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luisinan

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"Survey of largest cart sizes on game systems" , posted Tue 4 May 01:03

Hey all. I don't know why I became curious about this, but I am. Anyway, I was wondering what were the largest carts for older game systems.

I think on SMB3 must have been the largest NES game. How big was that? What about the Neo Geo, Genesis, SNES, Turbo Graphix, and the rest of them. Even the GBA.

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OmegaDog

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"Re(1):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 02:12:

According to a comparison chart on Gamespot's History of SNK, the largest SNES cartridge was 72 MBits (9 MBytes) -- belonging to a game called Tengai Makyou (actually Tengai Makyou Zero, according to GameFAQs).

... I don't know much more about the game, beyond a couple reviews and FAQ on GameFAQs.

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[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Tue 4 May 02:26]

Pollyanna

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"Re(2):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 10:14

Tengai Makyou Zero, like most games in the series had a feeling of "oh my god, this is incredible!" for about 10-15 hours, followed by "I wish this crap would just end, or at least get somewhere" about 5 hours later.

I'm surprised that it's the largest cart, though. The only thing I can think of that it offers, other than lots of large enemy graphics, is this internal clock system that keeps track of actual time, rather the game is played or not. So, even if you're done with the game, you can pick it back up and go to some yearly festival/christmas etc.

exodus

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"Re(1):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 10:50

I think the largest turbo cart was the 2 meg street fighter one. But that's not counting the ram expnansions or the tennokoe bank, those were both big too.

Omar

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"Re(1):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 11:08

quote:

I think on SMB3 must have been the largest NES game.

If I remember correctly, it was Kirby the largest cart in the NES, about 4 megs I think. One of the last releases on America.

Could be wrong, though.

jiji
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"Re(1):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 12:10

quote:

If I remember correctly, it was Kirby the largest cart in the NES, about 4 megs I think. One of the last releases on America.

Could be wrong, though.

Kirby's Adventure was actually 6 megabits, and yeah, it was the largest on NES. As far as Famicom games went, Just Breed was 6 mbit, and I don't know of any other licensed games that are that size or larger.

The largest on Genesis was Super Street Fighter II, I believe, with 40 megabits. SF2 on PCE is 20 mbit (2.5 megabytes), and I don't know how they managed that given the typical size of PCE Hucard games. It must have been way expensive.

I know Dragon Warrior III on GBC is 32 megabits...are there any that are larger? Minna no Ojisama was the first 256mbit GBA game, and there have been a Mermaid Melody blah blah and Prince of Tennis game that used carts that size (all chock full of voice). GBA Kingdom Hearts is supposed to use a cart ROM/SD card hybrid that will probably hold more...does that count? ;) N64 RE2 was 512MB, which makes it one of the biggest, if not the biggest on that system.

How many megabits did Neo carts top out at?

Phoenix

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"Re(2):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 12:52:

Ok, so far we have the following:
SNES Tengai Makyou Zero 72 MBits (9 MBytes)
NES Kirby's Adventure 6 megabits
(Famicom Just Breed 6 mbit)

//Just Breed? So the point of the game is to have as much sex as possible? And here I thought Nintendo wasn't aiming at mature audiences enough...

GBC Dragon Warrior III 32 megabits (?)
GBA Minna no Ojisama 256mbit (?)
N64 RE2 64MB

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According to the neo-geo.com's master list:

Garou : Mark of the Wolves 688
King of Fighters '98 683
King of Fighters '99 673
King of Fighters 2000 688
King of Fighters 2001 681
King of Fighters 2002 681
King of Fighters 2003 716
Metal Slug 3 708
Metal Slug 5 708
Samurai Shodown 5 / Samurai Spirits Zero 708
Samurai Shodown 5 Special / Samurai Spirits Zero Special ?

Will SSOS, the final neo game, surpass 716?
If KOF 2004 is AW (and I think it is) then will it display meg count?

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[this message was edited by Phoenix on Tue 4 May 17:01]

Rid Hershel

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"Re(1):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 13:05

Virtua Racing is the largest cart for Mega Drive, not in capacity, but in actual size :P

Maou
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Frequent Customer

"Re(3):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 13:08

quote:
Ok, so far we have the following:
SNES Tengai Makyou Zero 72 MBits (9 MBytes)

Say, wasn't Tenchi Souzou (Creation of Heaven and Earth, aka Terranigma) supposed to be something insane, near 100 M? That could have just been legend since it never was released in the states, but...

jiji
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Occasional Customer

"Re(3):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 14:02

Err, I meant to say 512 megabits on N64 RE2, or 64 megabytes. :)

JJWE

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Silver Customer

"Re(4):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Tue 4 May 15:42

Terranigma is a "measly" 4 MB, ie 32 Mb.

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Jigsaw
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Regular Customer

"Re(5):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Wed 5 May 04:48

I guess it doesn't really count, but Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic 3 on the Megadrive was supposedly pretty damn huge. Then again, the game's on two carts...

Dante
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Rare Customer

"Re(6):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Wed 5 May 06:03

Resident Evil 2 for N64 had a huge cart size. I should probably look it up.

Toxico

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"Re(3):Survey of largest cart sizes on game sy" , posted Wed 5 May 12:53

quote:

Will SSOS, the final neo game, surpass 716?
If KOF 2004 is AW (and I think it is) then will it display meg count?

Geeh, since they can waste a whole DVD on a 716 mb game then they can surely make it look like 2k4 has a lots of resort and proudly say the meg amount used by it ;)

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