Any help/responses to these questions are appreciated. And please read my short story relating to the questions, it'll only take a minute.
Short story: I was playing Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door (using 3661), and there were a few glitches, but it was playable, but at one point (you unlock a cage) it froze completely and I could find no setting to get around it. It was a known issue, and one of the fixes was to try the newest dolphin (3972) so I downloaded it, and made a backup of my save file (cooliscool's memory card program, tx by the way) then I tried 3972 but it said my memory card was corrupted
. Also, in this process, my dolphin 3661 was somehow deleted. So,
1. Is there a way to get my memory card working without the data being erased (it was many hours of playing that I don't want to redo)?
2. Failing that, does somebody else have a save of Paper Mario TTYD that is at about the same place I was (letting the puni elder out of the cage)
3. And does anyone know any other fixes for the problem? Because I tried it with 3972 (without a memcard) and it wouldn't even start?
Thanks a lot.
Short story: I was playing Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door (using 3661), and there were a few glitches, but it was playable, but at one point (you unlock a cage) it froze completely and I could find no setting to get around it. It was a known issue, and one of the fixes was to try the newest dolphin (3972) so I downloaded it, and made a backup of my save file (cooliscool's memory card program, tx by the way) then I tried 3972 but it said my memory card was corrupted

1. Is there a way to get my memory card working without the data being erased (it was many hours of playing that I don't want to redo)?
2. Failing that, does somebody else have a save of Paper Mario TTYD that is at about the same place I was (letting the puni elder out of the cage)
3. And does anyone know any other fixes for the problem? Because I tried it with 3972 (without a memcard) and it wouldn't even start?
Thanks a lot.