It hasn't been too long, so I assume you remember my previous memory card woes. So... after having resent the payment, the dispute against me was closed, and I addressed the issue of my broken memory card. The guy immediately sends me another one (even before I sent back the old one), and to my delight, it worked perfectly. So I've been playing FFIX again, albeit at not as fast a pace as previously. However, when I started playing it (on my roommate's PS2, which is the communal PS2), I did find it strange that the first memory card slot wouldn't read it. It didn't read it poorly, it just didn't recognize that anything was in there at all. I thought that was weird, but it worked perfectly fine in the second slot, so I didn't worry about it. For the past week or so I've been playing, and now I've just gotten to exactly where I was when the previous memory card refused to recall my data. I got home from school today, popped in the game, and forgot that the first memory card slot wasn't reading the data and put the memory card in there. When it did recognize that it was there, I noticed where I had accidentally placed it. That's cool, I thought, the first slot is reading it now. It pulled up my saved game, and I chose to load it. At that moment, I thought, maybe I should have switched it to the second port, just in case. But it was too late. I got the loading screen, and when it reached the end of the time bar, a message popped up that said, "DATA CORRUPTED" and my saved game suddenly disappeared! I quickly returned to the PS2 browser only to find the same message that the previous card had given me, telling me that the card was unformatted and asking if I'd like to. And of course, when I tried, it always failed. Anybody heard of this happening before?
And how many times am I going to have to play through the same 7-8 hours of this damned game?!!!!?!