Hacking Kingston 2, 4 or 8GB in terms of rom compatability?

Fel · Dec 22, 2009

Does it make a difference with M3Real + GBA exp. if you have the 2, 4 or 8 GB Kingston? Like, does the Castlevania or TWEWY freeze or lag with the larger memory cards or not? I heard the 2 Gb one runs fine with all games, but I'm not sure about the 4 or 8 GB ones. Or is there any other high capacity memory card for the M3Real which manages to run all games without glitches? Thanks!

jackryan · Dec 22, 2009

I've used all three sizes (2,4,8) without any problems.

evandixon · Dec 22, 2009

I'm pretty sure that game compatibility is independent of card size.

theplasmastorm · Dec 22, 2009

what matters more is their class (2,4,6) and manufacturer (sandisk, kingston)

Joe88 · Dec 22, 2009

theplasmastorm said:
what matters more is their class (2,4,6) and manufacturer (sandisk, kingston)

class only refers to write speeds so it really has nothing to do with the games running since pretty much its always reading and writing a small amount of data time to time

DeltaBurnt · Dec 23, 2009

Joe88 said:
theplasmastorm said:

what matters more is their class (2,4,6) and manufacturer (sandisk, kingston)

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class only refers to write speeds so it really has nothing to do with the games running since pretty much its always reading and writing a small amount of data time to time

Actually, if I recall some games may be accessed differently and may require to have their data loaded a little bit faster (thus the reason for the slowdown in the opening of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow).

I got a Class 6 micro sd card and any games that had any sort of problem (TWEWY with it's freezing cutscene, Dawn of Sorrow's opening slowing, and Portrait of Ruin's freezing) were completely fixed. The funny thing is that the new card was Transcend which is (from what I've read) less reliable than Kingston or Sandisk (my original micro sd that had any sort of problem was Kingston Class 4).

Class does seem to make a difference, but there's only like 3 or 4 games with problems, so it shouldn't actually make a difference.

Dark Justice · Dec 31, 2009

I just bought a class 6 Transcend 8GB Memory card so I hope it has no problems..

rockstar99 · Dec 31, 2009

im using a sandisk class 4 8gb with my m3i zero and its great

RchUncleSkeleton · Dec 31, 2009

I'm guessing a majority of the cards made probably all come out of the same chinese factory and just get different brands stamped on them. I have two adata 4GB class 6 cards(one for my m3 and one for my daughters) and haven't run into a single game that has had problems that wasn't related to some sort of AP or a bug in firmware. I'd recommend adata as their relatively cheap(got mine for $7each a year ago) and work perfectly fine.

XXNatus · Dec 31, 2009

As far as I know sd cards can affect performance on a handful of games, but they do not affect compatibility.

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