| Vodacixi said: I don't know much about game sizes and coding, but Gold and Silver have better visuals, 100 more Pokémon, 100 more moves, more items, quite a bit more beefy sprites, a 24/7 real-time system with a crap ton of events and variables, twice as many music tracks... and much more. That alone should at least take quite a chunk from the extra MB Gold and Silver had over Red and Blue. But then they just went and add Kanto. I don't think fitting all of that with just twice the memory was an easy feat. |
The OG Red/Green were stored in 500KB cartridges, so it's more like 4x the storage, really. Red/Blue were 1MB because by 1998 that had become standard already, not that they were actually using it.
If you want an actual impressive compression feat, that would be RE2 on the N64. ~400-500 MB of data crammed into a 64MB cartridge.
