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Did you use your console to listen to music back in the day?

>> No.2743789 [DELETED] 

I still use. I use the PS3, because I can hook up a HD filled with 230 GB of mp3s and it reads just fine. Most stand alone players just crash. And I can use my wireless headset. Also, I can control the PS3 using my vita, this way I can watch tv and listen to music.

and, yeah, of course, back in the ways when I didn't have a cd player everywhere, I used my ps and 3do to listen to music.

>> No.2743793

>>2743789
You're trying way too hard to fit in.

>> No.2743797

>>2743793
oh sorry, what i meant was:

oh dank music bro, i did heard of cds, so cool, my dad used to buy those. EARTHBOUND!!!

>> No.2743798

>>2743789
>vomits

>> No.2743807

>>2743781
The Saturn had such a god tier cd player. I had to listen to all of my CDs at least twice on it, once while messing with the pitch, once while using the voice cancellation.

>> No.2743812

>>2743807

Yeah, it was really cool. Not to mention the GUI was very pleasant to look at and it had that fucking spaceship flying around.

The PS player was very boring by comparison.

>> No.2743824

>>2743781
Just as a novelty. Mostly PSone (mini) for the dumb visualizations on the portable LCD screen.

>> No.2743840

>>2743807
It really was God tier. Dat interface, stars flying at you, spaceship doing barrel rolls, and floating cubes that change shapes to the bass was all based. No other console comes close to how cool that was.

>> No.2743852

>>2743781
yes

and a few years back 2006-2008~ i used to use a logitech 5.1 system and hook a dreamcast up to it to play music at our parties. had the interface memorized so it didn't need to be hooked up to a tv.

>> No.2743870

>>2743812
Should have pushed select for the PS visualizations. They were chill as hell.

>> No.2743890

>>2743870
>chill as hell
brrrr

^_^

>> No.2743965

Do I need a modchip to play burned CDRs?

>> No.2743969

>>2743965
not music CDRs on any known console, just in case you're trying to stay on-topic

>> No.2744000

3DO has cool visualizations, proto-milkdrop shit.

>> No.2744109

>>2743870
No they weren't.

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>>2744000

That's nothing compared to the Jaguar CD virtual light machine. Only reason to own that console tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZ6RNXyFiU

>> No.2744232

can we talk about how some games snuck their OST on the game disc? I know Duke 3D had something and so did Warcraft 2

>> No.2744457

>>2743781
When I was a kid our family had a stereo, but if I was listening to music in my room it would be through the playstation. The stereo was a pain in the ass to move, so it was more convenient and I was a kid, so I didn't care about sound quality.

>>2744232
I remember shitting my pants when I played track 1 (the game data). Wipeout was cool though because, iirc, it had the whole soundtrack you could listen to as a normal cd. I think I played some demo discs, too. The menu music was pretty rad.

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TICKING AWAY
THE MOMENTS THAT MAKE UP A DULL DAY

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>>2743781
Listening to the Lost World soundtrack on this was pure sex.

>> No.2744875

>>2744232
>can we talk about how some games snuck their OST on the game disc?

A lot of them played those back during the game, until it was possible to play some form of compressed audio (that could store more music in the cd).

Sega specifically mentioned in their guidelines that some users might want to play Saturn discs in the hi-fi, so there should be always at least one CD Audio track, even if you aren't using cd-audio for music.

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2744886

I wish this game had CDA tracks to play on my stereo

>> No.2744920 [DELETED] 

>>2743781
Yeah, sometimes.
Sega Mega CD & Playstation 1

>> No.2744923

>>2743781 (OP)
Yeah, sometimes.
Sega Mega CD 2 & Playstation 1

>> No.2745025

>>2744886
The intro was so awesome, cool beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0UBycyZb6w

>> No.2745046
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2745046

>>2745025

the whole OST was awesome, but yeah the intro track by Takkyu Ishino is probably the cherry on the top. I loved how it plays in the last level, or the level before that.

Probably the reason the game itself didn't include the CDA tracks to be played on a stereo was because Sony actually monetized on the soundtrack, as it was one big production, Takkyu Ishino produced, and several techno producers from Europe (mainly Germany and France) collaborated with original tracks. Guys like Hardfloor, Westbam, etc.

In Japan there were several editions in vinyl of the soundtrack, apart from the CD release.

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>>2745046
I owned the asian version so the cover was very, very lewd before even considering the intro scenes. Sucks for europe that they got THAT one cover.

>> No.2745065

>As you can see, this is a Playstation black disc. Cut #1 contains computer data, so please don't play it. But you probably won't listen to me anyway, will you?

>> No.2745076

>>2745065
SOTN?

>> No.2745096

>>2745065
>>2745076
I've always wondered, if track #1 is a data track, how did they make it play the message as an audio track?

>> No.2745120
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2745120

while I didn't use a console to play music at the time, I played almost all of my PS1 games on my stereo at the time at least once.

First one I did was this sexy beast

>> No.2745409

I did use my Saturn as a CD player back in the day.
I also tried a few games, some had music, a lot had "Do not play on CD players" warnings.
Dragon Force had this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVFony3xXck

>> No.2745549

>>2743870

> yfw you find out you can change them and save your favorite to your memory card

>> No.2745575

>>2744232
Mechwarrior 2 had its entire OST burnt as tracks onto the outside of the disk. You could stick it into any regular CD player, even a car stereo, and listen to the soundtrack.

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>>2745549

Pic related

>> No.2745668

>>2745656
why did they remove this feature from the later scph-9000 series? Seems weird that they would only include it that specific model and then remove it?

>> No.2745682
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>>2743807
The 3DO had the coolest player, but since only twelve people bought it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPoV_9WoC4

DAC Playstation sounded great, though.

