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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 61635, member: 1510"] I have a bit of nostalgia for the Genesis sound, as you don't hear certain elements of it much any more. I always miss those electronic "bwa bwaa bwaaa" sounds that were an icon of the sound chip. That said, the sound chip had limited range. As others have mentioned, it was great at techno and metal. However, it didn't handle many other genres well. Micheal Jackson famously got aggravated with it and quit working on Sonic 3. While I still enjoy the game's soundtrack, I have to admit that the final versions of his songs that he later released are much better. And that's not just because they have vocals; the instrumentation that he was going for didn't work on the Genesis. Do I think the SNES was better? Yes and no. It was better for what it was typically used for. And the Genesis often struggled to do those same songs. Call the programmers "lazy" if you want, but the chips were different instruments with different resulting sounds; there was no way to get the same thing out of them. Even later attempts to redo songs from port-overs still often didn't match SNES or arcade versions. A similar thing can be said for the Genesis, though. It was great within its limits, and produced sounds that were unique to it. So there were soundtracks that sounded great on it when the music designed based on what it could do, not based on what the composer wanted to do ideally. All this basically comes down to "use the instrument for the music you are trying to create." It's a pretty simple music 101 concept, so I'm not trying to say I'm making some big revelation. But it's one that gets ignored all too often in this debate. [/QUOTE]

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