Games that play something when in a cd player?

[Swamperon]

I was wondering which games play something when you place them in a cd player. The ones I know of are:

- Sonic R (Saturn) - Plays all of the game's music
- Skies of Arcadia (DC) - Aika makes a comment about how the the cd is in the wrong device and vyse needs to get going (Something to that effect, been years since I heard it)

Any others people can think of?

[garagesaleking!!]

I never knew that, that is cool. The only thing i know like that is there are certain dvds that have game demos built into them. For example the king arthur dvd has a xbox demo of the king arthur game built into it.

[MASTERWEEDO]

I remember alot of playstation games that played the soundtracks. Twisted metal(3) with rob zombie

[Dr. Dib]

Most SEGA Saturn and SEGA CD games have something to play when you put them in a CD player. Usually it is a sample of their soundtrack or a complete soundtrack. A few SEGA Dreamcast games warn the user not to put it in their CD player. I'm fairly certain all of the Shenmue discs had warnings about putting the game in the CD Player.

Outside of console games, a few SEGA PC titles allowed for their soundtrack to be played in a CD Player. Unfortunately this caused problems when the games were played on Windows XP for some reason.

[Enigmus]

I put Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for Playstation in a CD player, and it played the announcer's audio for the characters in Mortal Kombat 3. WHAT THE.

[thahurricanegame]

Yeah that's cool..I probably tried this as a kid..but did not recall or remember you could until after I read this thread..

[todesengel]

Dracula X for PC Engine had a cute little audio clip with Maria and Richter telling you not to play Track 2 cause it contained computer data that could blow out your speakers. Also Castlevania Symphony of the Night had one with Alucard telling you not to play track 1 as well, then it went into a remix of one of the songs from the game. Most Japanese Sega Saturn games I own have some sort special warning as well besides the usual game soundtrack. I remember Mortal Kombat for Sega CD had like every mix of the Immortals Mortal Kombat Theme as bonus tracks on the disc also. I could go on forever about this really but yeah it was awesome when they used to special junk on the discs, I actually kinda miss it.

[TonyTheTiger]

Lunar: Eternal Blue lets you listen to the two main theme songs.

[Astrosmash]

^ Was just going to mention SOTN.

Offhand, the PlayStation strategy game Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena will play all of the background music tracks as well as the three "death scream" sound effects.

[GetImOliver]

Wild 9 for the Playstation has the OST playable from the CD. It's actually very good imo too.

[Scissors]

This (http://www.digitpress.com/archives/didyouknow_listening.htm) article lists quite a few. Checking my music library, there's also soundracks for Dark Wizard (Sega CD), both Ecco games (Sega CD), and Tail of the Sun (PS1). Also, check this (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11378) thread for more PlayStation games.

[Kroogah]

Most Dreamcast games had a female voice stating "This disc is intended to be used only with Sega Dreamcast." I remember Tony Hawk's Pro Skater had the same message, only Tony Hawk said it.

In addition to most of the Sega CD and Saturn libraries, every Neo Geo CD game has redbook audio. I've been tempted to buy Samsho 2 on CD just for that awesome arranged soundtrack.

My first disc-based system was a Playstation, and my first game for it was Tomb Raider. Blew my mind when I put it in my CD player and heard all the music, plus dialogue tracks.

Mega Man 8 plays the credits music
Power Move Pro Wrestling plays all the music (all 3 or 4 songs)
Tekken 2 plays the credits music

[kupomogli]

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat will play all the games music. I'm not sure if this is the PC/PSX version only or both PC and PSX. I owned the game for both systems(I still own the PSX version. Need to play this game again sometime.)

Warcraft for PC will play all the games music.

Other than ones that have already been named like Brigandine and SotN. I can't think of any others, and truthfully haven't even tried it on all my games.

[VACRMH]

Add Puzzle Fighter for Playstation (And other versions perhaps)

There was an instrumental version of Sakura's song that I don't believe was heard in the game.

Also, Loaded had the entire soundtrack on it.

Hell, being able to copy the music from CD to Cassette when I was young is what probably got me into game music in the first place. (Ridge Racer is another good one)

[Garry Silljo]

When I put Burning rangers in my PC there was wall papers I could download and use. Magic Knight Rayearth has a comical warning that it is for use only on the saturn. I can't remember exactly what it says.

[Kyle15]

Silhouette Mirage and Guardian Heroes on the Saturn play their entire OSTs when inserted into a CD player. They can also be listened to on the Saturn's main menu.

[Ed Oscuro]

Since nobody's just come out and said it, pretty much every single PC-Engine CD game has the warning on track 1, and the entire CD-ROM soundtrack (minus any chiptunes i.e. the pre-boss music from Dracula X) on tracks 3 to the next to last track.

You know, I'd like to find a stereo crap enough to play damaging frequencies and run a PC-Engine disc through it just to show it who's boss. I'm afraid that'd just damage the speakers though ;-;

[Baloo]

You can put Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast in your computer drive and get free wallpapers.

