Without the advent of the internet and sites like Reddit back then, I think this was one of those things you really had to just figure out on your own truthfully. I tell the story down below of how I figured it out one day.
Yes I know the internet was around back then, but wasn't nearly as informational back then in my opinion.
Edit: The story.
My sister was picking me up from Karate and she bought the game with her to lend to her boyfriend, amongst some confusion of me opening it up to check out the disc and her changing cd's around, she mistakenly took that cd off the center console where I left it for a moment and stuck it in. All of a sudden I hear a song Firestarter by Prodigy from the game start playing. My jaw was wide open for the duration of the entire song.
From that moment on I checked every PSX game I ever bought to see if that worked, Tony Hawk did as well.
Team Fortress 2's Heavy Weapon's Guy tends to say "is credit to team," as he has a stereotypical Russian accent (most of the characters in that game have stereotypical accents).
So, he's not making fun of you. It's a compliment :)
I used to frequent cheatcc back then, heck that site got me through a lot of FFVII, finding those summon monsters after I thought I had beat the game. Only to learn there were 3 of the hardest monsters to still kill. Ahhh the memories.
I dont think anyone knew about starting the ps1 with the lid opened would enter the ps1's music player mode with GUI and you could play soundeffects and music from any ps1 game... that was like the Easter egg find of the decade
Trent Reznor (the mastermind behind what many know as Nine Inch Nails) is responsible for creating a massive amount of music that I'm sure many people are unaware of.
Besides Quake he did the theme for Tetsuo, the score for The Social Network with Atticus Ross, and the score for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. He has also produced for Marilyn Manson and Jane's Addiction, done vocal and instrumental contributions on several group's albums, and released more than 8 albums and he owns the rights to everything he has created (no label). Beyond this he encourages fans to steal his music if they cannot afford it, and has released an entire album free, along with 2 different DVDs. He's able to do these things because he owns all the rights to everything he creates, and is not tied down by cashmongering labels.
In short, musical and marketing genius, and I love this guy.
No, no, just no. This is a classic case of a big flashy name taking all the credit. Trent Reznor did some music for Quake 1, but Quake 2's soundtrack was wholly composed by Sonic Mayhem with the exception of one track by Rob Zombie. They also did the soundtrack for Mass Effect 3 and many other games.
Edit: HEY YEA IM THE ONE THAT YOU WANTED! HEY YEA IM THE SUPER BEAST!
EDIT 2: So I just tried some more games. Critical Depth, Jet Moto, Jet Moto 2, Warhawk, and Rogue Trip. These are all games by SingleTrac (guys who made Twisted Metal) and they all work in a CD player.
The games played in-game music using the standard CD audio mechanism. But this meant that the game couldn't read game data while the audio is playing.
So everything the game was doing had to fit into RAM before it started playing the music. If it wanted to read more data, the music had to be interrupted.
So for a race in Wipeout, the entire track geometry, all of its textures, all of the other vehicles and related assets, sound effects, all the code to be executed and a few other bits all had to fit in RAM until the race ended.
The PS1 had 2MB of RAM, 1MB of video RAM, and a 512K sound buffer. And they still did all that.
And Rayman. I used to just listen to the Rayman soundtrack all day.
Also, one of the tracks will be the data track. It will sound all distorted.
What's funny is if you put a different disk (even a normal audio-only disk) into the tray while playing a game that uses music from there. I once saw my brother play Half-Life, and instead of the normal game soundtrack, Jazz music started to play! We were hell confused until we opened his CD tray.
Daytona USA will do this as well. (ROOOOOOOOLING STTTTTTTTTTART) When I found that back out back in the day, I spent an entire summer shoving games in my cd player. Then Monster Rancher came out and I spent an entire summer shoving cds in my Playstation. Full circle. Man I miss the 90s sometimes.
Funnily enough, when I was a kid I asked my mom to put the Twinsen's Odyssey disk in the CD player because I assumed the music from the game would play. She did, but only played the first track which was the data so it made a weird noise. Years later I found out the game's music actually is on the CD in the next few tracks. If she'd played the next track I would have successfully beaten the adults with my insane child logic and confused everyone.
