Krystalmyth
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Just wanted to add, that for all the virtues of the Super Nintendo's sound, it can never, and will never, be able to reproduce music like this:
Note the sheer amount of music, and if you've the time to do more than a mere sampling, note this is one of the most complete soundtracks to a game. With ten of the songs at the end, the OMAKEs, going unused... it is a worthwhile listen, especially tracks Metal Squad, and Stand Up Against Myself.
You can tell the sound coming from the Genesis is coming from the Genesis. There is something pure, and clean, and real about everything that comes out of your speakers when listening to this. It's a machine, singing to you... in real time. It's pretty profound to me, when listening to a Genesis on a model 1. Compared to the Sampled nature of even Squaresofts most enchanting tracks on the SNES, or the timeless bells of Bison's Stage in Street Fighter 2, or the orchestral melodies of Link to the Past.
All of those sampled tracks, sound like recordings, and are echoes of some other machine. You can tell just hearing the string sections or vocal choirs of Final Fantasy VI. Some games, like Chrono Trigger use a nice mix of these effects to create a more synthesized melody, which is why Chrono Trigger is exceptional, but it too is mired by its own strengths.
The Mega-Drive, has to function entirely on its own merit. So what is seen as a weakness, is in fact, the quality that makes it great. IT shares this with the PC-Engine, and the MSX and others of its generation, in that its music carries a quality that can only be emulated, what only it could reproduce.
Tell me, have you ever, heard your Super Nintendo sound like this...? Turn it up, feel it in your chest. Just doing my part, to represent a system I overlooked as a child.
Thank you for the space to share this...
Note the sheer amount of music, and if you've the time to do more than a mere sampling, note this is one of the most complete soundtracks to a game. With ten of the songs at the end, the OMAKEs, going unused... it is a worthwhile listen, especially tracks Metal Squad, and Stand Up Against Myself.
You can tell the sound coming from the Genesis is coming from the Genesis. There is something pure, and clean, and real about everything that comes out of your speakers when listening to this. It's a machine, singing to you... in real time. It's pretty profound to me, when listening to a Genesis on a model 1. Compared to the Sampled nature of even Squaresofts most enchanting tracks on the SNES, or the timeless bells of Bison's Stage in Street Fighter 2, or the orchestral melodies of Link to the Past.
All of those sampled tracks, sound like recordings, and are echoes of some other machine. You can tell just hearing the string sections or vocal choirs of Final Fantasy VI. Some games, like Chrono Trigger use a nice mix of these effects to create a more synthesized melody, which is why Chrono Trigger is exceptional, but it too is mired by its own strengths.
The Mega-Drive, has to function entirely on its own merit. So what is seen as a weakness, is in fact, the quality that makes it great. IT shares this with the PC-Engine, and the MSX and others of its generation, in that its music carries a quality that can only be emulated, what only it could reproduce.
Tell me, have you ever, heard your Super Nintendo sound like this...? Turn it up, feel it in your chest. Just doing my part, to represent a system I overlooked as a child.
Thank you for the space to share this...
