Topic: Cool Bonus Disc hapenstance!

[TAYREL713]

So trying to be the good Gamecube owner I am I open the cube before powering down and putting a new game in.  Well I was playing the Ocarina of Time disc yesterday opened up the sytem and noticed the on screen action was still ocurring so I grab the control and start running around with Link sans disc. Obviously the game loads to memory and only uses the disc to get new info cinematics and the like but how neat that a good chunk of the game that was pretty big in the N64 era can be loaded to the GC memory and played. Nothing earth shattering just a neat trick or whatever you want to call it.

[Gamefreak]

Well duh, ocarina of time easily fits on to the gamecubes system RAM. Didn't you read the loading screen when you start it up? It loads the entire game at the beginning...

We're talking about the biggest N64 game of all time (tied with Turok 2), and that's not saying much. Any cartridge based Nintendo game can easily be loaded onto the gamecube's RAM. We're not talking about 1 gigabyte plus of data like Resident Evil 0, Star Fox Adventures, Metroid Prime, Smash Brothers Melee, Eternal Darkness, or anything like that..

Edit: in case you were wondering, Turok 2 and Ocarina of Time were both 32 megabits.

[TAYREL713]

It loads the entire game? It only says reading game disc I did not realize it loaded the whole game. So in theory I could play through the game without ever needing to close the lid on the cube. Oh, the biggest N64 game was Resident Evil 2 at a whopping 512 megabits (I have no idea how that translates into bytes but you get what im saying). Okay after researching it 512 megabits is 64 MB so there you go.

[couchmonkey]

Wasn't Resident Evil 2 bigger than either of those games?

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[Gamefreak]

whoops i meant 32 mb..
I guess it might have been, last I checked it was those two.
So i guess it was RE2 with 64 mb...

[alpha99]

Hi, I tried this it doesn't work, the game still requiers the disc for something... Let the game load, untill you get to the title screen, then open the lid and take the disc out and put in the case. Then press start... The GCN will try to acess the disc and wil put a message on the screen to put Ocarina of Time back in. So this doesn't work, I did it with Master Quest, I don't know if regular OoT is different or not. And I don't know if it needs the disc once you get passed the title screen, but try for your selves...  

[TAYREL713]

I did not pause the game. I just mosied on over to my cube and opened the lid. Maybe pausing it renders this trick invalid. Now if it works by just opening the lid if you played straight through no pausing I wonder could you finish the game?

[Gamefreak]

When you pause it or press start to go to the main menu or something it checks to make sure the disc is there. Duh..
And I guess it may use the disc for something..I'm not sure what though. Possibly just rechecking data...Like streaming it into the background. Maybe it streams things back and forth through RAM to free up RAM for running the actual game.

[alpha99]

You're probably right, I just wanted to see if I could play with out the disc at all... I gave up on it after I had to put the disc back in after I couldn't get to the File Select screen.

[GoldShadow1]

The two biggest are Resident Evil and Conker, tied.

[theaveng]

Conker is NOT 64 megabytes.  No way.  More like 16 MB.  The reason RE2 is so big is because it includes 25 megabytes of nothing but MPEG2 videos.

[Grey Ninja]

Conker's Bad Fur Day is either 256Mb (32MB), or 512Mb (64MB)  The reason being that game has a ton of MP3 voice clips in it.  IIRC Conker's BFD is 512Mb.   There were 2 512Mb games, and one was Resident Evil 2.  I don't remember what the second one was, but if I had to guess... Conker's Bad Fur Day.