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#1 CTUDude
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First Party (Nintendo) Memory Cards come in block numbers (251, etc).

How many blocks can a Third Party (Intec, Mad Catz) hold if it is a 16 MB, 32 MB, etc?

Also does anyone have any past experiences with Third Party Memory Cards?

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#2 brujagio
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First Party (Nintendo) Memory Cards come in block numbers (251, etc).

How many blocks can a Third Party (Intec, Mad Catz) hold if it is a 16 MB, 32 MB, etc?

Also does anyone have any past experiences with Third Party Memory Cards?

CTUDude

Not sure about the whole block numbers thing, but I've owned a MadCatz memory card since I first got my cube, and it's never crapped out on me.

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#3 Funkyhamster
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NOOOO... just don't touch 3rd party memory cards. There are people (like the poster above) who haven't had any problems with them, but a disproportionately large amount of GC owners with 3rd party memory cards (including me) have had corruption issues. And when a memory cards gets corrupted, you lose everything. Better to spend a few more dollars for a product that you know will work fine.
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#4 gigabrowser12
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Mines corupted over 5 times DO NOT EVEN LOOK AT THEM! It does hold 1028 blocks... STILL!
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#5 Rocky32189
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First Party (Nintendo) Memory Cards come in block numbers (251, etc).

How many blocks can a Third Party (Intec, Mad Catz) hold if it is a 16 MB, 32 MB, etc?

Also does anyone have any past experiences with Third Party Memory Cards?

CTUDude

The 251 Block card is 16MB and the 1000+ block one is 64MB.

Don't buy third party cards. You'll regret it.

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#6 Coyote32
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I had a third party card for about 2 years and nothing went wrong, but then after I didnt play my GC for two years the card died. Sooo. Theres my input.
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#7 Minishdriveby
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I have a 4X madcatz memory cube 251 (reading of the memory card). It was on sale so i bought it, I haven't had a problem with it for about 3 years. So I think its nice having the extra memory, but others are saying its bad so dnt go on my word alone.
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#8 Ellimist314
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NOOOO... just don't touch 3rd party memory cards. There are people (like the poster above) who haven't had any problems with them, but a disproportionately large amount of GC owners with 3rd party memory cards (including me) have had corruption issues. And when a memory cards gets corrupted, you lose everything. Better to spend a few more dollars for a product that you know will work fine.Funkyhamster

True enough. I'm one of the lucky few with a MadCatz memory card that hasn't failed me once since early 2002, but even I agree that it'd be safer to get an official one from Nintendo.

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#9 Ordonian
Member since 2007 • 305 Posts
I lost all my data on my mad catz memory card
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#10 Frostbyte1120
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I got some third party one too, Hip Gear, or something like that and I didn't use it for a month, went back and everything was gone... luckily I only used it to back up some files.. but yea never trust them.
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#11 wii60_3
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Madcatz 1028 blocks CORRUPTION MY OTHER ones never comrrupt this peice of poop made wind waker seem like forever with it's comrruption AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA thats why I Have 2 other cards that are actually good
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#12 Funkyhamster
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6 out of 11 people in this thread have had corrupted 3rd-party memory cards... not good odds. :?
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#13 thisguy51
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My mad catz memory card was corrupted. I knew it was too good to be true at only $10.