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[Wip3ou7]

Does X2 and X3 use the 16 bit snes audio or the 32 bit cd audio (saturn/playstation)? Do you have a choice?

[BladeCrossEXE]

I'm all for the BGM of the PS1 version of X3, but I don't like the sound effects. They just don't fit as well as the SNES version did.

[theclaw135]

The PS1 level themes are possibly less grating than the SNES ones (they tried too hard to squeeze rock music from a sound chip not quite designed for it), but the English intro video song is missing something.

Besides neither X3 soundtrack makes the game sound like a sequel to X1 and X2, as it should be.

[Wip3ou7]

I do agree that the American animated intro the X3 isn't as good as the music in the Japanese animated intro. They changed the entire song, not just the lyrics.

Ultimately, if the SNES music was the way it was intended to sound they would have just recorded that music and put it on the CD versions of the game.

I'd bet money the composer of these songs would say that the CD versions are the way they are intended to sound. I wouldn't even be surpised if the CD versions were written first, and then simplified for the SNES. The games were only a couple months apart in release.

[theclaw135]

What we really need is for Capcom to track down and hire the X1/X2 composer to remix the X3 soundtrack to be more of a successor to the style of X1/X2, using the SNES chip.

Unlikely as that is.

[Wip3ou7]

There were 5 musicians that worked on X1.

[Charged]

theclaw135님이 먼저 게시:

What we really need is for Capcom to track down and hire the X1/X2 composer to remix the X3 soundtrack to be more of a successor to the style of X1/X2, using the SNES chip.

Unlikely as that is.

Not the actual composer, but something you might be interested in:

https://youtu.be/ok9Z0Vu9WXw