$10.000.000 / Gigabyte

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by alphagamer on Jun 10, 2009:

That is how much my original SNK memory card cost me.

The good news is, you can use alternative memory cards, anything 68pin and JEIDA v3 compatible with SRAM(!) can be used. JEIDA is the direct predecessor of PCMCIA. They where used e.g. in industrial printers for fonts and graphics etc.

I got a good deal on a 2mb SRAM memory card, 1000 times the space of the official SNK memory card. A little overkill? Maybe, but works a treat!

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by kammedo on Jun 10, 2009:

alphagamer said:

That is how much my original SNK memory card cost me.

The good news is, you can use alternative memory cards, anything 68pin and JEIDA v3 compatible with SRAM(!) can be used. JEIDA is the direct predecessor of PCMCIA. They where used e.g. in industrial printers for fonts and graphics etc.

I got a good deal on a 2mb SRAM memory card, 1000 times the space of the official SNK memory card. A little overkill? Maybe, but works a treat!

you mean
10000000 bucks? either they are canadian dollars you're crazy

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by Calpis on Jun 10, 2009:

It needs to be more than just SRAM, it needs *battery backed* SRAM. There's also a limit to how much RAM the BIOS can make use of, maybe 1Mbit.

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by Krypton_VII on Jun 10, 2009:

kammedo said:

you mean
10000000 bucks? either they are canadian dollars you're crazy

What?

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by alphagamer on Jun 11, 2009:

the official snk memory card sports 2kb and cost me 20 bucks, go figure ^^

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by alecjahn on Jun 11, 2009:

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Fujitsu-512-KB-512KB-SRAM-Flash-PCMCIA-Cards_W0QQitemZ380129956192QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Control_Systems_PLCs?hash=item588182d160&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 Any guess whether one of these would be compatible? I'd guess it's JEIDA 4.1/PCMCIA 2.0... but I don't know whether these systems work backwards compatible (IE 4.1 including compatibility for 3, etc).

Likewise, is there any recommended places to look for such a thing? I sure could go for some more kilobytes!

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by alphagamer on Jun 11, 2009:

alecjahn said:

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Fujitsu-512-KB-512KB-SRAM-Flash-PCMCIA-Cards_W0QQitemZ380129956192QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Control_Systems_PLCs?hash=item588182d160&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 Any guess whether one of these would be compatible? I'd guess it's JEIDA 4.1/PCMCIA 2.0... but I don't know whether these systems work backwards compatible (IE 4.1 including compatibility for 3, etc).

Likewise, is there any recommended places to look for such a thing? I sure could go for some more kilobytes!

they should work.

technically 128kb is all you need to save every neo geo game, so it's plenty.

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by phate on Jun 12, 2009:

I don't quite understand how the memory card works, does it actually save the game state? or does it just save the highscore list?

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by ASSEMbler on Jun 12, 2009:

stupid question, but when the battery dies, the saves are lost on the neo mem card?

Archive · Post by **Archive** » June 26th, 2019, 7:55 pm

posted by Calpis on Jun 12, 2009:

phate said:

I don't quite understand how the memory card works, does it actually save the game state? or does it just save the highscore list?

It's up to the game what it saves, but typically it's high scores since the card is 2 kilobytes (divided into ? blocks).

ASSEMbler said:

stupid question, but when the battery dies, the saves are lost on the neo mem card?

Yup.. Too bad they didn't choose FRAM.