I booted up Fire Emblem: RD for the first time yesterday, looking forward to importing my Fire Emblem: PoR data over and getting busy. When I tried to create a save file the game said my PoR data was corrupted and needed to be erased. I then popped in PoR and it also gave me this message, but then allowed me to load up my saved games. I resest PoR and tried again, but got the corrupt message and the game froze. I then tried RD again but, you guessed it, corrupt data she tells me.
So I went to GameFaqs and posted about this problem(if the data was corrupt, why did it let me load my saved games on PoR the first time). I didn't play PoR on Easy(easy data can't be transferred), so that wasn't the problem. A few posters there alerted me to a problem that I wasn't aware of: apparently the 1,000 block memory cards will corrupt data moreso than other cards. I have an official Nintendo 1000 card, so I really didn't expect this to happen. However, I have had one other Cube game's data corrupt on me since I got my Wii...Pinball Hall of Fame. I thought maybe it was because it was a budget game, but never thought it could be because of the memory card. When Nintendo first released the 1000 card, I do recall hearing that certain games were incompatible with it(Backyard sports games for example).
So this has me wondering if it's the card itself causing the problem, or perhaps the way the card and the Wii interact with each other. I've played SSBM, Monkey Ball 2, and Soul Calibur II on my Wii using the same memory card with no problems. Maybe only certain games corrupt on the card or when using the card with the Wii? Nonetheless, I thought I'd put the word out. One of the posters on GameFaqs said that he was able to use his Fire Emblem: PoR data by transferring it to a smaller memory card and then trying it with RD. I have a few 250 cards, so I'm going to be backing up my more important save data on those. Hopefully nothing else becomes corrupted in the mean time.
"I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself."
