Author Topic: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge? (Read 1906 times)

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?

Titan · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2013, 07:46:13 AM »

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

Titan · « **Reply #2 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.

Paul2 · « **Reply #3 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

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.

« **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:15:35 PM »

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

Titan · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2013, 06:36:50 AM »

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

Paul2 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2013, 07:10:21 AM »

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

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Author Topic: What is the storage capacity of a video game catridge? (Read 1906 times)