The Size of 3DS Games

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Kenology on 06 August 2012

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Ocarina of Time 3DS (60 MB) is almost double the size of Ocarina of Time N64 (32MB). Wonder why that is. That orchestral track probably took up a lot of space but I'm sure they have some sophisticated compression routines nowadays. Honestly can't think of what could account for all the extra space.

I'm not one of those tech guys but OoT 3D has more inputs thanks to the addition of the touch screen. It has better music (which you mentioned) and the textures are much more detailed despite managing to maintain the nostalgic look of the original. I has the extra mode added for when you beat the original, too.

That's my best guess, anyway. I'm normally wrong about these things, though.

Yeah, I didn't think about that... The textures are much better and higher res in the 3DS version; that could easily have taken up the bulk of the extra space.

I don't think the music took up much space at all since they made the decision to mimic the N64 OSV along with it's lower quality samples - but they orchestral track sounded really nice, so they probably didn't compress it at all.

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Salnax on 06 August 2012

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wow so much game for such a small space, especially Nintendo's. the DS games must of been next to nothing then.

If you want, I could make a thread like this for DS games.

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the2real4mafol on 06 August 2012

Salnax said:

the2real4mafol said:
wow so much game for such a small space, especially Nintendo's. the DS games must of been next to nothing then.

If you want, I could make a thread like this for DS games.

yeah please do, and make a thread like this for psp, ps vita, ps3, wii and xbox 360 if you can. it's actually interesting seeing how big these games are. you could never guess!

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really surprised Pilotwings being only 100mb
and SM3Dland 300mb

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Salnax on 06 August 2012

the2real4mafol said:

Salnax said:

the2real4mafol said:
wow so much game for such a small space, especially Nintendo's. the DS games must of been next to nothing then.

If you want, I could make a thread like this for DS games.

yeah please do, and make a thread like this for psp, ps vita, ps3, wii and xbox 360 if you can. it's actually interesting seeing how big these games are. you could never guess!

Alright, I'll make this a series. Next up... let's find out.

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Kenology on 06 August 2012

the2real4mafol said:

Salnax said:

the2real4mafol said:
wow so much game for such a small space, especially Nintendo's. the DS games must of been next to nothing then.

If you want, I could make a thread like this for DS games.

yeah please do, and make a thread like this for psp, ps vita, ps3, wii and xbox 360 if you can. it's actually interesting seeing how big these games are. you could never guess!

I second this.

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DieAppleDie said:
really surprised Pilotwings being only 100mb
and SM3Dland 300mb

I could see how they pulled off Pilotwings. You get Wii Sports graphics, and fairly generic music, and the game itself isn't that deep.

Mario 3D Land is a bigger puzzle, but they may have just heavily compressed the game (and didn't compress PWR).

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the2real4mafol said:

Salnax said:

the2real4mafol said:
wow so much game for such a small space, especially Nintendo's. the DS games must of been next to nothing then.

If you want, I could make a thread like this for DS games.

yeah please do, and make a thread like this for psp, ps vita, ps3, wii and xbox 360 if you can. it's actually interesting seeing how big these games are. you could never guess!

Here's a new Wii version of this thread. It still needs some formatting, but the info is there. Tell me what you think.

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