bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es

@selectric d-david brooks welcome to the resistance????

I'd like to not only document *if* a CD game has Redbook Audio, but what tracks are on there.

The game soundtrack, audio files for cutscenes, or even that remix that's on Castlevania Symphony of the Night

It's that kind of ephemera I like

A rabbit hole I've since gone down:

How come nobody's properly documented what PS1, Saturn et al games have Redbook audio?

There's lists dating back as far as 2003, but they're incomplete and/or inaccurate.

Looks like I might have a project idea...

@dyke_du_jour you think with that hbomberguy video that more people would go "oh guinness doesn't keep real records, maybe I shouldn't trust them" but I guess not everyone's aware yet

listening to the soundtrack of the Tomb Raider film from 2001 and we're missing out on the days where they'd get a bunch of industrial/electronic artists to contribute some banger tracks

Like, if your soundtrack doesn't have Moby, BT, The Chemical Brothers and Groove Armada, what are you *doing*

something I'm thinking about as I slowly rebuild my music collection to maybe add game music:

do I do what I did last time and sort them into specific playlists

or just throw everything into one big playlist and damn the consequences

@DotMaetrix I remember when I played through the Nightdive remaster and was worried "oh I wonder what they're gonna do with that" and found out they did correctly change it and remove her old portrait with a generic texture

so yeah, point to Nightdive over RTX on that one

New on the Secret Area: It's Quake II RTX.

The 1997 shooter gets a ray-traced makeover. But is it worth playing this over the original, or even the remastered version?

Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2025/04/10/quake-ii-rtx-pc/

@mavica_again hey! you're cool!

you make good stuff!!