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  2. Nintendo optical discs - Wikipedia

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    The Wii Optical Disc (RVL-006) is the physical game medium for the Wii, created by Panasonic.Nintendo extended its proprietary technology to use a full size 12 cm, 4.7/8.54 GB DVD-based [12] disc, retaining the benefits of the GameCube Game Disc, and adding the standard capacity of a double-layer DVD-ROM.

  3. MD Data - Wikipedia

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    MD Data disks can be fully read-only, fully rewritable, or be a hybrid of the two, with a portion of a disk being read-only and while another is rewritable. With 140 MB disks, MD Data offered about 100 times as much storage capacity as ordinary diskettes, and more than its competitors like the Zip (100 MB), SuperDisk (120 MB), and EZ 135 (135 ...

  4. Nintendo video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The GameCube is the most compact sixth generation console. The GameCube is Nintendo's first game console to use optical discs rather than game cartridges. An agreement with the optical drive manufacturer Matsushita led to a DVD-playing GameCube system named the Panasonic Q, which was only released in Japan.

  5. Famicom Disk System - Wikipedia

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    Despite the Famicom Disk System's success and advantages over the Famicom itself, it also imposed many problems of its own. Most common was the quality of the Disk Cards; Nintendo removed the shutters on most Disk System games to reduce costs, instead placing them in a wax sleeve and clear plastic shell. [4]

  6. Talk:Nintendo optical discs - Wikipedia

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    The GameCube Optical Disc is the media format used by the Nintendo GameCube. The disc is a patented proprietary version of the 8 cm MiniDVD format. The disc format was created by Panasonic's parent company, Matsushita. The GameCube Optical Disc is the medium for the Nintendo GameCube, created by Matsushita

  7. GD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    The Dreamcast was considered by the video game industry as one of the most secure consoles on the market with its use of the GD-ROM, [7] but this was nullified by a flaw in the Dreamcast's support for the MIL-CD format, a Mixed Mode CD first released on June 25, 1999, that incorporates interactive visual data similarly to CD+G.

  8. Template:Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    Nintendo optical disc (NOD) Archival Disc (AD) Professional Disc; DataPlay; Standards. SFF ATAPI/MMC. Mount Rainier (packet writing) Mount Fuji (layer jump recording ...

  9. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    Nintendo's entry in the sixth generation was the GameCube in 2001, its first system to use optical discs based on the miniDVD format. A special Game Boy Player attachment allowed the GameCube to use any of the Game Boy cartridges as well, and adapters were available to allow the console to connect to the Internet via broadband or modem.