SNES soundchip appreciation

[Days of Future Piff]

There's something about that digitized instrumentation that just put SNES music on another level. When you listen to other consoles from back in the day, all of their songs had the same soundfont.

It was dope how so many classic SNES games had their own distinct "sound" even though they were running on the same hardware.

Props to Sony for blessing us with that GOAT SNES soundchip
Nintendo screwed up for going back on their deal with Sony, but I digress

Peep the heat...

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[Yade]

Idk if anyone felt the same way but when I was a toddler I was use to be afraid of the Sega Genesis sounds/music


Some of the songs would sound creepy especially when Magento would pop up on the intro to X-men for Sega

 

[Deltron]

 

[Days of Future Piff]

People are doing wild things with these SNES soundfonts out here

 

[Spliff]

The OSTs are a large reason why a lot of SNES titles are timeless classics.

 

[Fctftl]

 

[Change]

Idk if anyone felt the same way but when I was a toddler I was use to be afraid of the Sega Genesis sounds/music


Some of the songs would sound creepy especially when Magento would pop up on the intro to X-men for Sega

I remember when I got mine it came with Altered Beast. Definitely different them Mario. Sega was scarier. As for the first post, I have no clue about that. How did the Genesis vs SNES sound actually compare?

 

[Kingshango]

That sexy ass bass intro

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

never cared for Super Nes sound overall.

 

[Sbp]

That sexy ass bass intro

That shyt funky and Groovy AF lol

 

[StarClout]

nikkas need to put their vids in spoilers so shyt won’t crash on mobile

With that said:

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[Address_Unknown]

Idk if anyone felt the same way but when I was a toddler I was use to be afraid of the Sega Genesis sounds/music


Some of the songs would sound creepy especially when Magento would pop up on the intro to X-men for Sega

shyt sounded like the high definition version of these old PC greats with the soundblaster chip sound, which were already scary enough from back in the day. It also didn't help that they had some adult titles that leaned heavily on the scare factor with shyt like this.



While the Super had a superior sound chip, there are far too many Genesis games with bangers that outshone anything created on that system.

 

[Deltron]

sega/genesis was better for the more rockish, grimier, or more hardhitting soundtracks...SNES for everything else


like I can't really imagine any of the SoR Games tunes on the SNES...they'd be too orchestrated.
compare


to



or even the sega cd version of FF



SNES version doesn't hit as hard

 

[Days of Future Piff]

The OG Mario Kart may be showing it's age in 2020, but that soundtrack



Battle Mode

 

[Days of Future Piff]

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