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>>2744875
>that moment when you tried to play a PS disc in a regular stereo

>> No.2745703

>>2743781
Yep. I used to sneak on to my mom's computer while she was at work and burn CDs at like 4x. Why I thought she wouldn't notice a $2 blank disc going missing nearly daily is beyond me.

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>>2745703
>nearly half-an-hour to burn one CD

There are some things I don't miss about the good old days. Wait, what am I talking about? It's still 1999.

>> No.2745715

>>2745708
>Nearly half-an-hour to burn one CD with a 1 in 3 success rate

I don't miss the coasters, that's for sure. Watching for data consumption and overburn was such a pain when you were trying to push all 80 minutes out of every disc.

>> No.2745718

>>2743781
Yes, but only because I wasn't allowed to own a stereo because my stepdad was crazy.

>> No.2745726

>>2745715
Nero & MusicMatch Jukebox allowed for overburning back in the day (oh god MusicMatch). Even so, coasters were inevitable if you didn't have a huge RAM buffer.

I didn't.

>> No.2745730

>>2745046
>GitS picture vinyl

Well I know what I'm hunting for next paycheck.

>> No.2745738

>>2745726

> Not using your PC for anything while burning discs because doing anything that would cause high CPU utilization would pull cycles from yoru burning program and result in a coaster.

>> No.2745749

>>2745738
Couldn't help it. Audiogalaxy and Kazaa Gold ran 24/7 on my PC, no exceptions.

How was the PC Engine's music player? Edit: booted an emulator. Awful.

>> No.2745763

>>2745726
I always used Nero, but I can remember having to use a specific version of it for better success.

>>2745738
I still to this day carefully set my laptop down and walk away from it while burning anything.

>> No.2745774

>>2745763
I don't have an optical drive on my PCs anymore, but when I did, and I was still buring optical media, I stopped as much shit as I could and just let the disc burn out of habit.

>> No.2745793

>>2745726
The key to successful burning back then was buying a burner with a SCSI interface instead of regular IDE. You could still fubar a burn but it was much less likely.

Oldfag here. I used my SegaCD with the sound going into the AUX of an 8-track player I got at a garage sale for years as my first CD player.

>> No.2745943

>>2745668
I think you read that note wrong.

>> No.2745952

>>2745749
>Audiogalaxy

That thing was insanely great. I still have a ton of stuff from there I didn't replace (couldn't find where they come from).

Like, there was a superb quality Doom 1-2 gamerip there - it used the original SC-55 samples, but with the reverb/echo module as well, which gave the tunes a huge kick in power. It took over 10 years for the fandom to make original SC-55 recordings since, and even those don't have these effects, which make them sound much more dull.

I wish I saved those, I only have one, and it is one of the worst recordings with a lot of clipping.

>> No.2745960

No. But a friend who was visiting briefly wanted to listen to some CDs, so I handed her my CDX.

>> No.2745984

>>2745682
>The 3DO had the coolest player

BULLSHIT

>>2744120

Skip to like halfway in to see some of the non particle visualizations, it gets fuckin wild

>> No.2745985

>>2745943
you're right for some reason I thought they removed it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQQ9NryVH8

>> No.2746717

>>2745409
A lot of PC Engine/TurboDuo cd's have those kind of messages too.

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>>2745749
>>2745952

Man, Audiogalaxy.
Good times, at one point it was the best p2p client.

>> No.2747441

>>2743840
PS3 bro

>> No.2747457

Sometimes I would (and still do) put a game on and go to the sound test and let BGMs play while I do chores.
As far as using Saturn or PS1 as a CD player, I did but very rarely. I love using headphones, and it was generally much simpler and more enjoyable to use a walkman or something portable or sit by the stereo. It was neat having the option to play audio CDs in your CD-based consoles, though.

>> No.2747472

>>2747457

Where do people even go these days to download /vr/ OSTs, anyway?

I like having background music while I'm reading or relaxing or whatever.

>> No.2747701

>>2747472
Galbadia Hotel was great until recently. FFShrine who hosted them has misconfigured/broken PHP so download links no longer work.

KHInsider still up and works well, and is actually updated quite often, and now is even taking upload requests.

>> No.2747819

>>2747701
KHInsider has many tracks that just don't fucking work. I'm done with that site.

>> No.2748273

>>2745694
Ah, I tried this too. The only game that worked was the original Guilty Gear.

>> No.2748596

>>2747472
FFshrine forums, I almost always find what I'm looking for there.
Gamemp3s and shadowhaxor are alright places as well.

>> No.2748615

>>2745749
The PC Engine can play music without even booting though (at least the briefcase).
The CD Unit can even be used as a portable CD Player on its own.

>> No.2748674

>>2748615
And were do I insert the disc in this briefcase that plays music all on it's own without the CD?

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>>2748674
>not knowing the PC Engine classic briefcase combo
You put the CD in the fucking CD Unit, you dolt.
It has a DC Jack a stereo jack and headphone jack + controls + LED display thus making it able to operate even without the IFU (Interface Unit, the thing you plug PC-Engine and CD-ROM^2 in)

If it's in the IFU it you can operate it using the buttons on it without booting up the main PC Engine unit. In this case the sound comes out of the RCA jacks on the IFU.

>> No.2748778

>>2748702
I've got a stack of them kid. The CD plays the music. The console plays the games. The briefcase does fuck all on it's own aside from keeping saves.
There's absolutely no reason to even bring up the briefcase when discussing playing CDs without booting. Unless you're a retard who never owned one.

>> No.2748896

>>2743781
When our PS1 broke and stopped playing games my dad still used it as a CD player for a long-ass time. He might still use it today.

>> No.2748921

>>2748778
i don't get this post. (;´д｀)ゞ

>> No.2751793

>>2748921
I guess I should have provided a picture with instructions written in maymay