It's funny because Gors and I were talking about this just 3 days ago. I'm serious. 3 days. And he made me listen to Genesis and SNES version comparisons of the same song.
It's funny, because one of the examples he brought up was Rock N' Roll Racing.
Since I can't find really nicely organized examples,
Here's an OST collection of the Genesis version of the game.
Now that your ears are on the verge of bleeding, here's a playlist of the SNES version's OST. It sounds like synthesized sex in comparison.
I'd say that the SNES' sound processing beats the living pants off of the Genesis', as he literally just said above me that the SNES is able to play sound samples and then be played on any one of those sound channels, so it's bound to just sound better. The Genesis, on the other hand was a bit of a beast to program for (not to mention I'm pretty sure its sound tech predates the SNES as well) so you're always gonna have rough sounding, raw sound - but it's always going to sound kind of flat in comparison.
The most comparable sounds you're gonna get is like, bitcrushed samples on the Sega Genesis. Still one of my favorite songs to this day to come out of a Genesis is probably from TMNT Hyperstone Heist...but it's not very...rock-sounding, like at all.
Also I'm not sure if linking to a Konami game is cheating when talking about music since I'm pretty sure they had custom sound hardware in their cartridges :/ (also those fairlight orchestra hits are like crack)
edit: oops sorry if it reads like im suckin up to gors. na we just talk about nintendo beeps and boops a lot
It's funny, because one of the examples he brought up was Rock N' Roll Racing.
Since I can't find really nicely organized examples,
Here's an OST collection of the Genesis version of the game.
Now that your ears are on the verge of bleeding, here's a playlist of the SNES version's OST. It sounds like synthesized sex in comparison.
I'd say that the SNES' sound processing beats the living pants off of the Genesis', as he literally just said above me that the SNES is able to play sound samples and then be played on any one of those sound channels, so it's bound to just sound better. The Genesis, on the other hand was a bit of a beast to program for (not to mention I'm pretty sure its sound tech predates the SNES as well) so you're always gonna have rough sounding, raw sound - but it's always going to sound kind of flat in comparison.
The most comparable sounds you're gonna get is like, bitcrushed samples on the Sega Genesis. Still one of my favorite songs to this day to come out of a Genesis is probably from TMNT Hyperstone Heist...but it's not very...rock-sounding, like at all.
Also I'm not sure if linking to a Konami game is cheating when talking about music since I'm pretty sure they had custom sound hardware in their cartridges :/ (also those fairlight orchestra hits are like crack)
edit: oops sorry if it reads like im suckin up to gors. na we just talk about nintendo beeps and boops a lot
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