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"In case you forget."

Once upon a time Carts ruled the world and all we ever needed to use was carts, carts were so cleverly designed that you can save games onto them without using these new fangled Memory cards. When the Disc era of gaming appeared and Sony used these memory cards. These Memory cards though had an advantage, you could transfer data from one game to another so if you rented a game out save it on the memory card when you buy the game you can upload your old saved file. So the N64 decided to use them despite being cartridge based (only a few games used the memory card though so it wasn’t as important as they were on the Playstation). The N64 was the first to alter these memory cards from simple memory systems by creating in built rumble facilities.

Nowadays Memory cards are getting posh the big spaced but stupidly priced PS2 memory card is examples of companies revolutionizing that area. The Gamecube and Panasonic are using new memory cards with memory space exceeding that of the console itself and with the help of Panasonic you can transfer data from a video camera and use it on a future Gamecube title or a digital camera. These nice Memory card ideas are all well a good but there was a special memory card developed for SEGA’s Dreamcast.

The Visual memory unit is just that a memory card that displays your data but it does much more than that oh yes. Fans of Resident Evil will know a bar shows how well your doing with a Fine, Caution and Danger rating. Instead of pressing pause to view it you can now look down at your VMU and it will show you. Some games such as Ready to Rumble round 2 shows your health ala Resident Evil Code Veronica but also how many punches you have landed and a score. You can download information off of the Internet onto it and you can even download small games to play.

The VMU’s are an ingenious idea from SEGA on their sadly ill-fated Dreamcast system. Nintendo has seen this idea and the thought of a seperate screen whilst you are playing might be one way in which the Gameboy Advanced can become compatible with the system. Meanwhile the Nintendo Gamecube memory cards form Panasonic that can carry (in theory) NES games is looking to be an interesting prospect. Certain Video cameras will allow you to download what you've filmed onto a Memory card and perhaps transfer it onto a Gamecube disc, maybe games can be downloaded and transfered onto a Gamecube disc (although this opens up another piracy problem)?

The Digital camera idea is also interesting, the Perfect Dark face mapping was scrapped could this return? Digital Camera's are more wide spread than Gameboy Camera's so it would be clever. Uploading you own sounds onto a Gamecube game is also possible. The memory cards from Panasonic look very promising indeed (although the bigger ones are very pricy). And who knows what will happen when the Internet arrives, people transfering flim footage and camera shots from one memory card to the other via the world wide web!

It will be interesting to see how Nintendo will work with this idea.

Here's to the Future.

Dringo.

What's the point? You won't have anything to use them with for months.

Missed what bit? Im confused now!

Hang on i missed that bit...

OH GOD OH MY GOD.

Dringo shoves chair back in disbelif and grabs his check book.

I can get the Japanese - USA mod thing cheaper somewhere i have a whole host of improters around.

Salveea, the Memory Stick is a revolutionary storage medium developed by Sony that can store (currently) 256mb onto something literally the size of a stick of chewing gum. It is used in all their digital cameras.

hmmm, 256MB flash memory £136 for Gamecube. Works out at 53p per MB. Not bad value for money.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Blocks are totally unrelated to MB size.

Thanks for telling us that TBN we are all a little wiser now we know that after all we never knew it before.

Dringo wrote:
> Turbonutter wrote:
> I do hope you know that these panasonic memory-stick
> rip offs are really,
> *really* expensive. Have you even tried looking them
> up? Go to the PC World
> website (I can't) and check.

Don't need to i
> know they go as low as *mbit for our price about £20 and as high as like
> 500 i think at £500 or something i dunno something like that.

I am
> aware but there is cheaper ones.

What the hell is a memory-stick? I've heard of them but I can't quite put my finger on it.

"Blocks are totally unrelated to MB size."

Really? I thought there would have been some correspondance to it, albeit small.

SR rules after midnight - it's really active!

Mark.

Thats a cool site man, cheaper than actually waiting for it to come out here!

*ortega pulls out his debit card*

I just saw a site today that sold Gamecube stuff at UK Prices linking to Lik-Sang.
gamecube.co.uk