Gameboy Advance Carts

[Tempus]

I'm interested in the GBA development scene too. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how many games I could fit (roughly) on a 256/512m cart - or even a 1gig!

Cheers

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

GBA commercial games come in 32, 64, and 128 MB (MegaBit) formats (and possible for a 256 MB but no game has used that yet) So on a 256 MB GBA cart, you can fit two 128's or four 64's or eight 32's. There are programs that trim the roms down if they have extra unneeded padding. Doing that lets you fit sometimes another 32 mb rom on a 256 MB cart. Note the above is MegaBIT not MegaBYTE. GBA carts mesurements are based on megabit which is 1/4 of a megabyte, so a 1 GB GBA Cart is really only 256 MegaByte. And a 256 cart is 32 MegaByte

I have a 256 MB cart and I usually fit 3 to 4 games on it. (more if I wanted a bunch of small games).

 

[Trejkaz]

Actually a megabyte is 8 megabits, not 4. The relatively common 256M cards are 32MB, and so forth.

 

[NssOne]

You guys should really learn your capitalizations when it comes to computer lingo.
the difference between a bit and a byte is its abbreviated form is this:
B=byte
b=bit

Just figured you guys should know that.

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

Actually a megabyte is 8 megabits, not 4. The relatively common 256M cards are 32MB, and so forth.

I hadn't had my coffee, my math was bad, I know its 8 not 4, I was thinking that 1/4 of 256 was 32.

You guys should really learn your capitalizations when it comes to computer lingo.
the difference between a bit and a byte is its abbreviated form is this:

Yes I know, I was trying to make it easier to understand.

Edited: Bad Math

 

[WhizzBang]

1/4*256 = 64

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

Haha, obviously I didnt do my math, my bad

 

[futuredestroyer]

ok i have one it's 128mb and it can hold up to 5 commercial games but there are also different versions some hold more some hold less. i recomend getting one that has a built in internal clock like to pokemon games so you can make games with a clock.

 

[ShenFlare]

majority of games is 64m

i have 64m flash card, works well but wish i had 128

well cept its now being sold with my gba lol since i have my gp32 ^^