Came across this game <
https://tasvideos.org/3513S> Super Adventure Rockman for PSX which has three discs, and decided to try tasing it. After switching to the second disc realized that the second disc straight up allows you to select "New Game" or "Continue" from the main menu. "Continue" allows you to keep your items and weapons from the first disc, but if you select "New Game" then you start with no items. However both options have the same starting point on the second disc. Now, here is the part where I am questioning things, and if this really should even be a single game.
Skipping straight to the third disc, and just completing that I consider to be incomplete normally, but here the main menu on the third disc says "New Game". Probably makes sense that it is necessary to go through all the discs to considered complete however.
Let's go with completing all the discs. But what does that actually entail here? I would like to tas from beginning to end, from the start of the first disc all the way to the end of the third disc. So as far as a stopping point when switching discs should it be the very next frame after I press fire to defeat the last enemy in the first disc? Should it be the very frame after the last save point? Or should it be after the credits? And yes,
each of these discs has its own credits as though they are individual games.
Discs 1 to 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAjNCG51Hy0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEW0TSRWvPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLn3PGTVfY
Each disc has its own equipment and items that you do not even need to play the next disc. In addition to that each disc has its own credits. After starting each new disc there is a long intro video that explains the events of the previous disc(s). I have played other multidisc games and this is not typical. Usually what happens is there is a prompt of some sort to switch discs after saving, and that data is necessary to continue with the next disc. Here you could complete any disc from its start and get their own unique ending credit sequence. These act more like sequels than individual games it seems. Also each disc has its own episodic title as well
https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Adventure_Rockman.
If you buy the game all three discs come together in a single package so that is one argument for it being a single game though.
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Questions
1) Are each of these discs individual completable games?
2) If not and if these should all be considered one long contiguous game, then at what point should I switch discs from 1 to 2, and from 2 to 3?
