We need more of these weird tech uploads on here and game sack. The episodes where you show how you Frankenstein one medium of tech into another are always my favorites. With unlimited money I'm positive you could get us to the moon again with master systems.

This channel is so much better than Game Sack.

@daveunknown01

2 жыл бұрын

Moonrazer?

@Jesse__H

2 жыл бұрын

YEAH plus I hate that _Joe_ guy. I much prefer Joe.

I think that might be a new game sack episode. Games you've played that you became aware of thanks to the music you heared on the mini discs you were sent!

I have the Sony MXD-D400 deck. I had connected an XM satellite radio via a hacked Toslink, and used the "Time Machine" recording (buffers 6 seconds) so I would not miss the beginning when my favorite songs came on the air. Then XM dropped the bit rate on my favorite station to "mud".

Getting Techmoan and VWestlife from this but in a GameSack kinda style. Love it!

Great players. I love minidiscs

I love this! Old hifi history, game music.. aaahh right up my alley. Great stuff Joe!

I remember MiniDiscs and the advent of MP3 players and it's amazing how some things stick around and somethings go by the wayside. You can still buy blank cassettes but I haven't seen a MiniDisc player since about a year after they came out. I didn't even realize they were still making them until 2013. Go Figure. We always need more Joe!

My favorite thing about this is Joe’s titles. Of course now in the modern age with the spread of retro gaming culture, and the knowledge we gain from being active on the internet in these circles, we all know the proper terminology. “Ah yes, this is the overworld theme!” But these minidiscs aren’t from 2020’s Joe Red. They’re from 1994 Joe Red. “This is the song that plays when you go outside, this is the outside music.” I think it paints a nice picture of what gaming culture was like and how the average gamer - or even someone verrrrry deep into the hobby - what kind of common vernacular they would’ve used in referring to this stuff.

I loved this, the stories and the music make great content. I would dig a series, since you have so many mini discs there

I enjoyed this video very much. I think we have very similar musical tastes. I was in lala land listening to the music.

I loved well still love the MiniDisc format. I even went into HiMD with those 1GB discs. They were so handy especially as you could use them for data storage too. So much more versatile than CD-Rs and as you always carry the "Reader/ writer" with you it was like a modern day thumb stick which I don't think existed, at least not in large capacities back then. Thanks for sharing this. Unfortunately all my MiniDiscs are long gone. Always want to get a new system but I know its just a novelty.

@ianz9916

Жыл бұрын

I have bought about 40 MiniDisc recorders in the last 3 years. I've actually got another one arriving tomorrow. I have two decks, one micro system and a MiniDisc mixer too. I think it has become an obsession, but it's far less damaging than some other obsessions.

Sound Sack makes me laugh so much. Thanks, Redifer

Man, that Vapor Trail main theme sounds sooo good 🤤

I loved mini disks!!!

Subscribed when I discovered this a week ago and I’m psyched to see a new episode. For what it’s worth I would love to see more information about the nuances of sound in games along with your favorite games for excellent audio. I remember when games went 5.1 but I never found a game that seemed to truly use it. Thanks for showing us your audio sack!

My dad used to use minidiscs up until a year or two ago for editing interviews since the interviewer didn’t like to change his workflow and got used to MD back when it was relevant.

Looking forward to watching this in full later. I've been a minidisc fan since they came out, I still have a functioning portable deck and a Sony hifi with a working minidisc player. The sound quality is still fantastic, beats any smart phone or MP3 player hands down.

mate this is such a good episode, always wanted a mini disc player when i was younger, can see the passion and excitement you have for this in this video, love sound sack

Hell yes Yngwie and Satriani! Rising force was my first intro to virtuoso guitar!

Thank you Joe for great video. I started to record some music of games after seeing this video. GunGriffon Blaze has great music

mindiscs are amazing

This is such an awesome video Joe! I wish i could listen to these compilations for music to put on while im at work!

*Cart Tunes* is utterly brilliant. Could be your third BGM channel right there.

I was so happy when I got my player i would go on webtv down load the song on it then play it back and record it to mini disk i was never big in to tapes I had a sony deck i got from wards I loved it I used it for many years untill cdr's started to come around

I had that exact same gold sony minidisc player in highschool. It was a big deal because I didn't have a cd burner and that thing could read and write music to MDs

This was a great show and really hit hard with memories and nostalgia as music tends to do so. Back in the late 80s and early 90s after experimenting recording game music using a ghetto blaster and just it's bare mic, one friend figured out how to route the audio cable(s) to the inputs on an amplifier/receiver and we then had that hooked up to a proper cassette recorder (we were like only 12 or 13 at the time). Using the built in fader we made countless cassettes of NES and SNES game soundtracks, especially any game that had a sound test mode or games where the music kept pumping even when paused (F-Zero).

Underrated channel.

Your collection is amazing. Lots of hidden treasures in vgm. Dracula Battle Perfect Selection I&II 🎸🎶🎵🦇 two of the best soundtracks ever. Snatcher Battle, is also very cool. Konami Kukeiha Club. The Legends of vgm. A collection of talents, that created so many memories. Miss their sound style. Hopefully one day, will return

Damn I feel how heartbroken that guy would have been if the disk was stolen

real cool video considering how reluctant you were in the intro! xD

I love that you recorded the Donkey Kong country underwater music it’s one of my favorite songs

Sound sack!!!!! I saw this notification and dropped everything to see it.

