PlayStation 1 games that you can listen to on your CD player

[digitalpress]

Inspired by this thread:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11616

Let's get a list going. If you know any off the top of your head, let us know and I'll update the list you see here accordingly.

NOTE: Our member "Melf" created a very simple "how to" for burning your game CD's to music CD's. You can get that right here:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00013.htm

3Xtreme
Activision Classics (only intro BGM)
Alien Trilogy
Allied General
Amazing Virtual Sea Monkeys - not a very good soundtrack but still.
Arcade's Greatest Hits: Williams (only a short voice clip on track 2)
Battle Arena Toshinden
Blast Radius
Bowling
Brahma Force
Carnage Heart (nothing to get excited about, really)
Castlevania: Symphony - one track.
Codename: Tenka - very techno.
Crazy Climber, Arcade Hits (JP) (crazy stuff, indeed)
Critical Depth
Cyber Sled
CyberSpeed
D
Darkstalkers
DarkStone
Devil Dice (cool techno)
Die Hard Trilogy
Doom
Forsaken
Fox Sports Golf '99
Galaga: Destination Earth - updated classic themes.
Grand Theft Auto - complete radio soundtracks. Great for your car CD player!
Italian Job
Jampack Vol. 1
Jampack Vol. 2
King of Fighters '95
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver: Eidos Demo Disk Volume 5
Lost World, The: Jurassic Park
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete Disk 1
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete Disk 2
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, Making of
Mass Destruction
MDK
Mega Man 8 - just one track.
Monopoly
Monster Rancher
N2O - has a good portion of the Crystal Method album "Vegas" built in.
Namco Cool Games Free Stuff Demo CD
Namco Museum Vol. 1
Namco Museum Vol. 2
Namco Museum Vol. 3
NGEN Racing (techno)
NINJA: SoD
Official US PlayStation Magazine Demo Disk - maybe all of them.
Pac-Man World
PlayStation Developer's Demo CD
PlayStation Picks - demo CD in green paper case that could be bought separately
PlayStation Picks - demo CD that came with PlayStation on Christmas right after it was released
PlayStation Underground Jampack
PlayStation Underground Jampack Summer 2k
PlayStation Underground Jampack Winter '98
PlayStation Underground Jampack Winter '99
Power Moves Pro Wrestling
Pro Pinball
Pro Pinball: Big Race USA
Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey
Pro Pinball: Timeshock!
Project Overkill
R4 Ridge Racer Type 4 Disk 2 Ridge Racer Bonus Turbo Mode Disk
Rayman
Ridge Racer
Risk
Robotron X - very speedy techno.
Rollcage Limited Edition Game - has more tracks than the actual music CD that it comes with!
Saltwater Sportfishing
Sentinel Returns
Shadow Madness/Jade Cocoon Demo CD
Sheep
Silhouette Mirage
Street Fighter Alpha
Street Sk8er 2 - Shootyz Groove, Ministry, and more.
Super Puzzle Fighter II - one track instrumental of "Sakura's Song".
Tekken 2 - just one track.
Tekken 3
Three Stooges, The
Tigershark
Tobal No. 1
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider 2
Tunnel B1
Twisted Metal 2 - check out the Hong Kong track theme.
Twisted Metal 3 - White Zombie, etc.
Tyco RC
Vib Ribbon - Japanese version, complete soundtrack.
Viewpoint
Warhawk
Wild 9
WipeOut 3
WipeOut XL

[Achika]

Japanese Vib Ribbon (not sure if PAL release works or not)

[kainemaxwell]

I was just thinking of making a thread of this myself!

Can't you get cd audio from the Wipeout titles?

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Twisted Metal 2. That Honk Kong track is SWEET!

There may be more in this thread.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6248&highlight=hybridized

[maxlords]

There's one track on the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night disc.

[punkoffgirl]

Japanese Vib Ribbon (not sure if PAL release works or not)

Oh no, I could have lived without knowing that! :)

[digitalpress]

Can't you get cd audio from the Wipeout titles?

I don't know - that's why I started this thread - go find out!

[punkoffgirl]

HA!
It figures that the Amazing Virtual Sea Monkeys would work. Maybe I'll get my $10 out of it yet (although the soundtrack isn't THAT great..)

[syzygy]

Metal Gear Solid had a whole cd of music. Pretty good stuff.

