Games that play something when in a cd player?

[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

[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.

[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.