Gamecube Memory

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#1 grim1813
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Hey, I'm going to be picking up a Gamecube pretty soon, and I wanted to know what size of memory card I should buy. Thanks.
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#2 JetLagz28
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Buy the bigger one. The standard one is very small.
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#3 ArmoredCore55
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I would suggest buying the 251 one.
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#4 wo0tcolors
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Considering that most of the memory cards for the Cube are pretty inexpensive now, I would just get the biggest one you can find (especially if you are into sports games). I personally have a 251 block card which was pretty much all I ever needed, but i know that they can be much larger than that.
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#5 xAcidicFantasyx
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Get a 251 block one. They aren't too expensive.
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#6 Articuno76
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TBH I would bypass the official ones.

If you live in the UK GAME sell cards with 2000ish blocks on. I found a 251 and a 59 together wasn't enough for me (around 25-30 games I've owned in all) and these cards are pretty cheap and easy to find due to a resurgence in demand for GC pepherals spurred on by the Wii. In my experience this card is very stable, I've never had issues with it unlike the junk that 4Gamers will sell you. The only drawback is it will stick out an extra cm from the console, no big deal really for all the save space you'll ever need and then some.

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#7 ishoturface
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I have 500 block memory card and got it for $9.00

but of course its not nintendo brand

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#8 Rej72380
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Get yourself a 1,019 block memory card, as it saves all types of games, especially sports titles.
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#9 ralphy12345
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yea, go with official. I had some bad experiences with huge but completely **** cards.
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#10 bionisam
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I got an official Nintendo 1019 card for $20 new just 2 months ago on Amazon. I would REALLLY reccomend a 1st party one, stay away from all those cheap 3rd party cards. I've heard some really bad stories about data corruption.
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#11 gonzalezj1
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I got an official Nintendo 1019 card for $20 new just 2 months ago on Amazon. I would REALLLY reccomend a 1st party one, stay away from all those cheap 3rd party cards. I've heard some really bad stories about data corruption.bionisam

A good friend of mine lost all of his save data TWICE using a 3rd party card. I told him when he got it that it wasn't worth it, but he didn't listen.

Go with the biggest 1st party card you can find!

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#12 SciFiCat
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Buy the biggest official one you can find. The third party ones will fail you sooner or later.
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do the gamecube 1st party memory cards (i have the black one) ever stop functioning, like a battery that dies becuz i would hate for my memory to get deleted
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#14 BigN64
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do the gamecube 1st party memory cards (i have the black one) ever stop functioning, like a battery that dies becuz i would hate for my memory to get deletedThe_Nintendawg

I have those memory cards and they still hold my data. The 1st party ones uses flash memory (which is more reliable) instead of batteries to hold save data. As long as you take good care of them they should last a long time.;)