[digitalpress]

Metal Gear Solid had a whole cd of music. Pretty good stuff.

Now let me ask you, are you referring to the "bonus disc" soundtrack CD or the actual game? I can't say I've ever tried listening to the MGS game CD - can you please clarify?

[bargora]

Alien Trilogy

[punkoffgirl]

Just a question, while we're on this topic.. Do PS2 games work as well? Or are they a completely different format?

[Kroogah]

King of Fighters '95
Power Move Pro Wrestling
Street Fighter Alpha

Mega Man 8 had 1 track (the credits music, I believe) ditto for Tekken 2.

[digitalpress]

Just a question, while we're on this topic.. Do PS2 games work as well? Or are they a completely different format?

The CD-ROM based ones shoujld work as well, but that's for another thread - Actually check out the link that PC Kwaj listed above, which includes some TurboDuo, Saturn and Sega CD titles as well!

[IGotTheDot]

I think it works like this,

There are 2 different ways to stream audio on the PS1. 1 format is .xa. The PS1 tool converts wav files into the .xa format and you can't play those in a cd player. The other way is normal wav files which is not compressed and they will play normally in a cd player. .xa files are interleaved, compressed wav files.

Oh yea, Tyco RC will play in a cd player if anyone cares. :)

[hamburgler]

What about Ridge racer.

[ManekiNeko]

N20! N20!!!

JR

P.S. We need a corresponding Sega Saturn thread. Midway had hidden some really bizarre music in their Midway Arcade's Greatest Hits titles. I'm not sure if those tracks were available on the Playstation versions of those games or not.

[digitalpress]

N20! N20!!!

JR

P.S. We need a corresponding Sega Saturn thread. Midway had hidden some really bizarre music in their Midway's Arcade's Greatest Hits titles. I'm not sure if those were available on the Playstation versions of those games or not.

N20 Was the first game I put on the list!

And I invite you to start up a similar Saturn thread - should be one for Sega CD and TurboDuo too, really!

[ManekiNeko]

I'll have to dig the Saturn out of the closet first.
Someone needs to check the Midway Arcade's Greatest Hits discs on the Playstation to see if they've got the same music as the Saturn games. It was really funky stuff... like experimental techno music or something.

JR

P.S. I want to say that Street Fighter EX + Alpha had redbook audio, but I'm not sure. Guess I'll have to start messing around with my Saturn to find out. The beauty of the system is that it doubles as a CD player, and it does this better than any other game system out there. The interface is more attractive and has more features than the Playstation or 3DO, and it reads audio tracks better as well... it plays even scratched albums beautifully.

[Captain Wrong]

And I invite you to start up a similar Saturn thread - should be one for Sega CD and TurboDuo too, really!

AFAIK, all the Sega CD games should have some redbook audio on them. At least all mine do.

[tynstar]

Doom


There is a techno track. I think it is the last track or the last 2 tracks. It is the song from the secret techno club level.

[ddockery]

N2O does not have the entire Crystal Method album Vegas built in. It has a few tracks from the album, and quite a few remixes that as far as I know are exclusive to this soundtrack. I can assure you that the entire album is not there though.

[den68]

Twisted Metal 3 has a bunch of tracks too. Rob Zombie, Nashville Pussy. That's the only one I've actually popped into the CD player.

[digitalpress]

N2O does not have the entire Crystal Method album Vegas built in. It has a few tracks from the album, and quite a few remixes that as far as I know are exclusive to this soundtrack. I can assure you that the entire album is not there though.

You are correct, sir! I just checked it out for myself.

SEVEN of the ten songs on the CD version of "Vegas" are in the game, but the game actually has 11 tracks - four of which are re-mixes. IMHO the three best tunes: Trip Like I Do, Busy Child, and Vapor Trail are all accounted for and/or have remixes on N20. You get a little more variety with the CD but you still gotta admit that the GAME is kick ass as a music CD!

[Kroogah]

I can't believe I forgot Street Sk8er 2. Every song in the game is on the CD (the only good thing about the game, actually. Shootyz Groove, Ministry...yum)

[Neb]

Off the top of my head, I know the Playstation Developers Demo CD that came with the (very) early Playstations had music on it that you could listen to in a CD player. I'll look for others tonight.

