What SD Cards Will Pandy Take??

[rygD]

With one slot open, what I might do is go through my movie / series / emulation collection and break it down into chunks... and put each chunk on a seperate sd card and print some custom labels for each... I.e. my Star Trek card, my Studio Ghibli card, my Playstation card, my GB/GBA card, etc...

I was doing something like this for a while using the SD cards from my everdrives.  Since there were only 2 I probably used, and only a few games from each I just went back to leaving my second card in the slot and put those games on it.  Since then I haven't played them at all.
 

*'Link's Awakening' always had pride of place. It had a gold sticker, so you could tell it was good.

Gold has nothing to do with it, but you had good taste in games.  It is still great.

 

 

[levi]

With one slot open, what I might do is go through my movie / series / emulation collection and break it down into chunks... and put each chunk on a seperate sd card and print some custom labels for each... I.e. my Star Trek card, my Studio Ghibli card, my Playstation card, my GB/GBA card, etc... and sleeve them all in a mini zip folder.

You probably already know this, but GB/GBA games are pretty small.  The biggest GBA game I have (the second Fire Emblem) is 16MB in size.  I only have Gameboy Tetris to hand, and that's 32K.

According to wikipedia there are 1024 GB games and 1074 GBA games, and assuming all GBA games are a little short of 16MB (most are actually 4/8MB in my experience), and all GB games are 32K, all Gameboy* games would fit on a 16GB card with room to spare.

Playstation games would be a bit tricker, if left uncompressed.  The maximum size is something around 650MB, so assuming games are 400MB on average and there are 2355 PS1 games, you'd need a 1TB card to fit all those on, should you want all PS1 games!

 

[Kumaki]

May just be an Amazon Prime sale... but I can buy the 256GB version of the same 64GB PNY SD card I use in my Pandora for $82 USD normally $162... 

http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-256GB-Speed/dp/B00FF90EZM

Nice!  And does this baby work in a Pandy??  If so, that sucker is MINE!!

 

[Kumaki]

While I would love 2 x 512gb cards when I get my Pyra... The price atm is just not justifiable to me.

So I will probably get 1 x 256gb, and leave the other slot open untill 512gb are relatively cheap.

With one slot open, what I might do is go through my movie / series / emulation collection and break it down into chunks... and put each chunk on a seperate sd card and print some custom labels for each... I.e. my Star Trek card, my Studio Ghibli card, my Playstation card, my GB/GBA card, etc... and sleeve them all in a mini zip folder.

Then it will almost be like a cart based handheld.

... will take me back to my childhood where I went *everywhere* with a little bag neatly containing 1 x Game Boy classic, charger (yes, I had rechargeable batteries), spare set of batteries, link cable, and the cream of my game collection in sleaves.

*'Link's Awakening' always had pride of place. It had a gold sticker, so you could tell it was good.

I need to label my SD cards.  Right now they all just have the factory label.  I don't want to damage the cards, though...not sure how you can replace the factory labels...I know it sounds stupid, but...these things are too expensive!!

 

[TrashyMG]

May just be an Amazon Prime sale... but I can buy the 256GB version of the same 64GB PNY SD card I use in my Pandora for $82 USD normally $162... http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-256GB-Speed/dp/B00FF90EZM

Nice!  And does this baby work in a Pandy??  If so, that sucker is MINE!!

Well I have the 64GB version, I formatted it fat32 via gparted on my linux laptop.

 

[Kumaki]

With one slot open, what I might do is go through my movie / series / emulation collection and break it down into chunks... and put each chunk on a seperate sd card and print some custom labels for each... I.e. my Star Trek card, my Studio Ghibli card, my Playstation card, my GB/GBA card, etc... and sleeve them all in a mini zip folder.

You probably already know this, but GB/GBA games are pretty small.  The biggest GBA game I have (the second Fire Emblem) is 16MB in size.  I only have Gameboy Tetris to hand, and that's 32K.

According to wikipedia there are 1024 GB games and 1074 GBA games, and assuming all GBA games are a little short of 16MB (most are actually 4/8MB in my experience), and all GB games are 32K, all Gameboy* games would fit on a 16GB card with room to spare.

Playstation games would be a bit tricker, if left uncompressed.  The maximum size is something around 650MB, so assuming games are 400MB on average and there are 2355 PS1 games, you'd need a 1TB card to fit all those on, should you want all PS1 games!

Playstation takes up a TON of space!!  There's a way to compress them, and make them still work on Pandy??  I'd love to know more about this!

 

[Kumaki]

May just be an Amazon Prime sale... but I can buy the 256GB version of the same 64GB PNY SD card I use in my Pandora for $82 USD normally $162... 

http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-256GB-Speed/dp/B00FF90EZM

Nice!  And does this baby work in a Pandy??  If so, that sucker is MINE!!

Well I have the 64GB version, I formatted it fat32 via gparted on my linux laptop.

Hummm...but WOULD the 256GB one work in a Pandy or not is the question.
I guess I can't see why it would not work, since I would only be using it as a media card and not for programs and stuff.
I just use one 32GB card for the progams and stuff in Slot 1.  The big card goes in Slot 2 and it's for all my media and music.

 

[TrashyMG]

^ I would expect it would, but hard to say without someone actually trying it...

 

[ZXDunny]

Playstation takes up a TON of space!!  There's a way to compress them, and make them still work on Pandy??  I'd love to know more about this!

Wow, quoting here is really broken.

Anyway, go look up the EBOOT format. There's some pretty good tools out there for building them from your ISO files - check out PSX2PSP.

 

[ZXDunny]

With one slot open, what I might do is go through my movie / series / emulation collection and break it down into chunks... and put each chunk on a seperate sd card and print some custom labels for each... I.e. my Star Trek card, my Studio Ghibli card, my Playstation card, my GB/GBA card, etc... and sleeve them all in a mini zip folder.

You could start with these from the Pandora Archive:

D.
 

 

[FaeMinx]

With one slot open, what I might do is go through my movie / series / emulation collection and break it down into chunks... and put each chunk on a seperate sd card and print some custom labels for each... I.e. my Star Trek card, my Studio Ghibli card, my Playstation card, my GB/GBA card, etc... and sleeve them all in a mini zip folder.

You probably already know this, but GB/GBA games are pretty small.  The biggest GBA game I have (the second Fire Emblem) is 16MB in size.  I only have Gameboy Tetris to hand, and that's 32K.
According to wikipedia there are 1024 GB games and 1074 GBA games, and assuming all GBA games are a little short of 16MB (most are actually 4/8MB in my experience), and all GB games are 32K, all Gameboy* games would fit on a 16GB card with room to spare.

Playstation games would be a bit tricker, if left uncompressed.  The maximum size is something around 650MB, so assuming games are 400MB on average and there are 2355 PS1 games, you'd need a 1TB card to fit all those on, should you want all PS1 games!

Yeah, I'm also struggling to multiquote on tapatalk now... so...

@rygD

But that's how you know strawberry jam is the best!... because they put cute pictures of strawberries on the labels... and no other fruit is cuter than a strawberry!

@Levi

Well the small size is the idea... cards that size are dirt cheap, so I can buy a pile of em.

.... and I don't have a huuuuuge Playstation collection.

 

[levi]

Apart from a cutecumber