Gaming What is the biggest SD card for the Wii console?

Gorkensnorkel · Jul 1, 2021

The Nintendo site says 32GB but I have a 64GB in it now. I was thinking of putting some Gamecube games on it so I might need a larger card but I am unsure how big it can go. Any advice would be great, thanks.

Edit: I read somewhere you can use larger SDXC cards since they are fastter, like this one here:

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-256G...256&qid=1625095308&s=electronics&sr=1-6&th=1&

raging_chaos · Jul 1, 2021

I used a 512GB card just fine. I doubt there's a limit to SD size card usage.

ChiefReginod · Jul 1, 2021

The SD slot bottlenecks at about 25 MBps regardless of how fast the SD card is, so you're not going to see any advantages if the card is rated faster than that.

Gorkensnorkel · Jul 1, 2021

Fantastic, thanks!

CMDreamer · Jul 1, 2021

The bigger the SD card storage, the bigger the pain when it fail... Use and external HDD with a Y-USB cable instead.

JuanMena · Jul 1, 2021

Depends not on size, but on the class/version and brand of SDs.

It's really a matter of try and see.

raging_chaos · Jul 1, 2021

CMDreamer said:
The bigger the SD card storage, the bigger the pain when it fail... Use and external HDD with a Y-USB cable instead.

Unless I've missed some major development you still have to run Gamecube games off SD cards with Nintendont. A Wii U formatted HDD is only good for Wii U games.

CMDreamer · Jul 2, 2021

raging_chaos said:
Unless I've missed some major development you still have to run Gamecube games off SD cards with Nintendont. A Wii U formatted HDD is only good for Wii U games.

Thread's title:

What is the biggest SD card for the Wii console?

Unless I'm missing something... I'm not wrong with my recommendation.

raging_chaos · Jul 2, 2021

Read what you've got in bold he's asking for SD card suggestions not a hard drive. Why would one ask that specifically? If his existing HDD is formatted as WBFS it can only be used for Wii games, same goes for a Wii U formatted drive. Nintendont is only compatible with FAT32. If OP was already using an NTFS drive he could add a FAT32 partition to it but I don't think that's the case here since he's not asking for information on how to do that. Unlike a decade ago large capacity SD cards that can fit the GC library are pretty cheap these days. Also for anyone using Wii mode on Wii U its a hassle having to maintain two different hard drives and making sure the correct one is plugged in during boot. SD cards can sometimes just be an easier solution.

bitleman · Jul 10, 2021

CMDreamer said:
The bigger the SD card storage, the bigger the pain when it fail... Use and external HDD with a Y-USB cable instead.

Do SD cards fail more often than HDD? I'm using a SD card with Nintendon't since years and I never had any problem. Gamecube games are not very big when you shrunk them you can put a lot in a 32GB card.

raging_chaos · Jul 10, 2021

bitleman said:
Do SD cards fail more often than HDD?

Only if you write tons of GB worth of data to it on a daily basis, that will wear out the flash faster than normal. Reading from one doesn't degrade a card, at most all we are doing is writing small save files to them. Flash memory from 10-15 years ago sucked but that's not the case with modern memory.

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