Nintendo DS Game Pak Size

[djtickle]

Hi,

Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

What kinda size does the DS Game Pak hold? As in like mb?

Also what does a standard GBA Cart hold?

Looked all over the web in interest but could not find anything.

Cheers

[VR46]

taken from a site selling GBA flash stuff;

(Can store 10 or more GBA games on a single 128M CompactFlash Card)

PM'ing ya.

[hankwangford]

I have no idea about DS card sizes but going on the useless fact that they look like standard flash memory cards, probably up to 512megabytes (and maybe beyond in the future).

[Baroque]

Max capacitys in MB, 32MB for a GBA Game Pak and 128MB for a DS Game Card.
Nintendo will refresh the hardware before they'll need to break the 128MB barrier.

[Kron]

I thought the DS carts were touted as 1gbit (256megs)?

[djtickle]

thats pretty mad, does anyone know what a n64 cart would hold?

[Baroque]

I thought the DS carts were touted as 1gbit (256megs)?

Correction.
I just did that maths on this again, 1Gb is 128MB.
Can I see your conversion rough work?

Dj: If I recall they shipped DK 64 on a 128Mb cart. (Which is 16MBs the way I'm working this out, Kron might disagree)

So if you're wondering if the DS can hold more than the N64, it does, but then so does the GBA. That being said, unless they are packing the storage with FMV (At the same quality of the Metroid Hunters video), most games use only a faction of the storage the media can hold. I'd guess that they probably charge publishers more for larger capacity carts too.

[Zapp$ter]

Correction.
I just did that maths on this again, 1Gb is 128MB.
Can I see your conversion rough work?

yeah that sounds right to me.

1Gb = 1000000000 bits

1000000000 bits / 8 = 125000000 bytes (~128MB)

that's what I did in rough.

[Mechz]

Re: Nintendo DS Game Pak Size

Actually, 1Gb = 1073741824 bits

As if it mattered. >_>

Most N64 games are 16MB (128Mb), a few games like DK64 and The Legend of Zelda: OoC are 32MB (256Mb), and a very small selection of games were 64MB (512 Mb), like Resident Evil 2.

(Source that DK64 was 32MB) (Second source)
(Source that RE2 was 64MB) (Second source)

NDS Cards hold 128MB (1Gb) as of now.

(Source that NDS Cards hold 128MB) (Second source)

The second DS source might not count, as it was by a member of that site.

[MartyG]

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-bits.htm

[Mechz]

RE: Nintendo DS Game Pak Size

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-bits.htm

Woot, I was right! =o

[Renny]

Actually at this point, the DS is only using 16MB MASK ROM from Macronix. I don't know when the 128MB media will become available for publishers, supposebly manufactured by Matrix Memory.

[Mechz]

Actually at this point, the DS is only using 16MB MASK ROM from Macronix. I don't know when the 128MB media will become available for publishers, supposebly manufactured by Matrix Memory.

Do you know of a website I could read about this? Where did you hear it uses 16MB MASK ROMs?

[Renny]

You can see the chip in this Lik-Sang feature.

Some detailed info here.

Discussion here, if you're willing to look around. I haven't yet found any article where Nintendo actually reveals their new memory format, or when they will roll it out. But all evidence and rumblings point to Matrix Memory... sometime in the future.

[Mechz]

Thanks

You can see the chip in this Lik-Sang feature.

Some detailed info here.

Discussion here, if you're willing to look around. I haven't yet found any article where Nintendo actually reveals their new memory format, or when they will roll it out. But all evidence and rumblings point to Matrix Memory... sometime in the future.

Thanks. =3