Finally got another sd card

I was out with my mother this weekend and we were at Wal Mart when I noticed they were selling a Sandisk 16 GB card in the gaming section and it had a picture of a opened 3DS. I bought it for my NA SNES 3DS. I know it's unlikely a retail store would have fake SD cards since the manufacture companies ship their products to the stores. But I kept the receipt and the packaging anyway. I haven't opened it yet so it's been sitting on my shelf. I haven't had lot of time to play video games so I am not out to download games and have them sit on my 3DS. I even swapped out the PNY card out of my EU SNES 3DS and put back in the other SD card it came with and it corrupted my Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Rumble World data by deleting and creating a new file again. I have read that using multiple sd cards in one system can cause data corruption because some game files can only have one saves per system, not per SD card so it corrupts it when the system sees a different saved data not matching the other. I figured that is what happened anyway. Not that the sd card was bad too.

But I bought the 16 GB one because I figured I wouldn't need all that space and I can just play a game and delete it.

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The Real Jdbye
If you have the same game on two SD cards, it can cause the save to be rejected. As the system stores an unique ID when you save and if the unique ID does not match that of the save you're trying to load (such as when you switch to an SD card with an older save) the save will be rejected (basically it will be treated as if you are trying to rollback to an earlier save)
But this is easily fixable with any save manager since they can remove the unique ID to make the save work again.
As long as you don't keep the same game on multiple SD cards it should be no problem.

16 GB is really not much. Some games like the Monster Hunter and Pokemon games are ~3 GB or more and the card will quickly fill up. I suggest 64-128GB for 3DS use. I have 64 and it's barely enough with the games I have now, I have to delete stuff every time I want to put something new on and I don't know what to delete since I already deleted all the games I'm done with. 128 is best if you don't want to worry about deleting stuff. But 64 is sufficient.
 
Bondgirl85
I appreciate your suggestion. But I don't play those games and 16 GB might be plenty for some while for others that isn't enough space because of the types of games they play and because they prefer to keep the games than delete them when they are through.

Also what type of sd cards do you use, ultra or pro, what? Mine are ultra. My PNY one was elite. I don't know if certain sd cards cause data corruption because they could be the wrong type for game files. Or maybe it was a defect, I don't know. It wasn't fake because it passed the sd card test and said it was free of errors.

If you have another 3DS, you can always have some games on that but I am sure not everyone wants to have a game system with half their stuff on it and another game system with their other half of their stuff and having to carry two 3DSs around. Or you can do sd card swapping but that wears out the pin connectors I hear and I am sure you wouldn't want to open the back each time to swap them out. But whatever you prefer.
 

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