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Originally posted by flamedude:
I think there should only be one database then that ways it would save memory, instead of having about 5 inactive databases that just clog the memory they should have one humungus one. I am posting an un-researched post so this is my "theory" so please correct me if this idea cannot work.
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(apologies if you're tech literate as this is dumbed down somewhat for those who aren't)
The way computers and consoles operate is that there are effectively two sorts of memory on a device.
One is long term/semi-permanent storage - say a hard disk on a PC or the UMD on a PSP. This is like a book for a person you can put it down and get information later by searching for it, but you don't recall it offhand and looking for it takes time.
The other is short term/non-permanent storage - this is 'main memory' on a device, this is like a persons memory its limited but very fast to recollect things from.
(for comparison a fairly average PC these days has 2000+Mb of main memory a PSP has 32Mb)
The reason that the database are 'split' is that there is a huge amount of semi-permanent storage available on a UMD, however like a large book its slow to retrieve data from.
In order to ensure we can run different leagues we split the database up and store the required database for each individual country selection seperately - this means less main memory is required when running the game compared to the PC where one large db is used (making it a viable proposition).
(end of explanation - you can wake up now

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