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Post by necromaniac on Apr 23, 2008 12:48:03 GMT -5
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Post by DojoCasino on Apr 27, 2008 16:34:38 GMT -5
Two soundtracks that I would like to add to my list:
- Biohazard Battle (this game has such an amazing atmosphere, and the music definately plays a big part in that)
- Gynoug (a lot of great music here, but I partically like the baroque-ish music from round 3-1, reminds me a lot of shin megami tensei)
On a related note, the megadrive/genesis had some really awesome shoot em ups.
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Post by drakul on May 2, 2008 16:23:36 GMT -5
Castle of Illusion
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Post by akumajobelmont on May 2, 2008 21:48:59 GMT -5
Hell MF-YES! So many fond memories. It's the game that I cut my teeth on when it came to line-in recording haha. I'd sit there with a cord running from my MD headphone socket into my Karaoke machine I had as a child, and record onto cassette tape. All my christmas's had come at once !!! Most of the MM games on the MD were awesome... World of Illusion was rather incredible too. Easy games that they were, they were still some of the most lovingly crafted platformers of that era. I still feel the itch to clock 'em every now and then.. ... they don't make them like they used too...
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Post by ommadawnyawn on May 14, 2008 19:28:24 GMT -5
These are some awesome compilations, that's for sure. They picked many of my favorites (ESPECIALLY Format X from Contra: Hard Corps). Now, question to all of you: Are there any games in these compilations that you feel should have been represented? They were all made by me so thank you There's also an imports part and I might do a "best of the rest" if I can gather enough good stuff for it. I noticed a while after making the clips, that the the Format X lead melody sounds Very similar to the Earthworm Jim 2 track in the same clip. Coincidence? X-Men 2 was represented, but I forget in which clip. I thought the prequel was too hard on the ears to put in there, and most of the compositions bored me. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CysxKpL7Md4
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2008 19:57:50 GMT -5
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Post by Smithee on May 16, 2008 21:03:10 GMT -5
Y'know it's a shame MMX was never made for the Genesis, I think it would've been interesting to hear it done with the FM style.
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Post by Haz on May 17, 2008 14:42:19 GMT -5
Target Earth, I guess.
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Post by PooshhMao on Jun 19, 2008 13:01:34 GMT -5
It's a bit like comparing early 80's synthpop with late 80's sample-heavy dance stuff.
A matter of personal preference really.
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Post by djsw on Jun 23, 2008 20:21:22 GMT -5
As the guy who did the vast majority of the rips over at PJ2612, I'm pretty clearly biased, but I definitely prefer the often-tinny MD sound over the often-bland SFC sound. You really had to work to get a punchy sound out of the SFC, while you had to be careful not to explode eardrums on the MD. Didn't really help that everything was usually drenched in reverb on the other side. I hate what the GEMS sound engine did to most western-developed games, though. The vast majority of American games made after 1992 used it, and it sounded, frankly, like total crap. Only a few composers (Howard Drossin comes immediately to mind) knew how to use it effectively. The fact that it could take a straight MIDI stream meant most people just used it as a tool to directly port over SFC music without a second thought. Which I suppose was the idea, but I've seen people describe later Genesis games as sounding "a little off", then listing off a bunch of GEMS games.
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