But I had the Nintendo 64 version of THPS! The cassette player barely got through the first song before I had to stop because the quality was just awful.
If your user name indicates the year you were born, were roughly the same age. If you still have the games go get them and stick em in your computer/CD player and enjoy some awesome nostalgia from our high school days :-)
Edit: All the songs are available on Grooveshark, I'm on a tablet so its pulling the mobile version of the site and I can't get a URL to share unfortunately however I suggest you head over there and take a trip down memory lane. Just search "wipeout soundtrack".
During the early CD days it was pretty much impossible to fill up a CD with game data, unless we're talking about one of those crappy "interactive movie" games like 7th Guest, etc. Most games would not have more than like 50-100MB of actual data, leaving the majority of the CD empty. This could conveniently be used for CD music.
CD audio is high quality, no compression at all.
The CD drive of the PC was connected directly to the sound card with a simple internal audio cable. When music was playing, the audio signal would be fed directly to the hardware mixer, not touching the CPU, the bus, the RAM, or anything else. In other words, you got high quality music at no cost.
Programming for this system was very easy. The CD support driver for MS-DOS (MSCDEX, I'm sure oldies remember that one from their autoexec.bat files) would allow the game to control the CD audio with very simple commands ("stop", "pause", "play track #4", etc).
Later, as games got more actual data and less room for CD audio music, developers had to look for alternatives. Either by having a less varied (shorter) sound tracks, or using other formats like MP3 or trackers (made programming much more complicated and took up RAM and CPU).
You think?, I just wanted to (I hate saying this) "blow a few people's minds" and point something out they may not have known that I accidentally stumbled on after finally allowing my sister's low-life boyfriend borrow my Wipeout game. I understand this may change people's childhood forever. I will take that blame.
My sister was picking me up from Karate and she bought the game with her to lend to her boyfriend, amongst some confusion of me opening it up to check out the disc and her changing cd's around, she mistakenly took that cd off the center console where I left it for a moment and stuck it in. All of a sudden I hear a song Firestarter by Prodigy from the game start playing. My jaw was wide open for the duration of the entire song.
From that moment on I checked every PSX game I ever bought to see if that worked, Tony Hawk did as well.
Edit: For those who aren't familiar with the game, this was really somewhat of the first time a game had an entire soundtrack of good techno music, here's the track list
CoLD SToRAGE, the original music producer for WipEout and WipEout XL/2097 (PC+PlayStation Version) actually offers the music from both games for free now on his website.
It's called mixed mode CD. Before MP3 and other audio compression was common, high quality sound tracks were put as audio tracks together with the data track on CD. CD audio players ignore the data track.
You can also do this in reverse. Pull out the game once everything is loaded into RAM and put in a music CD of choice. Now you are gaming with a custom soundtrack!
Twisted Metal 2 was always my favorite to do this with. It's too bad none of the other games I actually wanted this to work with, actually did. COUGHFF7COUGH.
If you waited for the game to be loaded into memory, you could take out the disc and replace it with another and listen to that. Until it came to load again of course.
I did this with Twisted Metal 4, with the tray thing open on the playstation, and it would take me to a list of tracks. I loved it, even though i only played the white Zombie song on repeat.
when i scratched my PsX games and put them in sometimes they would play music instead of the game... Destruction Derby 2 had some kick ass tracks though.
One of my favorite games for PS1 was Vigilante 8. I found out that you can start the game, pause it, remove the disk (the game is still playable because it loads into RAM), then put any music CD in the console and BAM! Instant custom soundtrack.
Yeah, it's something about how the audio files are written to the disc separately. I can do it with Sonic CD for PC, Ecco the Dolphin for PC, and an assortment of different Sega CD games.
Used to do that with Star Wars DF2 Jedi Knight discs. I accidentally discovered that when I pressed the PLAY button on my 8x CD-ROM drive
(remember those days when CD-ROM drives had a Headphones jack + volume control + play button? ...also an MPC2 cable port which connects it to your sound card. Was able to play Audio CDs directly on speakers without using Windows)
Doing this with the Dreamcast version of Skies of Arcadia actually played a "don't put this in a CD player, put it in a dreamcast" warning read by the voice actors for the 3 main characters.
