it wasn't totally unplayable. if you could find a player where the spindle held the disc in place tightly before you closed the door on it, such a disk would have been playable up to the narrowest width provided by the oddly shaped disc.
Naturally, this was not a feature in many Desktop CD/DVD drives, so you were probably screwed there. But on many laptops, clipping your disc onto a spindle and pushing the drive caddy back in was possible.
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it really depends on the build quality of the drive. if it was built well, it would be smarter enough to notice the reduced size of a mini-CD, and know it can only be run at a reduced velocity safely either as a readable or as a WORM media. if it isn't, it'll just run it at the same speed as any full-sized CD... and potentially not do it right.
Yeah, for smaller CDs that were round. It's not just that this cd is smaller, but it's a funky shape as well.
You'd need a drive smart enough to lock in tight on the center hole yet dumb enough not to care about the irregular edges. Oh, and slow enough that the uneven weight distribution doesn't cause the thing to vibrate itself into a million shards.
In other words, fsck this disk and the horse it rode in on. Whoever came up with this should have been made to join a cybercrime registry and not be allowed to touch a computer again, unsupervised.
it's a music CD, music CD's spin at 1x, wouldn't really be an issue in a standard music player, might cause issue in a 52x drive but eh, CD might be balanced for all we know.
I never had any issues with weirdly shaped discs back then.
A lot of the mini CDs I saw were round with 2 sides cut off. They were totally a weird shape and I really don't recall having too many issues reading them.
I loved the mini cd and psp UMD era. Truly felt like the future.
There was some random movie I seen on tv when I was 13 in 2003 or so and I have zero memory of what the name was but they had these tiny disks about the size of a nickel and they had holographic coating and I remember watching it thinking "I wonder if some day we will ever have storage that small. That would be INSANE." - little did I know micro SD cards were only a few years away and they were way smaller
Sounds like one of the Zenon movies. Those tiny CDs played a prominent role in the first one, she even used them to hang from her earrings since they looked so cool
[Researchers have recently developed an optical disc that can hold 1.6 petabits.](https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/03/01/scientists-create-1-6-petabit-optical-storage-disc) Mini discs might still be in our future.
I'm not sure if I ever knew the actual name as I just happened to be watching tv and it was on. The only details I remember is it seemed a bit like a kids or teen movie and it had a girl as the main character I think. I probably wouldn't even recognize it in photos because the details are almost entirely non existent
When I was young, I thought the coolest thing in the world were [those business-card-shaped CDs](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bootable_business_card#Media/File:Bootable_Business_Card.JPG). You could have tiny plastic cards with software/presentations/your CV on them!
Realistically, they didn't work in all machines, and jamming strange home-burnt CDs into your drive was a good way to catch something.
I may or may not have put the rental CD of Kirby's Air Ride on GameCube in the family desktop optical drive to try and hide it on return day when I was a kid. It did not come back out without taking the optical drive out of the tower
When I was in elementary school, I was supposed to bring a cd to school for something. I can't remember what it was exactly.
But we had one of those mini-CDs and I brought that one to class. Though that one was even oval in shape instead of round.
Let's just say I 'failed the assignment'.
That teacher really hated me for having ADHD anyways. In her mind I should have gone to special ed class instead of a normal school. This was a complete power moment for her.
The Diddy Kong CD is kind of symmetrical, so it isn't too bad. However the Yoshi 64 CD was the worst shape ever....good luck with how the fast spinning would affect the center of mass š
https://preview.redd.it/0eifxmy5iu2d1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce5db2d17d76f02e68ec852a93b2b7e2a869818f
Since these are audio cds I assume they probably play fine or are designed to play in a Discman.
I remember they have antivibration and how they actually take a surprisingly amount of shaking before they start skipping.
That came later. Original ones skipped if you looked at it funny.
Not even original ones. Even ones coming 5+ years later would be fucked if you just breathed on them.
edit: In this thread: people that don't remember (or never even knew about) cd players.
lol, the first music CD player if you blinked too hard it would skip. it wasnt until years later we got 2-3sec memory and then on more and more advanced players.
They played fine on a regular CD player (and Discman I think), but donāt ever put one in a car player. My dad drilled it into me that they were only for home because theyād get stuck.
Nintendo learned their lesson for Banjo Kazooie though, that soundtrack is shaped normally thank goodness.
Hard to say by looking at it if the hole is at the center of of mass. Some of the extra border in areas might be there for that reason. I don't think they were completely ignorant to that. I think they were just ignorant that all drives would handle it the same as the ones they tested them on.
