<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm not exactly sure how they function, but it is somewhat different from a traditional memory card. The major difference here is that one SD Memory Card holds 128MB's worth of data, while the regular memory cards hold only 0.5MBs worth of data. I'd imagine there will be significant load time when starting up games, though I can't confirm it. The memory cards currently used by gamecube load almost instantly.
As for Animal Crossing 2, the reasons why it will be using such a device for data storage is because it will include online functions as well as a number of new gameplay functions.
Just my speculation on a possible future title:
Likely Nintendo will use this if it plans on releasing a new Earthbound title, it would be nice to see them release the original Earthbound 64 as a bonus for pre-orders of the next Earthbound, Zelda: the Wind Waker had very little hype going for it, and a lot going against it in terms of hype, but it's still Nintendo's fastest selling title on Gamecube.</div>
As for Animal Crossing 2, the reasons why it will be using such a device for data storage is because it will include online functions as well as a number of new gameplay functions.
Just my speculation on a possible future title:
Likely Nintendo will use this if it plans on releasing a new Earthbound title, it would be nice to see them release the original Earthbound 64 as a bonus for pre-orders of the next Earthbound, Zelda: the Wind Waker had very little hype going for it, and a lot going against it in terms of hype, but it's still Nintendo's fastest selling title on Gamecube.</div>
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