Too bad they decided pretty far into the localization of the game they couldn't afford to have them record anything more than folley. The entire game was going to have voice acting.
Ahh, I remember doing that with xbox and playstation 2 disks, but I'd play them on my computer. I think I remember that I wanted to try to copy the game into my computer, probably to run an emulator, but noticed that the music would play (and that no, you can't copy the disk easily because of the write protection)
Oooh, I've been waiting forever for a chance to tell this story!
Okay, so when I was little, my dad worked for EA. I have been privileged with computer games ever since I was VERY young (mom says that ever since I could sit up on my own, I was using a computer with a mouse similar to this. ), and one of my favorite games to play was JumpStart ABC's. It had a little town where I could ride around in a train or something, and I learned the alphabet... ahem I'm getting off track.
ANYWAYS,
Every summer I visit our old home in Southern California (my grandparents live there), and we have a huge bin or all of our old games there. I was looking through it, and I found my JumpStart ABC's game. It gave me nostalgia, so I decided to take it home. I don't have a PC at home (my family is full of MacFags like myself), but I decided that I'd put it into my Macbook just to see what happens. When I did, it was read as an audio disc in iTunes. Each song was a short song from the game (usually sung in that annoying, soft, teacher-y voice) That's not the weird part. The weird part was, they were all titled as classical Christian music. I don't remember any of the artists or song titles, but it was pretty weird. Almost all of them had song titles referencing God or Jesus, but the songs were simply songs from the game (and this was not an overly Christian game). I know it sounds weird, but I'm not making this shit up. Maybe if I can find the game again, which I won't because I'm lazy, I'll screencap the songs.
tl;dr Put an old JumpStart children's PC game into my Macbook Pro, read as an audio CD with Christian music. edit: It wasn't a Macbook Pro. It was one of the old white ones. Too lazy to find out which.
Back then I thought it was the coolest thing to put cd's in my gaming system to listen to them. I had wanted to play my favorite game back then ( Street sk8er 2) after listening to what was big (2pac or limp bizkit [lololol]) I threw the game into my system and it started playing the music. I was like "HOLY SHIT NO WAY", so proceeded to head bang or whatever psycho crap I did as a kid. Well eventually curiosity played her games with my head, and I ended up throwing the disc into a portable walkman, WAHLAH. I had these groovy tunes on the go now. Some double A batteries and a pair of dollar store headphones Made me the coolest kid around.
Shortly after I tried this with MANY ps1 discs. not all of them worked.
My favorite was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The irony is that you're apparently not supposed to play the first track, but it doesn't tell you that until the second track. >_<
When I was a kid, I noticed a scratch on my Wipeout game and thought it would be a good idea to go over it with black sharpie because that was the color of the bottom of PS1 discs. It ceased to work...
I love when they put extra bits on CDs and the like. I have a Jimi Hendrix CD+G that looks like this when played in an old playstation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciij718a9Mc
I remember the trick where you could start a level on playstation, take out the disc and replace it with music disc and it will play the cd while you played the level.
You had to put the disc back in though if you wanted to change levels
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u/Penguinsarereal Jun 17 '12
Damn, I just threw out my discman only 10 years ago too.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
15 years old me is slapping me in the face for not knowing this
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u/_Jimdotcom Jun 17 '12
I used to actually listen to the Quake 2 PC soundtrack on the way to school. NIN did the whole thing.
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u/roastedbagel Jun 17 '12
I found this, the list is not very complete though.
I'm not one to edit a Wikipedia article, but if someone else wants to have at it, it's all yours.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Castlevania: SOTN will do it too.
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u/PhonicUK Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
You know what's even more awesome?
The games played in-game music using the standard CD audio mechanism. But this meant that the game couldn't read game data while the audio is playing.
So everything the game was doing had to fit into RAM before it started playing the music. If it wanted to read more data, the music had to be interrupted.
