Memory Card Won't format

[ZeroV8]

At this point I have read every thread and watched every tutorial video out there, and none of them have been able to fix the problem.

Keep in mind this is my first time using this emulator.

I am playing Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door, and once I start up the game it tells me my memory card is corrupted and needs to be formatted.

Ok, that is to be expected.

However when I give it the OK to format it, the pointer immediately goes back to no and it doesnt format a memory card.

When I go to look in the user folder there is just SRAM.raw

Then when I reload the game before it starts it tells me "memory card file name in Slot A is incorrect"

Well alright, I go in and change SRAM.raw to memcard_a.USA.raw

Ok, game loads fine, and then it tells me the memory card is corrupted and needs to be formatted. Fine, we can do that.

Actually apparently not. The same thing happens again, where when I tell it to format the memory card and the cursor just goes right back down to no after I click yes and the card still isnt formatted.

My problem is that I can't play this game (or any other for that matter) without this formatting problem fixed.

What do I do?

[LPFaint99]

use a recent revision of dolphin

also sram.raw is not a memorycard

[ZeroV8]

This time it asks to create save data for the game, but when I tell it yes it just goes right down to no.

When I check the User folder SRAM.raw is there.

What do i do from here?

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Just an update to the situation.

I tried this with Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness aswell, and I told it to create a save data, but it did the thing again where I select yes but it acts like I selected no.

However, when I look in the User folder it appears to have created memcard_a.USA.raw

When I try to load that as the memory card it says that it is not a large enough file to be a memory card.

[LPFaint99]

it sounds like the down key (or button or joystick) is being held

[ZeroV8]

I dont know how I could be so stupid but that fixed it xD

But we arent done yet.

I get another message after it formats the card saying "Could not write memory card file"

[ZeroV8]

Another update:

When I try to load memcard_a.USA.raw it gives me the message "Failed to read header correctly (0x0000-0x1FFF)"

[LPFaint99]

delete the memory card file, and try again, at some point it got corrupted.