I've read that the New Nintendo 3DS has a SD card size limit of 32 GB. I happen to have a 64 GB Micro SD around. Off hand, does anyone know if it will work, just give me 32 GB of it?
As long as your SDXC has a SDHC support you can format the thing FAT32.
The reader/writer also has to support the standard. A SD card reader from 2000 can't read a 4GB SDHC from today.
On the microSD/HC/XC there is a controller chip that tells how to act. For the microSD, this chip would be as small as pinhead or part of the memory module. That would be this thing, as an example:
When that controller drops support for the older standard, it is to save more space for NAND. You end up with a reader/writer that can no longer read a "new and improved" SD/HC/XC.
In terms of reader/writer, that would be your N/3DS, etc.
yeah, that is true.i just meant, i'm pretty certain, (if you have a nice disk tool), you can put any filesystem on any storage medium
yeah, that is true.
Once you got a microSDXC with no SDHC backward support, it will not matter if you can format that "new and improved" microSDXC with the FAT32, your N3DS will not be able to read and write to it as how I explained it previously.
SD cards (micro or whatever) are formatted with extFAT, a Microsoft proprietary file system that can't be used on the 3DS systems. However, if it's anything like regular SD cards, you can format the card to use FAT32 instead, and it'll work with the full 64GB. You just won't get SDXC speeds out of it.
sure, but i thought it was just a storage medium, nothing at all to do with what filesystem is on it, surely i can put any filesystem that i want on any storage medium... yes?
Do you even got a EZ-Flash IV with a 4GB miniSD?There is no such thing. The two standards are electronically identical, only the filesystem (and possibly the access speed) has changed.