routsounmanman said:
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routsounmanman said:
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naznatips said:
If it was too big, well then they could always use multiple DS carts. DQIX does. |
Naz, that news about DQ9 was a fake. |
Fake or not, there is no reason multiple carts couldn't be used. They can't use a 512 cart because 256 is the DS cart size limit. That's really all there is to that... |
Yes there is, I'm pretty sure "card swapping" doesn't work on the DS. That's how people knew the fake DQIX cards were fake i nthe first place (other than the game not veing anywhere near completion). No, what I heard was that it was going to be on a 4Gb card... |
People, the DS doen't accept other companies', sizes', or type' cards; DS uses Nintendo-patented cards which are capped at 256MB. They're not like Memory Stick, CF, etc.
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They aren't capped at 256MB. Its a matter of cost. Matt on IGN already said that Nintendo has 4Gb (512MB) carts in the works. Since he called the 2Gb (256MB) before they appeared, I'll take his word for it. The size limitations are more about cost than a true size cap.
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I can see the cost thing, although it would be nowhere near as bad as with N64 games. Yet I can see Nintendo being hesitant to use carts that would make games cost over $40, at least for the moment. It's also cool how the DS therefore has nearly the capacity of CDs now, thanks to compression advancements. So any one of the PS1 FF games could fit on one 512MB cart, since the FMVs would be in MPEG-4, instead of MPEG-1. |
I don't think the DS has enough horsepower to decode MPEG-4 movies. |
You're confusing a codec with resolution. A codec only needs the right firmware to run (unless the codec is really bloated in the system resources it needs). If it's at higher resolutions, then greater processing is needed (hence the high specs of HD systems and players). With the DS having barely more pixels than the GBA (if you use just one screen), running FMVs is not a problem.
And proof MPEG-4 is not too much for the DS, and even the GBA, is the Play-Yan.
