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It seems like IBM has just announced an very interesting device for the GameCube.
The publication Genken Ascii has revealed that there will be portable IBM hard disk card for the Nintendo GameCube, which can be inserted into the NGC's high speed port.
The IBM card is about the size of a floppy disk with a max capacity seemingly of 1GB. The device can act as an expansion of A memory.
Hopefully the memory will get bigger as the years go on... but this is ceretainly good news for future 'Cubers... like me! :D
I'm not sure how it all works, because i'm no memory techspert, but it will be like a very small PS2 harddrive... but just a portable one that you can take round to your mates house...
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It seems like IBM has just announced an very interesting device for the GameCube.
The publication Genken Ascii has revealed that there will be portable IBM hard disk card for the Nintendo GameCube, which can be inserted into the NGC's high speed port.
The IBM card is about the size of a floppy disk with a max capacity seemingly of 1GB. The device can act as an expansion of A memory.
Hopefully the memory will get bigger as the years go on... but this is ceretainly good news for future 'Cubers... like me! :D
I'm not sure how it all works, because i'm no memory techspert, but it will be like a very small PS2 harddrive... but just a portable one that you can take round to your mates house...
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I'm still not sure if I know everything about the thing itself!
It might come free with a Rare/Nintendo online title but I wouldn't count on it...
I'd say the price of a game was fair... but that's me.
It does bring some great options to developers... they could release new characters with NOM on a GC disc and you could save the datas to the Hard Drive... the GC reads the HD at start-up and you have the character in the game...
The size might not be massive, but when you think it's almost the size of a game, you can't do too badly!
Hopefully, like i said, bigger capacity disks will arrive.