Alright, I’m freaking out and need some help.
I’ve been working on the same Pokemon Colosseum save for nearly 10 years. I have 26 hours logged in it, and I’d like to back it up, use it on my AYN Thor, etc. But I can’t seem to move it.
I have one of those big, multi-stage 512MB memory cards that most of my saves are on. I got it long before the MemCardPro was a thing.
The save works. I can boot my game, I can load it. I can go to the memory card viewer in the GameCube’s dashboard and see it. But I can’t move it. I need to move it.
In the GameCube dash, if I have the 512MB card in (and selected the right VMC on the card) and the MemCardPro in, it sees both. Loaded card in Slot A, empty MemCardPro in Slot B. But if I select my save, Move and Copy are greyed out; only “Erase” is available.
If I boot Pokemon Colosseum and load the save, I don’t get the option to save it to an alternate memory card. And if I swap memory cards and try to save to the empty one it tells me that it’s not the same memory card it was loaded from, so I can’t save.
In Swiss, if I hit the eject button at the bottom and switch to the memory card viewer, that just seems broken. It only ever shows empty “16MB” memory cards for both slots.
Anyone have any ideas/suggestions for how I might capture this save?
I even made a “MCBACKUP” folder on my GCLoader SD card just in case.
It doesn’t let me choose another memory card as a target, just the GCLoader or SP2SD, which it won’t read.
OK I got it to work. Unfortunately this was victim to the typical “poor documentation void.”
Swiss HAS a file manager. You can hit the Eject button at the bottom to browse memory cards and etc. On the version I had, this showed empty cards for all memory cards.
I updated Swiss. Now it shows a full memory card with all my saves. But I can’t do anything with them. Forums and websites everywhere detail that Swiss can copy and backup memory card files, the UI itself refers to that action as the capability when you browse a memory card but there’s no functionality. If I hit A on a save, nothing happens. If I hit any other button, either it changes navigation, or nothing happens. There’s no move, copy, no options anywhere that I can find.
Back to GCMM, then!
The problem I appear to encounter is its limited device support. (It hasn’t been updated in years, after all.)
It cannot back up saves to other memory cards. Bizarre limitation.
It supports the SD2SP2 and the GCLoader (supposedly) but based on some Github/forum skimming, they never actually figured out how to write to the GCLoader. Well that’s not very useful, huh?
For some reason it wasn’t reading my SD2SP2, at all. Well it’s kinda redundant with the GCLoader, so I reformatted the memory card and was then able to read the SD2SP2 in GCMM and copy my save to it, thankfully.
Problem solved! Working on getting it imported into Dolphin now.
