Until now, that meant that North American games would try to erase a Japanese formatted memory card.

Memory card hardware in different regions is physically interchangeable, but memory cards have to be formatted for the region they’re being used in. Swiss will create separate virtual memory cards for each of the three worldwide regions (JPN/USA/EUR).Īs an aside about physical memory cards: Swiss r963 supports using any region memory card with any region game.

For physical memory cards, it now allows Japanese saves to work on US/PAL formatted memory cards and vice versa. Swiss compartmentalises saves from different regions on the virtual memory card. The final note I'll make is that memory card formatting is no longer an issue. That means that memory card emulation only works if you’re running your games directly from the GameCube’s optical drive or the GCLoader.Įxtrems believes that simultaneous game loads and memory card emulation should be possible from the same SD card adapter in the future, with the restriction that games with audio streaming (e.g., Wave Race: Blue Storm) wouldn’t be fully supported. It isn’t currently possible to save to a virtual memory card if you’re also running a game from an SD card adapter. The GCLoader firmware also doesn’t include write support (yet), so it remains to be seen if memory card emulation will ever be supported by the GCLoader alone.Īlso, there are currently restrictions on saving to an SD2SP2 or SDGecko if you are also using that device to load games, but this may change in the future. While the GCLoader supports SD card media, it is an optical drive emulator (ODE) in this context and uses a completely different bus to communicate with the GameCube than the SD Gecko or SD2SP2. To clarify before we continue, the GCLoader is not an SD card adapter for the purposes of this post. If you have a GCLoader and want to make use of this feature, you will also need an SD2SP2 or SDGecko to act as the memory card. A couple of important things to note though, the first is that the GCLoader alone does not support this feature it is still a read-only device so saving to the GCLoader's SD card is not possible.

N64 games that need memory card