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AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorsTetsuji Yamamoto, Kenji Sawaguchi, Yuji Shinkai
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An entertainment apparatus has a manual controller for entering control information, a main memory for loading therein a program and information for use by the program, a CPU for performing processing according to the program based on control information entered by the manual controller, a GTE and a GPU for generating at least image information based on the processing performed by the CPU, and a display monitor for displaying image information generated by the GTE and the GPU. A method of adding information for use by a program run on the entertainment apparatus has the step of adding additional information by loading the additional information via a memory card or a portable information terminal into the main memory of the entertainment apparatus. The method allows game characters, backgrounds, etc. that can be used by a game program, for example, to be increased in number or added to permit the user to enjoy a game that is rich in variety even if the game program is of existing nature.
A method of adding additional information for use in a game program stored in a read only memory and executable by a video game having a rewritable nonvolatile storage and a main memory, said method comprising the steps of:
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