14th February 2004, 5:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th February 2004, 5:19 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Megabytes as in use a normal file system! Make a very small minimum file size... for instnace in FAT32 (which is what I have) it's 32kb, but I'm sure it's smaller in others... I don't know what NTFS uses... given I don't have an NT-based OS... :)
I just checked. Memory Card 59 is, I believe, .5MB (512kB). That's broken into 64 blocks, five for the formatting. The 251 is a 2MB card with the same 5 block programming (256 actual). That means 8kB per block... how this compares to FAT32/NTFS I don't know because I know those have smaller block sizes the smaller the disc -- it is 32kB minimum file size (the largest minimum size I think?) in my 40GB partitions, but it's certainly lower in something that would be 2MB or less... so I don't know how it compares, really. The biggest problems are that 2MB isn't much and that limiting the number of files of a game on one machine to something as low as three is annoying.
Of course a lot of GBA games have just one save slot, or maybe two if you're lucky, but that's because of the limitations of how big a battery (or however they do it now) save can be...
I just checked. Memory Card 59 is, I believe, .5MB (512kB). That's broken into 64 blocks, five for the formatting. The 251 is a 2MB card with the same 5 block programming (256 actual). That means 8kB per block... how this compares to FAT32/NTFS I don't know because I know those have smaller block sizes the smaller the disc -- it is 32kB minimum file size (the largest minimum size I think?) in my 40GB partitions, but it's certainly lower in something that would be 2MB or less... so I don't know how it compares, really. The biggest problems are that 2MB isn't much and that limiting the number of files of a game on one machine to something as low as three is annoying.
Of course a lot of GBA games have just one save slot, or maybe two if you're lucky, but that's because of the limitations of how big a battery (or however they do it now) save can be...
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