"Anyone used a 'cube SD memory card adaptor on a PAL 'cube?"

I'm just thinking of getting another 'cube memory card (I've already deleted all my non-essential monkey ball replays), and I'm thinking of getting something bigger than the 251 block card.

So I could either get the official 1019 block card, which I assume works fine on PAL (martin?). Or, for a few more squid at lik-sang, I could get the SD card adaptor and a 16MB (1019 block) SD card. I'm quite tempted by that, as it would mean I would never run out of memory again, except I've never heard of anyone using one on a PAL cube. Is there any problem with the PAL cube formatting those things or anything?

Also, it's quite hard to get hold of more 16MB SD cards these days. What's the maximum the 'cube will handle? If I slot a 256MB card in there, will the cube barf?

The SD card adaptor dont work like that.

It can only be used as a memory card with games that have the code to reconise it, and many do not.

Heres a "review" from lik-sang...

This item does look cool, but think again before buying it. It is only compatible with one game, which is a nightmare to get hold of, I've been trying for 3 months just to find out if the SD Card really works or not. When I put it in (I've tried in a Jap, USA UK and Panasonic Q) I always get "Device in slot A can not be read" so i want to see if it works. since the only game that works in a text heavy japanese game it only serves 1 purpose, collectability. It is cheaper to get the official 1029 block memory card, and i would if i were you!


The only game it works with is the Japanesse version of Animal Crossing E+, and you can press some button to save your pictures to it. Then take the picture and print it out as it is a standard JPG on the card.

I did read that it was also going to work with one of the PSO games, to do simular things, but I dont think that ever came about.

If you have an action replay and want to do naughty things, you can use it with SDLoader....

Edited by RedboX at 17:28:07 14-03-2005

It could also be that only japanese games work with it. The games that do work with it all specify so on the box, and the code may have been removed from pal/US games

mal wrote:
So I could either get the official 1019 block card, which I assume works fine on PAL (martin?).

I picked up two from here but they where on offer at the time for £19.99.

And they work fine with a PAL Cube, they only thing I haven't tried though is using it with a US game via freeloader.

no idea on the SD adapter though.

Maybe look into one of those things that lets you transfer mem card saves to the PC and back?

AnotherMartin wrote:

Maybe look into one of those things that lets you transfer mem card saves to the PC and back?

£20 for a 16mb card from Datel

has a mini-usb connector and cable

and the AR kit which contains the card also lets you run homebrew stuff (emulators etc) - not sure if a regular action replay + the card will though

Tbh i was thinking more of something that would take an offical card, i wouldn't touch a 3rd party card at all. Especialy if you plan on playing BurnOut 2, amongst others, at all.

Cheers for the info on the SD adaptor redbox. You'dve thunk that they'd have made the card appear to the cube just like any other card, like Datel seem to be able to do. But apparently that's not the way it works. Oh well, that's made m y decision much easier :)

AnotherMartin wrote:
I picked up two from here but they where on offer at the time for £19.99.

And they work fine with a PAL Cube, they only thing I haven't tried though is using it with a US game via freeloader.

Lik-sang have it for 18 quid, though I haven't checked to see what their delivery for it is.

AnotherMartin wrote:
Tbh i was thinking more of something that would take an offical card, i wouldn't touch a 3rd party card at all. Especialy if you plan on playing BurnOut 2, amongst others, at all.

Well, datel cards *are* reliable - especially compared to cheaper cards

The way I see it is that you can use the datel card for backing up saves/homebrew, and keep all your important saves on other cards just to be sure (but thats common sense anyway as even official cards can corrupt)

mal wrote:
Cheers for the info on the SD adaptor redbox. You'dve thunk that they'd have made the card appear to the cube just like any other card, like Datel seem to be able to do.

The rumor I heard was that orgianly that was the plan, infact when the thing was first mooted that was what the the press coverage of it lead most people to belive, however due to various problems during the development process of the cube the code to use SDcards was not ready intime, so it was missed out of the cube bios/devkit libs, which means not every game supported it, and Nintendo made the decsion to go another way with the hardware (ie taking pictures).

In the US there was a N64 Pokemon game (Pokemon Snap I think) that seemed to have some sort of flashcart hardware built into the cart that whould allow you to take pictures of your pokemon and get them printed out at special booths in Blockbusters, so its not a 100% new idea for Nintendo.


It whould not be too hard for a 3rd party company to developed a cube->SD/Flash/XD/etc adaptor, but as the BIOS/libs only reconises two types of card (251 & 1019 blocks) you'd not really benfit unless you were to need a lot of sperate memory cards. Theres also the issue that noone has really managed to reverse engineer the protocol that the card use 100%, which is why 3rd party ones are so unreliable, Tho Datel seem to of coped better than most.

Edited by RedboX at 11:01:11 15-03-2005