Has there recently been any PS2 game released on CD?

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ManaByte

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I was just thinking today that I can't remember seeing a PS2 game on CD in the last year and a half or so. Has there been any? Or has everyone switched over to DVD?

If you don't know:
PSOne CDs are black.
PS2 CDs are blue.
PS2 DVDs are silver with the "PS" logo watermarked on them.
Some dual layered discs (DVD9s) are gold.
 
Growlanser Generations is 2 CDs.

In fact, the big surprise for us is that half our game support time on phones has been directing people to check with Sony regarding getting their older PS2 machines repaired free to read CDs. They DO fix/swap them and it does work for the consumer. Next best thing to making them bulletproof in the first place. The only pain is that the user is without their machine for 1-2 weeks.

There are other fixes out there, but they are less than 100% successful, though all have a measure of success for different situations.
 
Disgaea is on CD in Europe (but on DVD in the USA). They removed the Japanese voice option from the game to do this. Grrr.
 
dock UK said:
Disgaea is on CD in Europe (but on DVD in the USA). They removed the Japanese voice option from the game to do this. Grrr.
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Wow, that sucks. Do they really save that much money when they use CD instead of DVD? Or is there another reason why some games are still on CD?
 
ManaByte said:
I was just thinking today that I can't remember seeing a PS2 game on CD in the last year and a half or so. Has there been any? Or has everyone switched over to DVD?

If you don't know:
PSOne CDs are black.
PS2 CDs are blue.
PS2 DVDs are silver with the "PS" logo watermarked on them.
Some dual layered discs (DVD9s) are gold.
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PSOne cd's actually aren't black. They're REALLY REALLY deep blue(or maybe it was purple...try it yourself, i don't have any here).

Hold them up to a light and look through. They're definitely not black.

Just throwin that in =)
 
vireland, did you ever consider putting both GGs on one DVD instead?
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Yes, we actually made a bootable menu system to serve as a frontend. There were other technical considerations that would have taken too much time/research to implement/fix, so that was scuttled, leaving the set on 2 cds.
 
morbidaza said:
PSOne cd's actually aren't black. They're REALLY REALLY deep blue(or maybe it was purple...try it yourself, i don't have any here).

Hold them up to a light and look through. They're definitely not black.

Just throwin that in =)
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most black plastic is actually like this. you cant easily have a "true" black, and it nearly always has a color to it whenever you shine a light through it. look at "black" lights. india ink is about the only thing i can think of that has a "true" black color to it.
 
Wario64 said:
dock UK said:
Disgaea is on CD in Europe (but on DVD in the USA). They removed the Japanese voice option from the game to do this. Grrr.
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Wow, that sucks. Do they really save that much money when they use CD instead of DVD? Or is there another reason why some games are still on CD?
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It's not Koei's fault, for some reason Sony Europe just doesn't like japanese audio. Japanese language options has been removed from other games as well, or made unavailable in the game even if the language files have still been on the disk. The same thing will happen to the european releases of Phantom Brave and La Pucelle.

Another Sony Europe thing is that unless you absolutely can't fit the game on a CD it has to be released on one, so there are more CD games in europe than in the US (we also have more budget games so that's another reason).
 
this may be a stupid question (im not too up on my PS2 technology), but do the Blue CDs run at a different speed than the DVD games?

i have a new PS2 and the only game i have on CD so far is Gradius V. it runs fine with no problems, but it sounds like the machine is working some serious overtime when i play it.

only with Gradius. the other games i have dont seem to rev the PS2 up like the one Blue CD does.

thanks.
 
vireland said:
They DO fix/swap them and it does work for the consumer. Next best thing to making them bulletproof in the first place.
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Thank goodness for successful class action lawsuits... 2 generations in a row. Next up, PSP. :/
 
Not a plug: SPOnG lists the media used for every single commercially released PlayStation 2 and Xbox title.
 
Folder said:
Not a plug: SPOnG lists the media used for every single commercially released PlayStation 2 and Xbox title.
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Do you guys list GBA ROM sizes? I miss the 16bit days when we always got MB/Mbit counts. :(
 
jarrod said:
Thank goodness for successful class action lawsuits... 2 generations in a row. Next up, PSP. :/
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What's funny about the whole situation is that 90% of the PS2s sent in for "repair" aren't even broken...

I honestly believe that the dust problem is directly related to the HDD bay that was added for the US launch. Dust seems to be pulled through the disc tray and collects on the lens. Everyone I know with a US launch PS2 has had to replace it while people I know with JP launch PS2s still haven't had a problem.

Then, I do believe the voltage screw problem is related to CD reading and the vibrations it causes.

Those two issues, I'd imagine, represent a large percentage of the DRE problems...
 
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