Nintendork Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 Just found out that if you pop the PlayStation disc WipeOut into your CD player.. skip to the next track you get the entire soundtrack in great quality. Hardly anything written about these discs on the internet. Anyone know any other games that do this? Google has got nothing on this so called 'RedBook' format. I am hoping Gran Turismo does.. not sure if this will work for DVD based systems, but certainly could for Saturn and other PlayStation games. If you see WipeOut in a bargain bin I recommend getting it solely for the soundtrack.
rokhed00 Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 Several dreamcast games do this, Quake 3 and Jet set radio are a couple.
Meik Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 Time Crisis 1 on the PS1 is the only one that springs to mind at the moment.
Nintendork Posted October 17, 2006 Author Posted October 17, 2006 TY, I will be picking up a copy of Jet Set from my Cash converters.. should be much cheaper than the £20 or so it is for one of the OST's of eBay. PRO.
KKOB Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 or just include a free CD Sooundtrack-would save me so much money/downloading
Nintendork Posted October 17, 2006 Author Posted October 17, 2006 RedBook is hard to pirate, that's why they didn't have a problem with giving it away as an extra.
rokhed00 Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 TY, I will be picking up a copy of Jet Set from my Cash converters.. should be much cheaper than the £20 or so it is for one of the OST's of eBay. PRO. Don't know if it'll work on a regular CD player, but it does on the DCs CD player option.
The Bard Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Wipeout 3 does, as does the Tekken series, those were the only ones I tried out way back when.
Haden Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Half Life and Doom for the PC do this. The Half Life soundtrack rocks. I swear theres a song in that that is used in Buffy in fact I think theres a whole episode of Buffy that has Half Life references.
Bogbas Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Carmageddon 2 had some iron maiden on it. Just a few songs though. Quake 2 has some kind of metal on the disk also.
MoogleViper Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 I heard that if you put the Shenmue discs in a cd player you get each of the characters warning not to put the discs in a cd player. Bit late for that I think.
Ollie Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 I thought you could play the music from most PS1 games as long as they are platinum? I also thought it was common knowledge!
James Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Well PS1 games were just CD-R's so all of them should work tbh, Im not sure about DC, as they used there own type of disk, forgotten what it was called.
Nintendork Posted October 18, 2006 Author Posted October 18, 2006 Had a go with a few others, Cool Boarders and Destruction Derby do- unfortunately both of these soundtracks are shite. Gonna see if I get any love from the Final Fantasy discs later.
KingJoe Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Loads of odl-skool PC games do. It was becausew they play the in-game soundtrack FROM the CD.
Bogbas Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Loads of odl-skool PC games do. It was becausew they play the in-game soundtrack FROM the CD. I think it might be so because it allows to use high quality music in games. Back when mp3's weren't around. And the hard drive space was a bit limited. And I'm not sure how the cpu's back then would have performed if they had to decode mp3's as well as run the game. Nowadays that's not so big a deal.
mcj metroid Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 all the older ps1 games do it.like rayman,street racer.loaded.Anyone know why they stopped it?
Domstercool Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Destruction Derby 2! Awesome soundtrack too.
Nintendork Posted October 18, 2006 Author Posted October 18, 2006 DVDs use a finer laser that yo' average CD player can't detect.. it just comes up as a mish mash of undetectable crap. That's why a DVD holds more data on a same sized disc.. because the bumps and flat spots are so much smaller. I heard you can drill a 1mm hole in a CD and it won't skip because the data lines are so big.
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