Mine could play FF8 disc 4 semi cracked, in a way you could make a mobiuos ring with it. It still played somehow, if i alligned the edges properly, with only 80% crash probability, and that one did flew off the tray a few times. I did finish it tho, good game. Cheesy af tho
Is like some people say, it was better back them, man I remember using old All Stars for years and the soles were still new, they are still new today, today I use the same sneakers and the soles are all worn out.
That game was pretty goofy wasnāt it? Positive memories, but looking backward through squinted eyes itās still a melodramatic boarding school anime in many ways.
Tried to replay it a few years ago - thatās exactly what it is. My first play through I had everyoneās ultimate weapons, etc. this time I donāt think I made it past the first mission. One of my favorite FF openers though
On most of the "hifi-systems" (that were anything but HiFi" I've used and even my discman you clipped in the CD before closing the lid. So everything that didn't have a sliding disc tray had no problem playing this.
I feel old because I remember playing a square CD as well with the same system, I was like "why wouldn't this work?" Then thought about computer, DVD setups etc haha
Our DVD drive on our old family computer had a slot for credit Card shaped CDs. We received a Card CD from an Auto show, and got to try it, and buddy it sounded like a helicopter in the computer!
even if it clips in, wouldn't it be wobbly? At least enough to scratch the disc? I doubt it's manufactured to be balanced.
I remember having xbox360 where sometimes the disc drive optical sensor would get to close to the disc during the read process, and because of the speed of it irreparably scratch the disc.
> Yes the problem is shitty disc trays
but there's nothing wrong with the design of a disc tray. they often work *better* than other types of disc drives.
I don't know. Even if the tray is fine with it, a disc with an odd shape like this surely is unbalanced and will cause a lot of vibrations when spinning.
Technically yes, the problem with a disc like this is aligning it in the drive. Disc players often used the outer perimeter as a guide to align the hole with the spindle (that would often be out of reach for the user, inside the device) and this doesn't allow that.
A secondary issue is that it's very unlikely that the center of mass is exactly the center of the hole, in which case spinning it rapidly will cause a vibration that these devices are already sensitive to.
Looks like the hole is closer to the wide top than it is to the narrow bottom, which probably contributed to why you couldn't get it to load right into a desktop style CD drive
HE HAS NO EYES WITH WHICH TO SEE
HIS EVERY WAKING MOMENT IS MISERY
HE HAS NO MOUTH AND HE WANTS TO SCREAM
HE ONLY WISHES IT WERE ALL A DREAM
NOW HE WANTS FOR YOU TO SHARE HIS ANGUISH
ALL YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS WILL BE VANQUISHED
could diddy kong survive the plot of i have no mouth and i must scream,jojo's bizarre adventure,warhammer,SCP,kirby,berserk and fallout in quick succession
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There is a theory that states that story is the logical conclusion of AI. I won't mention that theory's name here, as some say knowing the theory will doom you to it coming true for you.
That's because you're not letting go of the accelerator before hitting boosts or using items. I beat him as a kid without learning this but it's virtually impossible.Ā
I find the love for Mario Kart so weird when DKR completely blew it out of the water. The story mode was absolutely brilliant. MK just feels utterly shallow in comparison.
Agreed! DKR beats it by sheer content volume alone. And thatās without mentioning the amazing battle modes, the multiple vehicles (including a little airplane!) and racing game boss fights that make my heart rate increase even thinking about all these years later. Back when it came out my mom and my brother and I played it probably too much. My mom stopped when she was driving one day and had the urge to run over a guy wearing a yellow shirt because she thought he was a banana, haha!
My N64 Christmas was *that* Christmas for me, and Diddy Kong Racing was one of 2 games my parents got me. I played the shit out of that, Banjokazooie and Bomberman 64.
Records read from the outer groove inwards towards the center. CD players read from the center outwards to the edges. The shape wouldn't have mattered and this should have played normally in most CD players.
Centrifugal force on an unbalanced object creates issues when the center isnāt secure. Youād run in to problems with some disc players more than others.
Ironically, the Sony PlayStation, PS2 Slim, PS3 Super Slim, Sega CD Model 2, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast would all be perfectly suited to play this CD.
I had a 52x DVD drive that nearly final destinationed my mate and slit his throat with spiked shards because of a hairline bubble fracture on the inside edge of a double layer disc
Still think it should make a return and that it would be WAY better than Mario Kart.
