[throwaway628035]

Console hacking forum users such as gbatemp stress the use of "Panasonic SD formatter" when formatting SD cards as FAT32 and guiformat for exFAT, I don't know if there is a reason behind this advice or if it's just cargo culting.

[jeroenhd]

My experience is that both of these tools do something for aligning partitions or file systems that a regular right click+format won't do. I've had SD cards fail to boot in a Raspberry Pi because of these small details.

I don't think they do anything that other formatting tools can't do, but they do make the alignment much easier by defaulting to the right options.

[snvzz]

>I don't know if there is a reason behind this advice or if it's just cargo culting.

Easy to reproduce results is probably what they're going for. If that tool doesn't have much configuration possible, many footguns are prevented.