Gamecube Memory Card Question

[Bivotar]

Best Buy has an off-brand Gamecube memory card for $4.99. It is a 4MB card, but has no indication of how many blocks that is. Nintendo memory cards all go by number of blocks (that I have seen anyway).

 

Any clue as to how many MB = a block?

 

Even if that's pretty good sized, it's kind of spooky trusting game saves to some unknown like this though.

[Smada Bez]

4MB = 59 Blocks

 

Even if that's pretty good sized, it's kind of spooky trusting game saves to some unknown like this though.

Yeah... I had an offbrand memory card for my nintendo 64. One day I come home and go play and it said that the memory card needed rapairing or something like that. So I finally I got it working but everything was gone. After that I have only used nintendo memory cards and haven't had a problem.

[Mikau]

Try to avoid those 3rd party accesories, especially memory cards. Your files might just dissapear, no reason. You'll be glad you spent a little more. The Nintendo Memory Card 59 is good if you only have a few games, and the 251 is good if you own alot of games, or a sports game with huge saves.

[Gabriel]

I'd avoid 3rd party memory cards too, because of my experiences with cards on the PS1.

 

On the PS1, I've never seen a 3rd party memory card that even worked. The PS1 wouldn't recognize them or they just wouldn't save data. Since the cards weren't even capable of doing any of the functions they were supposedly for, they weren't really worth the meager savings of $5 in relation to a real Sony memory card. They weren't even worth buying.

 

The only problem I ever had with Sony memory cards was with Tactics Ogre. Tactics Ogre would kill any US Sony memory card I tried to save data to. The game would sit at the save screen for about 3 minutes each time and either eventually fail or say that it had saved (when it saved, it tended to save garbage and fry the card). The only way I found around the problem was to use Japanese Sony memory cards, and then the game worked fine.

 

Of course, that means I can't really play the game on my PS2, because the PS2 doesn't accept the Japanese cards.

[liveinabin]

For the small difference in price between Nintendos card 59 and 251, you might as well invest in the latter. Then (unless you're a serial Animal Crossing town builder) that'll be all your memory cards taken care of for pretty much ever.

[Antalos]

I got a thrustmaster memory card and I haven't had any problems so far with it and it's a year old.

I would like to know what's happening with the SD card adaptors though.

[Mayhem]

For the small difference in price between Nintendos card 59 and 251, you might as well invest in the latter.  Then (unless you're a serial Animal Crossing town builder) that'll be all your memory cards taken care of for pretty much ever.

 

I dunno... I have a 251 for my US saves and I'm already well under 100 blocks left

 

And my AC village is on the memory card that came with the game...

[jjessop]

The only problem I ever had with Sony memory cards was with Tactics Ogre.  Tactics Ogre would kill any US Sony memory card I tried to save data to.  The game would sit at the save screen for about 3 minutes each time and either eventually fail or say that it had saved (when it saved, it tended to save garbage and fry the card).  The only way I found around the problem was to use Japanese Sony memory cards, and then the game worked fine.

 

Of course, that means I can't really play the game on my PS2, because the PS2 doesn't accept the Japanese cards.

 

You HAD to have had a bad card because their is no difference between Japanese or U.S. cards. PlayStation had some significant mem card revisions but nothing territory specific. Same for PS2, no territorial specific differences.

 

You could very well have a pirated card with a fake PlayStation logo on it, they are more common than you would believe

 

Jerry

[Gabriel]

You HAD to have had a bad card because their is no difference between Japanese or U.S. cards. PlayStation had some significant mem card revisions but nothing territory specific. Same for PS2, no territorial specific differences.

 

You could very well have a pirated card with a fake PlayStation logo on it, they are more common than you would believe

 

Jerry

 

All I know is this:

 

1) I completely ruined 3 US Sony PS1 memory cards that I had bought from 2 different Wal-Marts and a K-Mart on Tactics Ogre. This was on 2 different PS1s. After frying them, these cards would no longer work on any system I tried them on.

 

2) A friend glommed onto about a dozen memory cards that seem to be official Japanese issues. He gave me 3 of these cards. I tried them on a PS1 with Tactics Ogre, and lo and behold, they worked perfectly. These same cards absolutely, positively, do NOT work on a PS2.

 

Now, the "Japanese" cards may have been pirated versions. But the initial cards I tried to use the game with definitely weren't.

 

But other than that, and never finding or even seeing a single third party memory card that actually works, I haven't ever had any problems with memory cards on my PS1 and PS2. And I was also happy when I bought my GameCube to see that Nintendo had gone with a familiar and easily portable way to save data (and more reliable, the N64 cards were a POC). And to top it off they have their own official high capacity card! (Of course, that's because their default card is pretty dinky compared to the PS2's card)

 

Now, if we could just get a format standardized so that one type of memory card would work with all consoles...

[sdstuff64]

3rd party-3rd rate.Just go and spend the extra $5 or $10.Trust me,it is worth it.

[Invader_dag]

from all the way back in the days of the NES, i learned to only buy official. I used to use some crapy QuickShot controllers on my NES, but they didn`t ever work good. Good thing i had about a dozen oficials lying around. The only third party junk i got now is a Mad Cats DreamPad for my DreamCast(only third party item that works just as good if not better than official), a pelican mem card for my psx(which works fine still), and a mad cats n64 controller(Piece o' crap), and a few odd N64 mem paks. So far, i`ve never had any oficial gear go out on me, except a couple of NES pads... though that could have been from my cat chewing on the wires and such. So i would say buy offcial even if you find 3rd party at a good price. i.e.; would you rather save ten buckaroos or have your completed final fantasy 7 game with 99+ hours lost cause the card goofed up??