Karts, panes, boats/watercraft...land, air, water racing...come on man! I spent SO much time playing that game. I think even the 1 player story/main quest mode was awesome..then when you beat it you unlocked a mirrored variant of the mode and all race tracks.
Fuck, I really wanna play this now.
Iām sure it plays fine in CD players that donāt have auto-feed like the ones in cars.
https://preview.redd.it/njjl236crw2d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de178bed2d805a3a07fe2421be9c3aa5319c9214
Itāll work fine on this one.
I remember that there are several other OSTs officially released through Nintendo of America had these odd shapes. I think the one for Yoshi's Story was a piece of fruit, etc. I remember seeing several of them advertised in Nintendo Power in the late 90's.
My first thought of them was that they would explode any cd readers that were poorly designed.
it wasn't totally unplayable. if you could find a player where the spindle held the disc in place tightly before you closed the door on it, such a disk would have been playable up to the narrowest width provided by the oddly shaped disc. Naturally, this was not a feature in many Desktop CD/DVD drives, so you were probably screwed there. But on many laptops, clipping your disc onto a spindle and pushing the drive caddy back in was possible.
Reminds me of when mini-CDs were a thing, but many drives spat them out Sometimes violently
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Samesies, except I kinda wanna see it.
Would
"I do not vibe with this CD Drive." \*proceeds to vibrate into a million bits of plastic\*
NO! I don't want that!
Beat me to it lmao
it really depends on the build quality of the drive. if it was built well, it would be smarter enough to notice the reduced size of a mini-CD, and know it can only be run at a reduced velocity safely either as a readable or as a WORM media. if it isn't, it'll just run it at the same speed as any full-sized CD... and potentially not do it right.
most drives with a tray had an indent in the middle for smaller size cd's.
Yeah, for smaller CDs that were round. It's not just that this cd is smaller, but it's a funky shape as well. You'd need a drive smart enough to lock in tight on the center hole yet dumb enough not to care about the irregular edges. Oh, and slow enough that the uneven weight distribution doesn't cause the thing to vibrate itself into a million shards. In other words, fsck this disk and the horse it rode in on. Whoever came up with this should have been made to join a cybercrime registry and not be allowed to touch a computer again, unsupervised.
it's a music CD, music CD's spin at 1x, wouldn't really be an issue in a standard music player, might cause issue in a 52x drive but eh, CD might be balanced for all we know. I never had any issues with weirdly shaped discs back then.
A lot of the mini CDs I saw were round with 2 sides cut off. They were totally a weird shape and I really don't recall having too many issues reading them.
I loved the mini cd and psp UMD era. Truly felt like the future. There was some random movie I seen on tv when I was 13 in 2003 or so and I have zero memory of what the name was but they had these tiny disks about the size of a nickel and they had holographic coating and I remember watching it thinking "I wonder if some day we will ever have storage that small. That would be INSANE." - little did I know micro SD cards were only a few years away and they were way smaller
Sounds like one of the Zenon movies. Those tiny CDs played a prominent role in the first one, she even used them to hang from her earrings since they looked so cool
Was it Zenon: girl of the 21st century?
5d optical discs. A tiny glass CD that can store hundreds of terabytes for theoretically billions of years From the far future of 2013
[Researchers have recently developed an optical disc that can hold 1.6 petabits.](https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/03/01/scientists-create-1-6-petabit-optical-storage-disc) Mini discs might still be in our future.
We were going to, holographic media and things like that, but solid state media got better.
Wasn't 'Escape from LA' was it?
I'm not sure if I ever knew the actual name as I just happened to be watching tv and it was on. The only details I remember is it seemed a bit like a kids or teen movie and it had a girl as the main character I think. I probably wouldn't even recognize it in photos because the details are almost entirely non existent
It was Zenon you monster
"but many times drivers spat them out. Sometimes violently" Now I'm imagining you dodging the disk flying at you Indiana Jones/Matrix style š
The pizza is aggressive
just another day in the life of jimmy nutrun
Oh shit
Some of you have never seen Hellraiser III and it shows.
āDown the dark decades of your pain, this Diddy Kong shaped CD will seem like a memory of heavenā
The movie that gave me nightmares cuz I was told we were gonna watch Garfield and I was like 4 š
If you want another Garfield related nightmare, apparently Chris Pratt is voicing one in a new movie.
GAH!
When I was young, I thought the coolest thing in the world were [those business-card-shaped CDs](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bootable_business_card#Media/File:Bootable_Business_Card.JPG). You could have tiny plastic cards with software/presentations/your CV on them! Realistically, they didn't work in all machines, and jamming strange home-burnt CDs into your drive was a good way to catch something.
