is 4 really the limit for characters per memory card?

[faceless]

system file - 3 blocks
guild card - 7 blocks
network settings - 4 blocks
character file - 11 blocks
character file - 11 blocks
character file - 11 blocks
character file - 11 blocks

now that adds up to 58 blocks
1 less than a memory card 59


what if you have a memory card 251 and there is no preset limit of 4 per card? imagine the possibilities...

[BrokenHope]

I guess it depends on how sega decided to code in the character saving. 4 characters per card could be the hardcoded limit, just like it was 1 on dc no matter how much memory card space you had available.

[edit]

Just read the ign insider article and its 25 blocks total, not 58 as posted above, so i guess its hardcoded. Strange how they managed to fit 4 characters in only 11 blocks tho.



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[gamefreak__]

well if you look at it they split them apart:

character used to probly have the system settings include thats why they were big and probly a piece of the network setting with the serial and access built in.

Seeing that from what is heard now that you can save 4 per card thats why they split them.

[TeamPhalanx]

Change of pace from the DC version where the guild card took up a very large chuck of memory compared to the character data.

Unless they upped the exp given by enemies, I don't see having too many characters. One thing I don't look forward to is being a low level REDRIA HUnewearl...

[faceless]

On 2002-06-05 02:11, LuvSlave wrote:
I guess it depends on how sega decided to code in the character saving. 4 characters per card could be the hardcoded limit, just like it was 1 on dc no matter how much memory card space you had available.

[edit]

Just read the ign insider article and its 25 blocks total, not 58 as posted above, so i guess its hardcoded. Strange how they managed to fit 4 characters in only 11 blocks tho.



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the way i read it, it sounded like it was 11 blocks per character, not 11 blocks total...

[BrokenHope]

What i was reading they said that the save took up half of the memory card, 25 blocks in total.

[_xX_Frosty_Xx_]

If it really is four chars, I already have the four I'm goign to make mapped out.

[rena-ko]

its a special pso-mem-card then, who cares...

but if the guildcardfile really is only 7 blocks (gcn)... i just think about the v1/v2 where the guildcard was 30 blocks (dc) and the chara itself only 15 (dc) - so i think 4 chars in 11 blocks (gcn) - compressed of couse, seems realistic (just my opinion)...

[Mindshare]

The character selection screen in the trial only has 4 spaces for your characters, so even if you manage to save more than 4 on a card, they're unlikely to appear on the selection screen, and thus are unlikely to be playable.

M.

[Ziggy-san]

Well, aaa, I have money, I can just buy as many memory cards as I need...

[BrokenHope]

Quote from ign insider:

"Characters are stored on the horribly undersized GameCube memory cards, with what seems to be a total of four characters per card. In all, the game requires a total of 25 blocks of memory from your card (yes, that's nearly half!): 3 for the game's system file, 11 for the character file, 7 for your Guild card (a sort of virtual ID card which is used by other players to identify you Online) and 4 for the network settings."

[SaintDawg]

Character File implies a single solitary file of a specific character.

[Malkavian]

Well if in a memory card 251 the max is still 4 it won't be that bad. Most people will have more than enough with 4 charas and the memory cards are cheap if someone wants some extra charas.

[faceless]

1 GC 'block' (8KB) is 16x the size of 1 DC 'block' (0.5KB)...

GC memcard = 512KB/8 = 64 - 5 (for filesystem) = 59
DC memcard = 128KB/0.5 = 256 - 15 for filesystem = 241 - 41 for no apparent reason = 200

[faceless]

On 2002-06-07 10:58, Malkavian wrote:
Well if in a memory card 251 the max is still 4 it won't be that bad. Most people will have more than enough with 4 charas and the memory cards are cheap if someone wants some extra charas.



yeah but a memory card 251 could hold 21 (TWENTY ONE!!!) characters if it's 11 blocks per character!!! you'd need 6 cards to hold that much if it was limited to 4 per card...

[BrokenHope]

Mindshare kindly answered this question on Ah Kings forums its 11 blocks for all 4 chars for sure, so total will be 25. he's what he said:

"I have two cards in my GC. One card has 2 character saves on it, and the other card has 1 character save on it. In both cases the PSO main file size is 11 blocks. This seems to suggest that all the characters are stored in the same file."

[DarthWufei]

Whoo thanks for the info love! It looks like I'll have 4 chars on my 59 card. I still have 42 blocks left. I'll probably buy a 251 card when Super Mario Sunshine releases... but don't expect me to create 8 characters. @_@ I'll probably split the total with my sister... 4 each.

[Mag_Launcher]

Well, I plan on having 4 characters. (It shows in my sig.) I'm gonna use my other card for either additional characters, or placeholder characters used for archiving items.

[rena-ko]

maybe its like with shenmue (and several other games like... luigis mansion) - you use a fixed file with fixed size for a fixed number of chars - with no option to have more chars on one card, although there would be space for more...