20th April 2010, 11:20 PM
Yeah, stock up on your 251s. I can't trust 1019s now either, obviously.
I thought I'd read that it was supposedly somehow some heat-related issue... whatever it is though, it was said to be 1019 only, and only for 1019s used on a Wii, not a Gamecube (for that issue in specific).
100% agreed. The Wii's internal memory isn't perfectly reliable either, but it'd be nice, particularly with how if you have to use 251s you WILL have to switch memory cards, which is annoying.
It could be something like that, I don't know. I do know though that in my case, the card failed after a game that I had just got that day or the day before (Monkey Ball 2) tried to save.
Honestly, from everything we've got here and what I've seen, the 1019 seems to have multiple problems really... I made a post about what happened at NeoGAF at the time, but didn't post it here I think. One person said that Nintendo supposedly only originally designed the GC to have up to 2MB cards, they had to do an updated memory card format or something (1.0 to 1.1) to support 8MB and some of the problems are probably from incompatiblity issues there... if that is true it might partially explain it, but I can't see that explaining things like the Wiis killing 1019s problem.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372043
Quote:I've not heard about overheat. You say they were specifically talking about the 1019 as well? Well, I don't think overheat would really be the cause in that case, considering the other two sizes seem unaffected, but it's certainly distressing that this card in particular seems to have such problems...
I thought I'd read that it was supposedly somehow some heat-related issue... whatever it is though, it was said to be 1019 only, and only for 1019s used on a Wii, not a Gamecube (for that issue in specific).
Quote:I really do wish Nintendo would add in a "virtual memory card" feature for the Wii. Considering the 1019 memory card was basically just 8 MB in size, it would hardly be much of a sacrifice in terms of space, and it would be far more reliable.
100% agreed. The Wii's internal memory isn't perfectly reliable either, but it'd be nice, particularly with how if you have to use 251s you WILL have to switch memory cards, which is annoying.
Quote:Maybe though, there IS some issue when reaching a certain size that older games don't properly allocate addresses exactly as they should, something small enough to evade testing but over time it adds up. I don't know, but I do know this. I don't think I'll be using a 1019 sized card any time soon until I find out more.
It could be something like that, I don't know. I do know though that in my case, the card failed after a game that I had just got that day or the day before (Monkey Ball 2) tried to save.
Honestly, from everything we've got here and what I've seen, the 1019 seems to have multiple problems really... I made a post about what happened at NeoGAF at the time, but didn't post it here I think. One person said that Nintendo supposedly only originally designed the GC to have up to 2MB cards, they had to do an updated memory card format or something (1.0 to 1.1) to support 8MB and some of the problems are probably from incompatiblity issues there... if that is true it might partially explain it, but I can't see that explaining things like the Wiis killing 1019s problem.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372043
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