I used to on my PS1 and Saturn. Actually, the first CD I ever purchased was Nirvana’s Nevermind, and the first CD player I had to play that on was the Sega CD.
I remember with some games, you could pop the disc out and swap in a music CD without ever stopping your game.
There was a game for the PS1 called monster rancher, where you could put in CDs or other games to find monsters in them.
Loved that game and mgs when they made you swap to player 2 controller to beat one of the bosses.
Absolutely! I did this with Ridge Racer on the PS1. I tossed in Nirvana’s Bleach album, and Love Buzz lined up near perfect with one of the game’s track numbers.
I often used the original Playstation and then my Dreamcast for CDs but not in a long long time.
I loved the visualizations on on the PS1
I remember there were some ps1 games that also could be played in a regular CD player for the soundtrack.
Even though the PlayStation logo wail always made me feel uncomfortable, if I had an cd in the PS1, booting to the save manager/audio player creeped me out even more
If you have a specific PS1 model it apparently has very good audio capabilities.
Thinking of that playback menu brings back some good memories that i haven’t thought about in a while.
Based on that post, are they saying the multi out is a better output? I always thought it was because of the dedicated RCAs
Not gaming console, but the first time I played a CD on my computer in the nineties, I thought I was witnessing the end of technology. Then when Primus released Tales from the Punchbowl on CD-ROM with the interactive stuff, I thought this was surely it. Technology could proceed no further.
I would rip my CDs to my PS3 and used it all the time. I used CDs on my PS1 and PS2 all the time too.
The graphics of the ps1 when playing music, chef kiss. That was my stereo since the actual stereo was either used by my parents or older siblings.
I read that the audio hardware on the PS1 was pretty excellent.
The ps1 game discs often played OST music in regular cd players too. I remember walking around or riding in the car with a few game discs and my portable cd player. Good times.
A Sega CDX was my CD player for a while.
Yes, recently! About two years ago I realized that I wanted more physical media in my house. I wanted stuff that I could put on a shelf, so that when someone came over, they could look at that shelf and say, “Hey, I like that album,” or “Oh, I’ve read that book.”
So I went a used bookstore near me (and immediately fell in love with it, why the hell was I not spending more time there before), and bought an extremely beat-up paperback copy of A Game of Thrones and a CD of Santana’s Greatest Hits.
When I got home I realized I had no way of listening to the CD. I didn’t own a CD player or a Blu-ray player, my computer didn’t have an optical drive, nothing. Then I remembered my old Dreamcast, which was in a box in the garage. So I got that out, set it up, and listened to Santana’s Greatest Hits on ye olde Dreamcast. CDs sound so much warmer on a Dreamcast…
That is also what renewed my interest in retro games. Wanting to listen to a music CD reminded me of how great that system was.
It’s been years since I had a disk player that was not a game console. However last year I helped my kids build gaming computers, so my ex got the disk players
I forget when they stopped supporting it. OG Xbox maybe?
Naw, og xbox can do it. Iirc 360 can too.
Sorry, that’s what I meant, the OG Xbox being the last one to support it.
Oh yeah that’s possible, I no longer have a 360 to test due to RROD, womp womp.
On both the 3DO and the PS1, and possibly the Dreamcast and the CD32. They all had these fun visualizations, IIRC, that were unique to each console.
CD32 was my first CD player, was all cassette for me until then
Damn, I got one cd left that I know of but it’s in storage god knows where.
Used to, now if I have a CD I just rip to MP3.
