Changing the Audio tracks on Saturn games?

[Ulticron]

I've heard it's possible to put in your own custom audio tracks on Saturn games but I've never got any decent info on the subject. Here's what I've done so far. I took Saturn Doom and popped it in the PC, copied all the data off on to the Harddrive, then I took the midi files from the original doom and converted them into the proper audio format. I burnt them all on the same CD using nero in mixxed mode, pop it in the Saturn and it just goes to the audio mode. It doesn't reckgonize it as a game just an audio CD. So what am I doing wrong? Is it even possible to put your own custom audio tracks on Saturn games?

[davidbrit2]

First of all, do you have a mod chip in the Saturn?

You should be able to do a raw disc image rip with CDR-Win, then edit the cuesheet to point the audio tracks to other files of your choosing (make them .wav for best compatibility with various burning programs). This is more or less how I hacked Turbo Outrun music into Outrun.

[Ulticron]

Yeah my Sat's been modded for several yrs.

I'll grab CDR-Win, and give your advice a whirl, thanks.

[davidbrit2]

One thing you'll notice is that if you use CDRWin, it'll rip the entire disc to a single image file, rather than separate track images. So you'll get one .bin/.cue file pair. The .cue will specify the track list, and where they begin within the .bin image. So just take those track entries, and point them at index 00:00 of a .wav file (make sure to change the file type to WAVE in the cuesheet), and when you reburn, it'll get those tracks from your audio files rather than the ripped disc image.

[roushimsx]

This thread inspired me to swap out the music in Virtua Fighter with Tekken's, and then I realized that I suck and can't swap discs to save my life, so I'm probably better off swapping Tekken's music with Virtua Fighter's and just playing it in an emulator.

That Turbo Outrun music in Outrun mod sounds extremely cool.

[davidbrit2]

That Turbo Outrun music in Outrun mod sounds extremely cool.

Yeah, it turned out pretty sweet. I replaced the songs with Shake the Street, Keep Your Heart, and also Splash Wave '93 from Outrunners. For some reason I couldn't get the text labels on the song select screen to change, though, despite careful hex editing. I kind of over-amped the audio dumps I made with the arcade sound emulator (M1), so the music ended up rather loud. But I have good speakers, so that's fine with me. ;-) Maybe my next hack will be Daytona 2 music in Daytona. Ha ha.