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QUOTE said:Doesn't FAT only support up to 2gb volume sizes? 4gb with 64kb clusters, which are not widely supported.
That's what Wikipedia tells me anyway.
Someone tell me otherwise!
I already told you in another topic, that's wrong, you must have interpreted Wikipedia wrongly. You can connect devices up to practically any size with FAT32 (it supports it), it's just it won't support ONE SINGLE FILE over 4GB. And we won't need that much space for one file up until the point we start considering ISO loaders, which I'm sure will take a long time (seeing as the hackers/coders don't want to, and the people who do want ISO loaders can't actually hack/code lol).
So, absolutely awesome breakthrough. With an external hard drive and WAD manager installed, we'll never have to worry about constantly flitting between our PC and Wii to swap VC games, we could keep the whole VC library on one device, ready to move onto the Wii.
Absolutely awesome, and I'm hoping the coders will find newborn life in this, and start adding support right away.
Such as the Wii can't display HD content only 480p...QUOTE said:In order to overcome the volume size limit of FAT16, while still allowing DOS real mode code to handle the format without unnecessarily reducing the available conventional memory, Microsoft implemented a newer generation of FAT, known as FAT32, with cluster values held in a 32-bit field, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number, for a maximum of approximately 268 million (228) clusters. This allows for drive sizes of up to 8 tebibytes with 32KiB clusters, but the boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting volume size to 2 TiB on a hard disk with 512 byte sectors.
QUOTE said:The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1 "null" byte (232?1 bytes).
There, just checked. Yay, I was right. So it's a bigger breakthrough than you think, we can now have USB mass storage devices almost as big as we want in the Wii now. WOOHOO!
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Oh, sorry, someone already said otherwise lol.
QUOTEOn the speed issue, we won't have any problems with it until the ISO loader comes up, which gives plenty of time to sort it out.
Well, no HD content, but of course there are other limitations, not only the limited speed. On a side note; how about making a Memory Card -> USB adapter or SD Card -> USB. Then again, there are some other limits that appear, plus I'm not even sure how viable it is ...
...You can already get SD USB adapters, most of us use them, as we have DS flash cards already, they've been around for ages. Not sure what the point of that is though, why would you need it?
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I was under the impression the Wii component cables gave you 720p or 720i (one of those)? Or am I wrong? And if you want to be moving into the HD area, the Wii isn't exactly the most viable option tbh lol.