Hacking How much will fit on a 1Gb card?

[Jesticle]

I don't know how large of a card I want so I'd like to know how many roms (or homebrew apps) will fit on a 1 GB card.

 

[lagman]

You guys have been a real help, hope theres more posts, but you still haven't answered how many games can fit on a single card?


Every game have a different size so it´s hard to answer your question.
If you only want games 1gb is enough, if you also want music and/or videos you may want to get a 2gb card.

Approximately 1Gb = 20 games Approximately

 

[skullstatue]

8 NDS games, 50 SNES games, 5,000 pictures, 200 songs, with plenty of room to spare.

 

[iwakura]

i have 16 games on mine, one of them 128mb, mostly 64's.

 

[fischju_original]

I have 11 games, a shit load of poetry (the complete works of more than 5 poets) 3 CDs (in 192kbs mp3) and 6 music videos

 

[4saken]

My sisters one gig card has around 20 trimmed games with about 100 megs left.

 

[Shelleeson]

i've managed to fit 28 games and comic book ds and 6 comics on my 1gb card

 

[poloman]

27 trimmed games, 1 ds browser, 16 gba games, 4 snes games, 1 scumm game (dott), 6 homebrew apps, some music, 6 comics, 5 themes, and 1 episode of southpark - all on a 1gb card - whew!

 

[Mars]

8 NDS games, 50 SNES games, 5,000 pictures, 200 songs, with plenty of room to spare.

How did you fit all of that? 200 songs would take almost 1 GB alone.

 

[iwakura]

8 NDS games, 50 SNES games, 5,000 pictures, 200 songs, with plenty of room to spare.


How did you fit all of that? 200 songs would take almost 1 GB alone.

i think he meant 8 NDS game OR 50 snes game, OR 5000 pics, etc.

edit: or he has 1 pixel pictures, 5mb games, and 3 second songs

 

[skullstatue]

Ogg, 64kbs, I took what I have on my G6 and doubled it. SNES games are extremely small, I have 25 on my DS right now. 256x192 JPEG images.

 

[dice]

8 NDS games, 50 SNES games, 5,000 pictures, 200 songs, with plenty of room to spare.


How did you fit all of that? 200 songs would take almost 1 GB alone.

i think he meant 8 NDS game OR 50 snes game, OR 5000 pics, etc.

edit: or he has 1 pixel pictures, 5mb games, and 3 second songs

or maybe he was being sarcastic

 

[adgloride]

I've fitted about 35 on a 1gb card. It depends on how big the roms are, trimming them also get them down to size.

 

[Zazie]

41.8 MB's free with 18 games on my card.

 

[Destructobot]

I've got 21 DS games and 45 GBA games (all trimmed) on my 1 gig card right now, with about 55 megs of free space.

 

[knilsilooc]

15 Retail Games
15 non-DS ROMs (SNES, GBC, SCUMM)
12 Homebrew Games
3 Homebrew Apps
2 eBooks
2 Songs
28.8MB Free

 

[shaffaaf27]

you lot do know that 1Gb is 512MB

what most of you lot are talking about are 1GB....

you coudl fit in 4 128MB games. or 8 64MB games.

 

[shtonkalot]

you lot do know that 1Gb is 512MB

Right idea but wrong maths.
1Gb = 128MB

 

[walkir]

I don't know what you mean with 1Gb card... but I guess you mean GigaByte and not Gigabits (which you wrote in topic).

GB = GigaByte
Gb = Gigabit

1 GigaByte = 8 Gigabits = 1024 MegaBytes
1 Gigabit = 128 MegaBytes

The most common size of DS games are 512Mbits (64MBytes).
Some games are as small as 64Mbits (8MBytes) though.

Since 1024/64 = 16, you'll fit about 20 games on a 1GB card with some trimming.

But you could also easily fit 128 NDS games in the size of 64Mbits

Check the G-Online list and do the math yourself. All game sizes are in bits, so you have to divide them by 8 to get the size in Bytes.

For example... 0016 Metoes is 512Mbits which would give you 512/8 = 64Mbytes.

 

[shaffaaf27]

you lot do know that 1Gb is 512MBRight idea but wrong maths.
1Gb = 128MB

yeah thats what i meant...

i guess i musta mucked up