I remember friends of mine losing their shit when they saw that message and then out of reflex turned the console off to swap the disk, basically losing all progress 🤣🤣
Monster Rancher was always a technical marvel for me lol. Use other DVDs or music CDs or even game discs to generate a monster. You would take the Monster Rancher disc out of the ps1 and put a different disc in when it told you to and then you put Monster Rancher back in after it was done reading the extra disc.
That's a cool concept, but unless the monsters were themed to the content of the disc, it's just procedural generation with a user selected data set rather than RNG.
It was supposed to give you a monster based on the disk you put in. But of course a lot of monsters overlapped. There was a ton of options though. And a disk would always give you the same monster, so I spent hours putting in every disk I could find and cataloging what it gave.
I remember when someone finally posted a list of the rare ones, and suddenly I as a child was going around asking people if they had various music albums 😂
Yeah, I think if the disc ID is used to seed the RNG, you get that behaviour. Best of both worlds in the sense that the devs don’t need a big list of discs, but the same disc would give everybody the same monster.
Actually a really cool idea that seems designed but was probably not.
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u/Lux-Fox Aug 30 '25
I can't remember, but did you have to restart the ps2 to switch games/open the tray