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Its great that this works, its just a shame SDXC cards are still so expensive. Ah well, in 5 years when my external hard drive starts dying, maybe I'll look at a large SDXC card (1 or 2 TB), see if they've gone down in price, I bet they will have. Plus the best part of this, is you could have all your games, homebrew, etc. right in your little sd card that hides away right inside the wii. You could have a beast of a wii without anything curious looking coming out the back and resting on the side of the wii. would truly be beautiful.
That's what I was thinking. I only have a few dozen Gamecube games, but the discs clutter so much up that I was thinking of hard modding for the Wode, but don't really like the way it would permanently be on that stand. If it works at 128 GB that would confirm that there is no real upward limit, but more importantly I could fit all my Gamecube games on it for SD loading.
There are 646 Gamecube games, and of those 23 are two disc games so with a total of 669 discs each at a maximum of 1.5 GB (assuming you don't scrub them) you will require a total of 1003.5 GB, or just over a Terabyte to store those games. Assuming you wanted to buy that many games you would still have more than enough room on a 2 TB SDXC card for all the Wii Ware games they will likely ever make, and could still fit backup emulators of every old school gaming console from Coleco vision through the Nintendo 64 with plenty of room to spare.
The 256 GB SDXC card was released in September 2012 at a cost of $900.00 USD. At that time the price of all older cuts cut in half, so at a rate of double capacity and half price every year we can expect that next year the 64 GB will cost around 30.00 on the high end, with 128 GB around 50.00 on the high end, and 256 GB at around 400.00 on the high end when the 512 GB comes out for closer to a thousand, depending of course on production costs. At that rate we can assume that that in about 3 years we should see 2 TB cards on the market, and that in about 5 years they should cost no more than a 2 TB USB hard drive costs today.