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routsounmanman on 22 September 2007
Soriku said:
Wait...I think it's bits. But wouldn't it be 512 M then?

 Nah... 1Gbit/8bits ~ 128Mbytes 



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routsounmanman on 22 September 2007
Soriku said:
^ Oh...

 BTW, congrats for your win at the Fanboy game; I voted for you near the end; seriously, you wiped the competition! Is naznatips going to make you a banner for it?  :)



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Darc Requiem on 22 September 2007
routsounmanman said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
naznatips said:
celine said:
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.

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.

 



LordTheNightKnight on 22 September 2007
Darc Requiem said:
routsounmanman said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
naznatips said:
celine said:
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.

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.

 


 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.



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routsounmanman on 22 September 2007

^^ Therefore, as costs lower, we might even see 512 MB and even 1GB cards?
Good :)



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routsounmanman on 22 September 2007
LordTheNightKnight said:
Darc Requiem said:
routsounmanman said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
naznatips said:
celine said:
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.

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.

 


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.



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LordTheNightKnight on 22 September 2007
routsounmanman said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Darc Requiem said:
routsounmanman said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
naznatips said:
celine said:
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.

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.

 


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.



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redspear on 22 September 2007
routsounmanman said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
naznatips said:
celine said:
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.

Well you are correct that the DS will not except any particular memory card. you are also correct that they are not entirely like any memory card. However the Cartridge technology is based on the SD standard and as such is expandable many times over 128 megs. You are also correct that it has been 128 megs since the begining but there was a time when games were limited to 4 megs on the SNES and they eventualy released 16 meg games.

The DS can also play and decode MPEG4 movies they even have players that do so(MPEG 4 is not a new)

In fact MPEG 4 is almost 10 years old.

 



routsounmanman on 22 September 2007

Play-Yan is extra hardware, thus it may include a Decoder...



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Ari_Gold on 22 September 2007

wasn't this a blue dragon thread