Favorite PCM video game console sound

[Tatsujin]

Do the same with f.e. an R-Type

FM for the WIN!   

[Arkhan]

I like mostly all of it.  Except the Atari 2600.  That shit shouldn't have left the factory like that.

My favorites are the PCE and FM in the Genesis or MSX.


There is some badass f*ckin FM musics right thurrrrrrr

[Joe Redifer]

PSG vs FM

PSG for the WIN!   

Wow, I don't like the way that either of those tunes sounded.  The problem with SMS FM usually lies in the percussion.  It's dreadful and weak.  The PSG side does much better percussion.

[ccovell]

The reason is that most SMS games that use FM have a single (more or less) set of notation data which maps to default "instruments" at runtime depending on if it's PSG or FM.  Meaning, there's no dynamism in the instrumentation at all during songs.  A couple exceptions tend to be Compile music: Golvellius and R-Type are pretty darn good in both PSG and FM.

FM-Pac stuff on the MSX (using the same FM hardware) tends to be much better because it's not hindered by PSG downward compatibility.

[geise]

I have to agree with Joe on Metal Slug 4 having amazing music.  It is my least favorite Metal Slug by far but the music is so amazing! 
As far as my favorite game music tune, that is so hard for me to really choose.  It's kind of a tie for me between Contra 3 The Alien Wars and Actraiser.  I know it's blasphemy I didn't choose a PC-Engine game, but Dungeon Explorer would be a close 3rd.

[Joe Redifer]

What is it with Konami removing sound tests when localizing many of their SNES games?  Why didn't developers of games for other cnsoles embrace the sound test as much as developers for the Mega Drive did?  It really pisses me off that some of the great sounding PC Engine games do not have a sound test.  Oh, what I wouldn't give for a CD-ROM that lets me load and listen to just the music from each PSG game (CD games included) through the Turbo's sound hardware (not redbook audio).

[Tatsujin]

Yeah, games w/o a sound menu are just half-finished goods.