Silly Question About Sd Cards . . .

[Prophet]

Just thought I check out some prices:
1 gig for £33 but I cant find any 2/4 gig cards...

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1Gig is the biggest out there now, Panasonics road map have 2Gig in Q4 this year (Christmas) and 4Gig in Q2 next year.

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Actually 2GB SD's have been out for a while now.

In the USA we can buy them for as little as $150 already.

Example: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...CMP=OTC-FROOGLE

-incorrect info deleted- 4GB SD's not available yet

 

[DJWillis]

Mea Culpa,

Your quite right, 2Gigs are out (read the roadmap wrong, Q4 04 not 05 ) I guess they took a while to hit retail however I am fairly sure 4Gigs are not out, at any price. Well at least we can't source them from Panasonic and there used a lot in the telemetry stuff. That card you linked to was a 4GB CF card, not quite an SD is it .

 

[Prophet]

oops. stupid search I used said it was SD and I didn't check.

Well, OK. No 4GB yet. But they will probably be insanely expensive when they do comeout.

 

[raven]

4 GB SD Card

 

[Prophet]

Thanks raven, so I wasn't seeing things afterall!

4GB for $288. Not too bad actually. A year from now it'll probably go well under $200.

 

[Cahaz]

going to put emulators, programs, utilities, codecs and games that you can't get tired of (like Tetris, puyo puyo games, PANG!, Pac-Man, A chess game, puzzles, shooters and mind deminding games..., classics that can you would apreciate if you forget your SD card and that can be played any time anywhere and do not demand a long progression like rpgs, basicly) on the 64mb or flash. it won't take all the flash for sure, but i'm keeping some in case of someone find a way to add a part of the flash to work like a RAM-like memory, if the speed and everything else allows it.

Going to buy a 1gb card for everything else.

 

[jislizard]

speaking of SD cards and the like, what is going to be the best set up

1, all your SNES roms and a SNES emu on one card, all your PSX roms and A PSX emu on another etc. (only joking, i see from the other posts that you guys get upset when people talk about PSX emulators, i meant N64 roms and a N64 emu)

2, all your emulators loaded onto the system memory and just the roms on the cards

3, the roms and the emus on the system memory

Which would run faster or would there be no noticable difference?

It would be handier to have all the roms i want together with the emu i need to run them on a card but does the emu have to be in the system memory?

 

[EvilDragon]

Well, MMC cards might work as well, as most SD-Devices can handle MMCs.
And MMCs are MUCH cheaper than SDs.

I'm going to test that as soon as I have a gp2x

 

[psj3809]

I have a Pocket PC i use for emulation on the go and on the 1 gig card....

Roughtly 300 Spectrum games
50 C64 games
70 GB games
40 GBC games
25 GBA games
70 SNES games
40 Megadrive games
80 NES games
70 SMS games
90 MAME games
50 PC Engine games
40 Colecovision games
40 MSX games

And a fair few other ones.

That all comes to about 750 meg which leaves me 250 meg to put a film onto the PPC as well.

A gig to put all your favourite games and more on is more than enough and will keep you going for ages

 

[Squidge]

Well, MMC cards might work as well, as most SD-Devices can handle MMCs.
And MMCs are MUCH cheaper than SDs.

I'm going to test that as soon as I have a gp2x

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It seems that the Gp2X uses mmcsd, which is an mmc interface to sd cards (and thus gets round the sd licensing quite nicely). So will no doub't work with mmc cards as well.

 

[Prophet]

I'll add "likely compability with MMC cards" to the fAQ.

 

[Julius]

It seems that the Gp2X uses mmcsd, which is an mmc interface to sd cards (and thus gets round the sd licensing quite nicely). So will no doub't work with mmc cards as well.

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Hmm, but isn't that mmcsd interface much slower than real SD support?

 

[Squidge]

Yes, but by the time it's released, we'll probably have both