I had some music stuck in my head so I dug out my old Turbografx CD versions of Ys Book I&II and Ys III.

Unfortunately when I put the discs in my DVD-ROM (an NEC ironically enough) it would not recognize the redbook audio tracks in windows explorer. I searched for the past hour online but have had no luck finding any info on how to play back the audio on my PC, or even extract it if necessary.

I have played the audio tracks from those discs successfully many times outside of the Turbo CD unit... for example I used to play them in my stock Ford CD player, and in my old Pioneer Laserdisc player, but I am having no luck with any of the drives I currently have access to.

Does anyone here have any insight or suggestions?

-PSO

I was able to burn a copy using Nero (omitting the data/voice tracks), and it worked out fine.  I've also been able to rip the tracks with Exact Audio Copy, although some of the tracks end up with short bursts of noise at the very beginning or end.

Thank you,

I did try playing around with Nero, but when I went to extract files from the disc it did not recognize anything more than the first track... "This disc is for use with the Turbografx, etc..."

I did get Nero to at least see the tracks, but it was in a diagnostic screen which did not allow any access to the files... merely stats of the disc.

I will try out EAC and see if I have any luck there, thanks again!

-PSO

Yeah, EAC works great for ripping Turbo CD tracks.

I was able to get Nero 7 Ultra edition to recognize and extract the audio files using the MP4 audio extraction tool. It did a flawless job, and to my surprise when I had it query it's CD database it actually recognized the discs and added in all of the track names.

Though I do wish it had told me which composers did which work as it has Ryo credited for every track on both discs, and I am pretty sure that was not who composed all of the music but arranged it.

Now if only there was a way for me to extract the synth audio that was generated on the fly by the TG16 unit (the small bit of non-redbook CD audio used in the games) because there was some really good compositions in there that I remember, and I no longer have my old TG16 CD unit.

Anyways, I was able to extract the audio and have no issues with pops, clicks, noise, or other glitches of any kind. So I guess we can add Nero 7 Ultra Digital Audio extraction tool to the list of options here in case anyone ever has this problem in the future.

-PSO

The original music in Ys and Ys II was, I believe, completely composed by Yuzo Koshiro.

Don't believe so, I think he composed around 7 to 12 of the tracks, but not all of them.  At least that's what I recall from interviews and conversations on the topic.

IIRC, Mieko Ishikawa was involved.

^^^Yes, that's what I know of it... Yuzo did some, Ryo did some, and Mieko Ishikawa actually did the most composing by number of tracks... or so I have read. Now if only I knew which tracks were composed by which composer I would be all set.

Even if I knew who composed one or two tracks I could probably figure out which other ones they composed just by listening.

If anyone has definitive info, please share.

http://snesmusic.org/hoot/kingshriek/ should do the trick (just search for Ys).

http://homepage2.nifty.com/tkdate/ysmus … /Shot.html should help a lot. It's in japanese, but has track composer credits for all Ys ports, and it should be quite easy to just look up the kanjis somewhere.

Thanks Knurek, I'll look into those sites, and do my best to decypher the Kanji.

-PSO

Awesome! I had no idea anything like this was out there. I downloaded the 'Chipamp' plug-in for Winamp and now I can play back all of the old PC Engine files. Listening to Ys II now. Sounds exactly like I remember it to. Thanks a ton! I'll have to comb the archives now.

Too bad I got rid of my old Turbo CD console (still can't recall what became of it) but at least the most important parts to me (the music) I still have access to.

GMCL (http://ng-stg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gm/) is very helpful here, as it has both Kanji and romanized names of the composers (along with somewhat complete list of their works).