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Tokimeki Memorial game stuffed on biggest DS cart ever photo

It's not often when you hear about girls getting good service in the quest for virtual love, so it's really rather grand to hear good things about visual novels for the ladies getting some love and attention.

That's certainly the case with Tokimeki Memorial: Girls' Side: 3rd Story, the next girl-oriented spinoff of Konami's legendary dating sim franchise. It's so big, apparently, that the developers were forced to cram it into the near-mythical four-gigabit DS cartridge.

Only one other game so far has that level bigness, and it's Level-5's RPG Ni no Kuni. So now it's a race. Which game will lay claim to the title of "First Maximimum-Size DS Title?" A game that brings hot 2-D men to the ladies, or a game whose visuals were designed by Studio Ghibli? 

It's on.

Konami Uses 4 Gigabit Cart for Visual Novel [Siliconera]

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RaunchyBulbasaur's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 17:48
RaunchyBulbasaur
For anyone about to be confused and thinking the carts are 4 gigabytes each, a reminder that 4 gigabits is equal to 512 megabytes.
paradoxphantom's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:01
paradoxphantom
@RaunchyBulbasaur. you are mistaken my friend 1 gigabyte is equal to 512 megabytes and 4 gigabytes is equal to 3048 megabytes.
Oishidesu's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:03
Oishidesu
What? How much does Pokemon use, since it only has 1 save slot?
The Silent Protagonist's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:14
The Silent Protagonist
gigabit is 125 MB

Four would put it up to 500MB, so its just shy of half a gigabyte.
BalloonFighter's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:20
BalloonFighter
88mph = 1.21 gigawatts too.
The Silent Protagonist's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:35
The Silent Protagonist
You mean to tell me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
Kimochi Sama's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:44
Kimochi Sama
it's not that bad, my 8GB MicroSD card can handle it.
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 18:58
linuxguy
@The Silent Protagonist: gigabit is 128MB, USE BINARY, VIVE LA RESISTANCE!
lewness's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 21:08
lewness
And I thought Archaic Sealed Heat was huge. Wonder what happened to it? It gained some hype back then and now it's lost in obscurity, at least outside Japan.
Twin65050's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 22:15
Twin65050
When I first read it, i thought it said gigabyte. Then i realized it said gigabit.
seanileus's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/19/2010 23:14
seanileus
Sounds like a fair challenge to me.
Stella Wong's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2010 06:06
Stella Wong
FIRST DAY BUY SO WORTH IT I'M HAPPY WITH THIS GAME :D The reason why it has to be huge is because of all the recordings and voices they are doing instead of a re-release of another sequel with small additions. I'm glad to hear about this!
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