http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6iHlBN_ZM

What probrem with bass?!

Sounds good to me. Maybe it isn't as thick and synthy as the FM basses... but if you had that kind of bass with nice, crisp, digital samples of strings and such, it wouldn't fit very well. It would be like New Order covering the bass for a symphonic orchestra. lol

To fix that, you'd have to sample in more synthy sounding stuff for it all to blend well..... and then you would be moving away from what the SNES is good at, which is high quality sampling that resembles real acoustic instruments as opposed to synthesized stuff.

FM and SNES sampling two very different and very good beasts.

Both systems do what they do perfectly... SNES doesn't get the thick, chuggy bass, and Genesis doesn't get the smooth, warm violin sounds. It happens.

That reminds me of a friend who bitched and moaned that an analog synth I sold him wouldn't sound like a grand piano.

I looked at him and said "Duh?".




Though like I said, if you want to split hairs and be all technical... you COULD sample FM crap on the SNES and make it sound pretty synthofized....

and you could also make an entire CD soundtrack made of FM sounds as well...or SNES sounds. Whatever you want really! CD audio isn't going to be interactive of course, but you could do just about anything you want with CD audio lol. You could record touch tone phone tones and use a coffee can for a drum if you want...

So what really is better than what here? I think it's all good.

As for orchestral Genesis stuff.... these were the first two things to come to mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I30Zqtrl9S4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1MCLMRKklQ

They may not be OMGAWESOME to some people, but man, those marching drums in Shining Force, and the fluttering flute noises are superbly awesome.

and another not genesis, but still FM thing that is pretty wacky and orchestral:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAFjhHZ6E-o


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I do got to say, in alot of ways I always felt like Konami gypped the Genesis on the games it released for the most part. Bloodlines and Rocket Knight were fantastic, but on average stuff like Hyperstone Heist, Sunset Riders, and TMNT Tournament Fighters were not up to snuff over all. I know people love Contra HC alot, but it doesn't hold a candle to Contra 3, and it went in a totally different direction then what the prior Contras had been. Its sad because they could have produced far better games then those, but just felt like they didn't always seem to take their Genesis products all that serious at times.
Yea. I wonder if nintendo was giving Konami some extra incentives to make sweetness there instead.

The only part of Contra HC that is better than Alien Wars is the character selection and custom weapons for each one.

Other then that, yeah... its like a watered down version of Alien Wars or something.