playing pc engine cd roms in a cd player?

[gbapalyer]

hello,

i wonder if it is possible to play pc engine cd roms in a cd player and listen to the games soundtracks?
i remember doing it once with an old sony tape&cd player and it did work but with our new cd player it does not work.

any recommendations which cd player plays best?

thanks
gbapalyer

[esteban]

Yes, absolutely. Usually, you simply skip track 2 (data).

Track 1  = warning
Track 2 = data
Track 3+ = songs/cinema soundtrack

HOWEVER, somme discs ALTERNATE Red Book and DATA tracks for 3-XX
ALSO, final track sometimes DATA (redundancy)

[Tatsujin]

yeah, unfortunately some newer CD players and PC cd-roms do refuse the play of obey discs due to an unproper use of the red book audio format or such.
however some smartass players will still play it on your PC

[gbapalyer]

and does anybody know a good cd player which plays the cd games without problems?

[Tatsujin]

get an old one from the thrift store

[Flare65]

and does anybody know a good cd player which plays the cd games without problems?

I have not had any issues lately with any of my players.  When in doubt, take the disc to a friend's house and try it on some of thier players.

[SuperPlay]

Not directly the question you asked, however here are a few links from my links thread that you may find useful.  

If you just want to play the audio you could always use the CD audio files (in mp3) available from the Sound Rips Archive and you could even burn them back to CD in your own complication. And if you do not like the quality of the .mp3 files, Turbo Engine will rip your CDs to WAV.


Pretty much every audio rip that you can imagine:

Sound Rips Archive (HES & CD): http://hes.joshw.info/

Note that the rips are compressed with 7Zip so you will need to exact them using 7zip free from:  http://www.7-zip.org/


To play the Chip tunes (HES Files) you will need the following:

HES NEZplug (Winamp plug-in inc. Source Code) Site 1: http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/


If you want to rip your own you can use the following Emulator:

Turbo Engine (CD Ripping Tool Included): http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/turbo.html

[esteban]

Not directly the question you asked, however here are a few links from my links thread that you may find useful. 

If you just want to play the audio you could always use the CD audio files (in mp3) available from the Sound Rips Archive and you could even burn them back to CD in your own complication. And if you do not like the quality of the .mp3 files, Turbo Engine will rip your CDs to WAV.


Pretty much every audio rip that you can imagine:

Sound Rips Archive (HES & CD): http://hes.joshw.info/

Note that the rips are compressed with 7Zip so you will need to exact them using 7zip free from:  http://www.7-zip.org/


To play the Chip tunes (HES Files) you will need the following:

HES NEZplug (Winamp plug-in inc. Source Code) Site 1: http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/


If you want to rip your own you can use the following Emulator:

Turbo Engine (CD Ripping Tool Included): http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/turbo.html

TELL ME about the rips... what are the mp3's encoded at? Are they tagged consistently/accurately?

I don't have ability to download too much stuff right now, so I'm curious about the overall (A) quality of sound and (B) quality of information

THANK YOU in advance to anyone who can help out

NOTE: I'm working on creating a music resource for all of us, and I'm trying to select high-quality stuff instead of just collecting a bunch of random stuff...

[SuperPlay]

I have just checked a handful of the files they seem to be encoded in variable bit rate format and they contain no tagging info.

Hope this helps

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Sound Rips Archive (HES & CD): http://hes.joshw.info/

Note that the rips are compressed with 7Zip so you will need to exact them using 7zip free from:  http://www.7-zip.org/

This is possibly the most important link I've ever seen shared in pcengine-fx.com history.  Holy shit Superplay!!

I'm on my way to filling up a HDD with turbo MP3s!!

[roflmao]

This is possibly the most important link I've ever seen shared in pcengine-fx.com history.  Holy shit Superplay!!

I'm on my way to filling up a HDD with turbo MP3s!!

I've already taken a number of those soundtracks and converted them to mp3.  You can browse them here:
http://turbomusic.risemedia.org/

I've also included a handful of CD game soundtracks as well.

I really need to update that site one of these days....  Currently I think it has about 40 game soundtracks (all TG-16/PCE).

[NightWolve]

Pretty much every audio rip that you can imagine:

Sound Rips Archive (HES & CD): http://hes.joshw.info/

Note that the rips are compressed with 7Zip so you will need to exact them using 7zip free from:  http://www.7-zip.org/

Nice! I tried the "Super Star Soldier" archive, works good!

I wonder if there's a way to open a FTP-like interface with a FTP client to a HTTP server so you can select all files/folders to download everything at once (recursively)... Some VBScript could be written for this, but I'm sure there's gotta be something out there that does it and *with* a GUI.

[Keith Courage]

When I was a kid I would listen to Lords of Thunder in a portable CD player while doing my paper route. At that time you couldn't burn CDs yet so it was the real game CD. I'm glad I never dropped the CD player at any point.

[SuperPlay]

Pretty much every audio rip that you can imagine:

Sound Rips Archive (HES & CD): http://hes.joshw.info/

Note that the rips are compressed with 7Zip so you will need to exact them using 7zip free from:  http://www.7-zip.org/

Nice! I tried the "Super Star Soldier" archive, works good!

I wonder if there's a way to open a FTP-like interface with a FTP client to a HTTP server so you can select all files/folders to download everything at once (recursively)... Some VBScript could be written for this, but I'm sure there's something out there for and *with* GUI.

I am sure that I managed to do this with one of the free file managers.  I will have a dig to see if I can find out which one I used.

[SuperPlay]

Sorry it has taken me a while to dig this out.

Notes:

As these are not my Audio files, nor do I host the site. Do this at your own risk!

Also as not to xxxx off the host, I would recommend that you set the max number of download to 1 or 2 and limit your total downloads per day to a sensible number.

Total download size is 14.6GB !!!!!!!

1) Grab free download manager from: http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
1) Set download limits (Click link on tip bar or follows instruction in the next section)
2) Click on '>>'
3) Select 'Site Explorer'
4) Enter http://hes.joshw.info and click go
5) Right click files and select 'download'

By default these are placed in C:\Downloads\


/fdlm.jpg


If you do not get the option on the tip bar to configure total downloads you can select 'Options / Settings / Downloads / Network' and set your 'max number of running downloads' to what you feel is reasonable.  Don't forget to set this under each profile 'light, medium and heavy modes'

/settingsb.jpg


Hope this helps!

[Duke.Togo]

Just an aside, if you have an iOS device, I'd recommend one of the Console Music apps from Croissant Production: https://sites.google.com/site/croissantprod/

There are only free trial versions for NES, SNES, and Playstation right now, but you can buy the ability to play chiptunes from a large range of consoles (they even have/had a holiday special for full unlock for $4, not sure if it is still available at this moment) including PCE/Turbo.

I'm not affiliated with it at all, but I use this app all the time to listen to chiptunes.

[kazekirifx]

I have a newer portable CD player that refuses to play them. (Smart electronics are stupid.)
My car stereo plays them fine though, so I guess it'll have to be Lords of Thunder in the car. Woot!

[Keith Courage]

Nero Burning software can save and burn audio tracks from TGCD games no problem.

[CrackTiger]

I bought a little boombox from Best Buy USA the other day, so I that I can easily play CDs in any room of my house, and it plays Turbo/PCE CDs no problem.