 The North American (top) Super NES Game Pak, and the Japanese (bottom) Super Famicom Cassette. The case designs of the PAL region Game Pak and Japanese Cassette are nearly identical. | |
| Media type | ROM cartridge |
|---|---|
| Encoding | Digital |
| Capacity | 48 megabits or 6 megabytes equivalent |
| Developed by | Nintendo |
| Usage | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak is the system's default ROM cartridge medium. It is called Game Pak in most Western regions,[1] and Cassette (カセット, Kasetto) in Japan and parts of Latin America.[2] While the Super NES can address 128 Megabits,[a] only 117.75 Megabits are actually available for cartridge use. A fairly normal mapping can easily address up to 95 Megabit of ROM data (63 Megabits at FastROM speed) with 8 Megabits of battery-backed RAM.[3] However, most available memory access controllers only support mappings of up to 32 Megabits. The largest games released (Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean) contain 48 Megabits of ROM data,[4][5] while the smallest games contain 2 Megabits.
Cartridges may also contain battery-backed SRAM to save the game state, extra working RAM, custom coprocessors, or any other hardware that will not exceed the maximum current rating of the console.
- ^ "Game Pak Troubleshooting". Customer Service. Nintendo of America, Inc. Retrieved August 23, 2010.
- ^ ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース 取扱説明書. Nintendo Co., Ltd. November 21, 1991. p. 1.
- ^ anomie (December 21, 2008). "Anomie's SNES Memory Mapping Doc" (text). Retrieved June 19, 2019.
- ^ Ogasawara, Nob (November 1995). "Future Fantasies from overseas". GamePro. Vol. 7, no. 11. San Mateo, CA: Infotainment World. p. 126. ISSN 1042-8658.
- ^ "Star Ocean". Nintendo Power. No. 86. Redmond, WA: Nintendo of America. July 1996. pp. 60–61. ISSN 1041-9551.
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