There was a few GameCube games, Animal Crossing I know for sure, that was small enough to fit in the Cube’s RAM. You could start the game and remove the disk with no ill effects. Obviously the Game Gear didn’t have the memory capacity but I think it’s a fun fact.
There was a similar case for a lot of PC games in the 2000s as well where everything was on your HDD and the CD was literally just there to make sure you owned the CD so you could start the game and then pass it around the lan party until everyone was in the game.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. I used to do that with my brothers with Battlefront 2 when we were kids. We’d link together two desktops with a crossover cable and play LAN.
There was a few GameCube games, Animal Crossing I know for sure, that was small enough to fit in the Cube’s RAM. You could start the game and remove the disk with no ill effects. Obviously the Game Gear didn’t have the memory capacity but I think it’s a fun fact.
There was a similar case for a lot of PC games in the 2000s as well where everything was on your HDD and the CD was literally just there to make sure you owned the CD so you could start the game and then pass it around the lan party until everyone was in the game.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. I used to do that with my brothers with Battlefront 2 when we were kids. We’d link together two desktops with a crossover cable and play LAN.