Yes sound sack is back!

I went and replaced the belt on my player for recording the Super Mario Galaxy and Odyssey soundtracks for someone at Christmas. Editing them and titling them took me back. So for pure S&G I streamed via a Spotify Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia album. Went Spotify- PS3- into a CRT and analog out and in the MiniDisc and still plays well lol 😆 great video. And can't wait to see more.

I miss my MD player. I was coming back from a semester abroad in Scotland in 2003 an got dumped by my gf a few days earlier. Ended up getting drunk on the plane and forgetting it in the seat pocket.

This is really neat. I used to have (probably still have) a couple of tapes with some video game music on it. I remember having some Castlevania 4, Dracula X (SNES) and Doom (SNES) on tape. I got way into playing the legit files in WinAMP with the various plugins.

Great selection you have there, I often played game in 8 and 16 bit era just to listen to its bgm, everything else was just a bonus.Joe Red does sound like a name for a pirate, video game music pirate, that is.

Wow, I’m impressed by the sound quality of these. I think I had mini disc as a kid but no player to record anything to it…why did I have that?

Joe's been blowing his paycheck on cutting edge tech for decades! I just sold my Net MD a couple months ago. I never owned a deck, though.

I'm old like Joe but never heard of this. Oh my misspent youth!

Awesome.

41:17 is a Chopin Prelude, Op. 28 No. 20

This audio disc format is similar to Digital Compact Cassette

Hey Joe are you a fan of techmoan? A brilliant British KZreadr who covers lots of old school video and audio tech.

Why isn't there a list of music used in this video, like on GAME Sack?

40:35 love daddy milk zuntata live. The Amiga conversion had an great version of the song. That's how it heard it first.

Some of the songs, specially the ones from Dracula X2 are great, I'd love to hear the complete version of that night fall track but it's impossible to find !

Love the content and the stories behind the discs! This reminds me of the mixtape videos from Chris Alaimo @CGQ, you should do some collab or something on this topic.

@GameSack

2 жыл бұрын

His tapes actually inspired me to explore this.

@irmaosver

2 жыл бұрын

@@GameSack I am glad you decided to make the video! So many good tunes from games I hadn't heard before.

Mhhmmm shadow hearts

I think SDDS from 35mm used the same compression as mini disk I think its 4 to 1. I remeber recording the sound track to snacher on this my friend inported the cd good times

Ah, I wish Minidisc players are easier to find where I live, but outside of importing (and suffering huge import taxes and currency exchange rates), it's terribly unlikely for me. Love the idea of the format

tiny phalanx was a shooter you could play with a code in Zero Divide

Oh yeah I have 2 or 3 songs in my car who don't get going ;-) I often think it's paused or the radio is switched off when I am busy with driving

I actually know someone named Darius.

@samuelg7673

2 жыл бұрын

same

I had the exact same portable MD player, except mine was black

Besides being more portable, does MD hold any advantage over CD?

@soundsack5400

2 жыл бұрын

Well you can record on them and re-record much easier than a CD-RW. You could delete one track from the middle of the disc and put something new on there, for example. Erasing a track or disc tacks maybe 1 second, and re-recording happens in real time or even 2X like with my CD-to-MD player featured in this video. MiniDiscs are certainly more rigid and less prone to skipping than a CD. MDLP compressed files even more and sounded less good as a result. They also worked on only a handful of players.

That one at 8:46 sounds great. Can you buy this?

So, uh, I just have to ask--what line of work was your Dad (or Mom) in when you were a kid, Joe?

@GameSack

11 ай бұрын

I was employed when MiniDisc came out. Bought it with my own money, not mommy and daddy's.

@RichardHartness

11 ай бұрын

@@GameSack Oh, cool, and sorry to assume that. I thought you'd be about my age and in 1992 I was around 11. I guess you're older than I thought. But thanks for the reply. Off and on I've wondered how you had so much cool gaming stuff in the early 90s and such. I guess being employed back then makes sense. :D

For some reason all mine are playing very over-modulated.

So Joe ... you're gonna put up a link where we can download all these deep cuts from vg history, right? Riiiiiight? 😁😗

So people actually do listen to video game music outside of their games?

No way…

Minidisc is my no.1 favourite recording and music archiving format. But full sized minidisc recorders were a stupid idea and contributed to the failure of the format, minidisc was designed to be small simple as that, a full sized deck never made any sense to me, these sonys were 90% empty space inside, a real space waster for no good reason, this is why i LOVE my Onkyo FR-X7, sony machines suffered from two design faults, 1, their VFD screens faded like crap in a very short time due to being overdriven by the wrong resistor fitted to the VFD tube, and 2, their mechanisms were very poor, my onkyo is the best sounding minidisc machine ive ever heard.

Where’s Dave?

@talideon

2 жыл бұрын

Off delivering the goods

Who’s this noob making videos? 🤣