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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2001
Nintendo Co, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A ROM cartridge and a disk drive are detachably attached to slots and of an information processing unit . A magnetic disk is detachably attached to a slot of the disk drive . A semiconductor storage device storing a game program and data is provided inside of the ROM cartridge . The information processing unit detects whether the ROM cartridge is attached to the slot and whether the disk drive is attached to the slot . Then the information processing unit performs predetermined information processing on a basis of program data stored in the ROM cartridge or the disk drive when detecting that the ROM cartridge or the disk drive is attached to the slot or , and starts information processing on the basis of the program data stored in the ROM cartridge when detecting that both of the ROM cartridge and the disk drive are attached to the slots and