GCN What are 2 Disc Games?

[Superman321]

Hello i was in the internet and i heard about Gamecube "2 Disc" Games.

What are 2 Disc games?

Are they one of these "2 in 1 Games?"

 

[ParzivalWolfram]

2-disc games are games that span 2 discs, like lots of PS1 games do, IIRC.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Yup, while the Gamecube discs were DVD-based just like the PS2 and Xbox, because they were mini discs, they held less data than games that were released for the PS2 and Xbox did. As such larger games that got multiplatform releases were 2 discs on the Gamecube, much like games for the PS1 could span 2 or more discs.

Examples of 2 disc Gamecube games include:
Enter the Matrix
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
Resident Evil
Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Code Veronica X
Tales of Symphonia
Splinter Cell Chaos Thoery
Splinter Cell Double AGent

There are a handful more, but those were the kinds of games that were too big for one mini-disc.

 

[ParzivalWolfram]

Side note, there are 2- and 3-disc games for XBox 360. There are also some 360 games with 2 discs, but one does nothing but decompress data to the system's HDD. (Specifically, Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain)

This can still happen sometimes...

 

[Superman321]

Oh i found "2 in 1 Spongebob the Movie + Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom"

 

[Lumstar]

Oh i found "2 in 1 Spongebob the Movie + Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom"

Combo packs are different. Rather than two halves of a game, you get a separate game. Or a bonus disc.

Sometimes the games are barely related, and not even the same genre. "2 in 1 Outlaw Golf + Darkened Skye" is fairly weird.

 

[migles]

Oh i found "2 in 1 Spongebob the Movie + Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom"

that usually means 2 games in 1 disc, can be noticed by "2 in 1"
there is a menu in the start to select the game, plenty of consoles did that, mega drive\genesis has even packs of 3 in 1, the gba also had carts with 2 games

but like said earlier, 2 disc games, usually means its a game that was released in 2 discs, like the first half of the game is in 1 disc and then you reach to a certain level\story part you require to swap to the other disc which contains the rest of the game