Monster Rancher 2

 (known as Monster Farm in Japan and as Monster Rancher in Europe) is a life simulation game developed and published by Tecmo on 25 February 1999 in Japan, on 31 August 1999 in North America and on 20 October 2000 in Europe for the Sony Playstation.

The game revolves around summoning monster by using random CDs. The result depends on the specific disc inserted into the console, and some of the monsters requires a specific CD to be summoned. Every monster has a species and a sub-category, all special monsters belong to the ??? sub-category.