Mega memory

[hadjiquest]

How much mega memory could a Genesis cassette hold up to?

[j_factor]

It's just however big the manufacturer made the cart. I don't know what the theoretical limit is, but there are lots of different sized carts. The biggest one ever is the 40 megabit Super Street Fighter 2 cart, which was the only game above 32 meg. Carts were generally produced in standard sizes in order to streamline things a bit and lower costs -- 4 meg (in the very beginning), 8 meg, 16, and to an extent 32 meg were all standard cart sizes (and a game needn't fill up all 16 megs to go on a 16 meg cart). But if Sega wanted to, they could make carts for a specific game that were a different capacity. EA and Codemasters made their own carts, and I'm not sure about how their different sizes were, except that I know that for a small time (1991-92 or so) all EA games were on 8 meg carts.

[David J.]

Was Xperts a 40MB cart?

[j_factor]

X-Perts was 32 meg. And it's not MB, which is megabyte, which is bigger.

[Elusive]

meg·a·bit
n. Computer Science. (Abbr. Mb)
One million bits.
1,048,576 (220) bits

meg·a·byte
n. (Abbr. MB)
A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes.
One million bytes.

1 Mb (megabit) is not 1 MB (megabyte). Mega Drive carts came in megabits - the largest is believed to be Super Street Fighter 2 - 40 megabits, which is 5 megabytes.

[Fang]

Back then when I saw that games were 32 megs it looked like a lot. But now seeing that 32megs is really 4MB it looks small for making a game. Especially since 4MB isn't nothing on a computer's hard drive.

[Dartagnan1083]

remember that these games were made during a time when 240MB made up the memory capacity of middle-ground PCs.