12.19
When I bought my GameCube I was on a relatively tight budget, so I chose to buy a third-party 16M memory card. The card still works fine. Today I decided to buy an official Nintendo memory card to backup all of my savegames. I seriously don’t want to lose my savegames, I spent a lot of time unlocking stuff.
So I inserted the new memory card and started copying my savegames one-by-one. Until I got to the F-Zero GX game data file, all of a sudden the option to Copy was greyed out. After some googling it seems impossible to copy the saved F-Zero game data.
At first I thought I hate Amusement Vision/SEGA because they chose to lock the savegame, but then again, it was Nintendo who implemented a DRM system into the GameCube which allowed AV/SEGA to lock the savegame. So the real evil here was done by Nintendo!
I should check their license, it’ll boil down to who actually (legally) owns the savegames, me or Nintendo. If I (legally) own the savegames Nintendo may be knowingly violating my constitutional rights.
