Never get a 3rd party memory card!

[The Jinjo]

I just got the game Tonic Trouble or the N64, and it requires the controller pak. I get one, and the thing doesnt work. I bring it back to the store, they give me another, and I tel them to try it on the N64 hooked up to the TV. It doesnt work. We try about 10 of them. None work. Finally he gives me a real Nintendo one. So what do I say to all of you? Don't ge a 3rd party memory card!

And I have a question. How do you erase the memory on an N64 memory card if you don't have the game the used memory is for?

[Poser Wannabe]

Originally posted by The Jinjo
I just got the game Tonic Trouble or the N64, and it requires the controller pak. I get one, and the thing doesnt work. I bring it back to the store, they give me another, and I tell them to try it on the N64 hooked up to the TV. It doesnt work. We try about 10 of them. None work. Finally he gives me a real Nintendo one. So what do I say to all of you? Don't ge a 3rd party memory card!To tell you the truth you should be careful getting any 3rd party product for any of your video game machines. I worked for Nintendo of America for a short while when I lived in Redmond, WA. It was just doing tech support over the phone, nothing special. Most people don't know this, but if a 3rd party product ruins your system, NOA won't fix your system under warranty, you will have to pay for the repairs. About 50% of the calls I got were people that lost the picture on their TV, and about 90% of the time the answer was because they were using a 3rd party RF adapter hook up (which I swear have a lifetime of two months). And there are the occasional people that used 3rd party power AC cables and they fried their N64's or Game Boy's.

Most companies standings on 3rd party products are that they don't recommend you use any as they haven't been tested by them and they have no idea what they will do to your system. Nintendo's case, your warranty may be voided if the damage can be proved to be the cause of a 3rd party product. I don't know about Sony's or Microsoft’s warranty states, but I bet it’s something close.


And I have a question. How do you erase the memory on an N64 memory card if you don't have the game the used memory is for? To erase a memory card for Nintendo 64, hold Start while you turn on the N64 with the Pak in it. This should take you to the memory card manager I believe. Let me know if that doesn't work, it's been a while.

[The Jinjo]

thanks, now i can play this game ive had for a week!

[Wilco911]

Was it one of those 'Mega memory' type cards with all sorts of extra space on it?

[SlyBoy]

Guess what? I have a Nintendo Controller Pak that doesn't work! :mad:

[The Jinjo]

Originally posted by AdamXS
Never get a third-party memory card is a bit strong. Never get an unlicensed third-party memory card.

Well, if thats how you feel. But when I went through 11 non-working LICENSED 3rd party memory cards.....my faith might have slipped in them just a tiny bit.

[James]

Yeah, sometimes they are OK (I have one that has lasted 5 years) and sometimes they last 5 minutes. Go official, and don't be tricked by the overly larged ones. Consoles such as PSX are only designed to read the standard Sony size, any compressed files such as large memory cards are therefore a problem for PSX's to read.

[Nin-Nin69]

Luckly for me I've never encountered any problems with 3rd party Memory Cards. On the other hand I would like to make a complaint about those Mad Catz controllers. :p

[kiddiesunshine]

Maybe I have the best luck in the world when it comes to 3rd party products. Third-party controllers, while they DO work, never work the way you feel they should. The D-Pad is usually strange in shape and feel and either you can't push diagonals or you can't push the original 4 directions. InterAct comes to mind here.
But I have never had a problem with 3rd party memory cards. I don't have any for my PS2 or my GCN, but I don't need any. However, I DO have a DC Performance memory card and it has performed as well as the SEGA VMU.
I also have a PSX 2-page memory card that I've been using for more than 5 years. I still use it with my PS2. Never a problem there either. Color me lucky.

[BLACKHEART]

Why do you even need a memory card for the 64?

[Bleu Unicorn]

They're actually called "controller paks" and some, not all, games use them to save information - even some of the games that have battery-backed memory need the paks to save stuff, like Diddy Kong Racing, for instance.

[czyznyck99]

Never get a piece of third party hardware, unless it's the only one available.

Later.

[Conekiller]

I've been sayin it

[auto]

All my Playstation 1's game data is stored on an Interact brand Memory Card 32x and I've never had a problem for the 5 years I've had it.

[ThorMX624]

I know some people say third party stuff is fine, I just never liked it. I just don't think it is made as well as the original.

[Opaque]

3rd party = bad times... Like I've said bfore, contracts ay the product can't be constructed the same way... of course its not as good.

[Sandro]

3rd party devices suck. I will never forgive myself for getting a 3rd party controller.

[Rei]

It's a shame that most people learn that 3rd party memory cards are crap first hand by usually losing a file, myself included.

[Shawn Hopkins]

My trusty $2 Lara Croft PSX memory card is still holding out three years later. An Interact XBOX controller I bought lasted about three days, though, and I'm convinced that while broken it somehow corrupted the first Morrowind game I started. I once had a Madcatz SNES controller that delivered periodic electric shocks.

The worst third party controller I've purchased was a Turbo Touch controller for the NES. It had a laptop type touchpad instead of d-pad. It was so inaccurate it was like playing with my big toe.

[Outside Angel]

I had one of those Mega-Memory Cards for the PSX...it gave me so many problems. About every 2 weeks, it would format itself, erasing all my files. Combine that with a third party controller that stopped working the second day I had it...I'll never, ever buy third party products.

[moreysurf8]

I have a mad katz ps2 memory card, that's liscensed....it works like a charm never had a problem with it. In fact that card is what a lot of people bought when the official sony ones were out of stock for quite a while.