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Those massive massive Panasonic memory cards they were gonna make?

Crazy Taxi 2?

Just wondering...

I guess Nintendo haven't released them yet because there is not a game that really needs it. Perhaps when the GameEye comes out it'll be a cool option to have an SD adapter for all your pics...

SD Memory cards.

The SD card is a small (stamp-size), multipurpose memory storage thing. You can get cameras and stuff that use them too.

The cube will have a converter, the size of a normal memory card, which you put an SD card into then plug into the mem card slot.
Bingo bongo you have huge memory.

If memory serves, probably coming up to a year ago panasonic were selling 64 Meg for £30, and the card went up to 256. I could of course be wrong. And I don't know whether they were megabits or megabytes - the whole computer capacity thing goes a little over my head.


I think the idea is that it offers the cube the equivalent of a hard drive, which Xbox has and PS2 will have. It'd probably only really be useful when online gaming takes off though, so there'd be no point releasing it yet.

And yep, it'd allow you to put the sd card's data onto your pc (or pc data to the card...), and it'll get cheaper eventually.

Crazy Taxi was terrible after the original.

*Rubs Xbox copy of Crazy Taxi 3*

What are these "panasonic memory cards" anyway? I've never heard of them....

You seen those memory cards that come with a USB cable? You can connect em up to a PC and store all your game saves on there, and email em to people and what not.

But unnoficial.

I think it was intended for all consoles, then Microsoft got it exclusive for the Xbox.

I never thought Crazy Taxi 2 was confirmed for the Gamecube, I thought it was more of a case of magazines wishful thinking.

The series is pretty rubbish anyway, fun in the arcades but not worth owning.

Must have something to do with Microsoft buying Crazy Taxi 3 to make it X Box only.

I think you can already get the memory chip things, there's just no adaptor to link them to the Gamecube.

I looked on Panasonic's website and the memory chips were VERY expensive, especially the bigger ones, but that was about 2 years ago.
I suppose they'll get cheaper as they take off.

Dunno about that I'm araid. Was never a big fan of the series anyways. The music put me off! lol

I'm sure you could pick up a Dreamcast and a copy of the game for the same price of the Gamecube game anyways.

:)

Yep they do... anyone about Crazy Taxi 2?