Hacking Acekard2i and large .NDS files.

[twiztidsinz]

Those who didn't get bricked were either already formatted in fat16, or they had one of those few SD cards that don't actually get the AK2i brickedI think that last statement is backwards.
It seems that there's only a few cards that brick the AK2i with large games.

Also, Just since some people seem to think formatting a 4 gig card to FAT16 will make them lose storage space... thats false, I still have access to the full capacity of my Micro SD card.People think that formatting a 4GB MicroSD to FAT16 will lose space because that's what the specification states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT16#Final_FAT16
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In 1988 this improvement became more generally available through MS-DOS 4.0 and OS/2 1.1. The limit on partition size was dictated by the 8-bit signed count of sectors per cluster, which had a maximum power-of-two value of 64. With the standard hard disk sector size of 512 bytes, this gives a maximum of 32 KB clusters, thereby fixing the "definitive" limit for the FAT16 partition size at 2 gigabytes.

 

[RandomRedMage]

My bad, well I know of 3 confirmed non bricked SD cards, Kingston and SanDisk. :/ I dont have a full list since yaknow.. dont have the money to go testing everything XD.

As for the specifications of FAT16, I cant claim to be an encyclopedia of its full capabilities, but I formated with a cluster size of 64 KB and can use the full extent of my 4 gig card. So I guess those specs are not completely accurate to today. :/

 

[twiztidsinz]

My bad, well I know of 3 confirmed non bricked SD cards, Kingston and SanDisk. :/ I dont have a full list since yaknow.. dont have the money to go testing everything XD.

As for the specifications of FAT16, I cant claim to be an encyclopedia of its full capabilities, but I formated with a cluster size of 64 KB and can use the full extent of my 4 gig card. So I guess those specs are not completely accurate to today. :/

It CAN use 64KB clusters, but it's not standard and not supported.
It's the same way that the effective limit of FAT32 is 2TB, but you can get 8TB by using a non-standard 64KB cluster.

Also, you don't need to BE an encyclopedia when we live in an age where arguably the largest encyclopedia is at our fingertips:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Largest_encyclopedia