Meg. counts

Nesagwa

Nesagwa

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I think most are in the 8 and 16 range. A few are in the 4 megs and even less are in the 32 meg ones.
 
evil wasabi

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Considering his other question about the size of the console, I don't think he means that, nesag'. o_O
But more like size in inch or whatever...

I could be wrong though... "Average" size would be weird then, considering all official NGPC carts have the same size. (save a few exceptions)

Edit: Or maybe I should just have read the title of the topic... ^_^;;
Just woke up when I posted this, sorry. :rolleyes:

<small>[ May 06, 2003, 03:51 AM: Message edited by: Stifu ]</small>
 
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neomonkey

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Go to this link to see the list of all the available games in usa,uk and japan and the meg sizes for each game:
<a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justincastle/ngpc/gamesjap.htm" target="_blank">http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justincastle/ngpc/gamesjap.htm</a>
In america you had 30 games out with:
4 games at 4meg (0.5Megabytes)
12 games at 8meg (1 Megabytes)
12 games at 16meg (2 Megabytes)
2 games at 32meg (4 Megabytes)
Which works out to be 12.26megs on average.
Although in uk there was 39 games released and at least 72 in japan and hence the average will be different.

Hope that sorts you out.
 
Nesagwa

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Heh, probably should have linked to my site on that one. Justin let me use his info on that stuff :D oh well.
 
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The only interesting exception is Pacman, which is only about 800kb. It's actually still on a 4Mb ROM, but if you dump it and look at it in a hex editor, 3+ megs of it are just empty.
 
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I guess it is expected that pacman is much smaller than 4 megs due to it being an old atari classic that would have been properly a fraction of a meg when relased in the arcades and on the atari 2600.
I would think all the games under 4 megs of game code would still be on a 4meg rom cart. As it would not be worth make a pocket rom cart to exactly match the game code size.
 
Nesagwa

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Exactly. Its a thing the industry calls "standards".
 
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