Are there any examples of a game which uses one disc and can be used on multiply platforms?

TheGlitch · 2024-09-28T17:48:46+0100

I doubt it'd even be possible but perhaps....?

skawo · 2024-09-28T17:54:58+0100

Not a disc, but the GameBoy version of Space Invaders contains the rom for the SNES version of the game, which can be used through the SGB.

Probably doesn't count for what you're asking, but there were also some games for the early CD consoles that had some content (though not the actual game) playable on PCs and CD players.

TheGlitch · 2024-09-28T17:59:48+0100

skawo said:
Not a disc, but the GameBoy version of Space Invaders contains the rom for the SNES version of the game, which can be used through the SGB.

Probably doesn't count for what you're asking, but there were also some games for the early CD consoles that had some content (though not the actual game) playable on PCs and CD players.

Pretty much what I was saying

ChibiMofo · 2024-09-28T18:02:22+0100

There were hybrid Mac/Windows CDROMs back in the 90s and early 2000s:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=88405

AmandaRose · 2024-09-28T18:03:05+0100

A huge number of ZX Spectrum games had the ZX Spectrum 48k version of the game on one side of the tape and the ZX Spectrum 128k version on the other side.

Seen a few PC games come with both Windows and Mac versions in the same box

hippy dave · 2024-09-28T18:06:33+0100

Back in the 16bit days there were magazine coverdisks that had Amiga and Atari ST formats combined on the same 3.5" floppy disk, for demos and stuff. IDK if there were any commercially released games that did the same, would have had to be fairly small games to fit two copies on one disk.
edit: I googled and yes there were apparently several commercial games that did this, first one linked was Stone Age

Kwyjor · 2024-09-28T18:07:13+0100

As noted above, there are absolutely older CDs that contained data for both PC and Macintosh versions of games, but those are something like twenty years old at this point.

Trixter once wrote about about a floppy simultaneously usable on a PC and C64. It's an impossibly intricate setup wherein each sector is precisely laid out such that each system only sees the data it needs to – unless of course you actually try to do a low-level scan for errors with a proper system diagnostic utility.
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind/

And I remember the old Burger King promotional games (Sneak King, etc.) were on special hybrid discs that worked on both the 360 and the original XBox; they were pretty much the only games with that capacity.

TheGlitch · 2024-09-28T23:05:02+0100

ChibiMofo said:
There were hybrid Mac/Windows CDROMs back in the 90s and early 2000s:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=88405

Really cool!

Latiodile · 2024-09-28T23:39:16+0100

there were a couple, very few movies that were dual sided, one HD DVD and the other bluray

edit: i'm dumb and didn't notice it said "game" and not "media"

AmandaRose · 2024-09-28T23:39:19+0100

Even today some games still get released for windows/Mac on the same disc. Football Manager is one that springs to mind

Lostbhoy · 2024-09-28T23:45:50+0100

AmandaRose said:
A huge number of ZX Spectrum games had the ZX Spectrum 48k version of the game on one side of the tape and the ZX Spectrum 128k version on the other side.

Seen a few PC games come with both Windows and Mac versions in the same box

I remember that with the C64 and C16 tapes now! Never ever saw a C16 tho!

TheGlitch · 2024-09-29T00:45:01+0100

AmandaRose said:
Even today some games still get released for windows/Mac on the same disc. Football Manager is one that springs to mind

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I didn't even know they still made disc based games.

ciro64 · 2024-09-29T00:56:49+0100

Tiger Woods '99 for Playstation. Put the first version of that game on your PC and you'll watch an early South Park animation.

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