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In the same sense there are a lot of advantages to storing your traditional music in the format of its original DAW project files, but wouldn't you agree that's

• nyanpasu64 6y ago
  It's not impractical, there are certain music players (winamp/foobar2000 plugins, some mobile players) which make managing a library of emulated music as easy as managing regular music in those programs, with orders of magnitude smaller files, and added features like endless looping (which is an important feature to looped game music, but less so in commercial music). One reason it works well is because console sound dumps are self-contained and take up two full orders of magnitude less space than the recordings (because they're taken from consoles with small memories), whereas DAW project files often depend on large sample libraries and external VST plugins, taking up more space than the recordings and often come with setup/DRM issues. There are flaws, like PS1 sound dumps often coming with wrong volumes and echo, but then again most recorded versions of those songs were also generated through inaccurate emulation, then fed through lossy codecs, and some have playback/recording glitches.