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We always buy the original Nintendo memory products as they seem to hold more memory per byte and have a much lower likelihood of failure or corruption.

i bought 2 of these from Simply Order on this site and got them in factory packaging brand new, they looked ok so i left them in the package untill i needed them, now 2 months later i opened the factory package to use them yesterday and both are corrupt and says it need reformatting so i do that and they still say files on them are corrupt even tho they have never been used, so they wont format and they are always corrupt right out of the factory sealed package, so they are useless cant save anything on them what a big waste of money. DO NOT buy these 1019 cards just because they can hold more and the wii can fry them and there goes all your saved games. if you want a good memory card to keep forever just buy the original 251 cards they never get corrupted and alway work. The 1019 has had alot of problems over the years and if you want to keep your saved game for as long as possible the 251 slot card is the way to go. if you want to save games then lose all of them, or cant even save anything on it as soon as you open it get the garbage 1019. DO NOT BUY!! i wasted $40 on 2 of these and both are corrupt and cant be reformated right out of the factory sealed package. 2BAD I GAVE Simply Order A PERFECT FEEDBACK before i opened them.
DONT BUY THIS MEMORY CARD AND DONT BUY FROM Simply Order THEY OPEN ITEMS AND PUT DAMAGED ONES BACK IN TO THE PACKAGES.

I bought the Nintendo GameCube when it was first released in November 2001, along with the original Memory Card 59. Almost a year later, the Memory Card 251 was released, so I bought one as my 59 block card was almost full at that point. Then, when Nintendo later announced the Memory Card 1019, I was ecstatic. By that time I had a library of almost 50 games and my two old memory cards were entirely full. The 1019 now holds all my saved games, and is barely over half full. It has completely replaced my 59 and 251 block cards, with room to spare. This is the only GameCube memory card you’ll ever need! Don’t be discouraged by others’ complaints that it has corruption issues. It does use a different technology than the two previous official Nintendo cards, but the only problems are with older games (8 of them to be exact, only 3 of which are actually incompatible and none of which cause any corruption). You can read Nintendo’s official statement by doing a google search for “nintendo customer service memory card 1019″ and clicking on the first result (Amazon won’t allow me to post the actual link in this review).

As you know, data loss or corruption can occur with any memory device, not just for the GameCube but for other video games and computers as well. To avoid any issues, always remember to return to the title screen of any game before turning off the GameCube (you can reset first with the reset button then turn off with the power button to accomplish this) and never remove or insert any memory cards while the power is on and a game is running, especially a game that uses an autosave feature. Oh, and don’t touch either the power or reset button while a game is in the process of saving (that one’s obvious). You will never suffer data loss if you follow these simple rules (they are listed in the instruction manuals of both the GameCube and individual games).

Now that I’ve given you “the rest of the story” (thank you Paul Harvey), enjoy this product and its TONS of memory!