Last I remember, Baldurs Gate was on 6 separate discs, but I haven’t installed it from those in probably 20 years.
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moody@lemmings.world 5 weeks agoThe original Baldur’s Gate came on a single CD and had full install size of under 600MB. It was also possible to do a partial install and to load files off the CD at runtime.
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I wonder what the other disks were all for then.
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
CD audio, maybe?
(I’m not familiar with Baldur’s Gate in particular, but I do remember some '90s games being like that.)
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
You could do that with a lot of PS1 games. The first track was data, the rest were just regular CD audio tracks.
This got rarer later on, once they realised the could fill the discs with FMV sequences instead.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Speaking of PS1 games and disk-filling FMVs: Final Fantasy 7 on the PSX comes on 3 600MB disks but the actual game itself is duplicated on all of them and you can swap them out during gameplay and the only thing that happens is that it plays the wrong FMVs.
It all breaks down to the actual “game” only taking 133MB out of the available ~1.8GB (according to this old post about how a Nintendo DS port could easily fit on a 256MB flash cart.)
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
In this case, the question was rhetorical - the original release of BG1 takes 5 CDs, and the sixth is the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion.
They did eventually re-release it as only a 3 CD set because they could cram more data on a single CD by then
Hule@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I see one is an expansion disk.
There might be a few with CD Audio
As was the fashion at the time…