Travis McClain

I rarely start threads, mostly because most of what I want to know has already been addressed elsewhere and partly because I'm afraid of being jumped in case it has. I ran a search for "sd wii" and nothing came up, so I assume I'm in the clear on this one.

Anyway, I got my wife Guitar Hero World Tour for the Wii for Christmas, and we quickly discovered that we would want to use an SD card to store the DLC. I asked about this in the most recent WT thread, and got a suggestion, but I figured that this would be of potential interest to more Wii gamers than just those with that particular game.

I saw a 2GB Sandisk SD card labeled "for Wii" at Walmart today for $14.88. Has anyone used this, and if so, how would you rate it? We've bought third-party memory cards before and occasionally lost data, so I'm leery of paying for an SD card without knowing what the best we can get is.

DVDChris

I think it's okay. After all, it's Sandisk who I thought invented SD cards. Anything by Sandisk I would highly recommend.

Drop

A regular Sandisk SD card works exactly the same as the one labeled for Wii. Whichever you find cheaper is the best way to go.

lordwow

I just got a cheap sandisk one (non-wii labelled) it was much cheaper than the ones you'll find in the Wii section of stores. I just backed up my VC and saves on it, really haven't used it otherwise.

Giantrobo

Yeah I just bought a Sandisk Ultra II 2GB card and it works fine.

Deftones

yeah, just find one that isn't branded Wii and you'll save some money.

db27

For DLC, what tends to be the file size? Curious how many songs I can jam on one of these.

JoeDaddy

Any ideas on the max size SD card the Wii will accept?

Giantrobo

I believe 2GB is the limit but I could be wrong.

Erasmus

No, you're right - it doesn't support 4GB SDHC cards, and 4GB non-SDHC are pretty rare and require a workaround for the Wii to use.

dsa_shea

Is there built in memory in the Wii? I was checking my daughters and it seems that none of her game saves are on the SD card that I inserted but rather on the Wii itself. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks!

Jay G.

Yes, there's 512 MB of flash memory built into the Wii.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii#Tec...specifications

Travis McClain

This came up in the Guitar Hero: World Tour thread, and someone said he put it at about 70 or 80 songs, I believe. If I can find the post, I'll edit this to include a link.

Jay G.

The Wii limits the DLC content size to a maximum of 200 "blocks," with a Wii block equaling 128KB. A 200 block Guitar Hero song would be about 6 minutes long.

http://www.rockgamer.com/2008/11/18/...hendrix-songs/
http://www.wiichat.com/nintendo-wii-...lock-size.html

So a 2GB SD (2,000,000,000 bytes) card contains about 15,258 blocks, or around 76 six-minute songs. That's 457 minutes of music.

Assuming the song size is directly proportional to its length, and a slightly more reasonable average song length of 4 minutes, you could store about 114 songs on one 2GB card.

lordzeppelin

Just wanted to chime in...I have used a PNY 2gb card, a Ritek 1gb, and an A*Data 2gb in various Wiis without any issues.

And there was a PNY 2GB card at either Kmart or Walmart for $5. I can't remember which one I saw it at...