You could start a game, open the lid, swap discs, reset, and play the second game (can confirm on PS1, not sure on PS2 or GC). Unlike swapping cartridges in a SNES or MegaDrive and resetting without powering down, doing this wouldn’t lead to a super weird game.
The PS1’s Monster Rancher games would give you different monsters depending on what disc you put for the game to read when it asked.
tophneal@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Nope. It was pretty normal for multi disc games. Once you got so far, the game would give you a “insert disc X” screen," where you’d hot swap the discs and keep playing. I remember FF on PSX doing this.
Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I still to this day get upset that I’ve never been able to fully okay through Legend of Dragoon because *BOTH COPIES* I managed to find in my little hometown had Disc 3s that were too scratched to be read even after multiple attempts to repair them.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah that was the real problem with hot swappable discs. The kids who actually physically performed that operation were often too impatient and careless to put the disc somewhere safe from scratching, because they wanted to immediately get back to playing.
tophneal@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
the same thing happened to me with Suikoden 2. My dad bought a copy off eBay, not knowing it was a 2 disc game so I never got to finish it. Naturally I had to buy it when 1 & 2 were rereleased.
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Not to mention the games that were cool enough to let you swap in a music CD after the game loaded, so you could have your own soundtrack!