[Neb]

I just finished checking the games I have, and I came up with this list.
-3Xtreme
-Battle Arena Toshinden
-Bowling
-Cyber Sled
-CyberSpeed
-Doom
-Jampack Vol. 1
-Jampack Vol. 2
-King of Fighters '95
-Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver: Eidos Demo Disk Volume 5
-Lost World, The: Jurassic Park
-Lunar Silver Star Story Complete Disk 1
-Lunar Silver Star Story Complete Disk 2
-Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, Making of
-Monster Rancher
-N2O Nitrous Oxide
-Namco Cool Games Free Stuff Demo CD
-Official US Playstation Magazine Demo Disk (each one, I think)
-Playstation Developer's Demo CD
-Playstation Picks (Demo CD that came with Playstation on Christmas right after it was released)
-Playstation Picks (Demo CD in green paper case that could be bought separately)
-Playstation Underground Jampack
-Playstation Underground Jampack Winter '98
-Playstation Underground Jampack Winter '99
-Playstation Underground Jampack Summer 2k
-R4 Ridge Racer Type 4 Disk 2 Ridge Racer Bonus Turbo Mode Disk
-Ridge Racer
-Rollcage Limited Edition Game (It has more tracks than the actual music CD that it comes with!)
-Shadow Madness/ Jade Cocoon Demo CD
-Tekken 3
-Three Stooges, The :D
-Tobal No. 1
-Tomb Raider
-Wild 9

[punkoffgirl]

I have a quick question.. Since I only own two PS1 games, period, and both of them happen to be able to be played in my cd player, I can't check this out for myself, but does the fact that they both say "compact disc" on them, like a regular music cd does, mean anything? Or do all PS1 games say "compact disc", regardless of abilty to play on a cd player?

[Kid Fenris]

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo has one track, the instrumental version of "Sakura's Song," that can be heard on an ordinary CD player.

[RJ]

Judging from the posts, I can't believe more gamers don't know about this!
Lots of games were listed that Joe already mentioned! L @_@ @_@ K!

BRAHMA Force* (=good)
DarkStone*
Forsaken
Fox Sports Golf '99
Italian Job
Mass Destruction*
NINJA: SoD*
Project Overkill*
Saltwater Sportfishing*
Tunnel B1
WipeOut XL*
WipeOut 3*

[bargora]

These are the ones that I didn't see on the first-post list yet.

Activision Classics (only intro BGM)
Allied General
Arcade's Greatest Hits: Williams (only a short voice clip on track 2)
Blast Radius
Carnage Heart (nothing to get excited about, really)
Crazy Climber, Arcade Hits (JP) (crazy stuff, indeed)
Critical Depth
D
Darkstalkers
Devil Dice (cool techno)
MDK
Monopoly
Namco Museum Vol. 1
Namco Museum Vol. 2
Namco Museum Vol. 3
NGEN Racing (techno)
Pac-Man World
Pro Pinball
Pro Pinball: Timeshock!
Pro Pinball: Big Race USA
Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey
Rayman
Risk
Sentinel Returns
Sheep
Silhouette Mirage
Tigershark
Viewpoint
Warhawk

It occurred to me that it might be useful to list what DOESN'T have it as well, so people aren't re-testing the same discs over and over. So I went through my collection, and this is what I found. I can see from the preview that the tab formatting is gonna be history--sorry!

On each disc, track 1 contains computer data, which may make a horrifying noise when played back through speakers.

Ace Combat 2 NO
Activision Classics YES
(Track 2) Intro BGM
Alien Resurrection YES
(Tracks 2-3) Creepy BGM/SE.
Alien Trilogy YES
(Tracks 2-25, even numbered tracks contain electronic BGM, moderately cool; odd numbered tracks each consist of a three second silence)
(Track 26 contains an ear-piercing tone. Not recommended.)
Allied General YES
(Tracks 2-7) Suitably martial.
Ape Escape NO
Arcade Party Pak NO
Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 NO
Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 NO
Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2 NO
Arcade's Greatest Hits: Williams YES
(Track 2 is a speech clip. "Flawless Victory" WTF?)
Armored Core NO
Armored Core: Project Phantasma NO
Armored Core: Master of Arena NO
Atari Anniversary Edition Redux NO

Ballblazer Champions NO
Blaster Master: Blasting Again NO
Blast Radius YES
(Tracks 2-11) Techno space war music
Blazing Dragons NO
Broken Helix NO
Bushido Blade NO
Bushido Blade 2 NO

