thread reminded me of the audiophile meme that the early model ps1s with rca outputs on the back are great cd players
considering mine lasted barely a year before the laser wore out i’m surprised
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How about games that let you play your own CDs instead of the music on the game disc?
Some PS1 games did this intentionally, some did it unintentionally.
Also a lot of Xbox games let you play the music you ripped from CDs to the hard drive.
Honorable mention, Excite Truck on the Wii let you play MP3s off the SD card.
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what allows this to work on PS1 are two facets, one required and one that dictates what you can do in-game without crashing
required: the game must be Yellow Book standard (CD-ROM) with Mode 1 data as the first track and then Mode 2 audio in subsequent tracks
limiter: obviously if the game needs to load (non-audio) data from the disc, bad things will happen. therefore, the games which work best with this are small enough to be entirely loaded into RAM, or games for which you can play meaningful chunks without loading
ridge racer and tetris plus on ps1 are both small enough to load into RAM entirely, so you can play those games effectively indefinitely with another audio CD in the drive
other games like tony hawk’s pro skater 2 * or jet moto would allow you to do it, but only for a single course. if you tried to change levels, the game would freeze or crash without the original disc
*(edit: actually i think this one doesn’t work because it’s not Red Book CDDA, it’s some compressed audio that’s embedded in a Mode 1 data track rather than a Mode 2 audio track - that’s why they can have a full CD’s capacity of music (or more) and still have the game on disc)
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the net yaroze game decaying orbit allowed it, and even let you changetracks via the pause menu
(something to note is that all yaroze games had to fit entirely within the playstation’s ram)
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Vibe Ribbon would let you play your own CD and it would try to make a course based on it
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Monster Rancher is the classic for that sort of thing… I threw every CD me and my parents owned in there…
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Everything that can play DVDs
- PS2
- PS3
- PS4
- PS5
- Xbox (requires remote dongle)
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X
Everything that can play Blu-ray
- PS3
- PS4
- PS5
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X
Everything that can play UHD discs
- PS5
- Xbox One X/S
- Xbox Series X
I think that’s right.
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xbox and xbox 360 definitely can’t play blu rays.
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360 couldn’t even play hd dvds without a seperate thing
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Oops, made a silly copy paste mistake
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And the LaserActive does laser discs. ^ _^
Some Wii models can play DVDs with a homebrew tool.
the saturn, playstation, cd-i, cd32, and 3do play vcds with the assistance of extra hardware
there’s also a specific model of playstation that plays vcds out of the box
there are various unlicensed boot discs that allow the dreamcast to play vcds
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A Nuon DVD Player can play DVDs.
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The aformentioned Aiwa CSD-G1M Mega Drive boom box can play audiocassettes.
Any other consoles that can play audiocassettes?
The Amstrad CPC has a built in tape deck but I don’t think you can actually listen to a cassette on it and it’s also not a console.
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Ditto for the Coleco Adam
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i think the closest you’re gonna get is like sone “interactive” quiz thing from the 70s or 80s that had audio casettes full of questions.
the spectrum +2 also had a built in tape deck
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I think you misunderstood, I’m wondering if these computers can play a normal music cassette and you can listen to it.
I know that with the C64 tape adapter, for instance, you wouldn’t be able to listen to an audiocassette.
I wouldn’t count PCs that can hook up to a generic tape deck.
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Digging this up to list some consoles that have disc drives and can’t play audio CDs.
- HyperScan
- V.Flash
- PlayStation 4
- PlayStation 5
- GameCube
- Wii
- Wii U
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Could the Wii or Wii U play music CDs? I’ve never thought to try before
It could not! I’ll edit my above post.
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