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A mixed mode CD is a Compact Disc which contains with data and audio in one session.[1] Typically the first track is a data track while the rest are audio tracks. The most common use for mixed mode CDs is to add CD-quality audio to video games on a CD.
The term "enhanced CD" is sometimes used to refer to mixed mode CDs,[2] though it is most commonly used to refer to either a more general category of formats that mix audo and data tracks, or to the particular Enhanced Music CD format.[2]
Overview
Mixed mode CDs are implicitly described in the original CD-ROM standard (the Yellow Book, later standardized as ISO/IEC 10149 and ECMA-130), which allows a CD-ROM to contain only data tracks, or data tracks and audio tracks.[3] The CD-ROM standard, however, does not mention the term "mixed mode", nor does it describe any particular order of data and audio tracks on the disc. Since the original CD-ROM standard did not support multiple sessions, mixed mode CDs are created using only one session.
Some CD players from the 1990s have trouble with the mixed mode CD format because the first track, which contains data, might be "played", resulting in screeching which, at worst, might damage speakers.[1] This is caused by the player not recognizing the "data" flag bit for the track that distinguishes it from an audio track; these players were designed for audio CDs only, with no provisions to handle CD-ROMs with data and audio tracks. Newer audio CD players do check for data tracks and (at least) mute the track if it is contains data and not audio.
Several newer formats were created to improve the usability of CDs with audio and data tracks in audio CD players; these formats include CD-i, CD-i Ready and the Enhanced Music CD format. In the case of the Enhanced Music CD format (also known as CD Extra/CD Plus), audio tracks are placed in one session before the data tracks, which are stored in a second session. This avoids the problem with the data track for most audio players, since they will only be able to recognize the first session.[2]
Use in video games
Most games released for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega CD and NEC PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx CD were mixed mode CDs. Several games for the PC and the Playstation were mixed mode CDs as well. Games ported from floppy disks or a cartridges to a CD would often replace the music with audio CD tracks. Full-motion video (FMV) games, however, usually embbeded video and audio in CD-ROM data files and tend not to use audio tracks in the game. A short audio track would be included with FMV games anyway so that when these discs were played in a CD player the audio track would utter a warning like "This disc is for use in the Sega CD system only."
List of mixed mode CDs
Computer Games
- 21-Two One-
- Age of Empires
- Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
- Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
- Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
- Air (visual novel)
- Battlezone
- Battlezone II: Combat Commander
- Bejeweled 2
- Bittersweet Fools
- Bless Close Your Eyes, Open Your Mind
- Blood
- Call to Power II
- Capitalism 2
- Carmageddon
- Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
- Centipede (1998 video game)
- Chasm: The Rift
- Cherry Petals Fall Like Teardrops
- The City of Lost Children
- Civilization II
- Civilization: Call to Power
- Comic Party
- Command & Conquer Red Alert Expansion packs
- Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
- Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
- Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
- Dark Colony
- Dark Reign 2
- Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager
- Descent
- Descent II
- Disney's Tarzan
- Driver
- Dungeon Keeper
- Earthsiege 2
- Earthworm Jim
- EXTREME-G 2
- Extreme Assault
- Extreme Paintbrawl
- Fatal Racing
- Forsaken
- Fury3
- FX Fighter
- Grand Theft Auto
- Glover (video game)
- Half-Life
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
- Hansel and Gretel and the Enchanted Castle
- Heavy Gear II
- Hellbender
- Heretic II
- Heroes of Might and Magic
- Heroes of Might and Magic II
- Hexen
- Hexen II
- Hunter Hunted
- Imperialism
- The Incredible Machine 3
- Incubation: Time Is Running Out
- Incubation: The Wilderness Missions
- Interstate '76
- Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Kanon
- Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
- Kingpin: Life of Crime
- King's Quest Collector's Edition (disc 2)
- King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Kizuato
- Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom
- Little Big Adventure (a.k.a. Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure)
- Little Big Adventure 2 (a.k.a. Twinsen's Odyssey)
- Lode Runner 2
- Loom
- Magic: The Gathering 7th Edition Starter CD
- Magical Antique
- MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
- MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy
- MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
- MechWarrior 3
- MechWarrior 3: Pirate's Moon
- Moon.
