Monster Rancher 1 CD list
for PlayStation NTSC (1997)

NTSC, NTSC U/C, NTSC U covers the Americas (Canada, United States, and other territories).

NOTE: You may obtain different monsters produced by the same album or game that is listed due to different releases of albums, different pressings, publishers (BGM, Columbia House, etc.), singles, box sets, Greatest Hits, Explicit Lyrics vs Clean versions, etc. If you search a single album that shows different monsters, this is likely the case of different pressings. See the "Moo Mysteries: The Elusive Beck Mellow Gold" in MR2 CD List for a wild demonstration of this.

This is not a definitive or ongoing CD Database of all CDs (or versions of them) out in the world, it is a collection of over a thousand of manually catalogued personal collections, across many individuals, to document which CDs create which monsters. Most entries are from around the time of the game's release, with a few entries from much later years from folks that had an interest to check out newer albums/games, etc.

Many older entries have been corrected by cross-referencing submissions with other online publications and discography databases. This effort includes correction of misspelled artist names, titles, attempts to include full album titles where they were previously abbreviated, and other details where there may previously have been none. This revised list should also be more coherent than many of the previously archival attempts, and easier to sift through.

Many older entries have been removed that are mostly or completely irrelevant 25+ years later. These include highly unlikely to be obtained CDROMs. For example; Numerous free AOL or Earthlink internet trial CDs of varying amount of minutes or hours, Stuff that came in a cereal box, 30+ year old PC software that is likely unobtainable, or people's personally burned CDs that you would not be able to acquire in the first place.

Entries with too little information that could not be accurately cross-referenced with a legitimate source, or too vague to identify the exact CD being referenced in the first place, have also been removed.
Since Make-A-Monster has been developed, and works with either physical CDs or digital emulation, much of the cataloging is moot, but it is still a fun thing to look through for posterity. A decision was made to keep Music, Games, and other easily identifiable titles for the revised list, while omitting these obsolete, invalid or extraneous entries.