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> 'ello all,
>
> I'm currently trying to find a good site for reliable Genesis cartridge
> size specs(basically, how big the cart is: 4 meg, 8 meg, etc). I've
> tried the VideoGame Museum, The Genesis Collective, VideoGame Hunter's
> Oasis and a few others. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bel
>
> --
>
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> Yes dudes and dudettes, major league buttkicking is back in town!
> - Michelangelo, TMNT
>
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> That only identifies the actual rom size, not the cart's...
>
> Bel
>
> --
>
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> Yes dudes and dudettes, major league buttkicking is back in town!
> - Michelangelo, TMNT
>
>

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> Some games, though on, say, a 16 meg cart...aren't actually 16 megs. I'm
> just trying to go by what they have stated on their boxes, or what the
> manufacturer stated their actual cart size was.

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>
>Some games, though on, say, a 16 meg cart...aren't actually 16 megs. I'm
>just trying to go by what they have stated on their boxes, or what the
>manufacturer stated their actual cart size was.
>
>Bel

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> Some games, though on, say, a 16 meg cart...aren't actually 16 megs. I'm
> just trying to go by what they have stated on their boxes, or what the
> manufacturer stated their actual cart size was.

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>
> Some games, though on, say, a 16 meg cart...aren't actually 16 megs. I'm
> just trying to go by what they have stated on their boxes, or what the
> manufacturer stated their actual cart size was.
>
> Bel
> --
>
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "Now what's your momma gonna say about this?"
> - Marcus Hill, Narc
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> Yeah, seems like publishers stopped hyping games by talking about how big
> they were after a point.
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> IIRC, many, many games never advertised/stated the cart size, so the ROM
> size may be your best bet.

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>
> Sonic 3 & Knuckles: 34 meg
> Toy Story: 32 meg
> World Series Baseball: 16 meg (with battery)
> Star Wars Arcade (32X): 20 meg
> Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X): 24 meg
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>
> None of my other games (4 32X and 17 Genesis total) have a meg size listed
> on the box.
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> Yeah, I don't think you're going to find the advertised cart size
> anywhere but a vintage game mag. The ROM sizes have been accurate for
> everything I've looked at. The thing is, 512KB is 4Mb, or four meg.
> 1024KB is 8Mb, and so on. Basically, whatever the KB rating is just
> multiply that by 8 and subtract 1000, dropping any numbers after the
> first number in the process and you have the rough cart size that they
> would have claimed on the packaging, if they did..

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> that varied from the advertised size. For example, games like Altered
> Beast and After Burner II (4 meg games) were always 512 kilobytes. 8
> meg games were 1024, 16 meg games 2048, etc. I think Strider, the
> first advertised 8 meg game, was 512 kilobytes. So, maybe later on in
> the Genesis's life they tried to inflate the specs to sell more games?
> I'm curious to know which games those might be.

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> 'ello all,
>
> I'm currently trying to find a good site for reliable Genesis cartridge
> size specs(basically, how big the cart is: 4 meg, 8 meg, etc). I've
> tried the VideoGame Museum, The Genesis Collective, VideoGame Hunter's
> Oasis and a few others. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bel

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> --
>
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> Yes dudes and dudettes, major league buttkicking is back in town!
> - Michelangelo, TMNT
>
>

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> BelPowerslave wrote:
>
>
>
> Yeah, I don't think you're going to find the advertised cart size
> anywhere but a vintage game mag. The ROM sizes have been accurate for
> everything I've looked at. The thing is, 512KB is 4Mb, or four meg.
> 1024KB is 8Mb, and so on. Basically, whatever the KB rating is just
> multiply that by 8 and subtract 1000, dropping any numbers after the
> first number in the process and you have the rough cart size that they
> would have claimed on the packaging, if they did..

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> history and experience of games. as much as we may like we can't always
> end up buying every single game known to existence.
>

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>
> bel, i suggest gamefaqs.com, they might have the details. the other
> websites are also good. the only other thing i can think of is using old
> catalogues and video game mags to be true to the history.
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> Yeah, seems like publishers stopped hyping games by talking about how big
> they were after a point.

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> Not subtrack 1000, divide 1000, or just only look at the first number
> after you multiply by 8. ;)

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> In alt.sega.genesis Scott H <sheathx013@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Divide by 1024 and you get the exact number. 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes, 1
> megabyte = 1024 kilobytes.
>
> -a

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> ammonton@cc.full.stop.helsinki.fi wrote:
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> But we're talking about Megabits here, which are quite a bit smaller
> than Megabytes.

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>
>Well, but it comes down to: Did the dev. actually use *all*, again we'll say
>16 megs, 16 megs? Just because a game is on a 16 meg cart doesn't mean it
>used the entire space. About the only game I can think of, off the top of my
>head, where a dev. used *all* of the space given is Eternal Champions:
>Challenge from the Dark Side. They actually had to take stuff out to make it
>fit right at 650 megs. ;)

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>
>I'm not so much interested in the actual rom's size...I don't really care if
>a game only used, say, 3.5 megs of a 4 meg cart...I just want to know what
>the dev/publisher stated its size being.
>
>Bel

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>
> Ah, but now you're talking about a CD, and not a cart. ;)
>

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>
>
> Seriously though, I don't think publishers really touted cart sizes
> during the 16-bit error.

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> With Sega, I know they did that with the SMS,
> but it was done very rarely with the Genesis. I know for sure they
> touted Strider, since it was the first 8 meg game, but other than
> that, I can't really think of any other games where they actually
> mentioned on the box or in the manual how big the cart was.
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>
> Another thing is, if a ROM is a certain size, then you can be 100%
> sure that that's the biggest that the actual cart was. Considering the
> cost of producing cartridges back then, you'd think that a developer
> would use the smallest possible size for a cart, so if a ROM(and
> therefore cart) is 8 megs, you can be sure that the actual game would
> be at least 5 megs. But then, they'd probably still market the game as
> 8 megs because it was using an 8 meg eeprom, i.e. they wouldn't tell
> you if a game was really 5 megs.

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>
> Yeesh, now there's some math for you. ;)
>
> Bel

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> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "Now what's your momma gonna say about this?"
> - Marcus Hill, Narc
>
>