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[Hi]

Just curious about these things like I am about much. Thank you if you can answer them

1. Has Darkfader stated why he originally made the dsbricker other than "I was stupid"

2. How come systems that use disks have games that are large in size and are considered iso's while systems that don't use disks have games that are small in size and are considered roms? What does ISO stand for anyway (I already know that rom stands for Read Only Memory)

3. What is a filesystem and is it an  essential thing or is it just a helpful thing? If it's a helpful thing, why is it helpful? And what is the RAW format? something with no filesystem? Would anything benefit from using the RAW format?

4. I KNOW that cartridges are faster than disks but are bigger and more expensive. Well, sinse many people now have hard drives that are way bigger than anyone could possibly need (I wish I had one ) but computers could still benifit from going faster and being able to read files faster, why not use cartridges rather than hard disks, at least some times, for computers?

5. How come nintendo only wants big companies making games for there systems (aka nintendo will only license games that are made by big companes)

6. How come nintendo doesn't mind if the Japanise watch videos, play mp3's, and tune into tv on there nds but don't want people in the united states to do it? (Trying to stop using the term Americans since the canadians and mexicans and others are also Americans)[/b]

[mudlouse1]

4. I KNOW that cartridges are faster than disks but are bigger and more expensive. Well, sinse many people now have hard drives that are way bigger than anyone could possibly need (I wish I had one ) but computers could still benifit from going faster and being able to read files faster, why not use cartridges rather than hard disks, at least some times, for computers?

they're actually making Solid State Disks (SSD) which basically, have a bunch of flash memory modules instead of a spinning disc. the capacity isn't as high as regular IDE (or SATA, etc) HDs but people are looking into this.

[felix]

1. He made an apology and a fixer (ppflash).
2. ISO strictly refers to a disk image of an ISO 9660 (CD-ROM) file system, but generally to a disk image of any optical disk.
3. Filesystem is something you use to store files, so of course it is useful.
4. Price. Those things are really really expensive.
5.6. Money in licensing.

[Perseid]

2) ROM specifically means the chip in a cartridge. So to use the term ROM for a floppy or a CD is wrong. An ISO is, as Felix said, a type of CD-ROM. But the term has grown to be considered more of a file format that contains a disc image. A DVD in UDF format really has nothing to do with ISO, but you can always rip it to a .ISO.

3) A file system is the computers way of knowing what files are named and where they are. Sort of like a catalog of the disk's contents. If you don't have this there is no way to pick out specific parts of your data. and RAW means many things in the computer world. .RAW audio files are audio files with no known header. .RAW image files are lossless files taken by some high-end digital cameras. There is no such thing as a RAW file system because that's an oxymoron.

4) You have a 2GB SD Card? Even a 1GB? How much did you pay for that? Now how big is your hard drive? Do the math. They are working on making them smaller and cheaper all the time, though, and most industry 'experts' claim that flash memory will eventually replace hard drives. Hard drives are slow, loud and power hungry. They are the least common denominator in computers right now that most of the other components have to wait for. So you are right. But not for a while yet. At least a decade I would say.

5) The policy isn't so much 'big' companies as it is 'experienced' companies. They don't want to have to hold your hand while you develop your first game.