A little audio clip
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:56 pm
I'm not sure if this topic has EVER come up on the boards, but has anyone ever, out of sheer morbid curiosity or just for kicks, thought of putting a VIDEO GAME CD-ROM in a CD player?
Over my many years of perusing the net, I came across something rather hilarious that first brought this question to mind, and it was Eternal Blue that started the whole thing!
Well, long story short, if you happen to put a video game CD-ROM disc in an audio CD player, you'd find it couldn't be played as a music CD. Very rarely, there would be a hidden audio track or two.
In Japan, however, the hidden audio track on video game discs was taken to a whole other level. In some PC Engine and Mega CD games, you'd hear short audio clips of the game's characters improvising a skit telling you that this CD can't be played as a music CD.
Examples of systems I found this oddity for:
Sony PlayStation 1
Sony PSX
NEC PC Engine Super CD-ROM^2
NEC PC Engine
Sega Mega CD
And I now happily share with you, the very clip that started it all...Hiro and Ruby's "This ain't no audio CD!" message!
Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LGX0YE84
Over my many years of perusing the net, I came across something rather hilarious that first brought this question to mind, and it was Eternal Blue that started the whole thing!
Well, long story short, if you happen to put a video game CD-ROM disc in an audio CD player, you'd find it couldn't be played as a music CD. Very rarely, there would be a hidden audio track or two.
In Japan, however, the hidden audio track on video game discs was taken to a whole other level. In some PC Engine and Mega CD games, you'd hear short audio clips of the game's characters improvising a skit telling you that this CD can't be played as a music CD.
Examples of systems I found this oddity for:
Sony PlayStation 1
Sony PSX
NEC PC Engine Super CD-ROM^2
NEC PC Engine
Sega Mega CD
And I now happily share with you, the very clip that started it all...Hiro and Ruby's "This ain't no audio CD!" message!
Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LGX0YE84