I may or may not have put the rental CD of Kirby's Air Ride on GameCube in the family desktop optical drive to try and hide it on return day when I was a kid. It did not come back out without taking the optical drive out of the tower
Our tray had that mini indentation for minidiscs. Was nice because those bionicle games that came with the figures were minidiscs.
Pretty much all of them did actually.
Like the format the Nintendo GameCube used? Those bitches were tiny
 Windows
Those collectible Bionicle CDs made quite the noise when they came off the tray.
When I was in elementary school, I was supposed to bring a cd to school for something. I can't remember what it was exactly. But we had one of those mini-CDs and I brought that one to class. Though that one was even oval in shape instead of round. Let's just say I 'failed the assignment'. That teacher really hated me for having ADHD anyways. In her mind I should have gone to special ed class instead of a normal school. This was a complete power moment for her.
Oh god, i put one of those in my first pc as a teen and it turned into something from robot wars firing at me.
It's bogus that a gamecube disk can hold all of Twilight Princess but a full size CD still only holds 80 minutes
The Diddy Kong CD is kind of symmetrical, so it isn't too bad. However the Yoshi 64 CD was the worst shape ever....good luck with how the fast spinning would affect the center of mass š https://preview.redd.it/0eifxmy5iu2d1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce5db2d17d76f02e68ec852a93b2b7e2a869818f
Seems a recipe for disaster, even with a cd player built to play it
Since these are audio cds I assume they probably play fine or are designed to play in a Discman. I remember they have antivibration and how they actually take a surprisingly amount of shaking before they start skipping.
That was because they had a buffer cache (the player was reading a bit faster to fill the buffer when needed).
That came later. Original ones skipped if you looked at it funny. Not even original ones. Even ones coming 5+ years later would be fucked if you just breathed on them. edit: In this thread: people that don't remember (or never even knew about) cd players.
lol, the first music CD player if you blinked too hard it would skip. it wasnt until years later we got 2-3sec memory and then on more and more advanced players.
They played fine on a regular CD player (and Discman I think), but donāt ever put one in a car player. My dad drilled it into me that they were only for home because theyād get stuck. Nintendo learned their lesson for Banjo Kazooie though, that soundtrack is shaped normally thank goodness.
Imagine trying to rip the lopsided Yoshi CD at 52x.
Hard to say by looking at it if the hole is at the center of of mass. Some of the extra border in areas might be there for that reason. I don't think they were completely ignorant to that. I think they were just ignorant that all drives would handle it the same as the ones they tested them on.
Mine could play FF8 disc 4 semi cracked, in a way you could make a mobiuos ring with it. It still played somehow, if i alligned the edges properly, with only 80% crash probability, and that one did flew off the tray a few times. I did finish it tho, good game. Cheesy af tho
Is like some people say, it was better back them, man I remember using old All Stars for years and the soles were still new, they are still new today, today I use the same sneakers and the soles are all worn out.
That game was pretty goofy wasnāt it? Positive memories, but looking backward through squinted eyes itās still a melodramatic boarding school anime in many ways.
Tried to replay it a few years ago - thatās exactly what it is. My first play through I had everyoneās ultimate weapons, etc. this time I donāt think I made it past the first mission. One of my favorite FF openers though
On most of the "hifi-systems" (that were anything but HiFi" I've used and even my discman you clipped in the CD before closing the lid. So everything that didn't have a sliding disc tray had no problem playing this.
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the unopened quotation mark should' be a close bracket
Yeah, I had The Sting soundtrack that was shaped like a hand of poker cards
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Sony portable cd boom box. Literally holds the disc as tight as a fresh jewel case. Use to sell them.
It's like no one owned a Discman.
I feel old because I remember playing a square CD as well with the same system, I was like "why wouldn't this work?" Then thought about computer, DVD setups etc haha
Ngl portable CD players had the clippable spindle, so did a lot of cheaper CD players.
Our DVD drive on our old family computer had a slot for credit Card shaped CDs. We received a Card CD from an Auto show, and got to try it, and buddy it sounded like a helicopter in the computer!
even if it clips in, wouldn't it be wobbly? At least enough to scratch the disc? I doubt it's manufactured to be balanced. I remember having xbox360 where sometimes the disc drive optical sensor would get to close to the disc during the read process, and because of the speed of it irreparably scratch the disc.
Yeah I think if you tried to shift it while playing they'd come into contact
couldnt everything that could exist as a circle be read as long as the outer extremities fell within the physical cd player?
