It's a simple little six channel synthesizer, but its quite versatile (and yes, oldyz, it IS stereo, it just happens that early model Genny's only output stereo to the headphone jack). The Genesis on the other hand packs in a good ole' YM2612. The musical possibilities are effectively endless, but they're all going to sound muffled and warbled. The SNES chip also forced Gaussian filtering whether developers liked it or not, and that made a bad problem that much worse. PCM sound is the de-facto standard now, but at the time it wasn't cost effective at all without heavy compression. The SNES chip was just a bit too forward thinking for its own good. It's a more advanced chipset with two years on the Genny.

Which you like better is subject of course, but which chip is better? That's also subjective. Most of the songs repeat aftor about a minute 45 or so, so at the most those background musical scores end up being about 7 min long.īut, as it is currently it's good enough - The arcade's sound (tmnt & tmnt in time) fonts are the best choice from my point of view So you have a level that starts with the NES tune half way it starts to do stereo panning, turns to Genesis soundfonts then to SNES & finalizes with Arcade & then a final Hybrid. Let's say from the less powerful audio procesors to the best one

Now here is a crazy thing tho - the musical score can be such that Players Don't miss a thing - I wish i had much better musical skills,īut a thing that can be done is music that includes - mixes, goes to & fro the different sound fonts & styles -medleys that would be like:

I as a bit dissapointed its music was not better - which is weird because castlevania in the Sega genesis was not that bad with its musicĭon't get me wrong, Hiperstone Heist also has original tunes that i liked a lot too. MMMmm while i admit that Konami did what they could with the Sega genesis's musical capabilities, ill have to say that turtles in time Arcade's sound fonts have better sound - SNes version has the added advantage that it has stereo & even slightly better (compression rate?)Īdd in the fact that most Sega Genesis musical scores sound so much alike across games (its unmistakable) that when i finally had the game on my hands

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