Hardware 1st Party VS 3 Party GC memory Cards.

[DJPlace]

i really need one but... i heard rumors of people saying 3rd party don't work that well. i can get a nyko x16 or a 251 offical nintendo brand i don't know what to do... i don't want to waste my money on something that does not work... let me know...

 

[Kree_boy]

I have a Madcatz x16 and it works just fine.

 

[DJPlace]

thanks for the answer i guess i'm going have to risk it then... madcazt x16 here i come.

 

[Diffusion]

Never used the loader, but the madcatz memory cards I've had suck. Get corrupted randomly every once in a while and I lose all my files.

 

[SilverSurfR]

I have a Madcatz x16 and it works just fine.

Same here... was the only thing I could find yesterday.

 

[david432111]

Just use the official ones. When in doubt go the official route(Hey that rhymes!)

 

[Kree_boy]

Never used the loader, but the madcatz memory cards I've had suck. Get corrupted randomly every once in a while and I lose all my files.

I got mine when it was first released and have never had a problem with it.
maybe i got lucky...but ive never had a corrupt game save...or load problem from the card.

 

[smurphyzeke]

I'd go with an official one. Got got a 3rd party one and lost all my data, which made me stop playing my GC for a few years.

Lucky for me, a few months ago I got a new official Nintendo 1019 block memory card for about $4 at Toys R Us.

 

[Miles]

I was having a few problems with saves, but I believe that is because I was switching around cMIOS's, and so far since sticking with Wani's cMIOS I haven't had any problems.

 

[Lazycus]

My good old Datel Max Drive is still going strong. One of their best products ever.

 

[Raki]

back when I used my gamecube regulary I had a 64 MB Memory Card from BigBen, which got wiped 2 times with all my saves...wouldn't trust this

 

[jumpman17]

TOPIC MOVED to "Wii - Hardware, Devices and Utilities"

 

[Trune]

There's nothing wrong with 3rd party memory cards. They are all flash memory and as we know most of that comes from Samsung / other Flash memory producer.

Deal extreme offer super cheap ones too;
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4040
and
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4417 for a larger one.

 

[Slowking]

I have a 32MB Memory card from BigBen since from the first batch. It was heavily used and never lost any data. Though I heard that later batches weren't that good. If you have the money, get an original card and you'll be on the save side.
If you get a 3rd party anyway you should back it up regulary. There a a few pretty easy to use tools for Wii to do this.

 

[innercy]

sorry i'm gonna ask n00b question.
will this gamecube memory work with wii save file as well?.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-26-49-en-70-5g4.html

 

[mugel0190]

I got this one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6214 and never experienced any corruption with it for half a year now...

 

[OSW]

I got this one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6214 and never experienced any corruption with it for half a year now...

I have this one too. Although i have barely used it, it has worked fine and is a masterpiece! (apart from the colour lol).

The theoretical maximum size of a GC memory card is 128MBit, or 16Mbytes.

That card has 2x 128Mbit chips in it, with a switch, so you effectively have double the maximum capacity (or 2 cards in one slot lol). This also should theoretically allow easy isolation of savegame regions, which I've heard is a problem when mixing savegames (the card may format).

256Mbit is like a gazillion blocks, great for the GC backup launcher if u have heaps of backups