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Depends on which version of Vice City you played. The original PS2 version would not have had access to a hard drive. GTA: San Andreas on the XBOX did allow yo

Depends on which version of Vice City you played. The original PS2 version would not have had access to a hard drive. GTA: San Andreas on the XBOX did allow you to use such a feature, provided that you had used the XBOX's disc drive to rip the audio CDs yourself. I recall letting the XBOX rip all of my System of a Down CDs circa 2005 for expressly this purpose. PC ports, IDK. Probably.

CydeWeys 3y ago
Oh yeah I distinctly remember playing Deftones over and over and over from local files on the PC version, to the point that all I can think about when I see GTA or hear Minerva is the other one.
addandsubtract 3y ago
Fun fact: Vib-Ribbon (for the PS1) allowed you to swap out the game disc for a music CD to play to your favorite songs.
- ssl-3 3y ago
  So did Ridge Racer. After loading, the entire game (from opening screen to ending scene) fit completely into the PSX's tiny RAM. And the in-game background music was just regular CD audio tracks on the game disk, which was easy since the drive wasn't used for anything else anyway. Open the drive, swap disks for your choice of audio CD, and it was happy to play those tracks instead. (Or, alternatively: Put the Ridge Racer game disk into a regular CD player and enjoy the synthwave soundtrack all on its own.)
IntelMiner 3y ago
A lot of original Xbox games had that feature. It was super unique at the time They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it Playing Halo 3's campaign to Queen was a great experience back in 2007
- ascagnel_ 3y ago
  > They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it The Xbox 360 expanded on the feature in some neat ways -- if you had an iPod or other portable player, you could plug that in via USB, it supported generic DLNA shares (so you could play music from Kodi/XBMC running on a PC), and some (most?) games would flag cutscene audio vs. in-game audio, which would allow the system to pause the user-provided audio and fall back to the game's soundtrack for cutscenes.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    That's fantastic, I'll have to try it out next time I get my 360 plugged in. It also had global settings for controller vibration, inverted camera.. perhaps some others? I really miss those in future generations and on PC.
    - goosedragons 3y ago
      What's crazy is those 360 profile settings still apply to 360 games on modern Xboxes. I was really surprised to see it remembered something I set on my old 360 like 10 years back.
andrybak 3y ago
> PC ports, IDK. Probably Yes. Source: https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Radio_Stations https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Radio_Stations
cal85 3y ago
I remember this on GTA III, played on Windows XP. I think the radio station was called "MP3 Player", and there was an empty folder in the game's application folder to which you could add MP3s.

CydeWeys 3y ago

Oh yeah I distinctly remember playing Deftones over and over and over from local files on the PC version, to the point that all I can think about when I see GTA or hear Minerva is the other one.

addandsubtract 3y ago

Fun fact: Vib-Ribbon (for the PS1) allowed you to swap out the game disc for a music CD to play to your favorite songs.

ssl-3 3y ago
So did Ridge Racer. After loading, the entire game (from opening screen to ending scene) fit completely into the PSX's tiny RAM. And the in-game background music was just regular CD audio tracks on the game disk, which was easy since the drive wasn't used for anything else anyway. Open the drive, swap disks for your choice of audio CD, and it was happy to play those tracks instead. (Or, alternatively: Put the Ridge Racer game disk into a regular CD player and enjoy the synthwave soundtrack all on its own.)

IntelMiner 3y ago

A lot of original Xbox games had that feature. It was super unique at the time They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it Playing Halo 3's campaign to Queen was a great experience back in 2007

ascagnel_ 3y ago
> They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it The Xbox 360 expanded on the feature in some neat ways -- if you had an iPod or other portable player, you could plug that in via USB, it supported generic DLNA shares (so you could play music from Kodi/XBMC running on a PC), and some (most?) games would flag cutscene audio vs. in-game audio, which would allow the system to pause the user-provided audio and fall back to the game's soundtrack for cutscenes.
- crtasm 3y ago
  That's fantastic, I'll have to try it out next time I get my 360 plugged in. It also had global settings for controller vibration, inverted camera.. perhaps some others? I really miss those in future generations and on PC.
  - goosedragons 3y ago
    What's crazy is those 360 profile settings still apply to 360 games on modern Xboxes. I was really surprised to see it remembered something I set on my old 360 like 10 years back.

andrybak 3y ago

> PC ports, IDK. Probably Yes. Source: https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Radio_Stations https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Radio_Stations

cal85 3y ago

I remember this on GTA III, played on Windows XP. I think the radio station was called "MP3 Player", and there was an empty folder in the game's application folder to which you could add MP3s.