Official Gamecube SD card adapter?

I found an old promotional gamecube disc and I was looking through it when something caught my eye. If you navigate from System to Accessories on the menu, it shows an SD card adapter for the gamecube. It's description says:

I just thought I'd share that with you guys because I'm pretty sure no official SD adapters ever saw the light of day.

Here's the part of the disc this came from (flash file): http://www.mediafire.com/?ivc6et2hhxibxtr

 

I believe one was released and used to take pictures in Animal Forest +. Not sure if other games used it though.

 

The adapter was officially released in Japan and supported by a handful of games only.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/acce/index.html
Scroll down on that page for release date and price. Nintendo used to sell them online.

 

Not sure where you got that name exactly but in the US it's called "Animal Crossing". Odd title come to think of it, supported the E-Card reader? I swear that I can recall seeing some E-Cards for the game.

 

Nintendo GAMECUBE SD card adapter A sale date: July 18th in 2003 A mail-order price : SD card adapter single item edition of 1500 yen (including shipping charge* tax) A SD memory card (16MB) bundled edition of 3000 yen (including shipping charge* tax) The stamp size Matsushita Electric Industrial advocates and adapter which corresponds to large-volume record media and SD memory card.

Instruction manual (PDF form :473KB) ※ It's already checked the operation of, SD memory card list ※ This goods are on-line, only of sale, you were treating, but I have ended sale.

 

Animal Crossing is the only compatible game.
It works great for homebrew however and there are several clones out, the SD Gecko and the Datel SD Media Launcher http://uk.codejunkies.com/Products/GCNWii-SD-Media-Launcher__EF000580.aspx

 

Yes it did.

 

I imported one for using SDLoad with the Action Replay to enable homebrew on a non-modded GameCube. Worked great. At the time clones didn'y exist, only homemade adapters and the real thing. The official adapter was not expensive back when I bought it.

 

That's cool. I remember reading about it before the Gamecube was even out, and then I was disappointed when it never came out in the US. I didn't know it was released in Japan. Can you use it as a memory card?

I believe this adapter has something to do with Nintendo's relationship with Panasonic. Many Nintendo products use or have used parts manufactured and/or designed by Panasonic. Panasonic even made their own version of the Gamecube.

 

No, the SD card cannot be used as a memory card.

 

Correct, and a real shame.

 

Not sure if anyone ever did, but it would have been possible with homebrew to transfer saves to and from the SD card to a regular memory card. I do know it was possible to do memory card transfers via the BBA and homebrew.

 

SDMC and GCMM both do that SDMC being the better one.

http://www.gc-forever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8

 

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I just received one of these from an ebay auction (it didn't include a picture of it, so was a nice surprise). Does anyone know if these are worth anything, I can't find any on ebay to check?

 

Extremely rare outside Japan. But best used for homebrew, unless you want to poke around the text heavy Animal Crossing e+.

 

you can also use it for retail game loading. swiss runs retail games through those adapters well.

 

I just wish DM would use it too.

...and this: https://www.google.com/search?safe=...82,d.ZWU&fp=e660e923c2633d0d&biw=1280&bih=852
Not worth a lot, unless you find a collector for it.

 

I think that Swiss for Gamecube supports these. It support the more common Wiikey SD adapter you mention.

https://code.google.com/p/swiss-gc/

 

....did you read the comment above mine? Guess not.