Sonic R for Saturn and PC plays the music in the game in a CD Player.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Sega CD gives you some track about don't put the disk in here, it may damage it.

[LiquidPolicenaut]

Lunar: Eternal Blue lets you listen to the two main theme songs.

Also put in Lunar: The Silver Star and listen to the entire soundtrack...the one you didn't get with the remakes ;)

[jb143]

Warcraft for PC will play all the games music.


We used a Warcraft 2 CD for background music when me and my friends in college had a chess competition. It set the perfect atmosphere.

[Gapporin]

- Skies of Arcadia (DC) - Aika makes a comment about how the the cd is in the wrong device and vyse needs to get going (Something to that effect, been years since I heard it)

Skies Of Arcadia also has wallpapers on it when you put the disc into a PC.

[Kitsune Sniper]

A lot of Dreamcast games had wallpapers when you stuck them on a PC. That was a very neat way of using up the readable space on the disc. :)

[squirrel_king]

Shenmue has the game characters warning you about playing it in a CD player IIRC. but most Dreamcast (PAL) games I've tried just have a generic multilingual voiceover

[Nirvana]

I remember putting 2xtreme in a CD player gave you access to its extremely corny soundtrack. Loved that game, though.

[Battlehork]

Rage Racer on PS1 has the game soundtrack in Redbook too.

[SpaceHarrier]

Battle Arena Toshinden 1 and 2, soundtracks can be ripped via pc.

However then my pc wouldn't properly burn a cd until it crashed. Then it worked fine. *shrug*

[chrisbid]

ridge racer on ps1 loaded the entire game into RAM. after it loaded, you could remove the disk and put any audio cd you want into the system for a primative custom soundtrack. i liked to put in a copy of the saturn version of daytona usa and listen to "rolling start" while playing ridge racer

[BetaWolf47]

I love how a lot of games just let you rip the soundtrack.

Also, how do you get it to play the warning message on Saturn games? "Do not play track 1 on your CD player, your speakers could asplode!!!!"

[The 1 2 P]

As already mentioned, most Playstation games had audio from either characters or music tracks when you placed them into a cd. But what many people don't know is that this is also true for many PS demo disc, including the majority of the early Official Playstation Magazine demo disc.

[cooky560]

Almost all PS1 games before Tomb Raider III have all the in-game content stored in CDA format and thus it can be read by a CD player, infact Ridge Racer runs entirly out of memory and uses the CD as a CD player for the music.

[PentiumMMX]

As mentioned, Sonic Adventure has the generic warning dialog and backgrounds, but it also has a file listing the year every console-based Sonic the Hedgehog game was released up to 1999.

[fahlim003]

Radiant Silvergun (if not already mentioned) allows one to get some wallpapers plus the soundtrack if played as a music cd.

[Haoie]

I love these easter eggs.

[Swamperon]

Do they still put them on discs this generation? I admittedly haven't tried any of mine... I suppose these days these sort of bonuses are given away as a pre-order bonus or bundled into a "collectors" edition.

[PSony]

Dreamcast's Web Browser 2.0 disc when inserted into a pc, has the pc version of the Sega Swirl game plus some fonts.

[Darkman2K5]

Most of the Working Designs games on the Saturn had warnings not to play the cds in your player or "your tweeters would explode." I think Dragon Force in particular had a particularily funny one where a high pitched girl gave the warning and then a deep voiced character says "kiss your tweeters goodbye" and then theres the sound of exploding glass.

[garagesaleking!!]

the wallpaper thing is also really cool. Are there are wallpapers for certain games that are really cool and worth getting? how is the sonic adventure wallpapers?

[SegaAges]

Wow, I can't believe this one is not mentioned.

While you need to put it into your pc, the first run of Tiger Woods 99 has the pilot episode of South Park on it as a .dat file.

I still have not played the game itself, but bought it just to see if I got a first run edition from the used game store, which I was lucky enough to score.

[Steve W]

Wow, I can't believe this one is not mentioned.

While you need to put it into your pc, the first run of Tiger Woods 99 has the pilot episode of South Park on it as a .dat file.

I still have not played the game itself, but bought it just to see if I got a first run edition from the used game store, which I was lucky enough to score.
Really? I never knew that! That's pretty sweet!


I hoped to rip the soundtracks from Battlemorph for the Jaguar back in the day, but there's only a brief little snippet of one of the songs on it, probably only ten seconds long. I guess it's mostly chip tunes in the game.

[MASTERWEEDO]

that south park thing caused some controversy if i remember correctly.

[Ryaan1234]

I've actually tried Tail of The Sun in my CD player. The music is just too weird to listen to regularly. Now that I think about it, that Sega CD game I sent C0ldb33r with his secret santa stuff played it's soundtrack in the CD player. I didn't have a Sega CD at the time so I tried the game in the CD player to make sure that the CD could be read. (Didn't want to send him something broken) From what I gather, most Sega CD and PS1 games had redbook audio capabilities.

