12.20
I checked the the GameCube and F-Zero GX manuals last night and it seems that both don’t have any special license clauses regarding the save game data. The lack of indicating otherwise would imply the savegames are owned by myself. Which in turn implicates that Nintendo would potentially be violating my civil rights by limiting the use of my own property by technological means (e.g. DRM).
Anyway, I phoned the Dutch Nintendo Technical Department and got a friendly bloke on the phone who told me that there indeed were a few games which locked their save games to the memory card they were created on, prohibiting any copying. When I asked him if there was any solution for this issue, he told me there was nothing that could be done. After which I explained how Nintendo could potentially be violating my civil right, I suddenly got an offer to send my memory cards to the Nintendo technical department and they would try to copy it for me.
In the end this leaves me with mixed feelings, I never considered Nintendo holy, but locking save games?
