Don't get Sandisk. for 2GB get an A-DATA. I use a 2GB Apacer (not sure how good it is), and it works fine.

 

it's not really possible to tell wether sandisk works good with m3 real.
i have sandisk 4GB class2 and i never had any SD-related problems.
however there are a lot of people who do have problems with sandisk.
(examples of SD-related problems: twewy freezing during one of the first cutscenes, and choppy video with movieplayer)

 

I have an 8GB Sandisk Class 4 microSDHC card myself (genuine) and it freezes in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin on occasion. I have it formatted to FAT32 explicitly set to 32KB cluster size. I confess I never tried the game in the non-Sakura firmware, I will later, but is anyone else with that card having problems with Portrait of Ruin with or without Sakura? Is anyone with a different card not having problems with that game in Sakura?

 

I've had the same problem and i've bought transcend class 6 microsd. PoR is playable right now, but sometimes it freezes too (very rarely).

 

I've got a 2GB Sandisk, 8GB Sandisk SDHC (Class 4) and a 4GB SDHC (Class 4) Kingston and all work 100%. I don't think testing cards on Sakura right now is a great option as it's still too new... If you are going to report games hanging on your cards, rather do it testing them on the last M3Real Official Firmware as the Sakura has bugs....

So far the Sandisk 8GB is the easiest to work with and it came with a kickass MicroSDHC Reader... My M3DS bundled Reader died after 7 days and I had to use my non-SDHC Sandisk Reader (Mobilemate SDDR-103) which others have said won't read or write SHDC cards and it works 100% with both my SDHC Cards... Go Figure.

TWEWY froze when the ROM was first released for me, but a new firmware version didn't help until I read somewhere that you need to delete the Save Game file which I did and now it works 100%.... so much for slow memory cards being the problem .. it was the firmware and the initial save game....

 

I have a 4 GB SanDisk (Class 2... when I found out it was too late) and to this date I have yet to experience any kind of slowdown, freeze or data corruption. Maybe it's just luck, dunno. I'm no expert so stick to what others have said, just wanted to clarify that not all the cards are the same even if they are the same brand/class.

 

you know you're reducing the lifetime of your SD by doing that right?

 

I've never heard that defrags lower SD life before, but then again it does make sense. Somewhere buried in manufacturer websites they provide specifications for the average lifetime for memory cards. I think it was something like 100,000 read/write cycles, maybe more. Basically, somewhere around the same as the time it takes to wear down the contacts for the memory card in the first place.

 

According to 70% of world religions, the apocalypse should have already come several times by now. Well, whilst waiting for something along those lines to happen, we can always enjoy playing new games on our handheld consoles for years to come

 

Exactly...