Carnage Heart YES
(Tracks 2-3, on the gameplay disc) Not too exciting.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night NO
Chicken Run NO
Clock Tower NO
Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within NO
Codename: Tenka YES
(Track 2 Voice)
(Tracks 3-15 Level music; Track 13 has 2:13 worth of sound, but continues on in silence until 3:08; See Instruction book for the "Grooooovy Track List".)
Colony Wars NO (Too bad, really)
Colony Wars: Vengeance NO
Colony Wars: Red Sun NO
Crazy Climber, Arcade Hits (JP) YES
(Tracks 2-3) Wacky!
Critical Depth YES
(Tracks 2-12) BGM

D YES
(Track 2 on each of the three discs contains BGM. The BGM on discs 1 and 2 appears to be identical.)
Darkstalkers YES
(Tracks 2-45) BGM for everything
Darkstalkers 3 NO
Devil Dice YES
(Tracks 2-12) Techno, pretty cool.
Driver NO
Driver 2 NO
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes NO

Einhander NO

Fear Effect NO
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix NO

G. Darius NO
Gekioh: Shooting King NO
G-Police NO
G-Police: Weapons of Justice NO
Gradius Gaiden (JP) NO
Gran Turismo NO

Heart of Darkness NO
Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy NO

Incredible Crisis NO
Intelligent Qube NO
The Italian Job YES
(Track 2)

Jackie Chan: Stuntmaster NO
Jeopardy! NO
Jeopardy! 2nd Edition NO
Jupiter Strike NO

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile NO
Konami Arcade Classics NO

Looney Tunes Sheep Raider NO

Martian Gothic: Unification NO
Medal of Honor NO
MDK YES
(Tracks 2-3, 19, 25 SE)
(Tracks 4-18 20-24, 26-30 BGM
Mega Man Legends NO
Mega Man Legends 2 Demo (w/Tron Bonne) NO
Mega Man Legends 2 NO
Metal Gear Solid NO
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne NO
Monopoly YES
(Track 2 BGM)

Namco Museum Vol. 1 YES
(Tracks 2-9) BGM for museum
Namco Museum Vol. 2 YES
(Tracks 2-9) BGM for museum
Namco Museum Vol. 3 YES
(Tracks 2-11) BGM for museum
Namco Museum Vol. 4 NO
NGEN Racing YES
(Tracks 2-19) Techno
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino NO
Novastorm NO

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey NO
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus NO
Omega Boost NO
One Piece Mansion NO

Pac-Man World YES
(Tracks 2-10, 17-22 BGM)
(Tracks 11-16 variations on the Pac-Man opening theme)
Pandemonium NO
Panzer General YES
(Tracks 2-7) Martial themes.
Parappa the Rapper NO
Parasite Eve NO
Philosoma NO
Pipe Dreams 3-D NO
Pro Pinball YES
(Tracks 2-23) Rock!
Pro Pinball: Timshock! YES
(Tracks 2-33) Crazy pinball rock
Pro Pinball: Big Race USA YES
(Tracks 2-39) BGM
Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey YES
(Tracks 2-21) BGM

Q*bert NO
Quake II NO

Raiden Project NO
Raycrisis: Series Termination NO
Rayman YES
(Tracks 2-7, 8-10, 12-21, 25-27, 31-39, 41-45, 47-48, 50-51) Wacky BGM
(Tracks 8, 11, 22-24, 28-30, 40, 46, 49) SE
Raystorm NO
Resident Evil: Director's Cut NO
Resident Evil 2 Demo (with RE:DC) NO
Resident Evil 2 NO
Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman NO
Risk: The Game of Global Domination YES
(Track 2) BGM
Robotron X YES
(Tracks 2-20) Silly techno.
R-Types NO
R-Type Delta NO

Sentinel Returns YES
(Tracks 2-10) Atmospheric electronic.
Sheep YES
(Tracks 2-9, 11-14 BGM)
(Track 10 Sheep going "Baaa")
Silent Bomber NO
Silent Hill NO
Silhouette Mirage YES
(Tracks 2-26)
Sol Divide NO
Star Trek: Invasion NO
Star Wars: Dark Forces NO
Strider 2 / Strider NO
Strikers 1945 NO
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo YES
(Track 2 "Original Song 'I Want You To Know' by Sakura"; Unlockable in-game on "Goodies" sound test menu through victory in Street Puzzle Mode)
Spyro the Dragon NO
Syphon Filter NO
Syphon Filter 2 NO

