I get that these are technically higher quality, but the SNES versions have a lot of nostalgia value for someone who has played the game a ton.
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Dedicated fans reverse engineer original uncompressed Super Mario World music samples.
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Thanks for the explanation, looks like I was in the right track :-)
Ah now this is interesting. I had no idea this was a thing that existed. The audio pitch issues in the footage make for a painful listening experience though lol.
I think even with uncompressed samples we can admit the genesis sounds better now than this does hearing it for the first time. Some of these are good but they mostly sound... weird with clarity. It doesn't make it sound better.
Now that is cool, I love the battle theme, lots of bass. Never seen that.
I just played MSU-1 Chrono Trigger, but didn't like the symphonic track they used for the battle music, so I swapped it with the alternate MSU-1 Chrono Trigger battle theme, which was very similar to the cart version. Wish I could use that theme instead.
I don't believe Quintet's hardware has been sourced so these are more transformative than restorative but there have been some ActRaiser projects.
No digital version? Boooo! Still, it's amazing that they did this. So many amazing memories of such a great game!
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Its a tie. I prefer SNES myself, but the Genesis shined brightly. Streets of Rage 2 is just incredible OST wise.
But for SNES, you had LTTP, Super Metroid, Ninja Warriors Again, Secret of Mana, FFVII, Chrono Trigger, FZero, Super Mario RPG, Plok, Killer Instinct. So many great OSTs.
Have to bring system wars into it...
This is literally about one game's soundtrack.
It is mostly a stand-in for lack of better vocabulary. You are basically hearing educated guesses as to what the soundtracks may have sounded like if the SNES had CD audio. Think Nintendo Playstation. The educated part of restoring it coming from people being able to source the original audio hardware nintendo used to generate the lower fidelity samples used to make the music.
It is kind of like having the original models used to make the animations in Donkey Kong Country rather than just the sprite animations. It is just an interesting exercise.
I gotcha. Thank you! I was wondering if this was intimating that this is how the game actually sounded like back on the SNES and we've all been enduring some kid of shit version in all the emulated/Virtual-Console versions ever since for the past 3 decades.
Yep, but the issue is if CD audio was on the cards, they may have chosen to do something completely different, and they may have chosen (and in many cases almost certainly did) the original samples only due to the sound they made after compression being suitable.
An example of what a real SNES CD soundtrack would almost certainly have been are things like the MSU1 patches for Earthworm Jim 1/2, which use the Mega CD/Saturn CD soundtracks, rather than 'decompressed' versions of the SNES soundtrack.
That said, some of these exercises end up with good results. The DKC MSU1 patches sound almost identical, just clearer, so are a nice boost even if not what would have been done if CD was available.
Clicked on this thread on a lark and I am surprised at how delighted I am by these recreations. Something about being the same sounds but uncompressed is just magical, even more than they very good covers and such done over the years.
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Yeah, it's also a later SNES title. Bigger cart sizes and better tools presumably.
Not a fan of the Orchestral renditions of Actraiser. Too low tempo for me.
I do love this arrangement tho. It's much more in spirit to the original Super Famicom Filmoa: