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Soundtracks to games on the disc..


Nintendork

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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.

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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.

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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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