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View Poll Results: How big is you memory card?
less than 2gb 0 0%
2GB 6 11.11%
4GB 12 22.22%
8GB 7 12.96%
16GB 9 16.67%
32GB 17 31.48%
64GB 1 1.85%
128GB or more 2 3.70%
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How big is your memory card?
Old 05-29-2014, 03:44 PM
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A few months ago had to upgrade my 3DS XL's 4GB memory card to a 16GB card. Today i checked and it's already 46% full! I thought it would last me longer than that.

How big is the memory card in your 3DS/2DS, and how full is it?
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Old 05-29-2014, 05:58 PM
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I went for a 32gb card and it's nearly empty. And considering the vast majority of 3DS games (and eshop downloads as well of course) are far less than 1 GB in size (looking at it right now, Mario 3D land is only about 290mb for the entire game!), I don't see myself ever needing to change in the future.

Also I would never purchase any SD card less than 16gb in size since they go for only around $10 with an 8gb going for roughly $5, if an additional $5 to double the size is going to break you financially you have much bigger problems.
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Old 05-29-2014, 09:11 PM
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about 32,0 mm ? 24,0 mm ? 2,1 mm.

naa, just kidding, I got a 32 gig one because I thought that was the max the 3DS can hold but someone told me it can hold 64 gig
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Old 05-29-2014, 09:25 PM
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2gb one that came with my 3ds
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Old 05-29-2014, 09:26 PM
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Mine is 4GB, the one that came with the XL. I still have plenty of capacity.
Old 05-29-2014, 09:39 PM
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I have a 32gb card. Still plenty of room left, and since I don't download any retail games it's probably going to stay that way.
Old 05-29-2014, 10:11 PM
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Also I would never purchase any SD card less than 16gb in size since they go for only around $10 with an 8gb going for roughly $5, if an additional $5 to double the size is going to break you financially you have much bigger problems.
Looks like it's the case, but I included it in the poll anyways (along with "less than 2GB" because who knows?) Apparently 64gb 128gb and up work (with all blocks accessible), but they need to be formatted in a way Windows does not allow.
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Old 05-30-2014, 01:20 AM
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32 GB, about 10 GB left. I hope Smash isn't more than 7 GB.
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Old 05-30-2014, 03:59 AM
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32 GB, about 10 GB left. I hope Smash isn't more than 7 GB.
20Gb on the 3DS? What games do you have?
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Old 05-30-2014, 02:14 PM
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32GB, and I have 19 GB left.
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Old 05-30-2014, 03:02 PM
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4GBs. Only have around 1GB left, though. Not sure if I'll upgrade. Depends if I can find a cheap SD card at a goodwill or something.
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Old 05-31-2014, 01:04 PM
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I use the SD cards that came with the units.
So a 2GB in my 3DS and a 4GB in my 3DSXL.
I don't have any real need to upgrade. I hardly use the camera, I have only a couple of albums on the card and I don't do digital downloads.
So basically th eonly thing I use it for is the extra data.
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Old 06-17-2014, 01:06 AM
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I just upgraded my 3DS's originally-included 2GB SD card to a 16GB SDHC card about a week ago; I'm glad I upgraded it, because I had been out of space for over half a year. The thing is, I had that 16GB SDHC card since either December or January, yet I was too lazy to switch out the old one until just recently.
Old 06-17-2014, 07:27 PM
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he he my memory card is pretty big...hehe...pretty big
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Old 06-19-2014, 12:42 AM
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16Gb Lexar
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Old 06-19-2014, 04:28 AM
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2GB on my original Australian 3DS, 4GB for both American and Japanese 3DS XL/LL.
Old 06-19-2014, 12:41 PM
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8gigs, I still have plenty of space left after two years.
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Old 07-25-2014, 10:23 AM
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16gb micro sd card from Kingston
Old 07-25-2014, 11:56 AM
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16 Sandisk on my 2 3ds's
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Old 07-25-2014, 12:04 PM
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128 gigs
Old 07-25-2014, 01:27 PM
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16 GB .
Old 07-25-2014, 03:22 PM
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32,0 mm x 24,0 mm
It's the average size I guess.
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Old 07-25-2014, 05:13 PM
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32 Gigabyte card in my 3DS XL & a 4 Gigabyte card in my normal 3DS.
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Old 07-25-2014, 06:04 PM
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Recently bought a 16GB SD card and now I'm set for life
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Old 07-27-2014, 05:05 AM
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I'm using 32GB, and it is perfectly fine. I've got a ton of eShop titles, quite a few Virtual Console titles (Which are all very tiny in space), and I have 8 retail titles downloaded onto my 3DS (Mario Tennis, Animal Crossing, Kid Icarus Uprising, Tomodachi Collection, Ocarina of Time 3D, Senran Kagura Burst, Tetris, and Shifting Worlds), and I still have tons of free space.

