Saturn Can you use a Saturn game as a CD in a car’s CD player?

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

In my case, I love Daytona USA’s musical score, and I would love to know if it’s totally usable on all CD players. I know that track number 1, no matter what, is where game data is stored, but what about the rest? Do you literally get a free album with your game, essentially?

 

[Gabrinius]

some games do have tracks that will play sound at a standart cd player, but i don't think these tracks are the music ones that you want.

i tested one and the playable track just said: "it's not an music disc, it's a game disc. use it at a videogame".

also, to do this, they would need the licenses to sell the music along with the game, not just use them, another problem to take care.


you can, however, search to download the game soundtrack and use it. sites that have it are becoming harder to find, so...

 

[Yuki Senoue]

Yes, but only with games that use Red Book Audio.

Daytona USA & Daytona USA CCE, J. League Victory Goal '96, and others, it varies from game to game.

Burning Rangers doesn't have Red Book Audio, so you can't listen to its soundtrack in a normal CD player.

A game with Red Book Audio downloaded from the Repo (the Repo uses the best dumping methods to archive the games. I love this site, thanks so much Spike):

A game without Red Book Audio downloaded from the Repo:

"But what about that Track 2 in BR, Yuki?!" Its a warning to not play the CD in a normal CD player.

 

[Gabrinius]

thanks for the explanation. now i will know that the game have something extra when i see a lot of tracks.

 

[BlueBottlecap]

I used to do this a lot with the Saturn Albert Odyssey game. Such beautiful orchestral music. SegaCD games were also especially great for this. Shining Force CD was also constantly in my CD player

 

[UnDubious]

Golden Axe: The Duel had a hidden track you could only listen to that way. You could also get into the Saturn's menu (I think you had to start it with the disc tray open?) and listen to the tracks that way.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Thank you for the help, everyone! I had to check, since I know that all some PS1 games I have support this feature, but others don’t, and even more only support it in a “kind of” way (MegaMan 8 only features the credits theme as RedBook audio, whereas the rest is tucked away for some reason).