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I. Make. YM2612. Music

There are many Megadrive games with amazing OTS. It didn't have a bad sound chip, it was misused.

200% more charisma than SNES pseudo midi low frequency sound. Brighter and vivid, less realistic cause is a synth, but the results good used is amazing!

Can remember how awesome the Dynamite Headdy OST sounds back in the 90's.

bro the sound is good for me

GEMS was used to make the genesis to sound like diarrhea. Anyway the exception isn't the rule.

Despite me as a sega fan,i would kinda agree to this a bit.

Toejam and earl had a great soundtrack

The Genesis version of Batman and Robin had absolute bangers that pushed the sound chip to it's limits.

I'm torn on it because in someways it was bad. It had a real hard time doing covers of songs but when you put the time in and built music for it. It could be top tier and so unique. I can see why people hate the chip but I can also understand why people love it.

Only exclusive videogames and some Third Party, can create good music with the Sega Genesis. The chip is called Z-80 and another example is the OST from Daze Before Christmas.

Battle. Mania. Daiginjou.

you forgot gunstar heroes, shining force 1 & 2, time trax and toejam & earl

Add all "Mortal Kombat". SNES sounds like garbage.

This myth comes about due to how most emulators cant replicate the chip correctly

No Jesper Kyd or Matt Furniss music, huh? Even around here, 80s/90s European games have a bad reputation.

all i hear are clanks and farts

Shinobi III

where's Tim Follin??

Curiously, the SNes's max audio frequency was 35khz (and at best case scenario) while the Genesis' max audio frequency was 53khz (at any given time).

You're overselling some of these soundtracks.

The dancehall track in Ranger X (Stage 2) was an absolute banger.

Japanese electronic music company Sonicware released a groovebox called the Liven Mega Synthesis (get it?) based on the chip. It demonstrates that with an intuitive interface, the sound engine of Sega's little marvel is extremely flexible and powerful, while definitely having an immediately identifiable character

Much more great examples could be mentioned: Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, Bad Omen, Gauntlet IV, Thunder Force IV, Contra Hard Corps, Castlevania Bloolines and so on... all of these makes even the best of GEMS sound like fart cacophony.

Honestly a great game to counter that is ALIEN SOLDIER, Definitely one of , if not the best sounding Mega drive game , Need I mention its also seriously impressive with how treasure where able to pull off the effects n such

Earthworm Jim 1&2 have banging music as well, for the Genesis.

dynamite head irrtating

Streets of Rage trylogy, The adventures of Batman and Robin...

Checkout music from Time Trax (prototype). And also few of us played in Donald in Maui Mallard, which also have great music.

I love the thumbnail, and the look on Rini's face that says, "Please don't tell me that's the best that you can do".

Meh selection.

Snes had a better soundchip, however Streets of Rage 1 and 2 plus Revenge of Shinobi have music better than every snes game. In the right hands the megadrive soundchip is awesome.

Definitely needed some shoot 'em up tunes. Some Gley Lancer would have been great.

Devilish/Bad Omen. Thats all I want to say lol

Steel Empire (under rated game), Alien Soldier, The Revenge of Shinobi (a masterpiece by Yuzo Koshiro), Streets of Rage 1 (another masterpiece by Koshiro, even better than SoR 2 IMHO), Shinobi 3 Return of the ninja master, Granada, QuackShot, Splatterhouse 1-2-3, Hellfire, or the absolutely incredible Global Gladiators OST ... So many good OST made on the Genesis.

No Road Rash 2? For shame.

The best music to come out of the Genesis came from the teams who took the time to program their own drivers, the quality of which was *magnificent*. Anything by Technosoft, Yuzo Koshiro, or by Hitoshi Sakimoto and crew. It was also best at mimicking anything that sounded like the YM-synth used in the Japanese arcade games of the late 1980s - a period that was pretty blah for American-produced arcade games following the 1984 crash, without nearly as much budget behind them to play with. If American devs were weak and lazy with the default Genesis sound drivers they were given, it's because they lacked this groundwork with the arcade YM-2203 and 2151 to get up to speed beforehand.

The chip was good. The way they got the sound the chip made to your ears was horrendous.

06:39 Motoaki Takenouchi is so underrated man... awesome composer.

I hate what the dic censorship did to Sailor Moon

Alien Soldier- yu yu hakusho makyo toitsusen all treasure.

I mean it really boils down to how much you like sawtooth waves over square waves the genesis can be very buzzy and that can be good or bad makes for some good jams very few pristine sounding calm clear and beautiful vibes like in the snes. Neither is better per say they are both good at different things enjoy both for what they are

thank you for the great showcase of music~ really broadened my taste for the SEGA FM-Synth music <3

the FM sounds are useful on the Mega FM synth, dirty sounds or clean sounds are appreciated life would be boring if there was only clean sounds im i right?

Good composers made great soundtracks on even more inferior sound sources (the NES' APU, comes to mind. The YM2612 has pretty decent specs. It's not too far off from what Yamaha was selling as budget four-operator polysynths around that time.

I definitely prefer the dic dub. I grew up watching it and i still love the dic dub to be honest. It's way more funnier. I really didn't like the viz dub version of sailor moon that much. At least, serena/usagi's voice sounded more natural in the 90's dub.

Loved the inclusion of panorama Cotton Tbh i love how panorama Cotton overall is a huge middle finger for brainless snes fanboys, mainly the visuals and the music

Where Puggsy? No Genesis FM showcase should be without Puggsy :-/ But that's my preference anyways.

Bless you for including Sparksters’ fantastic soundtrack. Often overlooked.

0:38 amazing example