Gaming How many games can fit on a 4gb microsd card?

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My apologies if this question has been asked before, or if I'm posting this in the wrong area

About how many games can fit on a 4gb microsd card? I’m buying a Cyclos evo card today and am trying to figure what size microsd card I should go with.

I’m thinking about buying this one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820211196

Thanks in advance for any help
 

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a lot. no seriously, i have a 2gig with 20+games, 200 songs, and about 3 or 4 episodes of anime at a time. i can only imagine with 4 gigs (o wait, just double the numbers xD)

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I have a 4gb and fit around 52 games which vary from 128mb to 8mb (mostly 64mb) and have a bunch of homebrew, music, videos and lolcat pictars with around 100mb to spare
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i have 2gb with 29 games.. or wasit 30+ or 20+... with 3 songs one video and few homebrews...
i hate r4 nao.

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Dwight said:
Siegmund Fretzgau said:
I use DSWiki and have a 8GB card. But if you don't want to use DSWiki it's not necessary.
How much does DSWiki take up?


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-- Get the complete(!) Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS. The English language
edition fits on a 4GB storage device, the German edition is just 1.2GB.
 

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A 4GB MicroSD card actually has 3814MB of available space.

The average size of an NDS ROM is 43.4MB untrimmed, and 36.5MB trimmed.

So if you don't trim your ROMs, you can fit about 73 ROMs, give or take a few.

If you trim them, you can fit about 104 ROMs on your card.
 

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hksmrchan said:
More then you need.
Yep.

I went through my list of games, selected every game that I thought I might conceivably want to play again in the future, and it only came to 2.2GB.

4GB of games is too many to scroll through
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you'd need folders, and then it kinda becomes like you are simply putting games on your card for the sake of it.
 

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