Hacking Anyway to use more than 64GB SD card internally?

[Random Joe]

http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/blog/2013...-upgrade-your-3ds-sd-card-to-64gb-and-beyond/


liked posted above this is what you need to do

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

Panasonic formatter wouldn't work for this?

 

[Jayro]

this thread seems to be full of misinformation, so let me just clear the air for the clueless and misinformed:

64GB and 128GB SDHC cards CAN be used.

Partitioning tools like Gparted, PartitionAssistant by AOMEI, or Partition Master by EASEUS can make this very easy, and there are trial versions out there of those last two mentioned. Just fill the drives with a FAT32 partition, with 4K or 8K cluster size for best performance, and you're good to go.

 

[tony_2018]

this thread seems to be full of misinformation, so let me just clear the air for the clueless and misinformed:

64GB and 128GB SDHC cards CAN be used.

Partitioning tools like Gparted, PartitionAssistant by AOMEI, or Partition Master by EASEUS can make this very easy, and there are trial versions out there of those last two mentioned. Just fill the drives with a FAT32 partition, with 4K or 8K cluster size for best performance, and you're good to go.

Thats what I told him to do, try a different software. The only one he tried was the one created from Nintendo. GOD!!!

 

[kamesenin888]

Use the fat32format.exe it's command prompt use but it's very easy and powerful I did my 64 gb micro sds with it

 

[y2jdmbfan]

Why would anyone need an internal card that big? Just curious.

 

[night_hawk]

I have a 500 GB FAT32 partition on my external hard drive, i use it with xbox360 and Wii, formatted with EASEUS partition master.

 

[pedrobarca]

One thing I would like to have cleared up once and for all: Has anyone a 64GB SD or bigger in his 3DS and has filled more than 32 GB of it with .cia? And does the 3DS recognize all of the games and does all of them work?

I remember that you could use a FAT32 formated 64 GB micro SD with Supercard DS2, but if you fill it above 32GB, some games aren't recognized anymore by the card.

 

[samiam144]

One thing I would like to have cleared up once and for all: Has anyone a 64GB SD or bigger in his 3DS and has filled more than 32 GB of it with .cia? And does the 3DS recognize all of the games and does all of them work?

I remember that you could use a FAT32 formated 64 GB micro SD with Supercard DS2, but if you fill it above 32GB, some games aren't recognized anymore by the card.

Yes, the 3ds will even show the amount of blocks you have. Again, look at this guide:
http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/blog/2013...-upgrade-your-3ds-sd-card-to-64gb-and-beyond/

 

[tony_2018]

One thing I would like to have cleared up once and for all: Has anyone a 64GB SD or bigger in his 3DS and has filled more than 32 GB of it with .cia? And does the 3DS recognize all of the games and does all of them work?

I remember that you could use a FAT32 formated 64 GB micro SD with Supercard DS2, but if you fill it above 32GB, some games aren't recognized anymore by the card.

Its been done, member on maxconsole used a 128GB SD card because he had a shit ton of CIA's to install.

 

[blazingwolf]

So this worked:

http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/blog/2013...-upgrade-your-3ds-sd-card-to-64gb-and-beyond/

Windows now sees it as 1 64GB parititon, whats weird is, the 3DS saw it at 460000 blocks before I did this change, and after the ugprade its the same. So I went online and 32GB roughly equates to 256000 blocks, so 64GB must be equal to 5120000...accounting for partition size loss...the 3DS already saws the card as 64GB. I can't explain this but everything is sorted out now, thanks for the help

 

[xdrako23x]

Format it in FAT32

 

[kamesenin888]

Its been done, member on maxconsole used a 128GB SD card because he had a shit ton of CIA's to install.

Also he noticed that there is a limit in the quantity of installed programs, it was like 100 or so without using folders, I think that was the solution

 

[loco365]

I read an article on GoNintendo a couple of years ago, and yes, a 128GB card formatted to FAT32 will work on a 3DS.

Source: http://www.gonintendo.com/s/184255-using-a-128gb-sd-card-in-your-3ds

 

[Lumstar]

Not sure why Nintendo would limit the 3DS at 32 GBs. Pretty much makes going all-digital redundant.

Legal reasons. ExFAT and NTFS are both Microsoft technology.

 

[loco365]

Legal reasons. ExFAT and NTFS are both Microsoft technology.

Which is probably why the Wii U uses its own filesystem for the USB devices it has, so that it can overcome the file size limitations and still be able to go larger than 32GB.

 

[Jayro]

What filesystem does the Wii U use, and has it been reverse-engineered yet? Or is it just WBFS?

I'm also saddened that exFAT hasn't been added to more devices yet, since Samsung open-sourced their exFAT driver after it leaked online. TVs and set-top Blu-ray players really need exFAT so we can load movies from a USB stick that are are over 4GB in size, without having to transcode the movie below 4GB first.