/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6332836
>the devs intentionally tried to take up as much disc space as possible
this is very common on disc-based systems
discs read from inside to outside, and disc are also fastest on the outside of the disc
this is why hdd's start at the outside of the platter(s) and work their way in
presumably cd's were designed to read from the inside to accommodate alternate disc sizes, since unlike a record, the read mechanism is entirely automatic
so you can get performance benefits from keeping your data at the end of the disk, so many games considerably smaller than a CD have several hundred megabyte dummy files just to "push" the game near the end of the disc
for crash specifically, it wasn't hard to find a 56MB rip in a minute