Hacking SDXC working on Acekard 2i

arm9_inside · May 2, 2019

The other day I needed the 32gb sd card I normally keep in my Acekard 2i to replace a failed 16gb I was using in my zipit z2 which absolutely will not work with SDXC cards, the only spare card I had lying around was a 64gb Samsung Evo card that I normally kept in my Asus Windows tablet that I never use so I formatted it to FAT32 with 64k clusters and copied the contents from the 32gb card onto the 64gb card originally expecting the Acekard not to boot but lo and behold it actually works.

Vultra · May 3, 2019

Woah that’s awesome! Who would’ve known, also that’s a very fresh mint DS lite you got there!

arm9_inside · May 3, 2019

Vultra said:
Woah that’s awesome! Who would’ve known, also that’s a very fresh mint DS lite you got there!

I don't think anyone's ever really tried before because SDXC cards used to be so expensive in the past now 64gb can be had for like 10 bucks, I wouldn't have ever bothered if my 16gb card in the zipit wouldn't have failed. I bought this mint lite off ebay a few years ago and when I first opened the package I though I was duped because the screen was scratched to hell but then I realized it was just a protector and I peeled it up and it was perfect underneath.

Psionic Roshambo · May 3, 2019

I think mostly SD cards are backwards compatible, the only down side is you will not get the full speed? And some devices can only access X amount of storage. (really really old devices) I have an old USB card reader that will not access anything SD over 4GB's but everything else I own has no problems. I also have a M3 Simply and I am pretty sure it refuses anything over 2GB's

That was always such a pain.

Either way it's cool it works for you

I play my DS games these days on a New 3DS XL with DSi Menu++ off of a 256GB MicroSD card works pretty good (takes a couple of seconds to boot DS games but it works.)

It's weird I like the 3DS games but every once in a while I like to boot up some DS stuff still.

DeadSkullzJr · May 5, 2019

Seems you appeared late to the party, this information was already known, I currently run 128GB in my flashcart just for the hell of it. You use third party software to achieve something like this, before you ask, YES this would work even on a 3DS, rumor has it though that the higher the size the slower the console runs, I guess it has something to do with the console not being able to handle bigger partitions than what it was initially designed for (32GB). In the state of flashcarts, you generally won't see performance drops (that really depends on the card you have), crashes may occur often on some cards because flashcarts are initially only SDHC compatible.

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