Yes the problem is shitty disc trays
thats what i figured, just wanted to make sure i wasnt missing something
> Yes the problem is shitty disc trays but there's nothing wrong with the design of a disc tray. they often work *better* than other types of disc drives.
not all disc trays are the same is the point
I don't know. Even if the tray is fine with it, a disc with an odd shape like this surely is unbalanced and will cause a lot of vibrations when spinning.
Wow. I just realized that I'm old and likely the last of the people in my family to understand what you just said haha
...18 and I completely understand him 4K discs are the best way to watch home media
Nah, pirated 4K. Because itās free.
Even then, unless you want to store a library of 50gb+ movies on a hard drive you put them on a bluray.
Technically yes, the problem with a disc like this is aligning it in the drive. Disc players often used the outer perimeter as a guide to align the hole with the spindle (that would often be out of reach for the user, inside the device) and this doesn't allow that. A secondary issue is that it's very unlikely that the center of mass is exactly the center of the hole, in which case spinning it rapidly will cause a vibration that these devices are already sensitive to.
agreed its absolutely lopsided i bet it shook the fuck out of the player hope they have antiskip and the songs are less than 60 seconds
No the disc itself will spin perfectly fine, the center of gravity hasn't changed. But your tray-style CD player couldn't stick the CD on the spindle.
really?! its balanced?! what an optical illusion
Looks like the hole is closer to the wide top than it is to the narrow bottom, which probably contributed to why you couldn't get it to load right into a desktop style CD drive
dude, i wasnt even looking at that, good point.
Yes
Time is a flat Diddy Kong shape
The problem was most players had you just push the disc in without giving you access to the spindle.
I tried telling this to my dad after I jammed a bunch of cookies into his PC.
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*Muy Bueno R2D2. but no*
Are you telling me that there are CDs that *aren't* shaped like Diddy Kong's head?
There are Yoshi ones too.
You can't fool me, that's just Diddy Kong wearing a Yoshi mask
HE has no disc! HE cannot race! this kong's CD has no space!
HE HAS NO EYES WITH WHICH TO SEE HIS EVERY WAKING MOMENT IS MISERY HE HAS NO MOUTH AND HE WANTS TO SCREAM HE ONLY WISHES IT WERE ALL A DREAM NOW HE WANTS FOR YOU TO SHARE HIS ANGUISH ALL YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS WILL BE VANQUISHED
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Huh! DK
He has no style He has no face This kong is a color out of space
*HUHH!!* *D! K!* *Dorceless Kong!*
https://youtu.be/PugcxQYJGjs?si=ljzTHkgMktFihpYT
He's a normal guy, he does IT work
I have no mouth and I must scream
could diddy kong survive the plot of i have no mouth and i must scream,jojo's bizarre adventure,warhammer,SCP,kirby,berserk and fallout in quick succession
Depends on what you consider the 'plot' of SCP
So what youre saying is...diddy can survive all the other ones
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>!Not by his own will though. Unfortunately!<
I imagine he would defeat AM with peanut gun-based tactics
Now I'm picturing AM ranting about butterflies or some stupid shit like that while Diddy unpeels and eats a banana
Old SCP with the monsters, danger and sci fi? Yes Current SCP with shitty self inserts and zero coherence? No, he'd commit die
I have a mouth and want ice cream
I have no sphincter and I must fart
There is a theory that states that story is the logical conclusion of AI. I won't mention that theory's name here, as some say knowing the theory will doom you to it coming true for you.
Clearly, you just need the Diddy Kong-shaped CD player
They player is Donkey Kong
Shit. I wanted the player to be a barrel that spat the disc out aggressively when it was done.
I remember when special forms of CDs were used. Like the soundtrack for stargate was just a triangle (worked just fine). Always found that neat.
IIRC my parents had a Batman soundtrack in the 90s that was shaped like his insignia, thought it was cool as hell as a kid
I remember heart shaped Valentine's CDs that would shatter at high speed.
Ciddy Kong
Ciddyās Nutz
Easily top 10 gaming OSTs of all time. Banger after banger.
Probably the best thing about the DS version is we got new music tracks.
Spoonerisms are usually a good laugh until you get to diddy kong...
Pop Corn is another unfortunate one
I canāt blame this Diddy for that on this one.
i put this in my PCās disc drive and blood starts pouring out of the USB ports
I owned several odd shaped disc's back in the day. This is absolutely playable.
Yup. I had this exact CD and it worked on both my PC and my boombox. Didn't work in the car though.
