GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:51 am

the gamecube only supports a maximum of 128mb any higher and they stick a button on it and make it a multi page memory card or whatever its called
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:31 pm

SD Gecko v1.2:

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SD Media Launcher:

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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by Xesxen » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:55 pm

Here are some images of an official 251 block memory card
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:58 pm

mines on page 2 but thank you also how come your board looks so battered lol
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by Xesxen » Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:44 am

Good question... I bought it second handed, so who knows what happened to it...

Anyways, I also opened up my madcats 118 blocks card and my 4Mb Draxter card.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:57 am

i dont know why some are more complicated then they need to be
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:54 pm

Here are some images of a wii key sd card adapter:

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it was stuck in place so i left it in there.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:16 pm

Official 1019 Block Gamecube Memory Card:

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This Is The Largest Offical Gamecube Memory Card Released.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by webhdx » Sat Jan 17, 2015 3:26 pm

I doubt this is a genuine one. It looks really crappy inside. I don't think Nintendo would place that nasty black blob instead of using real ICs.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:02 pm

webhdx wrote:I doubt this is a genuine one. It looks really crappy inside. I don't think Nintendo would place that nasty black blob instead of using real ICs.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by kinect360 » Sat Jan 17, 2015 8:32 pm

It is a genuine one, that black blob is in every one of nintendo's memory cards.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by webhdx » Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:07 pm

Genuine, high quality memory card looks like this:
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Maybe they cheaped out on these 1019 blocks memcards.

EDIT:
It's fake. It was discussed on gc-forever before: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=2474
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by tueidj » Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:12 am

RazorX2014 wrote:This Is The Largest Offical Gamecube Memory Card Released, The Gamecube Doesn't Support Anything Higher..
Rubbish, the largest supported cards are 2043 blocks (16MB/128Mbit).

Edit: It's not a fake either, it's just a later model than the other cards with epoxy applied to prevent probing.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by RazorX2014 » Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:59 am

you are correct 2043 blocks is the largest supported, forgot about that :D
however 1019 blocks is the largest official memory card Nintendo released.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by DragoonC » Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:01 pm

so how much is that in Gigabytes ? how much can i use on a SD Gecko as memorycard?
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by tueidj » Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:59 am

16MB is 0.015625 gigabytes. An SD gecko cannot be used as a memory card.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by Grimmbly » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:52 pm

Lately I have been toying around the idea of internalizing an SD card slot. I like Ashen's Diagram for his portable trimming guide and used it extensively. I found this to be a good option and I am going to give it a try.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by jefflongo » Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:47 pm

So I wired up an SD socket, my question is do I need to do anything with sense? I installed the SD socket for the purpose of flashing Swiss when my WASP arrives. If I do need sense, where do I need to wire?
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by novenary » Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:18 am

You only need to short the sense pins on the GC side, the SD slot sense switch can be ignored. Or you can wire the SD sense to the GC sense and it will work as intended.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by GizmoTheGreen » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:23 pm

RazorX2014 wrote:
Mon Dec 29, 2014 4:39 pm
here are the images i took of my 64MB USB Gamecube Memory Card:
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here are the images i took of my DOL-014 251 Gamecube Memory Card:
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So many chips! 3 + a blob. jesus christ what do they all do lmao
also those RE, ALL, WE, CE pads look sort of interesting..

Hold up this one looks different from mine... I'll get some pics
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by Sierron » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:03 pm

Well, what you have is the gc usb adapter. This is a 3rd party accessory.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by novenary » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:07 pm

GizmoTheGreen wrote:
Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:23 pm
So many chips! 3 + a blob. jesus christ what do they all do lmao
Bog standard flash, a custom controller for the GC side and another microcontroller for the USB side. And apparently some SRAM. I guess they use it as a cache of some sorts?
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by GizmoTheGreen » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:36 pm

Sierron wrote:
Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:03 pm
Well, what you have is the gc usb adapter. This is a 3rd party accessory.
yeah thats what he posted too. we both have on and they have wuite different pcb's... his has one extra blob pack from what I can see
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by Sierron » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:02 pm

Have a photo of my one as well for good measure. The back also has a samsung chip. nothing to fancy. Can take a photo as well if someone wants.
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Re: GameCube Memory Card & SD Gecko Diagrams

Post by Waisneed » Sat Nov 24, 2018 10:13 pm

Thought maybe the official SD Card Adapter may be of help... But doesn't look like it.
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