Hacking Memory Card speeds?

[mike1984]

Anyone know if there is a difference when you are acytually playing the ROM? I bought a Transcend 512 MB compact flash that has 45X. Is this fast enough? Is there any slowdown? What does the speed of the card actually mean?

 

[mike1984]

An answer would be nice...

 

[tama_mog]

why not do a search? plent of posts containing information regarding card speeds. You didn't list what device you used either. If it's a m3, visit www.m3wiki.com to see other people's experience with their media.

 

[mike1984]

I'm talking about the Compact Flash itself. Not the flashcard. I have a Supercard CF btw but it's irrelevant. Basically, my question is, will games run smoother if I use SD, SD Micro, or Compact Flash? Does the memory card your using have any effect on how the game plays or no?

 

[Rayout]

I'm not sure if the read/access times for different types of cards carry over but I am using an A-data 50x sd card and don't notice any slowdown with ds games and the only GBA game with slowdown that I've played is Kingdom Hearts (and only when there are a bunch of those green health restore/moogle point sphere's bouncing around, none during gameplay).

So there have been some posts regarding read/access times mattering for the supercard lites, but I don't recall hearing anything about other media.

In general I think after a memory format has been established (CF/SD) there really are no speed problems as the majority of cards on the market are rather fast. For newer media (MiniSD [back when it was new I mean, I haven't heard about speed issues regarding miniSD for a while], and MicroSD) you might want to look for a card with better speed.