Most CD's in one game box?

[made]

As the Amiga used 800Kb formatted floppies, Amiga users needed considerably more of them. Except for the Discworld mentioned above (which I'll put as "unverified" until further notice) the winner was Beneath a Steel Sky with 15 floppies, followed by Secret of Monkey Island 2 with 11 floppies.

Not quite. The Adventures of Willy Beamish and Bloodnet AGA both came on 12 disks, and I'm pretty sure there was another adventure that had at least 13. Finally, Biing AGA came on a whooping 19 disks; couldn't be run from floppies though, had to be installed.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Cool, I'm not an Amiga man, so all my info on that is second-hand.

I'll still try to verify this.

 

[Blaine]

Saw this thread, immediately thought of Phantasmagoria. I'm surprised it was outdone.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Alright, did some research.

Discworld was never released on the Amiga, and the PC floppy disk version didn't have the speech of the CD-ROM version, so the "16 disks" for Discworld is probably a warez release, so it's discounted. (The actual floppy disk version of Discworld was 4 floppies IIRC.)
(Of note though is that there was a "Director's Cut" edition of the original Discworld, which fixed some bugs and added an extra scene, but this version was apparentely never released.)

Willy Beamish and Bloodnet were indeed released on 12 floppies for the Amiga, but so was the regular version of "Bling! Sex, Intrigen and Skalpellen". They're all outdone by Rise of the Robots (13 disks) and, as made correctly stated, by the AGA version of the aforementioned "Bling!" which shipped on 19 floppies. I couldn't find any other Amiga titles that shipped on more disks than that.

Meanwhile, over in OS and programming land, Windows XP was shipped to at least one user on floppies - over 250 of them! MS Office 97 came on 55 floppies, OS/2 Warp 3 came on 25 (39 if you counted the bonus pack), Slackware Linux came on 33 floppies and Lotus SmartSuite on 23.

EDIT: Typo correction.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

I remembered Discworld having "around 15" disks, did some quick googling and it read 16 disks somewhere, and I went with that. Now that the claim was disputed I made some further 'research' and it turns out it had only 15 disks.

Spoiler

 

[made]

Rise of the Robots (13 disks)

Right. The adventure I was thinking of was Erben der Erde/Inherit the Earth; adf sites have a version with 13 disks, but HOL lists it with 12 so I'm not sure. I do have the box somewhere so I could look it up some day if there's enough interest in making Codex the definitive source for floppy counts on the web. Doubt anything beats Biing on the Amiga either way.

 

[ghostdog]

If you're installing Microsoft Office 97 from diskettes, have all your diskettes available.

Microsoft Office 97 Standard edition is provided on a total of 45 diskettes. Microsoft Office 97 Professional edition is provided on a total of 55 diskettes. Depending on the options selected during Setup, you may not be prompted for every diskette.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[ghostdog]

 

[Eirikur]

The Tex Murphy game "The Pandora Directive" had at least 6 I think.

 

[Eirikur]

Just imagine... if we didn't have patience for all those CDs, we would've grown up without witnessing high class acting like this.

 

[commie]

The Tex Murphy game "The Pandora Directive" had at least 6 I think.

Yep. 6 disks. Have the boxed version. Also have X-Files which indeed is 7 CD's.

Star Trek Klingon Academy is 6 CD too. Great underrated game, Christopher Plummer FTW.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Right. The adventure I was thinking of was Erben der Erde/Inherit the Earth; adf sites have a version with 13 disks, but HOL lists it with 12 so I'm not sure. I do have the box somewhere so I could look it up some day if there's enough interest in making Codex the definitive source for floppy counts on the web. Doubt anything beats Biing on the Amiga either way.

I used the LemonAmiga site, which allows you to search games by the number of floppies it shipped on.

According to that, Inherit the Earth (AGA) comes on 11 disks, as well as Monkey Island 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis and Super Street Fighter Turbo (AGA).

