SD card memory tool
AssigneeNintendo of America Inc.
InventorsSayaka Sogabe Fourcade, Michael Carl Leslie, Randy Lee Shoemake, Brian Robert Silvola, Alexander Abram Youells
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Abstract
A method and apparatus that creates situations in which insufficient memory is available to store a file created by a computer game device on an SD memory card, or exactly enough memory is available to store a file or sufficient memory is available to store a file. Depending upon the memory condition that is created, software that is being tested behaves in a particular manner.
Claims9
A method for performing an automated process for filling an SD memory card with dummy data to create a memory condition with user-defined available memory space and testing the ability of a computer game device that accesses the SD memory card to perform a save operation properly, the method comprising:
- detecting the size of a file saved by the computer game device on the SD memory card;
- creating a file of a user-defined size in the SD memory card based on the detected size of the file saved by the computer game device on the SD memory card and leaving a specified amount of memory space available in the SD memory card;
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- testing whether the computer game device completes a save operation successfully.
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