SNES audio is generally compressed and the muffled sound comes from the interpolation used on the samples and a low pass filter which is used to hide the resultant artifacts.
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Id only ROM wasn't so expensive back in the days of cartridge games. We could have had so much better audio on every system, more graphics and larger games Have you guys heard what the Mega Drive is actually capable of when ROM size isn't an issue? Just take a look at this video as an example. 100% pure Mega Drive. No fancy emulation tricks or extra hardware.
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Bummer, just watched the video below and it has awful sound quality. It doesn't sound liek that on my Mega Drive but at least you get an idea of what is possible on such old hardware.
Last edited by Yakumo; 05-06-2014, 12:48.
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Originally posted by importaku View PostI see your bad apple demo on a megadrive & raise you the same demo on pokemon mini lol.
Originally posted by AtticusAnother excellent BotP Yakumo. Brings back some great memories
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I remeber Mean Machines mag here in the UK giving it 98% and saying it was arcade perfect, which it isn't but I guess back in '93 it was the closest you were ever going to get. But comparing the 2 version now:
Lower resolution
Less detailed backgrouds
Less frames of animation
Smaller Sprite size
Smaller colour pallet
Missing arcade intro
Missing sound effects
Missing music tempo change
Lower quaility audio
Music isn't identical to the arcade
The fact that when I got the snes game I never even noticed any of the above, apart from the lack of 'hurry up' music tempo change towards the end of the match and the announcer saying the country names was missing from the snes version, but I didn't even notice the blaytant difference in musical instruments used between the 2 versions which resulted in a rather different sounding music track for each stage. It was still a amazing port and played the crap out of it, and the important thing was it played like the arcade version which I guess is all that matters the rest is just superficial stuff, or though the PAL version was a slowly squashed mess when compared to the NTSC version which luckily my 12 year self was blissfully unaware of at the time.
To my 12 year old self it was arcade perfectLast edited by lettuce; 09-06-2014, 09:48.
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Originally posted by lettuce View PostTo my 12 year old self it was arcade perfect
Sega Saturn mag back in the day talked about Sega Rally, throwing around terms like it replicating the arcade experience, when we know it was anything but; even so, it played exceptionally well and I didn't feel the need to revisit the arcade once I owned it.
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Really should do some more research Yakumo before making those videos the Xbox360 is a straight up arcade port/emulation of Street Fighter II Turbo.
The HD redrawn one was Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix which was done by Backbone with art from Udon and all involved in this travesty should have been locked away.
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Originally posted by S3M View PostThe HD redrawn one was Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix which was done by Backbone with art from Udon and all involved in this travesty should have been locked away.
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Originally posted by S3M View PostReally should do some more research Yakumo before making those videos the Xbox360 is a straight up arcade port/emulation of Street Fighter II Turbo.
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Originally posted by Asura View PostMags had really different definitions of "arcade perfect" back in the 90s. For some, it was pixel-perfect (which is really what it's supposed to mean) whereas others adopted the idea that home consoles were inherently weaker (apart from the NeoGeo) and a game was "arcade perfect" if it replicated the experience to the point where the port played like the original and could be considered a very good game.
Sega Saturn mag back in the day talked about Sega Rally, throwing around terms like it replicating the arcade experience, when we know it was anything but; even so, it played exceptionally well and I didn't feel the need to revisit the arcade once I owned it.
Anyway for me the MD version of SF II was the best home version thanks to the MD 6 button pad
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Originally posted by lettuce View PostTo my 12 year old self it was arcade perfect
The only differences were luckily, just the finishing touches.
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