Hacking 4gb card is good enough for hacking?

[kupoid]

Hi all,
I just bought a brand new 3ds xl from Amazon for $175 (good price). It will arrive at 07/19/17. I have a question. Is the 4gb microsd that come with the console is already format and ready to use? and is it big enough to use for hacking the console? Thx

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Gal...ie=UTF8&qid=1500238584&sr=1-8&keywords=3ds+xl

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

It's... Meh. If you are gonna keep your Nand backups, hacks and games on there, it will run out of space in less than half a day, I recommend a 64GB one.

 

[Quantumcat]

If you want to be able to have a couple of games, you'll want 16GB or higher. 4GB will only be enough for 2-3 medium sized games.

 

[The Catboy]

With how cheap SD cards are nowadays, you should pretty much stick with 32GB to 64GB. 16GB is the lowest I would suggest when starting out.
4GB is just far too small when dealing with 3DS games and you will only be able to either get a few small ones or one big one.

 

[kupoid]

If you want to be able to have a couple of games, you'll want 16GB or higher. 4GB will only be enough for 2-3 medium sized games.

Thx, you misunderstand my question. I just ask about hacking. I don't use it to store game.

Is it ready to use out of the box?

 

[Quantumcat]

Thx, you misunderstand my question. I just ask about hacking. I don't use it to store game.

Yes you can use it to hack. Why not use the card you're going to use later though - then you don't need to copy over the files afterward, you can just start using it.

 

[The Catboy]

Thx, you misunderstand my question. I just ask about hacking. I don't use it to store game.

You really just use one SD card for everything, so I am still suggesting 32GB to 64GB
There's no reason to use a different SD card for hacking

 

[lemanuel]

Thx, you misunderstand my question. I just ask about hacking. I don't use it to store game.

I would say that even for "just hacking", you should use at least a 8GB card. But I agree with everyone else, sooner or later, you'll want to have more stuff and you'll need a card with more storage capacity. So better to just get one like that from the start. It's not like a 16GB or 32GB is really all that expensive nowadays anyway.

 

[kupoid]

So is it YES (good enough) or NO (no good)? Lol That all I need to know. Ty all

 

[lemanuel]

So is it YES (good enough) or NO (no good)? Lol That all I need to know. Ty all

It's up to you. But the "black and white" answer you want is, technically it is possible.

 

[CoolLink]

Yes it is large enough to complete the hacking process to install B9S and Luma.

 

[dotqurter_]

8GB is a good start, I use it with minor issues (I'm always only at <4gb left, and thats with a few games installed), but for 4gb, you'll only be able to store about 2 NAND dumps before it's full enough that it's almost useless. Unless you use your space wisely, I'd go for a 16+gb card.

 

[kupoid]

Yes it is large enough to complete the hacking process to install B9S and Luma.

Ty

 

[lordkaos]

You should think about how many games you want on your 3ds at all times and then make the decision of which size to buy your SD card, I went from a 16GB to a 32 GB, then to a 64 GB in just under 2 years, but, you know, you can't never have too many SD cards.

 

[Yepi69]

Remember, its Nintendo 64, not Nintendo 32, 16 or 8.

 

[RyanAnayaMc]

For literally just hacking, you can use really small SD cards. Just hacked an Old 3DS and all of the files I used for the purpose of hacking took up only 17.3MB. You can probably get away with even a 2GB card which comes with the older 3DS models. Of course, as people said here, you can't really do much with it.