That is just sad.
I think that Nintendo needs to hurry up and release the SD Card before more games start popping up like this...
I think that the franchise being 251 blocks it is a good thing, because now developers won't have to hold back, this is a good sign for the future... maybe developers will support the SD card afterall!
Until that time, the only option for saving the franchise mode is the "Game Cube Mega Memory 16X Memory Card"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...904411-8904129
The thing I love about this card is, it's not 16 interchangeable memory cards (like the 4x Memory cards on N64), it's acctually 16x the memory (944 blocks)!!! That's the same size as a Ps2 memory card, so you can save almost limitless data for GCN.
I suggest this to anybody who has a cube... it would take 16 first party cards to equals this one, that's over $200... and you get it all for $30...
Also, from what I know, it's supposed to be more reliable than all the N64 third party memory cards... I reccomend you buy one Nintendo card just in case for your "valuable" data, just in case.