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Title: Disc space?
Post by: Chris1 on February 27, 2006, 09:57:56 AM: Ok, I was talking to a friend, and he said he was going to sell his GC to save up for a 360. Well I told him he should just keep it because Zelda would be out this year, he then said that it wouldn't be worth it, that because of the disc space Zelda would be a short small game, like "all Gamecube games are". Thats apparetnly another reason he's selling it, becaues he says he finishes the games too fast. So I know there might be truth to what he says, but how much space does a disc hold? And will TP really be a short game like he says? I remember reading that some GC games like Metroid and Wind Waker dont even use up the whole disc, does anyone know how much space those take up?
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Post by: Bill Aurion on February 27, 2006, 10:01:43 AM: Hahahahahaha! What a loon...Your friend is a pure Grade-A casual gamer...

Gamecube discs hold 1.5 Gigabytes, but Nintendo's compression tools are the best in the world...Saying that disc space affects game size is pretty laughable...
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Post by: KnowsNothing on February 27, 2006, 10:03:49 AM: I heard Zelda would only have one dungeon and zero weapons is this tru??????? ill wait for the ps2 port so i can have brand new guns!!
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Post by: Caliban on February 27, 2006, 11:17:09 AM: I'm waiting for Zelda's PSP port and its incerdible, fast loading times.
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Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on February 27, 2006, 11:23:07 AM: geocities.com/gameworldlol says that zelda psp has NO load times proved u wrong caliban lol
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Post by: King of Twitch on February 27, 2006, 11:26:31 AM: Is this 1996 again? I thought you could do multi-disc games nowadays
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Post by: stevey on February 27, 2006, 11:57:10 AM: The wind waker was 200MB/b in size and that dosen't matter anyway since games only fill up the disk when ton of in-game movies and tp wont have them. Twilight Princess is going to be the biggest zelda ever, the gameplay time is over 100 hours, and it has more level than any zelda ever. (and 360 use the same dvd as the xbox so the games are going to be smaller on it than cube)
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Post by: mantidor on February 27, 2006, 04:31:59 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: MJRx9000
Is this 1996 again? I thought you could do multi-disc games nowadays

Zelda will never have multiple disks, if it does Ill eat my hat ooh the english expressions I learn with you people

and LMAO at GC games being short.
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Post by: TMW on February 27, 2006, 04:36:19 PM: I never liked the phrase "I'll eat my hat."

I spend alot of money on my hats, and I would hate to have to eat one.
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Post by: nickmitch on February 27, 2006, 06:51:05 PM: I don't wear hats because of my hair.
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Post by: ShyGuy on February 27, 2006, 09:02:02 PM: I wear hats because of my hair. Chris1, your friend is misinformed.
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Post by: pudu on February 28, 2006, 01:33:12 PM: Let him sell his Cube...then laugh at him when Zelda comes out and is a steller game and has a lot of hype. Look at OoT. It was on a 256 Megabit cart I believe which is the equivilant of 32 Megabytes. A Cube disk can hold up to 1,500 Megabytes. 1,500 MB = about 46 x 32MB (I know that the Gamecube has higher res textures and more detailed models but still this is a lot of space) Also, Zeldas are known for their good realtime movies as opposed to space-eating FMV.
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Post by: TMW on February 28, 2006, 02:26:21 PM: Also, TP has three times the overworld area of OOT, iirc, which is awesome.
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Post by: Mario on February 28, 2006, 03:51:03 PM: Tell him to buy Tales of Symphonia
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Post by: Infernal Monkey on February 28, 2006, 03:55:38 PM: Quote
and he said he was going to sell his GC to save up for a 360.

Haha yeah, because he'd sure get a lot for a GC at this point in time. "Here's $4 in-store credit" "XBOX 360 HERE I COME!"
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Post by: Strell on February 28, 2006, 04:43:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
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and he said he was going to sell his GC to save up for a 360.

Haha yeah, because he'd sure get a lot for a GC at this point in time. "Here's $4 in-store credit" "XBOX 360 HERE I COME!"

Awesome. Less than 1/100th the way there!
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Post by: Jensen on February 28, 2006, 09:29:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: pudu
Also, Zeldas are known for their good realtime movies as opposed to space-eating FMV.

A lot of first party Nintendo games have FMV, but it tends to be video recorded from the game engine.

Wind Waker has a FMV gameplay video, and I believe it has FMV during the end sequence.

Anyway... it doesn't really matter. A recent favorite game of mine is less than 1 Megabyte:
Doukutsu Monogatari (a.k.a. Cave Story)
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Post by: stevey on March 01, 2006, 09:16:19 AM: 'A Cube disk can hold up to 1,500 Megabytes. 1,500 MB = about 46 x 32MB "

You off a bit, it holds 1536MB=48 times 32
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Post by: Requiem on March 01, 2006, 09:43:04 AM: 100 hours of Gameplay

3 times the Overworld of OOT, i.e. gigantic.

More than 4 years? of developement...

A Nintendo game....

ZELDA

Need I say more?
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Post by: Mario on March 01, 2006, 03:09:42 PM: Not a GC game
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Post by: TMW on March 01, 2006, 08:17:18 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Mario
Not a GC game

IS A GC GAME.
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Post by: Garnee on March 03, 2006, 10:40:58 AM: OMG GUYZ TAHT NEW ZELDA GAME IS GUNNA SUCK F YALL IM GETTING A 360
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Post by: jasonditz on March 04, 2006, 08:12:23 PM: Unless Nintendo's loading the game up with FMV and a bunch of voice acting there's absolutely no reason it'd need multidisc.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 04, 2006, 08:24:49 PM: I wouldn't mind Disc2 being full of Rev content from E3.
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Post by: Nephilim on March 07, 2006, 01:26:07 AM: maybe dvd2 will be full of rev samplers?
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 07, 2006, 07:24:38 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Mario
Not a GC game

Yeah, when does PlanetDSRevolution.com officially get its name change?
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 07, 2006, 08:34:44 AM: PlanetDeadSystem.com
Get it right. harhar

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GC games max out at 1.3GB(binary), btw. Dunno if the other 0.2GB really exists. If it did, it's either disc table-of-contents stuff or other system stuffs.