Hacking FAT or FAT32?

[Verocity]

I have a good question, cause im not sure and I can't find this anywhere on Google or anything. But which format will hold more data and is it possible to compress my micro-sd card. I have alot of stuff I want to cram onto it and I dont care how long it loads, since it'll be slower if its compressed.

I've already fit a good bit on my 1GB its pretty full I have a full movie (Austin Powers Goldmember

) and about 24 games. Plus some mp3 and what not. So which is the way to go FAT or FAT32. Im using FAT currently. Thanks.

 

[Destructobot]

FAT32 will waste less data in big allocation units, but unless you have a large number of files (as in thousands) on the memory card it's not going to make a huge difference. At most you will save an average of 32kB per file, but probably a lot less.

Also, you might run into compatibility issues depending on the flash cart you are using it in.

 

[Verocity]

EZ4 lite Deluxe I am using, if that helps anyone. So I guess FAT what I have right now is good then.

 

[Destructobot]

NDS games cannot run if they are compressed, but GBA games can, since they have to be copied to RAM first anyway. I don't know much about the EZ carts, but the on the G6 you can compress GBA roms, and they take about 4 times as long to load.

 

[yee]

Use FAT formatted with 64K clusters.