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The original Baldur’s Gate came on a single CD and had full install size of under 600MB. It was also possible to do a partial install and to load files off the CD at runtime.

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Last I remember, Baldurs Gate was on 6 separate discs, but I haven’t installed it from those in probably 20 years.

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I see one is an expansion disk.

There might be a few with CD Audio

As was the fashion at the time…

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An uncompressed CD audio soundtrack, maybe?

(That doesn’t appear to be the case for Baldur’s Gate in particular since the discs pictured in the listing have “compact disc data storage” logos, but I do remember some '90s games being like that.)

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You could do that with a lot of PS1 games. The first track was data, the rest were just regular CD audio tracks.

This got rarer later on, once they realised the could fill the discs with FMV sequences instead.

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In this case, the question was rhetorical - the original release of BG1 takes 5 CDs, and the sixth is the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion. Installed the game takes around 2.8GB IIRC. They did eventually re-release it as only a 3 CD set because they could cram more data on a single CD by then.

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