https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_CTlKU_7o
I read in the comments by the creator ("Kulor Research Labs Inc.") that it was created entirely from sampled FM instruments from the game. How he recorded these though, is beyond me. Perhaps the most surprising thing to me though, is that he said it only took 22KB, because the instruments were very small. The sound quality could actually be heightened further by having some copies of instruments at different pitches, I imagine, but people already thought he just played the Genesis version.
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I think I had read in an article or a forum post somewhere that the best argument for the SNES having better sound than the Genesis was that the SNES could mimic the Genesis, while the Genesis could not mimic the SNES. That makes for an interesting argument, but it's meaningless without a demonstration showing that it's actually possible. That got me wondering just how close I could make the SNES sound to a Genesis, and this is the result. Sonic 2 is one of my favorite games ever!
I read in the comments by the creator ("Kulor Research Labs Inc.") that it was created entirely from sampled FM instruments from the game. How he recorded these though, is beyond me. Perhaps the most surprising thing to me though, is that he said it only took 22KB, because the instruments were very small. The sound quality could actually be heightened further by having some copies of instruments at different pitches, I imagine, but people already thought he just played the Genesis version.