How big are the DS games?

I ask this because mainly of Final Fantasy IV DS. After watching the TGS trailer (http://youtube.com/watch?v=n-Sr9G8XWEU) I'm surprized to see voice acting going on. Which makes me extremely excited for this game. But are DS games that big on the whole storage capacity? Are they limited? Just curious because for voice acting, I thought that took a lot of memory.

They have been plenty big so far.

: D

The biggest game is ASH, clocking in at 256mb. For comparison, Phantom Hourglass is 64mb, Puzzle Quest is 16mb, and Hotel Dusk and FF: III are both 128mb.

No wonder I can't find Hotel Dusk for under $30. I expect ASH will be around $40.

There are larger catridges now that can hold a lot more. I don't know the size of either carts, but neither is exactly huge.nintendofreak_2

I believe a DS cart is 128 Megabytes.thriteenthmonke

256 MB now. ASH is the first game that size.

The ActImagine codec is used widely in DS games, it's got some seiously great compression.

I read in Official Nintendo Magazine that FF3 uses a 1 GB DS cart. I think it depends on whatever the game requires.tomarlyn

1 Gb = 0.125GB

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]I read in Official Nintendo Magazine that FF3 uses a 1 GB DS cart. I think it depends on whatever the game requires.OregonTrailing

1 Gb = 0.125GB

Compressed?

I read in Official Nintendo Magazine that FF3 uses a 1 GB DS cart. I think it depends on whatever the game requires.tomarlyn

i saw the same article too i think. however they said 1Gb, or 1 gigabit. thats the same as 128MB.

as far as i know most games come on 128MB carts, but there are bigger carts available to devs. i think i heard somewhere that resident evil DS has a 256MB cart. the game also has full voice overs (that VO thats so bad its good :P) as far as i know.

makes ya wonder about the possibilities of a FF7 port to DS in the future.

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]I read in Official Nintendo Magazine that FF3 uses a 1 GB DS cart. I think it depends on whatever the game requires.osan0

i saw the same article too i think. however they said 1Gb, or 1 gigabit. thats the same as 128MB.

as far as i know most games come on 128MB carts, but there are bigger carts available to devs. i think i heard somewhere that resident evil DS has a 256MB cart. the game also has full voice overs (that VO thats so bad its good :P) as far as i know.

makes ya wonder about the possibilities of a FF7 port to DS in the future.

I want Resident Evil 2 DS :D

[QUOTE="OregonTrailing"]

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]I read in Official Nintendo Magazine that FF3 uses a 1 GB DS cart. I think it depends on whatever the game requires.tomarlyn

1 Gb = 0.125GB

Compressed?

What? FF uses a 1 gigaBIT card which is equal to 128 gigaBYTES. Usually gigabit (Gb) is only used when someone wants to make sometime sound big.

The memory size of a ds cart is 256.512 MB. It takes 512 kbs for the game to make it's save file and the maximum size of a ds game is 256 MB. I am pretty sure about.

The memory size of a ds cart is 256.512 MB. It takes 512 kbs for the game to make it's save file and the maximum size of a ds game is 256 MB. I am pretty sure about.

raj7095

[QUOTE="OregonTrailing"]

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]I read in Official Nintendo Magazine that FF3 uses a 1 GB DS cart. I think it depends on whatever the game requires.tomarlyn

1 Gb = 0.125GB

Compressed?

No. There is a difference between a Gb and a GB. Gigabit and Gigabyte I believe. 

The memory size of a ds cart is 256.512 MB. It takes 512 kbs for the game to make it's save file and the maximum size of a ds game is 256 MB. I am pretty sure about.

raj7095

What? FF uses a 1 gigaBIT card which is equal to 128 gigaBYTES. Usually gigabit (Gb) is only used when someone wants to make sometime sound big.

OregonTrailing

Uhh..you mean 128 megabytes, right?

And yeah, it's all marketing. ISPs in particular do that crap all the time (they market transfer rates in units of megabits/sec, not megabytes/sec)

Edit: Wow, this is an old thread.

[QUOTE="nintendofreak_2"]There are larger catridges now that can hold a lot more. I don't know the size of either carts, but neither is exactly huge.darkspineslayer

The biggest game is ASH, clocking in at 256mb. For comparison, Phantom Hourglass is 64mb, Puzzle Quest is 16mb, and Hotel Dusk and FF: III are both 128mb.

No wonder I can't find Hotel Dusk for under $30. I expect ASH will be around $40.

OregonTrailing

I think DQ9 does also

The memory size of a ds cart is 256.512 MB. It takes 512 kbs for the game to make it's save file and the maximum size of a ds game is 256 MB. I am pretty sure about.

raj7095

This thread dates back to 2007.

Please don't bump old threads.