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daramark wrote:
> "John Salerno" <johnjsal@NOSPAMrcn.com> wrote in message
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>>daramark wrote:
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>>>"Adrian Tymes" <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>>>news:jKG4d.602$JG2.224@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
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>>>>daramark wrote:
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>>>>>Thanks all! So I would need to buy a memory card and the game, any
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>>>advice
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>>>>>about memory cards?
>>>>
>>>>The original (59 block?) served me well enough from when the GC was
>>>>first available in the US up until a few months ago - and I don't
>>>>think they sell any that small any more. The ones being sold now
>>>>are 251 and 1019 block, for ~$20 and ~$30 respectively. There are a
>>>>very few games that don't quite work right with the 1019 card (not
>>>>having anticipated that much memory) - see
>>>>http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/memorycard1019.jsp
>>>>though the only games on that list I'd play have far from fatal errors.
>>>>(E.g., one of them can only properly display the number of free blocks
>>>>if you've used at least 20 blocks - so there's 999 or fewer blocks left
>>>>- and it can only handle 99 save files.)
>>>>
>>>>If $10 would be significant, then the 251 will probably be more than
>>>>enough until the GC is obsolete (since the chances you'll be playing
>>>>that many games are slim). I use a 1019 myself, with a 59 as a
>>>>"working" card that I can afford to take to friends' houses or
>>>>conventions and possibly lose without having to, e.g., re-unlock
>>>>SSBM.
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>>>Ok, and thanks again! I don't really want to ask, but what's SSBM?
>>>Basically if it's not Pokemon, I only vaguely have heard of it.
>>>
>>>daramark
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>>Super Smash Brothers Melee, the fighting game with Mario characters,
>>among others.
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> Ahh, yes everyone in Nintendo land in one game.
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> daramark
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Yep, but I still never played it. I think it's oriented much more for
multiplayer, but I suppose I'd pick it up if the price were to drop to,
say, $9.99.