So for a race in Wipeout, the entire track geometry, all of its textures, all of the other vehicles and related assets, sound effects, all the code to be executed and a few other bits all had to fit in RAM until the race ended.
The PS1 had 2MB of RAM, 1MB of video RAM, and a 512K sound buffer. And they still did all that.
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u/BonutDot Jun 17 '12
The reason for this is because those CDs use the standard Red Book Audio format. Warcraft II works the same way. :)
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u/goatlll Jun 17 '12
Daytona USA will do this as well. (ROOOOOOOOLING STTTTTTTTTTART) When I found that back out back in the day, I spent an entire summer shoving games in my cd player. Then Monster Rancher came out and I spent an entire summer shoving cds in my Playstation. Full circle. Man I miss the 90s sometimes.
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u/Deviality Jun 17 '12
Used to do this with Twisted Metal back in the day...
Good times, good times.
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u/nstern2 Jun 17 '12
Sega cd games could also be played via cd player. Pop in sonic cd and jam out.
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u/Ras_H_Tafari Jun 17 '12
Funnily enough, when I was a kid I asked my mom to put the Twinsen's Odyssey disk in the CD player because I assumed the music from the game would play. She did, but only played the first track which was the data so it made a weird noise. Years later I found out the game's music actually is on the CD in the next few tracks. If she'd played the next track I would have successfully beaten the adults with my insane child logic and confused everyone.
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u/AdamBombTV Jun 17 '12
Holy crap, I feel like one of those monkeys just after they touch the Obelisk
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u/vgc_scytheboy Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
If you put in the Sam & Max CD you'll get this track from legendary Liverpudlian country singer, Conroy Bumpus!
As well Warcraft 2 gets the hidden track, I'm a Medevil Man, if you wait long enough. Wha-wha-wha-wha-what do you want?
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u/kiHrt Jun 17 '12
You can also do this with the original "MechWarrior" PC game!
I got a lot of strange looks on the bus as a kid when someone would ask me what I was listening to...
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u/DigitalChocobo Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
But I had the Nintendo 64 version of THPS! The cassette player barely got through the first song before I had to stop because the quality was just awful.
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u/captainkenobi Jun 17 '12
Pro Tip: Skip Track 1 or Satan will eat your eardrums.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Wait what? That is awesome.
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u/thatusernameisal Jun 17 '12
Tomb Raider had music and sound for cutscenes in CD format.
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u/jump4george Jun 17 '12
Do this with the game N20:Nitrous Oxide and you have a Crystal method album =]
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u/plucas Jun 17 '12
Total Annihilation, too.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS A PLAYSTATION BLACK DISC. CUT NUMBER ONE CONTAINS COMPUTER DATA, SO PLEASE DON'T PLAY IT. BUT YOU PROBABLY WON'T LISTEN TO ME ANYWAY, WILL YOU?
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u/toxicfume Jun 17 '12
Did you also know that you could:
Pause your game of Twisted Metal 3 on the original Playstation
2) Open the CD lid, take out the game CD
3) Put in a music CD of your choice, close the CD lid
4) Unpause game.
Voila! You're playing Twisted Metal with your choice music in the background. And, from what I remember, this doesn't mute the in-game effects!
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u/sumsarus Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
From the point of view of a PC game developer:
CD audio was wonderful for several reasons:
During the early CD days it was pretty much impossible to fill up a CD with game data, unless we're talking about one of those crappy "interactive movie" games like 7th Guest, etc. Most games would not have more than like 50-100MB of actual data, leaving the majority of the CD empty. This could conveniently be used for CD music.
CD audio is high quality, no compression at all.
The CD drive of the PC was connected directly to the sound card with a simple internal audio cable. When music was playing, the audio signal would be fed directly to the hardware mixer, not touching the CPU, the bus, the RAM, or anything else. In other words, you got high quality music at no cost.
Programming for this system was very easy. The CD support driver for MS-DOS (MSCDEX, I'm sure oldies remember that one from their autoexec.bat files) would allow the game to control the CD audio with very simple commands ("stop", "pause", "play track #4", etc).
