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After recently having a bad experience with a 3rd party memory card i decided to find out if i was just unlucky or whether official does mean best.
This is applicable to all consoles.
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves? (if yes plz describe)
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on space?
Thankyou to those that take part, it will be interesting to see what results arise from this and maybe this information could be of some use to anyone contemplating buying another memory card.
Rabid.
This is applicable to all consoles.
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves? (if yes plz describe)
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on space?
Thankyou to those that take part, it will be interesting to see what results arise from this and maybe this information could be of some use to anyone contemplating buying another memory card.
Rabid.
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Does anyone know if the memory card that comes with the Gamcube fire pack from SR is official?
taka-Q wrote:
> I got a 64mb 3rd party card with presaved
> data on it.
64 mb? are you sure?
> I got a 64mb 3rd party card with presaved
> data on it.
64 mb? are you sure?
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
Official o'course :D
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
Depleted Plutonium, naturally ;)
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
Ever since I got my Gamecube on May 3rd
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves?
(if yes plz describe)
Nope, another quality Nintendo product :D
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider
buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on
space?
Nope, I'd just go and but an official Memory 251
Auf :)
Official o'course :D
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
Depleted Plutonium, naturally ;)
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
Ever since I got my Gamecube on May 3rd
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves?
(if yes plz describe)
Nope, another quality Nintendo product :D
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider
buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on
space?
Nope, I'd just go and but an official Memory 251
Auf :)
I have a simple peace of advice about 3rd party stuff. STAY AWAY FROM IT. I had some extender cables for my cube and they kept making it jam, so I binned em. Also, I got a 64mb 3rd party card with presaved data on it, and it kept getting corrupted. I think its a Datel one, so dont buy those either. I now by 100% offical stuff only.
I've had an interesting experience with mine, I only have a third party one (el cheapo - only 8 quid from Game and this is the result)
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
Third party
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
Game own brand smoke transparent plastic housing.
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
Since launch - May this year.
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves? (if yes plz describe)
Funny that - if you don't reset/switch off the GC at the tile screen it corrupts the card and monas at you to format it. However - when I rest to do just that and went into the system menu, it was perfectly readable. This process has repeated itself oh - maybe 5 or six times and it is simply a case of resetting and visiting the memory card manager to fix it. Now I have learned - just wait for the title screen before reset/switch off. The manuals aslo say this by the way - but hey, RTFM.
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on space?
Yeah - because the issue has not caused me to lose a game/data yet. And at half the price...weeeeel I would be hard pressed to shell for the Nintendo one. Unless it was the 251 of course...
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
Third party
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
Game own brand smoke transparent plastic housing.
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
Since launch - May this year.
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves? (if yes plz describe)
Funny that - if you don't reset/switch off the GC at the tile screen it corrupts the card and monas at you to format it. However - when I rest to do just that and went into the system menu, it was perfectly readable. This process has repeated itself oh - maybe 5 or six times and it is simply a case of resetting and visiting the memory card manager to fix it. Now I have learned - just wait for the title screen before reset/switch off. The manuals aslo say this by the way - but hey, RTFM.
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on space?
Yeah - because the issue has not caused me to lose a game/data yet. And at half the price...weeeeel I would be hard pressed to shell for the Nintendo one. Unless it was the 251 of course...
Interesting replies so far... heres my answers...
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
Official now, did own 3rd party until yesterday.
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
It was a Logic3 8mb.
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
I had the Logic3 for 2 months and the official card for 1 day so far.
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves?
(if yes plz describe)
Yes, my Logic3 acquired corrupted data shortly after playing Driven (maybe not a game fault but Driven has been mentioned before so i felt it was applicable to point out), i lost all my saves from the entire card as a result.
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider
buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on
space?
No, after losing 2 months of hard gaming saves i will never buy another 3rd party memory card again, irrespective to how cheap it may be.
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
Official now, did own 3rd party until yesterday.
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
It was a Logic3 8mb.
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
I had the Logic3 for 2 months and the official card for 1 day so far.
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves?
(if yes plz describe)
Yes, my Logic3 acquired corrupted data shortly after playing Driven (maybe not a game fault but Driven has been mentioned before so i felt it was applicable to point out), i lost all my saves from the entire card as a result.
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider
buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on
space?
No, after losing 2 months of hard gaming saves i will never buy another 3rd party memory card again, irrespective to how cheap it may be.
1. Which memory card do you own, official or 3rd party?
Both
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
Dunno off hand
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
Since launch
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves? (if yes plz describe)
Official - no
3rd party - yes - several times decided to delete my ISS2 games for no reason.
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on space?
No, I now have a Nintendo 251 memory card, and will buy another if it ever gets low on space.
Both
2. If your memory card is 3rd party what brand is it?
Dunno off hand
3. How long have you owned/used the memory card for?
Since launch
4. Have you ever experienced any data loss/corruption or failed saves? (if yes plz describe)
Official - no
3rd party - yes - several times decided to delete my ISS2 games for no reason.
5. If you own an Officially branded memory card would you consider buying a 3rd party brand in future if your existing card ran low on space?
No, I now have a Nintendo 251 memory card, and will buy another if it ever gets low on space.
Cooky wrote:
> robbo1974 wrote:
> it depends on the price however i have two logic 3 cards for GC but
> backup data from one to the other, for safety
>
> If you have to buy two cards, one to back the data up from the other,
> then it's not really gonna be that much cheaper.
>
> :)
Well got one with console for free and got the other from this site so only cost 7 quid for both
> robbo1974 wrote:
> it depends on the price however i have two logic 3 cards for GC but
> backup data from one to the other, for safety
>
> If you have to buy two cards, one to back the data up from the other,
> then it's not really gonna be that much cheaper.
>
> :)
Well got one with console for free and got the other from this site so only cost 7 quid for both
Cooky wrote:
> If you have to buy two cards, one to back the data up from the other,
> then it's not really gonna be that much cheaper.
*
You forgot to say "tsk!"!!!! ):(
> If you have to buy two cards, one to back the data up from the other,
> then it's not really gonna be that much cheaper.
*
You forgot to say "tsk!"!!!! ):(
robbo1974 wrote:
> it depends on the price however i have two logic 3 cards for GC but
> backup data from one to the other, for safety
If you have to buy two cards, one to back the data up from the other, then it's not really gonna be that much cheaper.
:)
> it depends on the price however i have two logic 3 cards for GC but
> backup data from one to the other, for safety
If you have to buy two cards, one to back the data up from the other, then it's not really gonna be that much cheaper.
:)
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