Dragon Quest IX is the first Dual-Cartridge DS game

Dragon Quest IX Dual-Cartridge DS game
“Dragon Quest IX: Defender of the Starry Sky” was announced as a Nintendo DS exclusive by Square Enix a few days ago. As it turns out, at that same “20th anniversary Dragon Quest commemoration” press conference they showed the above DS game box that has two DS cartridge slots.

Square Enix is well known for its multi-disc spanning RPG series, so it’s not that odd they’d need more than one of the (over 1 gigabyte in size) DS cartridges. This to make the game look its best, as well as making it contain plenty of CGI cutscenes like the one Square Enix just put on their website:

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lol… 2 cartridges! squenix gets double sizes in every platform!!

Too many cutscenes, no matter how short or how good they look, can completely ruin a game for me. If I wanted to watch a movie, I’d go buy one, not buy a game.

The cartridges are up to 1 GigaBIT, not 1 GigaBYTE. That’s about 128 Megabytes.

when downloading games from places like emu wizard you will notice there are games that are 1GB in size or 1024meg which means they did in fact intend the spelling, a 128mb cartridge is one of the lower ones used on most ds games, but it isnt the highest it can do. and cutscenes can be nice, specially on a hand held

Cool Dragon Quest VIII for PS2 was hella kool, well it was made from Level 5 so no surprise there, so im interested in this game to bad its on n-ds, i will never buy an n-ds, maybe if Square is smart enough they will port it to the PSP or i can always wait for DQX on PS3.

ummm….. DQX is on the Wii, it was anounced a while ago


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