- Mortal Kombat (on the combined MK 1 and 2 CD release)
- Mortal Kombat 2
- Mortal Kombat 3
- Mortal Kombat 4
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Moto Racer
- Moto Racer 2
- Motorhead (video game)
- Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven (disc 2)
- Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor (disc 2)
- Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer (disc 2)
- Mirage (disc 2 - Making of Mirage)
- One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e
- One Unit: Whole Blood
- The Operative: No One Lives Forever (disc 2)
- Outcast (disc 2)
- Outlaws (both discs)
- Outpost
- Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain
- POD - Planet of Death
- Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In
- Protostar: War on the Frontier
- P.Y.S.T.
- Quake
- Quake II
- Quake II Mission Pack No. 1: The Reckoning
- Quake II Mission Pack No. 2: Ground Zero
- Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
- Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
- Quarantine
- Railroad Tycoon II
- Rainbow Six
- Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
- Rayman
- Re-Volt
- Recoil (video game)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII
- Sam & Max Hit the Road
- Sangokushi Koumeiden
- Screamer 2
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Settlers III, The (as well as New Missions and Amazons expansions)
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (both discs)
- Shadow Warrior
- Shattered Steel
- Shivers II: Harvest of Souls (disc 2)
- Shizuku
- Sled Storm
- Soldier of Fortune
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD
- Sonic R
- Star Fighter
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (video game)
- Star Wars: TIE Fighter (Collector's Series Edition only)
- Star Wars: X-Wing (Collector's Series Edition only)
- Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
- Super Bubsy
- Tasogare
- Tempest 2000
- Test Drive 4
- Test Drive 5
- To Heart
- Tomb Raider
- Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (Expansion)
- Tomb Raider II
- Tomb Raider II: Golden Mask (Expansion)
- Total Annihilation (both discs 1 and 2)
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Tsukihime
- Tye: The Demon Slayer
- Urban Assault
- Virtual On
- Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (PC/Mac Hybrid discs)
- Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal
- Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
- Warlords III: Reign of Heroes
- Warlords III: Dark Lords Rising
- WaterRace
- Welcome to Pia Carrot
- White Album (visual novel)
- Worms
- Worms 2
- Worms United
PlayStation console games
- Air Combat
- Alien Trilogy
- Animorphs
- Brave Fencer Musashi
- Bust-a-Move 2
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Cool Boarders 2
- Cyber Sled
- Dead or Alive
- Destruction Derby
- Destruction Derby Raw
- Die Hard Trilogy
- Eliminator
- Fantastic Four
- Formula 1 (video game)
- Forsaken
- Grand Theft Auto (video game)
- Hexen
- Hogs of War
- Jet Moto
- Jet Moto 2
- Jeremy McGrath SuperCross '98
- Jersey Devil
- MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
- MegaMan 8
- MDK
- Namco Museum Vol. 1
- Namco Museum Vol. 2
- Namco Museum Vol. 3
- Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
- Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
- Pepsiman
- Rage Racer
- Rayman
- Rayman 2: The Great Escape
- Re-Volt
- Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
- Ridge Racer
- Ridge Racer Revolution
- Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012
- Rollcage
- Rollcage Stage II
- Streak: Hoverboard Racing
- Street Fighter Alpha
- Street Fighter The Movie
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
- Tekken
- Tekken 2
- Tekken 3
- Thrill Kill
- Time Crisis
- Tomb Raider
- Tomb Raider II
- Treasures of the Deep
- Turbo Prop Racing
- Twisted Metal
- Twisted Metal 2
- Twisted Metal III
- Twisted Metal 4
- Vanishing Point
- V-Rally
- Vib-Ribbon
- Vigilante 8
- Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
- Wipeout
- Wipeout 2097
- Wipeout 3
- X-COM: UFO Defense
Other console games
- Ecco the Dolphin (Sega CD version)
- Ecco: The Tides of Time (Sega CD version)
- Jurassic Park (Sega CD)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Sega CD version)
- Terminator (Sega CD version)
See also
References
- ^ a b PCMAG.com Mixed Mode CD Definition
- ^ a b c Enhanced CD Formats
- ^ "Data Interchange on Read-only 120 mm Optical Data Disks (CD-ROM)". ECMA. 1996. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
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