Tempest X3 NO
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins NO
Thunder Force V: Perfect System NO
Tigershark YES
(Tracks 2-11) BGM
Tomba! NO
Tomb Raider II YES
(Tracks 24, 31-53, 57, 59-61 BGM)
(Tracks 2-23, 25-30, 54-56, 58 SE)

Um Jammer Lammy NO
The Unholy War NO

Viewpoint YES
(Track 2) Atmospheric BGM (not the techno)
Vib Ribbon (JP) YES
(Tracks 2-8)

Warhawk YES
(Tracks 2-10) BGM, not bad
Worms World Party NO

Xevious 3D/G+ NO

[syzygy]

syzygy wrote:
Metal Gear Solid had a whole cd of music. Pretty good stuff.


Now let me ask you, are you referring to the "bonus disc" soundtrack CD or the actual game? I can't say I've ever tried listening to the MGS game CD - can you please clarify?

Your are correct I was thinking about the bonus cd, my Bad!

[IGotTheDot]

I have a quick question.. Since I only own two PS1 games, period, and both of them happen to be able to be played in my cd player, I can't check this out for myself, but does the fact that they both say "compact disc" on them, like a regular music cd does, mean anything? Or do all PS1 games say "compact disc", regardless of abilty to play on a cd player?

They should all say compact disc on them.

[geelw]

add these (from the top of my head):

tomb raider II (has music and all dialogue from cinemas)
tecmo's deception (has music and dialogue from japanese version!)
monster rancher (wild music not in the game)
dead or alive (cheesy, but ok)
excalbur 2555 a.d. (sorta cool!)
project overkill (nice dramatic stuff)
one (short, but funny.."i made a mistake")
machine hunter (nice, atmospheric stuff)
colin mcrae rally (title theme and some menu stuff)
alien resurrection (2 creepy tracks- listen w/ the lights out!)
treasures of the deep (end title/menu? music)
uprising x (wild metal/techno hybrid + dialogue tracks)
steel reign (sounds like it needs lyrics)
killing zone (30+ tracks! some nice, some oddball)
bloody roar (1 track)

also, a number of psx demo discs and imports have music tracks on them also- i'm too swamped to go through all my psx stuff now, though...

[ddockery]

DP,

Of course it makes an awesome CD! I just wanted to make sure that anyone interested realized there was more of it out there. These guys make some amazing music, ad deserve every penny they can get IMO. Even if I didn't love the game, I'd have bought it just for the remixes.

[GameNinja]

Gundam Battle Assault allows you to play a fair number of tracks.

[KJN]

Spin Jam
Kula World (aka Roll Away aka Kula Quest)

[Famidrive-16]

Tetris Plus has all of the tracks in the game playable on a CD player.

I also heard Wu-tang Clan's Shaolin Style has some on it

[DigitalSpace]

The demo disc "Pizza Hut: Disc Two" has a remix of "Dragula" by Rob Zombie on track 2.

[Dj Glitch]

Duke Nukem Total Meltdown
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Street Fighter The Movie
Tekken

[Dj Glitch]

Duke Nukem Total Meltdown
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Street Fighter The Movie
Tekken

[ECWSandmanECW]

WCW/NWO Thunder

[ghostangelofcky]

Mortal Kombat Trilogy :D

[TheSmirk]

Asteroids - 1 track, pretty cool too
Gundam the Battle Master - 20 tracks 35:54 total
Silhouette Mirage (Import) - 25 tracks 43:52 total *very cool!

Bad Tracks?? Maybe media player wouldn't playback the noise track some of you mentioned....

Pocket Fighter - 1 track (bad track/silent?) 3:29
Macross M3 - 1 track (bad track/silent?)
Master Blaster: Blasting Again - 1 track (bad track/silent?) 3:33


I'll check some more later on, the silhouette mirage and tetris plus ones are very cool

[Drakken]

Destruction Derby Raw - You can listen to all 10 in-game songs. Pretty good rock/techno.
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense - I haven't played it, but I'm assuming all the in-game songs are on here. There are 16 on the CD.

[j_factor]

Twisted Metal 4 works. I think that was the first time I ever heard Cirrus, and I became a big fan of theirs.