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| BelPowerslave 2005-04-25, 6:35 am |
| '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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| BelPowerslave 2005-04-25, 8:46 pm |
| > > Yeah, I remember it well. I think PSII was hyped as being one of the first 6 meg
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> Sega claimed PSII was the first 6 meg game in its print ad. It also had
> a big "6 mega" design on the front of its box and everything 
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Yup, I remember it. For most games I think it's just hype for the sake of hype, but for
an RPG, size really does matter, so I think it was intelligent of Sega to hype its size
at the time.
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> So did I, but judging from the ROM size and various other tidbits of
> info I could get off the net it seems GnG was actually a 5 megabit game.
> I have no idea why Sega didn't hype the game's size, as that would have
> made it the biggest Genesis cartridge available until PSII came out.
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Wow, I wonder if it really is a 5 meg cart...that'd be just too wild. Jonathan
mentioned, in another thread, that Art Alive is only 512k, which makes me wonder if they
put it on a 1 meg cart, or actually wasted a 4 meg cart on that.
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> That being said, I always thought they managed to cram a ton of stuff
> into Ghouls 'n Ghosts compared to some of the other 4 meg Genesis launch
> titles (like Altered Beast or Super Thunder Blade). Maybe they didn't
> have to cram as hard as I thought!
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Well, maybe their compression rate or some slick use of graphics resources allowed them
to get a lot more out of GnG's 4 meg cart than it did for AB, etc. Who knows...;)
Bel
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| Scott H 2005-04-27, 7:44 pm |
| BelPowerslave wrote:
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> Yeesh, now there's some math for you. ;)
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> Bel
Yeah, that's why I just multiply by 8 and only take the first digit of
the number. ;)
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| Scott H 2005-04-27, 7:44 pm |
| BelPowerslave wrote:
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> Thanks man, that's exactly right.
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> Yeah, I think you're right about the mags...stuff like old GamePros and EGMs
> seem to have that info in their little info box on the review pages. I miss
> the days when all of the Genesis games seemed to have how many megs they were
> touted somewhere on the box. ;)
If you want to do it this way, rather than using cart sizes, I can
rummage through my old Lamepros and get the cart sizes if you don't
already have them.
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| BelPowerslave 2005-04-27, 8:31 pm |
| > I was digging around my old files and I found a useful utility for
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> determining the actual ROM size versus the filesize of the ROM. I
> checked out the Ghouls and Ghosts ROM and the filesize was just over 1
> megabyte, which might indicate an 8 megabit game. When I ran the
> useful utility, called UCON, it actually told me that the game itself
> was 5 megabits. So Bel, this might be another resource for you in case
> you have difficulty with certain games. Let me know if you can't find
> it and I'll email it to you or something.
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> Jonathan
Interesting...will definitely take a look around the net for it, will be very nice for
finding some of these carts' sizes. I'll take a look around for it tomorrow, hopefully I'll
be able to come up with it.
Let me ask you this: I thought carts sizes only ran in multiples of 2 megabit...so, was GnG
on a 6 meg cart, or was I wrong in my assumption(or did they make a special 5 meg cart for
it)? Just kind of curious.
Bel
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