when they say they prefer the US soundtrack to the japanese soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5DBfqF0-o&list=RDdc5DBfqF0-o&start_radio=1
This in the top 3 of Sonic CD music from both soundtracks as well.

>>714243883
>Stardust speedway good future
Hell y-
>(US)
Lol

>>714243883
Uhhh...this sucks huhuh...

>>714244083
JP > US all the way, but it doesn't sound too bad

There are a few specific tracks like Stardust Speedway and Wacky Workbench that I prefer the US version of, but overall the JP soundtrack is better.

>>714243883
I don't care about SSZ US but the Forces version turns it into a really fitting fight theme for Metal

>>714244428
Literally only the boss theme, opening theme, and ending theme are better in US.

>>714243658 (OP)
so why did this game have a different soundtrack for the US version anyway?

>>714243883
This sounds like ass

https://youtu.be/LPmsRzUUcao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUW8QXUQGRA

>>714243658 (OP)
I've come to appreciate the US soundtrack a lot these days. Some Zones I like more altogether than their JP counterparts, namely WW and SS. Guitar solos in TT Good Future and WW Bad Future are fuckin sick, and you know what? I kinda dig the boss theme. Doesn't touch the JP one obviously but I can see the vision
Only tracks I don't care for are PP's, not bad, just kinda whatever

https://youtu.be/HcwyDL3-Qqo
w-why would they put this in a sonic game?

>>714245034
Literally, LITERALLY because of exactly one man's ego.

>>714245034
Sega of America's audio team originally wanted to do the soundtrack for Sonic 2, but Sega said they didn't like the music they showed them and rejected the proposal.

Then, when it came to Sonic CD, the audio team basically just did it themselves and put it in without asking so they couldn't get rejected again.
Naoto Ohshima, the director of Sonic CD, said he wasn't even aware of the changed audio overseas until years after the game's release.

>>714243883
Once it kicks in, it's super good and definitely underrated. The Japanese version of the track is absolutely stellar but it's a massive shame this gets overlooked because of it.

https://youtu.be/_OmVvdhhyPw?si=RXTisYPcgR4LbzT6
Final Fever is based, wish it got a remix in Generations

>>714245652
I mean, the guy does turn the planet into a mechanized hellscape if you let him so maybe it's actually pretty fitting?

The most forgettable final boss and final boss song in the entire main series.

>>714246334
Reminder that unlike your emulation collection, sonic 3 released on its own as a complete game, with a 50$ knuckles expansion released half a year later. The final boss of S3 is absolutely abysmal.

>>714243883
If this same exact track was among the JP OST people would be praising it

>>714246651
Sonic 3's final boss is saved by the song alone, something CD can't say.

Underrated Sonic OST coming through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpprlLkFycI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKTXVHeizM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-mGUv7-PP0

>>714246651
>The final boss of S3 is absolutely abysmal.
You mean big arm? That fight is incredible. And it's not as good in S3&K. I don't remember exactly what they changed but it doesn't have the same impact that it does in vanilla Sonic 3. The way the sky goes dark and that ominous boss theme kicks in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc-lK-psNy4

>>714246842
>not Fighters or Rivals
Not underrated enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xkUguDsiZo

>>714243658 (OP)
Even the good future tracks in the US version sound dark.

Those youtube comments about how "this song came along at a difficult time in my life". Well that's me with these two tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7tOKgNuJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY35ovg66S8

>>714247003
>You mean big arm? That fight is incredible.
Anon its the fucking drill robot from S2 emerald hill except you have to do a timed hit and press the I-frames button as you land on its head.

>>714247617
Yeah whatever hotshot. My brother and I didn't know what the instashield was when we were kids and I was always tails anyway.

>>714247029
Based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vtzePkLpsQ

The US ost is incomplete for some reason

>>714247825
They didn't make new tracks for the past stages because they weren't CD audio, it comes from the console. I don't know the terms for it, redbook or something like that.

>>714247825
>>714248204
This one guy made Past versions of all the stages. Miracle Edition incorporates them as an option. https://youtu.be/ObW1eZ0GdUk?si=xsz4B-YNrd1VWBL8

the production on the US tracks is damn good. it's even better on the album version since it got more polish.

>>714248516
It's a shame there wasn't an album release for JP like there was for US. The Spinball remixes that came with it are good too. Those versions of the music are hard to find.
This is another album with some weird music. I still don't know the origin of these tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ3NjwIoV2ewCKumXWkCEFIdwwxaxZ1xf

>>714247278
https://youtu.be/treLKteL1iw?list=RDtreLKteL1iw

>>714247702
There it is, that's where the kino is.

>>714248506
Sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkWUJfIotfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRKIxTUbf4