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Game device, program, information storage medium, game device control method, game distribution method, and game distribution device

  • US 7,651,397 B2
  • Filed: 02/27/2003
  • Issued: 01/26/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A game device comprising:

  • secondary data storage means for storing secondary data containing one or more game data used in playing a game and a name for the game data;

    primary data name selection means for user selection of one or more game data names from the secondary data as one or more primary game data names;

    primary data storage means for storing at least one primary data file including primary data name information for displaying said one or more selected primary game data names and user-designated priority and non-priority primary game data corresponding to said primary game data names;

    means for storing one or more game data corresponding to said one or more primary game data names, as primary game data, in a priority region or a non-priority region of the at least one primary data file based on user selection, and storing said one or more primary game data names in a primary data name information region of the at least one primary data file;

    primary data collective reading means for collectively reading out the priority region and the primary data name information region of the primary data file, and storing the priority region and the primary data name information region of the primary data file in main memory;

    primary data name display means for displaying said one or more primary game data names stored in the primary data name information region of the primary data file stored in the main memory;

    target data name selection means for selecting one or more game data names from the displayed primary game data names as one or more target data names;

    target data acquisition means for acquiring game data relating to said one or more selected target data names as target data from the priority region of the primary data file stored in the main memory if game data relating to said one or more selected target data names is stored in the priority region of the primary data file, and acquiring game data relating to said one or more selected target data names as target data from the non-priority region of the primary data file stored in the primary data storage means if game data relating to said one or more selected target data names is stored in the non-priority region of the primary data file; and

    game control means for controlling a game based on game data acquired by the target data acquisition means.

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