yarrick's Full Review: Nintendo Memory Card for GameCube (1019)
The largest memory card currently on the market for the Nintendo Gamecube is known simply as Memory Card 1019. The 1019 is referring to of course the number of memory blocks provided for you. Now you might wonder why on earth would you need a card this big. Well when I picked up MVP Baseball 2005 and looked at the back it said 524 blocks needed. I owned the 251 block card but that had my Madden Franchise obviously I wouldn’t be able to fit MVP Baseball and Madden along with all my other games on the same card. With most games requiring a memory card for saving game settings, progress, recording statistics among other things I figured this would be a decent pickup. Especially since my sports games pretty much fill up the entire card if I put them on the 251. However I was a little taken back at the price tag of $29.99. I had already purchased the original 59 block memory card then 251 sized when that came out I really didn’t want to have to go and drop another $30 on a memory card.
Luckily a friend had bought one and no longer wanted his Gamecube and was willing to sell me his for cheap. With two other memory cards already and now a third I use this card not as my main card but rather as a backup. Data loss had happened to me before with my Madden Franchise. With the 1019 I am able to use it not only for all my MVP Baseball needs but as a backup for all the other saved data I have on my other cards. Data corruption, errors, lost cards are no longer a problem for me as long as I have the 1019 memory card. Losing these things can be a problem however as they are pretty small and this particular memory card does not come in the little carrying case you see with some of the others.
Installation, Swapping Data, Deleting and More
Using your new memory card is simple. Just insert the memory card all the way into one of the two memory card slots located in the bottom of your Gamecube console. In order to delete or swap data between cards simply turn your Gamecube on with the console top opened. This should bring you to the screen; press down on your controller to get to memory management. Here you will be able to copy files between memory cards if you have one in each slot, and delete game files you no longer need or desire.
Do not remove the memory card or turn the power off while saving, copying, moving, or deleting game files doing so could possibly damage the Gamecube or Memory Card and most likely will cause you to loss the game data of whatever you were just trying to save/move/copy etc.
What is in the box
• Memory Card 1019 • Instruction booklet • Index label to place on the card
Warning from the Instruction Booklet:
There are a very small number of games that cannot save information on the Memory Card 1019. For these games use the Memory Card 251 of Memory Card 59. For more information on how to determine if your game is not compatible with the Memory Card 1019 you can visit our web site at: www.nintendo.com/consumer/memorycard1019.jsp or contact customer service.
Luckily I haven’t encountered a problem with any of my games. However looking at the website it has several Disney sports games on there. So if you own one of those and are looking into buying a larger memory card you may want to check out the website before making the $30 investment.
Final Recommendation
The 1019 Memory Card is the behemoth in saving data for your Nintendo Gamecube. Not only can it be used for saving games, but backing up existing files you have on other memory cards. Certain types of games take up more blocks then others I’d check to see how much space yours take up before purchasing this one. If you can get passed the price tag and have a decent library of games then you definitely look into picking this one up.
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