Since my 3DS is Japanese and I'm in Japan, Smash 3DS will also be on my 3DS on September 13th! w00t!
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Old 07-28-2014, 09:46 AM
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As i post this im in the process of upgrading to a bigger memory card. Just waiting for data to be copied from a 16gb card to a 32gb card. Tho having a few issues with the 3DS reading the data on the 32gb card.
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Old 07-29-2014, 11:21 PM
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32,0 mm x 24,0 mm
It's the average size I guess.
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I copy pasted that because I need not say anything else. Despite the fact that KamisoriX too has also already answered this in slightly more detail:
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about 32,0 mm ? 24,0 mm ? 2,1 mm.

naa, just kidding, I got a 32 gig one because I thought that was the max the 3DS can hold but someone told me it can hold 64 gig
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Old 07-30-2014, 03:19 PM
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Haha, lol. I didn't even see that. I saw the thread and couldn't help myself.
Just read the entire thread, turns out I already (seriously) replied to this.
Ah the interwebs at it's finest.

To add something usefull to this post: I upgraded the stock card with a 8GB card.
Not for size, but for speed.
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Old 07-31-2014, 10:24 AM
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Can you even notice a speed increase tho? I'm using an SD card that belongs in an SLR for 1080p recording etc and its still slooooow
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Old 07-31-2014, 06:44 PM
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Pretty sure class doesn't change load times on the 3DS.
Old 08-09-2014, 04:57 AM
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I have two 32GB cards. The first card has under 1,000 blocks left and have 42 retail and one demo.
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Old 08-09-2014, 06:33 PM
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I've got a 32gb, but that's overkill for my needs. I originally thought that 3DS retail games (which is what I use it for most, VERY seldom buy anything Eshop or VC) were going to be more around PSP UMD sized, ~1gb to 1.5gb. But most are smaller than even 1GB (I think mario 3D Land is like only 300mbs). So for my needs the 32gb is a bit overkill, although I would never use a device nowadays that can't give me at least 16gb.
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Old 08-10-2014, 08:27 PM
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I have an 8GB as most of my games are inphysical form and I only need it for eShop titles.
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Old 08-17-2014, 06:45 AM
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16 gig. I like to have videos on my 3DS.
Old 08-28-2014, 12:08 AM
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32. More than enough, and messing around with the 64+ ones (formatting, etc) is too much of a hassle.
Old 08-28-2014, 12:36 AM
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16 GB I think. I still have plenty of room. I doubt I'll ever fill it up cause I only get virtual console games on the eshop and the occasional download only game.
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Old 09-20-2014, 09:28 PM
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:/ I have a 32 gb sdhc, but i cant seem to get my 3ds to recognize it.
Old 09-23-2014, 05:15 PM
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Mine is eight gigs, but I'm planning on getting a bigger one for Pokemon so that I can get both games but only take up space for one.
Old 09-23-2014, 06:54 PM
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i upgraded to 8gig about a week ago
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Old 09-23-2014, 11:50 PM
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2GB. Still using the stock one.
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Old 09-24-2014, 06:13 AM
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32 Gigabyte card in my 3DS XL & a 4 Gigabyte card in my normal 3DS.
I upgraded my 4 GigaByte card to another 32 GigaByte card, so now I have two 32 GigaByte cards.
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