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Flash Equipment > Flashing to flash2Advance 256mb

#11017 - Heidern Pang - Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:18 pm

When i drag & drop a rom file - i found that the rom file (8mb in window mode) become a 64mb into the flash2Advance 256mb.

anyone can explain to me what had happen ....

thks.

#11018 - torne - Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:25 pm

Flashcarts and their apps measure things in bits. Your 256mb cart is 256 megabits == 32 megabytes. Thus, a file that Windows displays as being 8MB is indeed 64 megabits, and will use up one quarter of your cart.

#11024 - Heidern Pang - Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:11 pm

torne wrote:
Flashcarts and their apps measure things in bits. Your 256mb cart is 256 megabits == 32 megabytes. Thus, a file that Windows displays as being 8MB is indeed 64 megabits, and will use up one quarter of your cart.


thks.