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Review : Memory Card 1019 for Gamecube
I tell ya Nintendo has some of the cutest little Memory cards for the Gamecube. I filled up my trusty black Memory Card 251 this week. I got a new game that I was shocked to see that it requires 109 freaking blocks of memory so off the store I went. I had planned on getting another Memory Card 251 for twenty bucks but I was intrigued by the Memory Card 1019 for only ten bucks more. So for thirty bucks I got a new Gamecube Memory Card that is over four times larger than my old one and seventeen times the size of the original GC Memory Card 59.
I will note that you have to be careful with the Gamecube Memory cards. I fried my first card by trying to plug it in when the Gamecube power was on. While hot swapping is cool on the Playstation2 and the Dreamcast it killed my first Memory Card 59. So I replaced it with a cool black Memory Card 251 that my friend BBQ doodled an anti-Mitsurugi from Soul Calibur 2 comic. Now that I have a pretty beefy Gamecube library I had to upgrade. I transfered all most all my files over OK. The garage file from F-Zero GX and my Animal Crossing town were locked. I still have the Animal Crossing card but I am almost avoiding playing the game to see how my town has descended into chaos and decay. I think they have the Animal Crossing town file locked to prevent item duplication. I have to see if BBQ wants my old Memory Card 251 or I'll trade it in for a few bucks in credit at a game store.
One thing that I do love about the Gamecube Memory Cards is how fast data moves to and from them. It is not as fast as a hard drive but it is pretty quick and I love how portable and compact it is. I don't think the Gamecube is suffering by not having a hard drive and memory cards like this are just a fact of life when you are dealing with games on optical disks.
It looks like this is the last Gamecube Memory Card that I will ever have to buy. The Gamecube Memory Card 1019 is reliable and once you put one in your Gamecube you realistically don't need to worry about saving your game data. Just make sure you take care of them.
Now all I have to do is to have BBQ draw another comic on this card.
Jake at November 12, 2004 
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Comments
wha-wha-what!!!
you can FRY your gamecube memory card when hot swapping?
are they crazy. lucky I never removed my memory card in the last time -> I didn't know that!
is this yet another attempt to conquer the world by Nintendo (because memory cards are really expensive!)???
Posted by: Jim at November 12, 2004 3:59 AM
um, the gamecube memory cards ARE hotswappble. I do it all the time.
Posted by: henry at November 12, 2004 8:45 AM
So when are you going to update the other site... wondering what's new with you.
Posted by: Carla at November 12, 2004 10:35 AM
Hot swapping can damage a GC memory card. It does not do it all the time but the manual says not to do it. And it did kill my first GC memory card.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at November 12, 2004 10:31 PM
I have 3 MC 59s and 1 MC 251, with the 59s almost completely filled up and about 50 blocks of free space on the 251. I've been putting off buying a 1019 until after the DS comes out, because I'm just barely going to have enough money to get the DS and one game next week. I will inevitably have to get one after this Christmas though, when I'll have enough money to buy 2 or 3 more GC games. These are bound to take more than 50 blocks of memory... All I can say is that I'm glad I have Madden and NCAA Football on my PS2.
Posted by: Riley at November 13, 2004 11:30 AM
My brother only has a MC 59 and GC hardware is hard to come by thesedays in New Zealand, though exrental games are somewhat acquirable for under $20NZ - brother brought Crazy Taxi and Mario Sunshine for the price of a regular PS2 Platnium Game.
Posted by: Matt at November 13, 2004 7:05 PM
