


The one thing you can knock them for is being far harder to work with than the SNES audio chip, its why the floor for music on the Mega Drive is far worse, because the god awful GEMS soundfont is what a lot of American developers chose to use for simplicity. The Yamaha YM OPN range are absolutely legendary and used in multiple systems of the 80s and 90s along with arcades, to try and pretend they are bad because they can't do stock instrument samples is laughable, they're the pinnacle of a specific era and type of videogame music that can't be replicated. It's pure synth VS low fidelity samples, neither being to replicate the other so lord knows why people like to pretend that the Mega Drive is worse because songs designed for the SNES and then ported across don't sound as good when the exact same can be said the other way around.Ĭould this be done on a SNES? Of course it couldn't, so why does the SNES get a pass for not being able to do it?Īnd neither could this incredible synth track (the FM Towns uses the exact same YM2612 sound chip) And here we go with the "SNES sound chip is better because I like to compare Chrono Trigger to some licensed GEMS soundfont dreck" posts.