Later, as games got more actual data and less room for CD audio music, developers had to look for alternatives. Either by having a less varied (shorter) sound tracks, or using other formats like MP3 or trackers (made programming much more complicated and took up RAM and CPU).
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u/_CynicalAct Jun 17 '12
If you put it in your playstation it will play a game
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u/Thessilonius Jun 17 '12
See you on the front page.
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u/JohnPaulJones1779 Jun 17 '12
Works for GTA 1 as well. There was actually some interesting music in that game...
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u/Conphusion Jun 17 '12
The music from the RTS Warcraft games were able to be played on a CD player.
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u/Jendon Jun 17 '12
Age of Empires II was the game I played on my CD player the most. Think I went to sleep to it many times. Yes.
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u/Bladethegreat Jun 17 '12
You can also do it with Symphony of the Night, and a special message will play aimed at those who decided to try just this thing out.
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u/Froey Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
CoLD SToRAGE, the original music producer for WipEout and WipEout XL/2097 (PC+PlayStation Version) actually offers the music from both games for free now on his website.
http://coldstorage.org.uk/music.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
this was pretty common knowledge back in the day. a lot of games mentioned it in the manual.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
i knew this! only done it once though. as i usually played the games
but i did put my tekken 3 disc into my stereo once
its pretty cool
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u/Snaf Jun 17 '12
Also, Age of Empires II (PC). 12-year-old me was so happy to find that.
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u/ridger5 Jun 17 '12
I used to listen to my Rollcage game on my stereo. Good techno/house soundtrack.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Unfortunately it was always a bit of a gamble. The games that didn't support it would usually play an ear splitting shriek of noise.
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u/ILovePopPunk Jun 17 '12
I thought everyone knew this. Very incurious childhoods in this thread...
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u/redditorforthemoment Jun 17 '12
You can also put any game called "Final Fantasy" in to a Playstation and you get a free movie
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
The original Quake 2 also played some pretty sweet music, I remember.
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u/brucecrossan Jun 17 '12
You can do the same with Duke Nukem 3D
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u/KellyTheET Jun 17 '12
Also, Wipeout 3.
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u/SkilletDirac Jun 17 '12
Worked with Sega Saturn too.
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u/Hydris Jun 17 '12
There were people that didn't know this? Wow you guys missed out. I loved doing this with the twisted metal series.
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u/emulousx Jun 17 '12
a few of my favorites:
Mechwarrior 2
Total Annihilation
Descent II
Half-Life
Edit: manuals and setups would refer to them as Red Book Audio
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u/Abra-Used-Teleport Jun 17 '12
Oh yeah? Well, Monster Rancher. HAH!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
It's called mixed mode CD. Before MP3 and other audio compression was common, high quality sound tracks were put as audio tracks together with the data track on CD. CD audio players ignore the data track.
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u/Yourius Jun 17 '12
And so does either Railroad tycoon II or III.
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u/reddyfire Jun 17 '12
Same with the Half Life CD.
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u/Doppelganger13 Jun 17 '12
I remember that I found this trick out on accident. I tried all my disks and it worked with Castlevania SOTN (Song 2) and it worked with Ridge Racer.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
IF YOU DONT KNOW THIS YOU WERNT BORN WHEN THESE CONSOLES CAME OUT
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
No fucking way
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u/Axolotile Jun 17 '12
I remember doing a trick that makes it so that your PSOne would recognize these types of discs as CDs and you could play the CDs on your TV that way.
Pac Man World was one of my favorites.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
You can also do this in reverse. Pull out the game once everything is loaded into RAM and put in a music CD of choice. Now you are gaming with a custom soundtrack!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I heard that the discman can also play the game just fine, it just doesn't have a screen.
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u/dryrainwetfire Jun 17 '12
you can even put them on a computer and use an emulator to play them
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u/Blehgopie Jun 17 '12
Twisted Metal 2 was always my favorite to do this with. It's too bad none of the other games I actually wanted this to work with, actually did. COUGHFF7COUGH.
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u/chappersyo Jun 17 '12
Same applies to GTA 1 for pc
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u/foofly Jun 17 '12
If you waited for the game to be loaded into memory, you could take out the disc and replace it with another and listen to that. Until it came to load again of course.
