skies of arcadia game cube question

[sayin999]

I just bought a new copy of skies of arcadia at a gamestop today for $20. I'm wondering why the game cube version is on one disk while the dreamcast version is on 2. Does it have to do with a compression technique or something?I'm wondering since this version has more stuff then the dc version.

[kamaya]

Doesn't the GC disc hold 1.5Gb of data and the DC 1Gb?
Perhaps with better audio / video compression that the GC would be able to cope with (due to it being more powerful) they could get the two DC discs onto one GC disc and have a bit more left over?

I hope to pick this up at work one day on the GC (would only £24.49) but it never comes in.

I've still got my DC version but it has no VGA mode :smt011

// Kamaya

[KuKzz]

US version of DC Skies of Arcadia has VGA support...of course, you'll need the original game :)

[Lostuse]

dc = 1.2

[kamaya]

US version of DC Skies of Arcadia has VGA support...of course, you'll need the original game :)

I have an original PAL copy :smt023

// Kamaya

[Yakumo]

I have the crappy PAL one for Dreamcast but couldn't play it at all in Japan so I had to get the US one for it's VGA suport.

Yakumo

[SuperFunkNinjaYoshiiKun]

Yeah, the original GDRoms probably weren't full. So you could easily put it on a single GC disk.

All those extra bits were in the game to start with, you just had to unlock them with a VMU d/l from the web site. Another island, another big Looper to fight and something else.

Oh, but there is a new character in the GC version.

[Greatsaintlouis]

What are these extras you speak of? And is there a way to download them anymore?

[SuperFunkNinjaYoshiiKun]

You used the 'online' option on the main menu. There were 3 differnt d/ls. As far as I can remember you either had to do the d/ls or play Pinta Quest on VMU to get the final ultimate cham thingie to convert Cupil to ultimate form.

Not sure if you can still get an official d/l. Sure there must be a site out there with save games to d/l tho...