What the fuck was nintendo thinking

what the fuck was nintendo thinking

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piracy

mini discs are cute

no DVD licensing fees

There was nothing wrong with mini-disks.
Significantly faster loading times than DVD plus piracy protection. The Gamecube failed because of other factors such as "muh kiddie console" and such

>There was nothing wrong with mini-disks.
they were small in size. you couldn't put shit on them compared to DVDs at the time.

>small disk
>regular size container

FUCK THAT

In Japan they actually used smaller cases for GameCube games. So I guess you could fit more of them on the same amount of shelf space. Also the console has a smaller footprint, although the PS2 also being DVD player sort of negates that.

Still had the best version of RE4

Have more disks then. The PS1 had regularly 3 and 4 disks games with no issues.

People who played Riven on the PS1 would very much disagree with you.

>Dude the loading times are so much faster! So what if you have to switch disks every hour of gameplay

>In Japan they actually used smaller cases for GameCube games.

In Japan they don't have to worry about niggers walking into the store and shoving things into their pockets all day.

Piracy was rampant on the Dreamcast. All you had to do was use a boot disk on it. They did it to stop things like that.

Not all day no, but tokyo is filled with niggers/sand niggers these days

RE4 was on 2 disks. plenty enough space for majority of games unless you're a CG cutscene infested Square game.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE

loading speeds, piracy.

>no issues
Those mutlidisc PS1 jewel cases didn't hold the discs on the middle piece's hubs as tightly as normal case's hubs. Resulting in disc 1 & 4 being held in place normally, and disc 2 & 3 coming loose and rattling around inside the case. Getting partway through a game and getting a disc read error when you swap to the next disc is certainly an issue.

There was literally nothing wrong with GC. Nintendo delivered a gaming console, not a DVD player.

At least they were thinking. Unlike Sony.

maybe for you, but i actually take care of my games so this doesn't happen

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Nintendo always operates on insanely tight profit margins. Anything that uses a DVD drive has to pay licensing/royalties type deal. So to get around that, they used non standard sized discs and also spun their discs in reverse

Somebody call the GameCube defence force or something?

>There was nothing wrong with mini-disks.
>Significantly faster loading times than DVD plus piracy protection.

The mini-DVD format factor was not what prevented piracy.
The fact that it spun at constant angular velocity as opposed to constant linear velocity (like every other consumer-level optical drive or burner) is what prevented piracy.

Even if you had a burner that could burn mini-DVD it was very hard - if not outright impossible - to burn a disk on a PC drive and have it read back correctly in a Gamecube - due to the latter spinning at constant angular velocity.

Using constant angular velocity had a few more perks as well; less spin-up/-down of the drive means less wear and higher longevity.

The drive can also seek much faster as it doesn't have to adjust motor speeds while moving from the inside out or the outside in, which constant linear velocity drives *do* have to account for.

>angular velocity as opposed to constant linear velocity

explain

There were about three games on the system that used more than one disc. Disc capacity was a total non-issue.

The only games that I personally owned that were multi-disc were Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil REmake.

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>"the Nintendo GameCube Game Disc is just as original and innovative as the Nintendo GameCube itself."
>is just a cube
Okay.

Pretty sure there was only one more and I can’t remember what it was. Most games of that era were 500-1000MB

Normally, a dvd player spins the disk so that the part of the disk above the laser is always the same speed. That means the disk needs to be slowed down when the laser is near the center and sped up when it's near the edge. The gamecube always has the disk spinning at the same speed regardless of where the laser is.

>be retarded
>”shut up retard”
>help I’m being persecuted by the defense force!

After checking my games, you can add Tales of Symphonia and MoH Rising Sun. I think Twin Snakes also had 2. There's also bonus discs for games like Mario Kart

Those are just fucking lines, you retard.

riven on pc wasn't much better, had like 8 fucking discs

The only downside with them was that I couldn’t burn games onto CD-R’s for it like the Dreamcast.

Then I guess I modify my statement from “three” to “a handful”

SOUL

baten kaitos

Is there a trick I'm missing to get these things out of their case??
Always feels like I'm about the snap the disk in half whenever I pull them out.

And it answered your question comma you retard.

wouldn't you need to speed up the disc when the laser is in the center and slow it down when it's near the edge to maintain the same speed throughout ?

>how do we make something so kino even insufferable faggots will be talking about it decades later

Don't forget Resident Evil 4!

Thank you, I learned something today

sneed

You push the plastic in the hole in the middle and it pops out. How the fuck do you not know that hahahaha

dont you mean suck and fuck

Push in the middle with your thumb, it should pop right out.