Hacking What format should your SD card be in?

[NathanBrown]

I've heard both exfat and fat32.

I'm confused, which one should I put it in? when I put the exfat sd card in my stock switch with no hacks or anything, it says system update required, and when I did that, it still said its not able to recognize it. What should I do?

 

[Trappie]

Fat32 supports blocks up to 4 gb, exfat is unlimited. Since games are up to 16 gb, I run exfat.

 

[ABigMoustache]

exfat.. but I don't know anything about cluster sizes and all that stuff

 

[acho]

exfat for sure, so far largest size of a switch game is 28gb

 

[Swan1360]

Exfat if you want them fat xci’s

 

[PatrickD85]

Not even a question, exfat for sure.
I am not a fan of multifile game entries, that basically gives more chance for things to cause issues.

 

[NathanBrown]

Not even a question, exfat for sure.
I am not a fan of multifile game entries, that basically gives more chance for things to cause issues.

But when I put the exfat sd card into my stock switch in general, it asks for an update and then fails to recognize it. I haven’t gotten my SXOS setup so im not sure how it’ll work out on that, but I’m worried I’ll have the same issue.

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exfat for sure, so far largest size of a switch game is 28gb

But when I put the exfat sd card into my stock switch in general, it asks for an update and then fails to recognize it. I haven’t gotten my SXOS setup so im not sure how it’ll work out on that, but I’m worried I’ll have the same issue.

 

[Swan1360]

Just update your switch there’s no point if youre using sx os

 

[NathanBrown]

Just update your switch there’s no point if youre using sx os

I did, and it’s still giving me error, it’s not able to recognize it. I’ll try again tonight with an empty SD card

 

[ModDog]

I did, and it’s still giving me error, it’s not able to recognize it. I’ll try again tonight with an empty SD card

Up above you talk about a update did you do it? To get EXFat working I believe you have to follow update prompt on switch then it will allow you to download update for EXFat cards. So there is two updates if I remember right (or just 1 if on current os)

 

[Deleted User]

I use to run Fat32 but now i run exFat

 

[jringo718]

Speaking of which, what benefits are there for staying on 4.1.0?

I too had the formatting update issue, but I don't have SX OS or anything yet. I have just been playing around with the BotW saves for now. I also couldn't back up my NAND for obvious reasons on FAT32.

 

[guily6669]

It depends on what you want to be doing...

Im on 3.02 and don't ever want to update, Im waiting to Emunand, so my M-SD card has to be formatted to Fat32 without updating the console...

If you do the update then you should use exFat.

Im pissed is that I bought a Sandisk A1 128GB yesterday for 39.99€, I opened it today, I was getting near 90MB\s read, after formatting the SD card, now I only always get constant 20MB\s stable from start to end. It doesn't even matter formatting to fat32, NTFS, exFat, the speed is locked t 20MB\s, its probably the god damn SD port reader on my laptor, I can't say I ever had any laptop with the SD port working 4 ever, they all give a huge god damn amount of problems.

My father laptop SD port is also screwed, it locks every device from writing, my USB adapter is USB2.0 so I can't get much better speed either, screw this...

 

[Deletedmember438770]

Exfat if you want them fat xci’s

thicc*

 

[gbazone]

I have my card in exfat and the Nintendo OS gives me an error yet I just hit back and SX OS still reads the card fine and loads games.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I've heard both exfat and fat32.

I'm confused, which one should I put it in? when I put the exfat sd card in my stock switch with no hacks or anything, it says system update required, and when I did that, it still said its not able to recognize it. What should I do?

You have to be on latest firmware and apply the ExFAT update when it asks you to after inserting the card.

 

[ABigMoustache]

exfat for sure, so far largest size of a switch game is 28gb

Which game is 28gb?

 

[Polyphemus]

Which game is 28gb?

Dragon.Quest.Heroes.1.and.2.JPN

 

[acho]

Dragon.Quest.Heroes.1.and.2.JPN

and 28gb is the trimmed size, 32 is untrimmed

 

[Darktalon]

That is the biggest cart. But L.A. Noire is even bigger, requires you to download and after that it is 29GB.