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Save disk space for ISOs

5 bytes added, 15:19, 13 July 2021
Audio-CD
==Applicable to All Platforms==
===Audio-CD===
PCs, Sega-CD, PC-Engine, PlayStation, Sega Saturn... what do these console systems all have in common? They all use a regular CD format! Game developers often stored music and other sounds using the Audio-CD format, but it was terribly inefficient when it comes to disc storage as it also had to store the actual game along with the sound files (commonly known as a "mixed CD"), and these sound files are never compressed because the Audio-CD standard simply doesn't allow for sound compression. To put it in perspective, a 700 MB CD containing nothing but Audio-CD data can hold at most around 80 minutes worth of sound data, meaning games that used a lot of sounds were limited in size.
Because these mixed CDs are difficult to properly archive just by using standard .ISO files, data-dumping software will usually do one of two things as a workaround:
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