i remember the first time i played the game, right around its release, i rented it and was so confused when i got to the part about calling meryl. they told me the codec frequency was on the back of the cd case, but i didn't have it because i rented it. i had some type of CD in my inventory and was trying to read the back of it for like 6 hours. and this was before stuff like gamefaqs even existed (at least for me).
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