While Bling! appears undisputed in terms of floppy disk count, it still seems to lose to Kakyuusei in terms of raw data provided, as the PC-98 used 3.5" floppies with a 1.2Mb storage capacity. The deciding factor would be if Bling! shipped on the standard 880Kb Amiga floppies, or the rarer high density disks that could store up to 1.72MB, but that's beyond my scope to find out.

 

[Syl]

I have a Baldur's Gate Saga box which contains 11 CDs. Baldur's Gate (5 CDs) + Tales of the Sword Coast (1 CD) + Baldur's Gate 2 (4 CDs) + Throne of Bhaal (1 CD).

Sure, that's 2 games (or is it 3?) but it's one box.

 

[made]

While Bling! appears undisputed in terms of floppy disk count, it still seems to lose to Kakyuusei in terms of raw data provided, as the PC-98 used 3.5" floppies with a 1.2Mb storage capacity. The deciding factor would be if Bling! shipped on the standard 880Kb Amiga floppies, or the rarer high density disks that could store up to 1.72MB, but that's beyond my scope to find out.

880kb most def. I don't think any game shipped on HD disks for compatibility reasons.

Here are the ADFs for Biing!:
http://thegamearchives.net/?val=0_2_1_0_0_9_43944_0_0_0_0

And here's Erben der Erde. Two versions, 1 with 12, one with 13 disks:
http://thegamearchives.net/?val=0_2_1_0_0_9_47785_0_0_0_0

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I remembered Discworld having "around 15" disks, did some quick googling and it read 16 disks somewhere, and I went with that. Now that the claim was disputed I made some further 'research' and it turns out it had only 15 disks.

Spoiler

Well I'll be damned. That goes against pretty much every source out there I could find. The floppy disk version did NOT have the speech included - yet there's no other explanation as to why a game would ship on so many floppies.

I did a more thorough research, and this checks out - the game was released on that many floppies. This is a rare "first edition" release of the game, and as such it not only trumps Ultima 8, but also comes close to ousting Kakyuusei in terms of raw data contained on the disks.

Consider myself corrected.

 

[dukeofwhales]

For a recent one, GTA5 PC ships on 7 DVDs. But the most I have is the original BG1 box with 5.

 

[Excidium II]

But the most I have is the original BG1 box with 5.

KInda funny how BG1 (with TotSC I guess?) needs 5 cds but Fallout 2 fits in a single one.

 

[SCO]

But the most I have is the original BG1 box with 5.

KInda funny how BG1 (with TotSC I guess?) needs 5 cds but Fallout 2 fits in a single one.

It's tilesets vs prerendered backgrounds. Also the creatures and paper doll / pc avatar clothes, sex, race and class combinations add up. FO had the same problem tbh with animations for every weapon type + sex + armor type. But i think they were less anyway because it's multiplicative.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Imp. Developers thought it will be a good idea to cram every character on a separate CD and release them like this.

While I don't know the exact number, rumors go that the game takes up to 50 CDs (iirc one person has 22 CDs in his collection).
Ofc it could sound like cheating since CDs were released separately, but still.

 

[Excidium II]

But the most I have is the original BG1 box with 5.

KInda funny how BG1 (with TotSC I guess?) needs 5 cds but Fallout 2 fits in a single one.

It's tilesets vs prerendered backgrounds. Also the creatures and paper doll / pc avatar clothes, sex, race and class combinations add up. FO had the same problem tbh with animations for every weapon type + sex + armor type. But i think they were less anyway because it's multiplicative.

Shows the power of good tilesets. I think Fallout looks way better than BG too.

 

[bloodlover]

I have an Ultimate D&D Compilation on 17 DVDs.

 

[DemonKing]

So how many is the most DVDs then - GTA V with 7 sounds like the winner so far?

 

[Elwro]

I think Ecstatica used at least 13 floppies.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I think Ecstatica used at least 13 floppies.

I think you're correct. Ecstatica was released on both CD-ROM and floppies, and the only discussion I found about the floppy version counts 13 floppies.