Hello, fellow moderators.
The media player on the desktop was a prop with a chiptune behind it. It is a media player.
Six tracks stream as real MP3s, and the filename the LCD scrolls is the actual file. When one ends it advances to the next, like a playlist should.
The seek bar is draggable. Click or drag anywhere on it to scrub. The elapsed clock and the thumb follow the real playhead instead of counting on their own.
The vol and bal sliders are real controls. Vol drives the Music channel of the tray mixer, so the two stay in sync and it persists with the rest of your audio settings. Bal actually pans the music, fills outward from a centre tick, and re-centres on a double click.
Three-state transport. Pause holds the track where it is and lights up the way play does. Stop kills it and rewinds the clock to 00:00. The LCD glyph shows all three, and the visualizer freezes while paused instead of animating silence. Unpausing the game no longer resumes music you had paused yourself.
Burnout still speeds the music up, and on the MP3 path it now pitches up with it, exactly like dragging the speed slider on the real thing did.
If a track fails to load, that entry falls back to its old chiptune version, per track. Nothing goes silent.
Every track is credited in the credits window next to the parody filename you saw on the LCD.
Thanks for reading. Wishlist if you have not, it is the thing that helps most.