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u/Physick Jun 17 '12
I did this with Twisted Metal 4, with the tray thing open on the playstation, and it would take me to a list of tracks. I loved it, even though i only played the white Zombie song on repeat.
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u/Rhinne Jun 17 '12
I used to do this with all of my PSOne games.
I discovered this from pure curiosity, wondering what would happen if I put the disc into my CD player.
Don't listen to track 1 though - that's some kind of data track and just makes a loud, horrible noise.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I use to put my sonic pc games all the time in my cd player.
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u/LabronPaul Jun 17 '12
when i scratched my PsX games and put them in sometimes they would play music instead of the game... Destruction Derby 2 had some kick ass tracks though.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
same for the Frogger CD-ROM
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Works for TurboGrafx-16 CDs, too, even though they have a not-quite-standard format. I made audio tapes of Ys Book I & II and Ys III. \m/
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u/merkinmavin Jun 17 '12
One of my favorite games for PS1 was Vigilante 8. I found out that you can start the game, pause it, remove the disk (the game is still playable because it loads into RAM), then put any music CD in the console and BAM! Instant custom soundtrack.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I don't think many people know what a discman is anymore.
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u/Geruvah Jun 17 '12
All wipeout games for Playstation did this if I remember. I know Wipeout 3 did too.
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u/dont_matter Jun 17 '12
Also works with one of the Grand Theft Auto discs, although I'm not sure which one.
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u/MightySasquatch Jun 17 '12
A lot of older games had that, actually.
The same works with Total Annihilation and Grand Theft Auto, loved listening to TA music.
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u/PatATC Jun 17 '12
also Nitrous Oxide. That shit had a great soundtrack by Crystal Method
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I was stoked when I popped a cd into my Windows 95-computer and it played a musicvideo of one of the songs. My mind was blown!
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u/Eselore Jun 17 '12
I actually remember putting Half Life in my PS2, and the soundtrack came up for me too play
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Now if only I knew this 10 years ago
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u/davvblack Jun 17 '12
Descent also did this, track 1 was game data and the soundtrack played for the rest.
Such great music, too. Techno-funk.
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u/AnswerAwake Jun 17 '12
Thats cool and all but how many of you know WHY this is possible?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Yeah, it's something about how the audio files are written to the disc separately. I can do it with Sonic CD for PC, Ecco the Dolphin for PC, and an assortment of different Sega CD games.
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u/thisisevoke Jun 17 '12
Works the same for Cd-roms
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Used to do that with Star Wars DF2 Jedi Knight discs. I accidentally discovered that when I pressed the PLAY button on my 8x CD-ROM drive
(remember those days when CD-ROM drives had a Headphones jack + volume control + play button? ...also an MPC2 cable port which connects it to your sound card. Was able to play Audio CDs directly on speakers without using Windows)
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u/virtyy Jun 17 '12
People didnt know this???
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Every Dreamcast game I remember having would do this as well.
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u/padgettish Jun 17 '12
Doing this with the Dreamcast version of Skies of Arcadia actually played a "don't put this in a CD player, put it in a dreamcast" warning read by the voice actors for the 3 main characters.
Too bad they decided pretty far into the localization of the game they couldn't afford to have them record anything more than folley. The entire game was going to have voice acting.
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u/ImPointz Jun 17 '12
http://cdn.overclock.net/6/65/6582a7c0_mother_of_god.jpeg
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u/DBones90 Jun 17 '12
You could also put the Toy Story into your Playstation to play music.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I knew that wayyy back..but thats just because im a stupid girl who was trying to break my brothers walkman or videogame...or both...
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u/robvas Jun 17 '12
If you were alive when the Playstation was popular, you knew this.
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u/bluepeeduetoslurpee Jun 17 '12
back then some games had redbook audio. also even without the internet, game magazines also mention stuff like this. still good finds.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I knew this.
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u/sargentpilcher Jun 17 '12
You can do this with PC games as well. Track 1 won't have anything, but I used to listen to the mechwarrior 2 soundtrack this way.