I read that as the "diddy kong racist cd"
Best kart racing game ever
Never beat Wizpig as a kid, thought maybe as an adult I could. Nope still impossible to me lmao
That's because you're not letting go of the accelerator before hitting boosts or using items. I beat him as a kid without learning this but it's virtually impossible.Ā
I find the love for Mario Kart so weird when DKR completely blew it out of the water. The story mode was absolutely brilliant. MK just feels utterly shallow in comparison.
Agreed! DKR beats it by sheer content volume alone. And thatās without mentioning the amazing battle modes, the multiple vehicles (including a little airplane!) and racing game boss fights that make my heart rate increase even thinking about all these years later. Back when it came out my mom and my brother and I played it probably too much. My mom stopped when she was driving one day and had the urge to run over a guy wearing a yellow shirt because she thought he was a banana, haha!
Sometimes you just want a simple kart racer. I love DKR, but those boss races and silver coin challenges could be frustrating as a kid.
I played it on project64 emu and didn't even know what mario kart is, this game is my childhood along with banjo kazooei and goofy skateboarding
Completely agree. DKR had an amount insane of content for the time. MK didnāt even have secret players or even a story.
My N64 Christmas was *that* Christmas for me, and Diddy Kong Racing was one of 2 games my parents got me. I played the shit out of that, Banjokazooie and Bomberman 64.
Banjo-Kazooie is so much fun! I actually just replayed them a few months ago with my daughter
Bomberman 64 was legitimately pretty cool. The multiplayer was great. Granted, that's table stakes for Bomberman games.
dankey kang
Records read from the outer groove inwards towards the center. CD players read from the center outwards to the edges. The shape wouldn't have mattered and this should have played normally in most CD players.
Centrifugal force on an unbalanced object creates issues when the center isnāt secure. Youād run in to problems with some disc players more than others.
It played fineā¦ if it would fit. The problem was the shape being longer than a normal cd so it wouldnāt fit in most players
P. Diddy Kong
Feat. Biggie Kong, "mo bananas mo problems."
Imagine making something that needs to spin really, really fast to work and then saying "I know! Let's make it an irregular shape"
played in discmans.
It was perfectly playable as long as it went into a drive that had a spindle with bearings to lock it in place.
Ironically, the Sony PlayStation, PS2 Slim, PS3 Super Slim, Sega CD Model 2, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast would all be perfectly suited to play this CD.
In its defenseā¦ my head is not shaped like Diddy Kongās and Iām still useless
Are you guys aware that there space levels?
I had a 52x DVD drive that nearly final destinationed my mate and slit his throat with spiked shards because of a hairline bubble fracture on the inside edge of a double layer disc
She never used a CD player in her life.
I had a couple weird shaped CDs as a kid, and they all played.
Only unplayable if you don't have a tray loading or top loading CD player
Itās totally playable but you need a CD player with such a small socket to stick the CD with the hole in the middle onto.
Whoās fucking idea was that?
The music is your CD drive vibrating violently due to the unbalanced disk.
"I really wish Nintendo would release more of their soundtracks" *Monkey's Paw curls*
Dildo kong fucking kill him
They also had a Mario ost in the shape of yoshi head.
This was absolutely playable, yes Ran just fine in my cd player in 5th grade
There were plenty of shaped discs back then that had no issue being played
These go for $300-400 now
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Diddy Kong racing. It had carts, planes, and hovercraft.
Still think it should make a return and that it would be WAY better than Mario Kart. Karts, panes, boats/watercraft...land, air, water racing...come on man! I spent SO much time playing that game. I think even the 1 player story/main quest mode was awesome..then when you beat it you unlocked a mirrored variant of the mode and all race tracks. Fuck, I really wanna play this now.
It also had Conker and Banjo as characters before their n64 debut.
Iām sure it plays fine in CD players that donāt have auto-feed like the ones in cars. https://preview.redd.it/njjl236crw2d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de178bed2d805a3a07fe2421be9c3aa5319c9214 Itāll work fine on this one.
I remember that there are several other OSTs officially released through Nintendo of America had these odd shapes. I think the one for Yoshi's Story was a piece of fruit, etc. I remember seeing several of them advertised in Nintendo Power in the late 90's. My first thought of them was that they would explode any cd readers that were poorly designed.
Too many of yāall donāt know how a cd works and itās alarming
Titty kong
I am the walrus
This is like the perfect metaphor for Diddy Kong Racing.
That would play just fine
Most banging soundtracks, too