What brand of memory card are you using?
I bought a 8M memory card (forget the brand, it is Interact??? or something)from K-mart. It has a disk (Memory manager or something) that is supposed to be loaded up before you can save. I followed all the directions, but couldn\'t get my only game GTA3 to save. I am taking it back tonight and going to spend a little more to get a quality memory card.
The reason I mentioned this is I saw the 16MB version at Kmart and wonder if that is what you have, cause I get the same message of no memory card detected in slot 1.
Dogkat1