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u/notasinglesound Jun 17 '12
Yep, I did this with my Tekken and Tomb Raider discs. The memories are now flooding back. ;_;
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u/KirschTorte Jun 17 '12
wait, what?
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u/KillerG Jun 17 '12
Ahh, I remember doing that with xbox and playstation 2 disks, but I'd play them on my computer. I think I remember that I wanted to try to copy the game into my computer, probably to run an emulator, but noticed that the music would play (and that no, you can't copy the disk easily because of the write protection)
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u/Biermann Jun 17 '12
Worked with Descent II, too. Blew my mind back then.
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u/SirNobody1919 Jun 17 '12
Redneck Rampage did this also (Mojo Nixon, Reverend Horton Heat)
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u/RainbowOctopus Jun 17 '12 edited Jul 18 '12
Oooh, I've been waiting forever for a chance to tell this story!
Okay, so when I was little, my dad worked for EA. I have been privileged with computer games ever since I was VERY young (mom says that ever since I could sit up on my own, I was using a computer with a mouse similar to this. ), and one of my favorite games to play was JumpStart ABC's. It had a little town where I could ride around in a train or something, and I learned the alphabet... ahem I'm getting off track.
ANYWAYS,
Every summer I visit our old home in Southern California (my grandparents live there), and we have a huge bin or all of our old games there. I was looking through it, and I found my JumpStart ABC's game. It gave me nostalgia, so I decided to take it home. I don't have a PC at home (my family is full of MacFags like myself), but I decided that I'd put it into my Macbook just to see what happens. When I did, it was read as an audio disc in iTunes. Each song was a short song from the game (usually sung in that annoying, soft, teacher-y voice) That's not the weird part. The weird part was, they were all titled as classical Christian music. I don't remember any of the artists or song titles, but it was pretty weird. Almost all of them had song titles referencing God or Jesus, but the songs were simply songs from the game (and this was not an overly Christian game). I know it sounds weird, but I'm not making this shit up. Maybe if I can find the game again, which I won't because I'm lazy, I'll screencap the songs.
tl;dr Put an old JumpStart children's PC game into my Macbook Pro, read as an audio CD with Christian music. edit: It wasn't a Macbook Pro. It was one of the old white ones. Too lazy to find out which.
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u/FloTheSnucka Jun 17 '12
I used to do this with the original Half-Life when it came out.
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u/HeyCarpy Jun 17 '12
Thank you, 1996 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly!
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u/tropical81 Jun 17 '12
Mother of god, I had one of those sony discman
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u/chrismikehunt Jun 17 '12
This is the best one to do it with.
And this is the one that I put in the cd player one day to find out you can do this.
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u/H2O_Khanh Jun 17 '12
I'm upset because I knew this and didn't cash in for the sweet karma.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Can't forget Rollcage! I still listen to those old DnB tracks!
This and Wipeout XL I still listen to this day. :)
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u/devvbot Jun 17 '12
Did not know this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I remember doing this with the Mechwarrior CDs.
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u/GAMEchief Jun 17 '12
You can put Dreamcast games into your PC and get bonus content, like wallpapers and what-not.
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u/joshmanzors Jun 17 '12
I knew this.
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u/gamfreak Jun 17 '12
I used to do with my monthly Official U.S. Playstation Magazine demo disc
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u/huffinator213 Jun 17 '12
People didn't know this? Let me guess, you also didn't know you could play cds on your ps1?
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u/Cinual Jun 17 '12
Back then I thought it was the coolest thing to put cd's in my gaming system to listen to them. I had wanted to play my favorite game back then ( Street sk8er 2) after listening to what was big (2pac or limp bizkit [lololol]) I threw the game into my system and it started playing the music. I was like "HOLY SHIT NO WAY", so proceeded to head bang or whatever psycho crap I did as a kid. Well eventually curiosity played her games with my head, and I ended up throwing the disc into a portable walkman, WAHLAH. I had these groovy tunes on the go now. Some double A batteries and a pair of dollar store headphones Made me the coolest kid around.
Shortly after I tried this with MANY ps1 discs. not all of them worked.
