Duplicate Data CDs Give Interesting Results!

Monster Rancher Metropolis: Monster Rancher Card & Adventure Video Games: Monster Rancher Battlecard Episode II Archive (PSOne): The Laboratory: Duplicate Data CDs Give Interesting Results!
By Lisa Shock on Wednesday, August 9, 2000 - 06:55 pm:

I took my CDs that this game thought were identical, and ran them through the shrines in both MR1 and MR2. Both MR1 & 2 created identical sets of monsters! Now, the monsters created were different in MR2 than they were in MR1, and the stats changed from game to game too, but each game created identical sets with identical stats within the game! Clearly, while there are differences in the CD-reading systems, there's at least one similarity!
Example:
CD NameGame UsedMonster/Card Created
PSX Namco Museum 5Episode IIHare's Rush Punch
Official DC Mag. #1Episode IIHare's Rush Punch
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PSX Namco Museum 5Monster RancherGali/Gali 110/130/130/120/110/160
Official DC Mag. #1Monster RancherGali/Gali 110/130/130/120/110/160
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PSX Namco Museum 5Monster Rancher 2Henger/Golem 86/178/149/116/119/75
Official DC Mag. #1Monster Rancher 2Henger/Golem 86/178/149/116/119/75


By Eagle_Fierce on Thursday, August 10, 2000 - 12:07 am:

Using that information, is it possible that all of a certain type of monster creates a certain card?


By Foster on Thursday, August 10, 2000 - 01:46 am:

Hmmmm,.. well I know that I dont have the game yet, but one reason why the games may have similar results is because they have something in common, the hard data that is impressed on the cd. Because I am still trying to come up with a way of reading cds before i put them into a shrine and trying to see if l can figure that darn code for it all, i think it has something to do with binary code, but have kinda come close to getting it, at least on some,. like when I have a cd single, I have been able to predict it in some cases.
oh well, more on this as it develops.


By Lisa Shock on Thursday, August 10, 2000 - 10:12 am:

I'm working on cracking this one! Eagle, one of the basic facts about the games is that a bunch of CDs that all make the same monster in one game, make completely different monsters in the other games. I suspect that the game reads several types of info off the disc, but each game uses different items to make the monster, sub and stats. The ONLY reason these CDs make identical monsters in all 3 games is because they each have every stat identical. (Which is extremely rare!)