Topic: 3DS SD Card - Tips Needed!

I'm running out of blocks on my 3DS and I want to download a few retail games so it looks like it is time for an SD card upgrade. Confession: I have absolutely no experience with SD cards and have never even taken one out or put one in D:

I'm looking for maybe a 16GB SD card. Does anyone know how many blocks that is? Nintendo sells a 16GB card for $13.00 online apparently. Should I go with that or pick up an SD card elsewhere? I need some guidance with this so if you have experience with upgrading a 3DS' SD card I would love to hear some of your tips, which SD card you bought, and where I could get one at a reasonable price. Thank you!

1 block equals 128 kB
1GB equals 8,192 blocks
So 16GB is 16*8192 = 131,072

$13 seems pretty good for a 16 gig card, but I bet you could find one cheaper at a physical store.

Not really unless you buy it used. $13 is a good price for a 16 gig card

Hmmm...I guess that's good. You can go up to 32 GB, maybe consider that size if you plan on downloading a lot.

Nintendo doesn't sell 32 GB cards, you'll have to go somewhere else for that. Amazon has good prices.

I'd go for a 32 gig they're not that much more expensive and it's got tons of space.

Thank you for the advice everyone! I might look into a 32GB SD card after all. If not, I'll just go with Nintendo's 16GB one.

I bought a 32gb card recently, but my current 16gb one is still holding up pretty well, I still have a lot of space so I haven't had to replace it yet.

I'm at the situation where I need an SD card. Wanted to download Kid Icarus Uprising as it was very cheap in the Smash newcomers sale but couldn't due to not enough blocks (currently using the 2GB SD card that came with the original 3DS console).

Just go for the 32GB version of any of the ones Nintendo specifically tests with. (Think the cheapest one is the Lexar Premium one.)

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