Gaming Most game tiles on one cartridge?

[Scarlet]

So when I got the physical release of the Atelier Dusk Trilogy, I was interested to see the way it presented the games to you was as three separate titles, instead of the compilation cartridges of old. I remember having Sonic Advance and Sonic Pinball with the cute menu to pick between them lol.

I received my copy of the Atelier Mysterious Trilogy today, and was pretty surprised to see not three, but six tiles appear on my main menu! One for each game, with each game coming with a separate digital art book title.

That got me thinking, are there any cartridges out there with more than six titles? Is there really a use case for such a thing?

 

[Windaga]

I can't think of any that have more than 6..... unless you include those "compilation" games, like Namco Museum, anyway.

 

[Scarlet]

I can't think of any that have more than 6..... unless you include those "compilation" games, like Namco Museum, anyway.

Oh do those games actually appear as tiles? Or are they like a more traditional compilation where it's just one game title with many games lurking within?

 

[Windaga]

Oh do those games actually appear as tiles? Or are they like a more traditional compilation where it's just one game title with many games lurking within?

The latter. It's pretty much just a compilation of older games - boot up the disc / cartridge, choose from a list of games and play.

You can see some footage of the DS variant here, by skipping to 2:40:



I don't personally know of any other game that installs the icons right onto the home screen, vs launching them from inside the game. You might've hit gold with 6 titles in that Atelier collection lol.

 

[pcwizard7]

This game has the most in one cartridge for me Five Nights at Freddy's Core collection

 

[lordelan]

At least Guilty Gear had two separate titles as well. Honestly I highly prefer this instead of one title that throws you onto a selection screen like Icewind Dale for example.
Or the stupid Mario 3D All Stars Collection.
If it had separate titles I could've deleted only SM64 right away since I'm playing the community source port V8 anyway. I understand that a menu is nice to provide more game info and music player fancy sh*t though.

 

[Scarlet]

At least Guilty Gear had two separate titles as well. Honestly I highly prefer this instead of one title that throws you onto a selection screen like Icewind Dale for example.
Or the stupid Mario 3D All Stars Collection.
If it had separate titles I could've deleted only SM64 right away since I'm playing the community source port V8 anyway. I understand that a menu is nice to provide more game info and music player fancy sh*t though.

On paper it's a great idea, but in reality you can't delete the tiles. Every time you put the cartridge in, all six reappear, and you can't remove tiles for cartridge games when you have the cart in lol.

 

[lordelan]

On paper it's a great idea, but in reality you can't delete the tiles. Every time you put the cartridge in, all six reappear, and you can't remove tiles for cartridge games when you have the cart in lol.

Without CFW: True.
With CFW: Dump the cartridge and install it. You don't need the cartridge afterwards thus it won't recreate the tiles.