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"Do you think GC memory cards are a rip-off?"

Yes or no?

I dont think the offical memory cards are a rip-off at all!!!

Yep, its all uncompressed memory as well. So should be reliable.

lol. the official ones are a rip-off. buy unofficial and get a better deal.

big_slow wrote:
> i got a black datel memory card, it is the same size as a normal one
> and the good thing is its was £18 for 64MB!!! rip off? now way!

That's megaBITS.

i got a black datel memory card, it is the same size as a normal one and the good thing is its was £18 for 64MB!!! rip off? now way!

Or†ega wrote:
> As for a comeback on the PS2 memory card ting...Smackdown:JBI takes up
> more than half of the space on it :P

Which means it wouldn't even fit on a GC card. And it does leave space for other saves, as I detailed previously.

Or†ega wrote:
> yep, 64Megabits. Which equals 8 Megabytes. The same as the PS2 memory
> card :)

And more expensive (based on RRP) :-)

You can get an 8mb card for around £20, which is okay, and most games take between 3-7 blocks - However, sports games take up more, as you save stats etc.


Most reviews of GC games should tell you, especially in the magazines.

Somewhere on the www.nintendogamecube-europe.com website.

I believe the following games take 3-5 blocks:

Luigi's Mansion
Rogue Leader
Sonic Adventure 2
Super Monkey Ball

I didn't look into any others though, just the games I'm hoping to get for launch.

Does anyone know where I can find how many blocks of memory each game takes up?

As for N64 memory cards, I never used them anyway and avoided games without a cartrige save.

A GC memory card costs half the price of a PS2/Xbox card but saves 16 times less data, so I think you can sort of call it a rip-off, but IF the game saves are mostly compact enough for no more than 5 blocks and get you get ten games worth of data, you can certainly say you get your money's worth.