How to recover chao data if you recieve the error message

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How to recover chao data if you recieve the error message

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Just now, my game was giving me this message:
SEGA, like they knew it was gonna happen, wrote:Data could not be read!
Please go to Memory Card data management and erase this file.
Press A to continue without saving.
I was mad and sad because I thought I had lost 7 years of hard work.

So I decided to pull an NES.

If you didn't follow the dreaded Blue Box Of Death, and kept your corrupted data, do this:
  1. Take out the Memory Card.
  2. Point the End you insert towards your face.
  3. Blow without spitting.
  4. Insert into Gamecube.
  5. Go To Chao World.
I now have all my chao, all my rings and everything is right with the world.

Now, this only works with that ONE BOX. If you have to reformat your entire memory card, you're outta luck.
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Post by Lt Waffles »

This is why if you have 2 memory cards you ALWAYS ALWAYS clone your chao and send them to the spare memory card in case your data is corrupted. This is how I keep my data.
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Post by More Cowbell »

Is this really justified as a sticky? I do that all the time; I'm sure it is common knowledge.
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Actually, yes, you wouldn't believe how many people have come asking if there was a way to get their chao back. I didn't know until just now. It's best to have this stickied as a quick-reference.
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Dang I formatted it but On my other memory card I have game with 60 emblems and I copied it XD
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This only happened to me once. I was trying to start a new chao file, and I happend to get normal chao from the eggs in the garden, which I never had. When I tried to exit, it didn't save. I thought there was some sort of glitch with the game because my first chao file doesn't have ANY normal chao. The chao hatched from the garden eggs were white. When that message came up, I thought I could never have normal without having my file corrupt. Luckily I've never seen that message since.

What's the "blue box of death"?
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Drouge87 wrote:
SEGA, like they knew it was gonna happen, wrote:Data could not be read!
Please go to Memory Card data management and erase this file.
Press A to continue without saving.
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Another thing you can do is go to the memory card screen and move the file to a different memory card I had to do this with other game saves because my "competition pro" memory card was corrupted.

One last thing, never buy competition pro accessories-they always break down! :darkno:
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Me and my sis did this. Also when our characters starting wigging out because of the dust or something in the controller. Very useful.
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This happened to me once but I lost 3 years of hard work. :(
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Post by Sora the Hedgehog »

Drouge87 wrote:Now, this only works with that ONE BOX. If you have to reformat your entire memory card, you're outta luck.
At this point, the instructions sound a bit vague. One Box? Could you re-explain this for me?
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Post by Speeps »

^ if you read the first post, it says that it only works with that error message, and if it doesn't work your out of luck.
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once i really had to format my memory card
since then i always copy my data

anyway if you read the dates you see its a real old topic
EDIT: oops it's a sticky lol
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wish that worked for me :I
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Oh my gosh! It worked! I was so worried that my poor little chao would be gone forever! :D

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IT DIDN'T WORK!!! :herocry: :darksway: :chaocry: No I want Melody and Cody back! I blew my memeory card and everything!!! I might have to transfer them on a friends memory card or something and see if it works!!! :heroangry: :darkangry: :chaoangry:
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13zath13 wrote:IT DIDN'T WORK!!! :herocry: :darksway: :chaocry: No I want Melody and Cody back! I blew my memeory card and everything!!! I might have to transfer them on a friends memory card or something and see if it works!!! :heroangry: :darkangry: :chaoangry:
same thing happpend with my dx and i dont think you can transfer
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This never happened to me. Also the guy who posted above me are you sharing an account or something? Also thanks for this Drouge I may need this when I get back to chao.
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Though this has never happened to me, I hope never happens in the future cause I'd be like this if it did :chaocry: :darkcry: :herocry:


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Drouge87 wrote:So I decided to pull an NES.
What has a NES got to do with this?
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Yay thankies
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Shadic: Back in the days of Cartridges, if it wasn't working properly, you'd take it out, blow in the cartridge, and the slot where it went on the console, then put it back in. That's what you do here.
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I backed up my chao on my computer, it's a pain in the neck to bring them from the GC memory card all the way to the PC though. But it's cool that I still have my 5 years of work. :herosway: :chaohappy: :darksway:

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Wow, I remember on my game cube version I had a few mem cards with almost 1 of every type of chao.... Then the mem card with my fav chao in it 100% crashed and nothing I did could fix it.... (That card even had my chaos chao X_x)

Well anyway I got them back... The hard way.... X_x
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Post by AkaruTheYoshiChao »

Mine has never crashed like that. Thank goodness it's never happened to me. I don't want to lose my favorites. (especially Hoax, she's some kind of shiny purple/pink two-tone chao.) :darkno:
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