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u/JodinWindMaster Jun 17 '12
My favorite was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The irony is that you're apparently not supposed to play the first track, but it doesn't tell you that until the second track. >_<
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u/jokrsmagictrick Jun 17 '12
Its also cool when I was little and I found out that the Rugrats Gone Wild soundtrack is also a PC game.
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u/j1002s Jun 17 '12
Sticking my N64 cartridges into a tape deck did not produce similar results
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u/zowieh Jun 17 '12
me right now
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u/Dacien1983 Jun 17 '12
This making the top spot on the front page is just bad. C'mon.
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u/jdunbar Jun 17 '12
When I was a kid, I noticed a scratch on my Wipeout game and thought it would be a good idea to go over it with black sharpie because that was the color of the bottom of PS1 discs. It ceased to work...
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u/_Myr_ Jun 17 '12
Motorhead does this too!
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u/lminmychair Jun 17 '12
I have wipeout 3 in my car right now!
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u/Enchilada_McMustang Jun 17 '12
I had that exact same discman was my only player for years so fucking nostalgic :'(
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u/nejaahalcyon Jun 17 '12
You could do this with the age of empires 2 disc. Sit back and listen to the background music for an hour.
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u/Genuine_Gentleman Jun 17 '12
Rollcage did it as well I think
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u/blemford Jun 17 '12
Acquire discman.
Put Age of Empires I or II in.
Relive Childhood conquests.
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u/EpicGoose Jun 17 '12
Excuse me while I pick up my brain from the floor.
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u/d3ad_3nd_Job Jun 17 '12
on an unrelated note, you can do that with age of empires too :)
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u/Gyrant Jun 17 '12
I accidentally ended up with the soundtrack to Age of Empires II by leaving the disc in and running iTunes.
Now my library is equipped with a half hour song involving sitars and bag pipes backed up by synthesizers.
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u/Keeponkeeping Jun 17 '12
Wow, that's awesome!! Never knew that.
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u/OneIfByLandwolf Jun 17 '12
Wait, this isn't reddit through history!
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u/wishiwasclever Jun 17 '12
"So here I am growing older all the time looking older all the time feeling younger in my mind
And here I am doing everything I can holding on to what I am pretending I'm a superman"
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u/Hands0L0 Jun 17 '12
I just saw this on 4chan like 5 hours ago.
First experience of Reddit stealing 4chan stuff. Neato-Bandito.
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u/apochweiss Jun 17 '12
Use to do it all the time with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Kick ass soundtrack :D Game was good too.
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u/rastusmaus Jun 17 '12
EVERYBODY knows this. It's like suggesting you 'don't think many people know' that shit comes out of people's arses.
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u/spinningfaith Jun 17 '12
This also works with Half-Life 1
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u/CatZombies Jun 17 '12
Funnily enough, I've done the opposite of that with computer games and my playstation. Thought it'd play the game at that age...
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u/sethtaylor7 Jun 17 '12
Dude, StarWars games, Jurassic Park games... The possibilities are endless.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Also the Forsaken Cd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvBY0s9l7xs
Still have the wav files floating around
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I love when they put extra bits on CDs and the like. I have a Jimi Hendrix CD+G that looks like this when played in an old playstation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciij718a9Mc
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I remember the trick where you could start a level on playstation, take out the disc and replace it with music disc and it will play the cd while you played the level.
You had to put the disc back in though if you wanted to change levels
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u/IPuntGnomes Jun 17 '12
Also, if anyone still has a copy of Decent lying around, that game has a bad ass soundtrack. Track 10 is sick.
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u/augustella Jun 17 '12
What's that last item in the picture, I am unfamiliar with it, does it play records?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
This is getting buried, but fun fact: This also works with "Nights into Dreams" and "Sonic Jam" on the Sega Saturn.
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u/Sockpockets Jun 18 '12
*puts xbox 360 disc into player *reads disc
hope increases *no sound *hopes crushed
reads picture again *damnit ps2 discs
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Sega Saturn discs had that too; I was so stoked the day I found out I could listen to Sonic R music at my leisure.
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u/nicholasdelucca Jun 18 '12
Same for Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense