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General Gaming / RE:New Cube.. questions about disc encoding

« on: December 20, 2003, 02:32:37 AM »

..just answered my own question..  apparently a tiny little 3-inch GC disc is good for 1.5 GB of information!! w00t!!!!!!!!!! that's pretty freakin' good..  so it's basically a mini-dvd................  

-a

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General Gaming / New Cube.. questions about disc encoding

« on: December 20, 2003, 01:35:29 AM »

so i've had a $75 Best Buy giftcard in my wallet for about a year.. i finally decided "what the hell, i'll buy a $25 video game system" and bought a cube.  pretty cool little device, but i have yet to decide if i should take the system as seriously as i would treat a ps2.  

i think it was a super-bonehead move on nintendo's part to make the system incompatible with standard-sized cd's.. even if it DIDN'T play DVD's, it should be able to play music cd's.  i figure that the reason for their choice to use the mini-cd is either:

1) just because it looks cool

2) they've developed a significant compression algorithm and don't need any more disc space

so what's the deal??  are they just using normal CD compression and cutting details from ported games?  there are ps2 games which occupy an entire DVD worth of space.. how would a game like this get ported onto a tiny little gamecube disc??

..and if they were gonna use such a miniscule disc with such tightly-packed information, the least they could've done was make it cartridge-based (you know, like a sony MD)

-adam