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Anon likes Mario (thelemmy.club)

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 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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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 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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