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"How much does a N64 cart hold?"

It might sound like a silly question but I really wanted to know!

Biggest game is conker and is a whopping 80mb very big for a cartridge

I hate Binary, and all the technical stuff too. Just enjoy the damn games!

105!! I can read binary!! *dances*

I understand bits and bytes. Arent i clever.

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I knew there was a crossover somewhere between bits and bytes...

You just made it rather unclear!

Damn you!

Just to clarify Dringo's use of MB, mb and the rest...

The carts were, and have always been measured in Mega BITS - Mb.
This is 8 times the number of MegaBytes - MB.

What Dringo is trying to say is that the games ranged from 512 Mb (64 MB) to 64Mb (8MB).

Carts have always been far, far more expensive to make with high data volumes. They have never come close to CDs, which is why N64 owners never got FMV footage.

Sonic

phi11ip wrote:
> Wait, are we talking about saved data or game data?
>
> 512 mbits is a bit low isn't it?

N64 carts never reached the heights of CD's etc...

The early N64 games were 64MB very small games... the larger games like Goldeneye and Mario were at the time a massive 128 mb...

Then Zelda stunned us all with a 256 mb CART (they are the maximum size of the GBA ones).

Nintendo unleashed the add on memory that made big 256 games (Donkey Kong, Perfect Dark and Zelda) even bigger... then Resident Evil stormed it all wit a cart staggering 512 MB...

Don't ask me what the MB stands for mind... bites... bits.... whatever something like that.

It goes up and up...and up.

Sorry.

*Walks away*

Wait, are we talking about saved data or game data?

512 mbits is a bit low isn't it?

The biggest carts made were 512 Mb (that's Mega BITS, not bytes!), which is 64 MB. However, this was only used where needed (my sources in Dringo's brain say that it was for Resident Evil 2).

The cart sizes ranged right down to 64Mb for Mario Kart, and Mario 64 was 128Mb. Zelda made 256Mb.

Sonic