GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 Community, GoldenEye X, Nintendo 64 Games Discussion

[CharAznable0]

hey guys, so I have been wondering for such a long time and I finally decided to ask...I know there is another topic around here explaining what this means but what does 1byte, 2byte, 4byte and so on mean?

[zoinkity]

It refers to how things are stored in memory. The basic storage is the bit, which can only ever be 0 or 1. 8 bits make a byte, which is what virtually everything deals with on a daily basis. Half a byte is a nibble. These guys had fun with the nomenclature.

Memory is usually sized up by the number of bytes that makes it up. The N64 has 0x400000 bytes of memory, 0x800000 if you have the expansion pak.

When we talk about 1 byte, 2 bytes, etc. we're refering to the size of a particular piece of data. For instance, a number from 0-255 is one byte large and takes exactly one byte of memory to store it. Numbers from 0-65535 are two bytes long. Some types of data can be many bytes long as well, like a text string. Each letter (character) in the string takes up one byte, and then it needs one byte to tell it to end.

Long story short, it's how much memory something needs to store it.
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[CharAznable0]

thanks

[EternallyAries]

zoinkity has stike agin on his smartness.

Lol but back on topic.

I been wondering to how dus the byte works and thanks to zoinkity i do now.
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