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Anon likes Mario (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Small correction - Mario 64 was on an 8MB cartridge.

There were some 4MB games, but a 1MB cartridge never existed.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Mmm. The source I found probably got megabytes and megabits mixed up. Cartridges often seemed to have their capacity listed in megabits for some reason.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Yeah possibly, if they converted in the wrong direction.

    There are 8 bits in a byte, so 8MB cartridges like Mario 64 were generally advertised as 64 Megabit. But if someone got mixed up they could’ve assumed the 8MB figure was actually 8Mbit and then divided by 8 to reach the wrong conclusion of 1MB.

    As to why they advertised things using megabits back in the day, that’s pretty easy: bigger numbers seem more impressive in marketing!

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