I mean probably no one but I sure do, in the past it was a thing. Mostly the idea of it is to listen to the music so you can obviously test if your sound system is working properly. But the idea of being able to listen to all the songs featured in a game... and they loop too! Is just something I wish we still had now and days. I mean sure I get that people have sound tracks and sell them but those don't loop like the game does, it has the abrupting fade to silence and restart that works okay if you listening to songs in order but for songs that play in repeat is not. Is the very reason why I listen to music in foobar 2000.
As much as I wish I didn't have to do that, i just do cause it makes things easier. It made me happy when I saw a game like sonic mania on the switch, nice soundtrack for what is worth, and it has the sound test option that you can unlock. Is basically the same as the D.A. Garden from sonic cd when you get a fancy background with the option to choose any song to listen to on repeat. (And yes i know if you unlock debug mode you can also use level select to get sound test as well) Having that brought bad lot of memories I had with my genesis listening to all 3 sonic game's music, and other games as well.
I know people don't really think about that anymore, now is a different time where if people did have that, you would find videos on youtube of the songs and people who kind wanna sell the soundtrack as a purchase digitally or on disc don't get much worth. Still with the purchase of a game, why should we have to buy a seperate item for just audio? People make enough from the game with the prices they sell them at, and not to mention some of them are even sold with the special edition of the games. As much as I gotten used to extracting files from a game data to use in foobar I just wish i didn't have to all the time. Especially since some of them require access to homebrew which we see now and days not everyone has access to on their systems due to constant update in attempt to prevent exploits of the system.
As much as I wish I didn't have to do that, i just do cause it makes things easier. It made me happy when I saw a game like sonic mania on the switch, nice soundtrack for what is worth, and it has the sound test option that you can unlock. Is basically the same as the D.A. Garden from sonic cd when you get a fancy background with the option to choose any song to listen to on repeat. (And yes i know if you unlock debug mode you can also use level select to get sound test as well) Having that brought bad lot of memories I had with my genesis listening to all 3 sonic game's music, and other games as well.
I know people don't really think about that anymore, now is a different time where if people did have that, you would find videos on youtube of the songs and people who kind wanna sell the soundtrack as a purchase digitally or on disc don't get much worth. Still with the purchase of a game, why should we have to buy a seperate item for just audio? People make enough from the game with the prices they sell them at, and not to mention some of them are even sold with the special edition of the games. As much as I gotten used to extracting files from a game data to use in foobar I just wish i didn't have to all the time. Especially since some of them require access to homebrew which we see now and days not everyone has access to on their systems due to constant update in attempt to prevent exploits of the system.
