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[chairman]

I am living in Australia and am finding it very difficult to get my hand on a Sandisk Ultra II microSD card locally for my supercard lite.

I can however get the following cards quite easy:

a) Sandisk ordinary microSD
b) Transcend
c) Kingston
d) Kingmax


With all the conflicting posts re which card are better and rom slowdowns,  I just wont some feedback as to who has actually had major problems with the above card manufacturers.

At this stage, I am going for the Sandisk ordinary microSD as it apparently has read time of 8.3 mb/s and access time 1.1ms.

Cheers

[meangreenie]

I have Transcend miniSD it has access times 1.65 m/s but a fast read/write speed, this stutters on the castlevania test a bit on a SCminiSD. So might be wise to avoid the Transcend MicroSD version (though it may be fast), but it's hard to find accurate figures on the access times on memory cards as a whole, and the only way left is to trust what other members say.

I did hear the Kingmax microSD was noticably faster than either of the 2 Sandisk versions (standard 1.1 m/s and Ultra 1.0 m/s), I think 'Sneef' posted about it one of these threads.

I too think we should start a thread about mem speeds and access times of all these memory cards. I'm not sure what is the best way to test, but i think I read a few weeks ago how this could be done with HDtach. I may try a test later with the cards I have available at this time. This would obviously be aimed at the older SC series as most reports say the SC-Lite is very fast whatever the mem speed.

[pte]

I've got a Kingston 512mb microSD and a SanDisk Ultra II (1gb). I have only been using that Kingston card for a while and I wouldn't recommend it. I could say that 3/5 is the proper rating for the Castlevania test, I also have that Ultra II and I hope that once I get it here I will be able to play without any stuttering.

[Biggie578]

is this with the SC Lite? also, is your card formated to FAT (FAT16) with 64kb cluster size?

Im about to order an 80x transcend card since the majority of the other cards have 60x read speed. (write speed dosent matter much to me).
I dont know if this applies here, but check this out.
http://m3wiki.com/index.php?title=Media_Card#Micro_SD_Cards

I am getting an m3 lite, so i trust that the transcend card will serve me well. If anyone has the 80x transcend card, a HDtach score would be nice.

has a thread like the one mentioned been created yet?

[FifthE1ement]

Man the M3 Lite is really behind the SCL in terms of memory bandwidth going by those results as with the SCL even the regular SanDisk can do the Castlevania test with a 5/5. It seems even the fast 80X microSD cards are still getting a 3/5, lol! Got to love that extra bandwidth on the SCL!

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[Biggie578]

Man the M3 Lite really sucks going by those results as even the regular SanDisk can do the Castlevania test with a 5/5. It seems even the fast 80X microSD cards are still getting a 3/5, lol! Got to love that extra bandwidth on the SCL!

FifthE1ement  

how does that suck? and there is only the one 80x card, and it got a 5/5 with FAT32...
also, the only non ultra II sandisk was the 2GB card, and taht got 4.5/5 with FAT32. Are you sure that you are looking at the MICRO SD cards?

[FifthE1ement]

I shouldn't use the work, "Suck" (changed) as the M3 Lite is a great flashcart. It is just not able to do DS as well as the SCL. The SCL has the best memory bandwidth of any flashcart made to date as it allows even super-slow microSD cards to perform with almost no slowdown or lag unlike other Slot 2 flashcarts such as the EZ and M3.

Its quite amazing how the SuperCard team was able to pul this off as no other flashcart manufacturer has been able to. Now the ying to the SuperCard's yang is that the M3 does GBA much better than the SuperCard Lite. It’s all a pick and choose game as I say in my flashcart guide and you have to get the flashcart that suits your needs.

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[liquidnitrogen]

well, i use a kingston 512 and castlevania intro runs perfectly for mine... (SCL)

(perhaps it has to do with manufacturing place? i tried the one from taiwan, and that was laggy like hell. the one from japan worked perfectly.)

and judging from other people's post, any microSD should do, if it doesnt work just return it to the store... "equivolent exchange" for another card, see if it works, and if not, try another card.. haha

[Plazmo]

I have a Transcend hi-speed 512 MB microSD (it cost me like $13 on newegg) and it runs everything (DS related) at full speed.  I even tested it with the Castlevania video and it ran perfectly fine, no obvious slowdowns or anything.

[gopherbob]

I havn't tried them out yet but the kingmax use the single layer something as opposed to the multilayer the other cards use.  Supposedly keeping one bit per layer or something speeds it up noticeably.  But again I havn't tried them and not many other people have either.

Kingmax doesn't produce a lot of cards and i rarely even see any kingmax micro sd's on ebay.

But... kingmax has just announced their 1gb micro SD so it might not even be out yet and usually kingmax cards seem to be a bit pricey in the states.

If I was able to find a kingmax 1gb near the price of a sandisk i would buy it for sure.

heres some info on it http://www.kingmaxdigi.com/news/news_product/news_p20060922.htm

[FifthE1ement]

I've always said KingMAX and ATP baby! They make the best but they cost the most!

FifthE1ement  

[gopherbob]

fifth i really wish you would post on the homebrewcast forum... its almost like your child!