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[jweaver]

I bought my Supercard a few weeks back and at the same time a 512m Kingston CF card.

With my digital camera, I already have a Sandisk 128M and PQI 256M card. Since the 512m card would hold so many games, I decided to put that with my camera and would use the other 2 (128 and 256m) with my SC.

At first, I used the 128m card to test and it worked very well... This weekend I went on a business trip and decided that the 128m wouldn't hold enough games, so I copied them all to the 256 and added a few more games and left without testing them

When I got around to playing the games, NOTHING would work.. The SC can see the files, but when I load them, they all crash at their title screens.. Some would just load with a white screen.. Others would show the first few screens and lockup.. But EVERY game would not work.

I then went back to the 128m card and it worked fine...

I also know that the 512m cart works, so there is clearly somethign with the 256m PQI card which is not compatible with the SC. I know that the card is OK, as I have been using it in my camera for years..

Has anyone seen anything like this??

Jon

[joshob2004]

If you use a CF card with a digital camera it tends to make the card incompatible with the SC even if you reformat it. My suggestion would be to have one card for your camera and one (or however many you want) card to use primarily for your SC.

[jweaver]

I really don't buy this theory that a camera makes a card unusable.. I don't see how it can bny possible...

In my case, the theory doesn't carry any weight as the 2 cards I am using in my SC are the same age and have been used equally as much in the same camera.

One works fine.. One doesn't..

Jon

[dai_uk]

If you use a CF card with a digital camera it tends to make the card incompatible with the SC even if you reformat it. My suggestion would be to have one card for your camera and one (or however many you want) card to use primarily for your SC.

Sorry I don't buy that either, re-partition and format and it's blank!

I have a kodak 4Meg card, useful for nes roms ? nope nothing works off it at all - period !

Strangely I think PQI were incompatable with some pocket pc's

[jweaver]

Its certainly the PQI card.. I have formatted it over and over and tried various settings, but no matter what I do, the rom loads, but after the title screen it freezes.

If I move the same file to my Sandisk or Kingston card, its fine.....

I guess I will have to put this 256m card back in my camera and use the 512m one after all!

Saying that, there arn't that many good games.. i am sure I could just live with the 128m card.

Jon

[Liquid Cat]

Well I've had the same sort of trouble with MP3 players and Digital Cameras. My old MP3 player wouldn't touch any CF card my Agfa camera had used.

[stupid2ass]

I wouldn't doubt some of them are incompatible.
I've been lucky,my Sandisk, Viking and Kingston cards all work with both the Supercard and the two versions of the Movie Player that I have.

[jweaver]

I have just borrowed a Viking 256M card and that works fine.

So, like stupid2ass, in my case Viking, Kingston and Sandisk.

I am going to see if my colleague won't mind having my PQI cart back in return for his Viking

Jon

[ploppy]

I received my 1gig Viking CF card this morning - formatted it to FAT (not FAT32).  Nothing works, just a few screens, then it freezes - card works fine when copying to and from the computer.

Back to my 256mb Fujifilm card...  

[ploppy]

Problem sorted - it was my max media launcher - I'd soldered a very thin wire to pins 1 and 7 and it was fitfully shorting with pin 6.  Resoldered more carefully and my viking card works fine.

[Altor]

I have a 16 mb CF card that came with my camera... regardless of what I try, I can't make it work.  Maybe SC just doesn't recognize it cos it's so ridiculously small? (it came with a camera)