Talk:Nintendo Game Card

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But in the article, it says 3DS cartridges can hold "up to 8 GB" whereas the sidebar says "1-8 GiB." Which is the correct one? I think it can be misleading to those who dont look at the smaller details. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.215.43 (talk) 00:56, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"GiB" is "gibibytes", a pedant's way of specifying GB as 2^30 instead of 10^9 bytes. As memory chips, the first form is correct. The difference is really irrelevant, and hasn't taken off outside the world of abbreviation pedants, which is why you've never heard of it. For style and simplicity I'd stick to GB, which was good enough between the invention of computers and about 5 years ago.

92.40.253.200 (talk) 02:06, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't say that the difference is irrelevant if a lawsuit was brought up over it. In fact, the reason I found myself on this talk page is for the very reason of that acronym's ambiguity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.90.85.181 (talk) 02:00, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say what'd be most important is how inconsistent the 3DS cartrige size listings are.

The sidebar at the top says the 3DS's lower end is at 128 MB

The actual 3ds posting says that it starts at 1GB.

Source 8 says "The memory size for Nintendo 3DS cartridges will range from one to eight gigabytes, reports major Taiwanese newspaper China Times", with this being the only provided source on 3DS size capabilities.

While there are examples of games with filesizes under 1 GB (IE, Tomodachi Life [USA] at about 424 MB), I haven't been able to find any sources on actual cartridge sizes. Maybe the 3ds modding/hacking community would have answers AtlasRelinquished (talk) 20:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake? "Gameboy" and "DS" product lines have different cart formats.

"Game Boy Game Boy Pocket Game Boy Light Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance Game Boy Advance SP Game Boy Micro"

Surely should not be listed under "usage" - none of them use DS cards. Their data is in a different format. And if this was a page for general Nintendo portable formats, then the physical dimensions listed is clearly wrong as they are very different sizes....a 3DS card would physically fit inside a old Gameboy cartridge a few times over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:980:D047:1:39CD:A311:D475:4645 (talk) 10:55, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The Game Boy cartridges don't even fit the title of the page, since they're called Game Paks. JosJuice (talk) 15:58, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bluetooth capable cartridge

One Pokemon game known as Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure comes with a Bluetooth keyboard that pairs with the game. Seeing as the Nintendo DS does not have Bluetooth features, this was presumably built into the cartridge, and presumably it would have a different model number than normal cartridges. Dude22072 (talk) 23:01, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nintendo Switch Cartridges

Hey Nintendo Switch Cartridges are not read only carts they are technically read and write cartridges. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weegore (talk • contribs) 22:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Weight?

There's a weight on the infobox for this article. The problem is that it does not point out the exact model of Game Card that the weight is for, as Nintendo has released many models of the Game Card over the past 2 decades. Can someone expand on this more? Draco Centauros (talk) 23:59, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]