. Thanks.

Funkmaster V

Animal Crossing GC = NES Compilation!

Postby Funkmaster V » April 2nd, 2007, 2:08 pm

Punchout requires doing an elaborate trick where you have to start another profile/ town and visit your existing one (requires two memory cards)... it's kind of a pain. Once I did it though, I was pleased. Look for it online, yo.

FUNK

m0zart1
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Animal Crossing GC = NES Compilation!

Postby m0zart1 » April 2nd, 2007, 2:26 pm

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Animal Crossing files, chao data in Sonic Adventure (as Adamant noted), and F-Zero GX files are the only files I can think of that you can't copy onto another memory card. For Animal Crossing and chao data in Sonic the data is unique to everyone, so I guess the makers didn't want people to be able to transfer their towns and chaos over because it would kill the point of the game. For F-Zero GX it is purely because the makers are sadists and wanted everyone to have to play through the hardest game ever to unlock things.

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That decision by game developers actually peeves me off greatly.  I can't tell you how annoyed I was when many of my XBOX games, which I put a large amount of time into, wouldn't copy onto a memory card.  It wasn't due to size, the option itself wasn't even there because of a flag set in the save files.  KOTOR, KOTOR 2, and several of my adventure games on the XBOX had that problem.

Some games, like Call of Cthulhu, you could copy with some special software, but when you tried to copy them back to the XBOX or 360, the game would detect that they were copies and would corrupt the save files.

My point in saving these games is not to provide them to peopel who don't want to play.  The point is to back up my game save, and it is annoying to me that this seems to happen most often on games that require the largest investment of time.  Obviously the developers and companies have every right to do this if they want, but I also have a right to resent them for it.

Steerforth

Animal Crossing GC = NES Compilation!

Postby Steerforth » April 16th, 2007, 8:33 pm

Update :

Acquired Animal Crosing in a 3 game (AC, Mario Golf, F-Zero) auction for $16 with shipping. I plan on selling the other 2 games to pay for AC.

There is a loaded AC memory card in perpeutal buy it now status for $21 with shipping. This is a screw deal, but I have to admit I admire the guy (or gal) doing it. What an awesome way to make money on gaming. Anyway, since it is my birthday I am going to treat myself.

Why you may care is the item description says there is 2 of every game on the card, I can trade the games to one other person one time. So, if anyone is interested, leave notice here and if everything works out we'll figure out a way to transfer the games for no charge, someone should benefit if they want. But first I'll have to buy it and see that it all checks out.


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