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Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Paul2 on April 20, 2013, 07:19:00 AM

so, what is the storage capacity of an NES catridge?  how about Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo?  I think N64\'s cartridge has 50 Mbytes?

Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Titan on April 21, 2013, 07:46:13 AM

Yeah. We aren\'t talking much. Probably just a couple megabytes for NES, probably less.

Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Titan on April 21, 2013, 07:58:43 AM

Taken from Wikipedia

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The size of NES games varies from 8 KiB (Galaxian) to 1 MiB (Metal Slader Glory), but 128 to 384 KiB was the most common.

Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Paul2 on April 25, 2013, 03:17:21 PM

yeah, a few hours later after i make this thread, i find out the answers from this site:

http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/art-media.htm#page=cartridge (http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/art-media.htm#page=cartridge)

interesting.  It include 1st - 5th generation catridges.

so, NES have from 64 KBytes - 512 KBytes Cartridges.  MMC can expands this, and one game use up to 768 Kbytes.

SMS has as many as 524 Kbytes.

Sega Genesis cartridges are in 4 Mbytes.  SFII expand it up to 5 Mbytes.

Super Nintendo cartridges have as little as 512 Kbytes to as many as 16 Mbytes.

N64 catridges range from 16 Mbytes to 64 Mbytes.

I didn\'t know the sega 32X only hold 4 Mbytes max...

quite interesting.

Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Animal Mother on April 25, 2013, 08:15:35 PM

N64 went up to 64MB. the biggest cart to utilize this storage was resident evil 2

Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Titan on April 26, 2013, 06:36:50 AM

And today we\'re at 40GB with blu-ray. Oh how the times have changed.

Title: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge?
Post by: Paul2 on April 26, 2013, 07:10:21 AM

i think its 46.6 Gbytes with Blu Ray.  Or maybe 50 GiB?  *confused*