Anyone here have trouble with SD cards in the Wii?

[ParanoiaDragon]

I just got a card over the net, was this no brand 2GB for 8 bucks with free shipping.  And guess what.......IT WORKS!!!!  All my San Disk cards I got thru various means(one ebay, 2 Ultra II's while I was at Costco, 1 from Verizon when my wife got a new phone) didn't work!  But, this card that arrived today, I just pushed it in for a second, & it works, no problem, files copy over, pictures work, etc!  I did get one of the other card to register in my Wii, that it had pictures, but, the pictures themselves wouldn't load.  Man, & I was just about to buy some specifically Wii branded SD cards off of Costco.com!

[guyjin]

when we're talking $10 in a store, how much cheaper can they get online?

Where are you shopping?! even Wally world doesn't have 'em that cheap.

[nat]

when we're talking $10 in a store, how much cheaper can they get online?

Where are you shopping?! even Wally world doesn't have 'em that cheap.

Walgreen's have 2GB cards for $9.95. SanDisk brand. Luckily I have a Walgreen's right out the front door of my apartment, took me about 30 seconds to walk there, 10 more to grab the card, probably a minute in line/paying the paltry $10, then 30 seconds to walk back into my apartment. The longest part of the process was by far removing the ridiculous industrial-strength plastic they use to package the suckers.

As you can see, it's tough for me to fathom trying to deal with buying some unknown crap over the Internet which might save me $2 in a best case scenario, but has only a 50/50 chance of working, plus a 100% chance of not being in my hands the moment I click the "Place Order" button.

[Keranu]

That's awesome, I'll have to look out for SD cards next time I'm at Walgreens.

[ParanoiaDragon]

The closest Walgreens to me, is in the Valley, about 30 minutes away

[atr3yu]

I have a 4gb non-sdhc card that works fine on my Wii and only paid 15 bucks shipped to my house!!!

[ParanoiaDragon]

You got a 4GB to work in your Wii?  Cool!  Supposedly, it will only support up to 2GB!

[atr3yu]

Well any non-SDHC will work on the Wii, it is that 99% of any SD over 2gb is in fact SDHC. I got this card when 4gb SD's first came out before SDHC was even avalible. It was for an old camera and cost a ton as they use some funky tech stuff in order to make them work as they aren't standard compliant. Works real good for VC game's and the Twilight hack Just god luck finding one of these as they aren't made anymore and no one sells them

[ParanoiaDragon]

Is support for SDHC SD's possible thru a firmware?  Or is that strictly a hardware thing?

[atr3yu]

Strictly hardware. I know as I had to go buy new flash carts for the DS once SDHC came out.

[ParanoiaDragon]

That stinks