Wasn't there one Star Wars with that corny "Star Wars Cantina" Copacabana parody thingy on it? I know you could get it on the computer, but could it be accessed through a CD player?

[Famidrive-16]

Rayman and Tetris Plus for the Playstation both had the soundtracks. So did NiGHTS on the Saturn.

That Bomberman game for the PC supposedly played the audio in a CD player, and one of the tracks was one of the voice actors swearing a lot. I'm trying to remember the exact details of that but Google hasn't done me much good.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Many early PS1 games had their music as CD tracks... but I'm not quite sure when companies started to use XA and sequenced music instead. I remember ripping the music to KOF '95 on the PS1 to a CASSETTE TAPE! Wow, memories...

Also, I -think- several Dreamcast games have their music as audio tracks which can be played on the Dreamcast's CD player. Just load it, pop a disc in, and poke around.

[123►Genei-Jin]

All Neo-Geo CD games that I know come with red-book audio soundtracks.

[Haoie]

With all this new fangled disc tech, there's no room anymore for these classics.

[aaron7]

Most old PC games do that. It was easier to have a separate audio track on the CD for music in game rather than program in music.

[whoisKeel]

We used a Warcraft 2 CD for background music when me and my friends in college had a chess competition. It set the perfect atmosphere.

One of the Warcraft 2 cds has a joke song (last track?) on it that we used to get a kick out of and play over and over...I'm thinking it was the expansion (green) cd, but might've been the original (blue)...long time ago...

[Ed Oscuro]

With all this new fangled disc tech, there's no room anymore for these classics.
Who what when where?

Anyway, +1 Sega CD games should all be using CD audio for music, aside from perhaps some chiptune interludes. I'm not aware of any Sega CDs that don't, anyway.

FM Towns games use CD-ROM audio for music, of course.

[Sonicwolf]

Sonic CD had a lot of music that was playable on a CD player. PC version that is.

[Jorpho]

Sonic CD had a lot of music that was playable on a CD player. PC version that is.No, the US Sega CD version also had audio tracks; the PC version merely had additional tracks, as it saved processing time for it to read the Past music as pre-recorded CD audio rather than generating it in realtime like the Sega CD version did.

[Sonicwolf]

I see. Are the Sonic CD SCD tracks different from the PC version?

[Ed Oscuro]

I don't know about Sonic CD, but Ecco for PC has some fuuuunky music.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I see. Are the Sonic CD SCD tracks different from the PC version?

I think my copy of the game has the US soundtrack.

Also of note: The Sonic & Knuckles Collection has a CRAPTON of bonus stuff. It has a Sonic screensaver (which basically rotates a ton of Sonic wallpapers included in the disc) and low quality mono WAV files of Sonic game soundtracks... including the Japanese Sonic CD music.

[Sonicwolf]

I think my copy of the game has the US soundtrack.

Also of note: The Sonic & Knuckles Collection has a CRAPTON of bonus stuff. It has a Sonic screensaver (which basically rotates a ton of Sonic wallpapers included in the disc) and low quality mono WAV files of Sonic game soundtracks... including the Japanese Sonic CD music.

Back in the days when they could cram a quality game into a small section of disc.

[hush]

Man this is funny i will now have to go and check on my discs see if any work :D

[Kitsune Sniper]

Back in the days when they could cram a quality game into a small section of disc.

The collection is an emulator and the roms. Of course they could get away with it. :p

[todesengel]

I don't know about Sonic CD, but Ecco for PC has some fuuuunky music.
Ecco for PC uses the same soundtrack as the Sega CD version. I actually really like the New Age soundtrack for the CD ports of Ecco, they're amazingly relaxing.

[Jorpho]

I see. Are the Sonic CD SCD tracks different from the PC version?The tracks they have in common are exactly the same, and the PC version's extra tracks sound exactly like the Sega CD's FM versions.

[Flashback2012]

Most of the Working Designs games on the Saturn had warnings not to play the cds in your player or "your tweeters would explode." I think Dragon Force in particular had a particularily funny one where a high pitched girl gave the warning and then a deep voiced character says "kiss your tweeters goodbye" and then theres the sound of exploding glass.

I remember checking every one of my Working Designs CD based titles in a CD player to see if they played different "warning" tracks. :)

[Jorpho]

Most of the Working Designs games on the Saturn had warnings not to play the cds in your player or "your tweeters would explode." I think Dragon Force in particular had a particularily funny one where a high pitched girl gave the warning and then a deep voiced character says "kiss your tweeters goodbye" and then theres the sound of exploding glass.Wasn't that Rayearth? I probably still have the MP3 somewhere; I'll upload it later.

[The 1 2 P]

Tiger Woods '99 for Playstation has an episode of South Park hidden on it that can be accessed when put into a pc. I wonder what it would play if put in a cd player.

[Jorpho]

Okay, here's the bit from Rayearth:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/ah117e4/n/magicknightrayearth-warningtrack-kissyourtweeters_mp3

And I have the Seaman one on hand too:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/ah117e7/n/seaman-seaman-somepeople_mp3