It should. I haven't heard of a microSD that doesn't work with CycloDS, so very likely it'll work.

I've tested an unnamed microSD 8GB Class 6 for a friend's new CycloDS. Works wonderfully. I've got SanDisk MicroSD 8GB Class 4 and 2GB microSD Kingston. Both works fine.

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yeah I just ordered one myself, can't wait for them to arrive.

 

Yes, it should work fine, just reformat it before you put anything on it to stay on the safe side!

 

Filter - It shows Class 4 on the card. So likely it's a Class 4. You'll see a little C with a number in the C. That's Class *.

Well, myself I don't find Class very important on cards but people says the higher the classes the faster the cards is. I haven't find any noticable lags on any of my cards yet. But, again, I don't play problematic games such as Castlevania series.

 

Wow how the hell did you see a 4? Its so small I can hardly see it.

I wonder why they don't put the class info in the Specifications tab on newegg.com

Edit: Apparently they do for some but not all. Odd.

 

Newest firmware? Tried formating the mSD-card?

 

There was a thread about this in the TC forums quite awhile back.....

At one point, I had a Transcend 4GB Class4. It had a poor response time (1.6ms), but had great read/writes and worked perfectly fine in the CycloDS. But I wanted more space (and a better response time), so I bought a Transcend 8GB Class 6. Big mistake! The card was flaky as hell in my CycloDS. It would get stuck at loading, especially if it was the first time the ROM was booted and it had to create the save file. The enhanced menu would take forever to come up, or not come up at all. Ultimate Mortal Kombat would fail to load (black screens) unless I deleted the save file. Yes, that crap actually happened. That same microSD works fine in my cell phone and a camera I tried it in. It also performed well in any tests I ran on it. If it has some kind of defect, I can't determine what it is. It's currently in my cell phone and still working fine.

Now, at the TC forums, some people had the same issues as me with the very same type of Transcend while others said that the exact same card worked fine for them. I don't know if it was a bad batch of SD's or just my CycloDS being particular, but I've NEVER had any other SD act like that in the Cyclo.....even one I knew to be defective at writing to it (RiDATA 16GB Class6).

I'd avoid Transcend in the CycloDS just to be sure you don't get burned by one of those flaky ones like I got. Best idea is to stick with the "known good" brands like Kingston or Sandisk.

 

As far as I know, any non-corrupted (meaning not broken) microSD card should work regardless of the maker. On the other hand, I've read a lot of complaints about the brand Transcend.

Could I recommend: www.focalprice.com? They have 8gb cards for $20-$22 and it's free shipping. You do have to set up an account (fast and easy) and they do ship from China so it can take about 1.5-3wks for products to arrive. Just depends on patience versus finances. Those brands are good too: Kingston and Kingmax and Sandisk.

And as far as formatting, the cards should be preformatted to FAT32 but in case they're not, be sure to do that. :-) Use disk utility on a Mac. I'm not sure how to run that on a PC....

Good luck!