Genesis games with best music

[Kµro]

Here are some of my favorites in no real order:

Sonic Series (especially 2 and 3 & Knuckles)
Revenge of Shinobi & Shinobi III
Streets of Rage Series (especially 2)
Thunder Force III & IV (TF IV is probably my absolute favorite)
Rocket Knight Adventures & Sparkster
TMNT: Hyperstone Heist
Comix Zone
Probotector
Alien Soldier
Gunstar Heroes
Dynamite Headdy
Mega Turrican
M.U.S.H.A.
Battle Mania Daiginjou
Landstalker
Batman (very nice to hear all 10 sound channels at once. it's so rarely done)
Panorama Cotton (my newest entry. lovely lighthearted but with incredible drums and all 10 channels at once)

Some of the games may have only 2 or 3 songs that I really like but those are so good to me, that I have to mention the whole game.

[kool kitty89]

Arcade Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBnnop1M4kU
Genny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG1c2...eature=related
A nice port

Galaxy Force II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHOf_2BG1QY
actually a nice port


offtopic
Snes-
Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest ~ Guardia Forest Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJzedahyjXE

Good point.. I hadn't focused that much on the percussion samples in GFII before, though that's almost certianly due to my frustration with the game itself.
The flicker/drop-out and pseudo-scaling is one thing, but the control ruins it for me. it feels unacceptably stiff and sluggish, and something about it feels off in that I don't want to use inverted Y axis... maybe the narrow range of pitch animation, the slow pitch control, and the lack of crosshairs/aiming corresponding to inverted controls)
Hell, the SMS version of GF1 seems better in some respects (the tunnels are terrible to navigate though), though then it's frustrating as you also can't select inverted control when it feels right. (too bad no Sega CD port... at least the Saturn finally got it)
More frustrating as it's a game I really want to like... I am rather partial to railshooters.

Definitely nice to scan through the sound test though.

[sheath]

Star Cruiser is one of the best sounding games I've ever heard on any system. I was crushed to learn it never left Japan.

NCS had some unnamed bad ass composing for them. I have loved everything they ever made just because of the music. Then I found the gameplay for most of what they made extremely hard to get into, but great once I did!

[altbrian]

My Favorites:

- Thunder Force IV (Really Kick-ass)
- M.U.S.H.A.
- OutRun
- Ranger X
- Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Specially: Ice Cap, Hydrocity, Flying Battery)
- Sonic 2
- Alien Soldier (Amazing mix between FM and PCM samples)
- Comix Zone
- Revenge of Shinobi - Shinobi 3
- Streets of Rage 2
- Castlevania Bloodlines

The Worst (compared with other systems):

- Doom 32X
- Mortal Kombat I

[kokujin]

Star Cruiser is one of the best sounding games I've ever heard on any system. I was crushed to learn it never left Japan.

That's my youtube page.I like the Genesis versions of some of the songs btter than the Japanese PC ones.The game actually has 3 different soundtracks, one for the Mega Drive 2 for the PC.I might upload the PC veriosn in the future if I have time.

[retrospiel]

^Awesome YT channel! Only way to improve it would be to record the tunes from real hardware. Anyway: You got a new subscriber

The Worst (compared with other systems):

- Doom 32X
- Mortal Kombat I

[kokujin]

^Awesome YT channel! Only way to improve it would be to record the tunes from real hardware. Anyway: You got a new subscriber

I thought about it, but I don't have a way to record audio.I might be more inclined to do it when I am done doing the CCAM.

[kool kitty89]

- Doom 32X

At leas the music made it in-game to the 32x version, unlike the PSX and Saturn ports... and jaguar unfortunately.

[altbrian]

At leas the music made it in-game to the 32x version, unlike the PSX and Saturn ports... and jaguar unfortunately.

But the SNES version had music in game, and it's much better.

MK1 Music in Genesis stills sucks to me :P i have the original cart and I prefer the SNES version too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLShhxspKvE

[retrospiel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLShhxspKvE

okay, I'll give you this one. Sounds very different to the MD version, and yeah, probably even better in some ways.

[kool kitty89]

^Awesome YT channel! Only way to improve it would be to record the tunes from real hardware. Anyway: You got a new subscriber

Yeah, I think I like many of probes MK tunes better than the arcade ones. (granted much of that YM2151 stuff wasn't great IMO and Midway seemed to do a lot better with the sample based synthesis of the DSC sound system for MKII and III... too bad neither of those got Sega CD ports but MK1 got that sloppy ports with CD-DA recordings of some arcade tracks that were done better on the MD itself...)

[Spybionic]

30 Sega Genesis games with best music


and 30 Best Sega CD Soundtracks

[gamer888]

My top 3:Street of Rage 1.....Verytex (god I wish this game came out as a CD format)...Elemental Master

[Dogwelder]

There are so many great soundtracks to choose from: the first two Streets of Rage games, Road Rash, Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe...

I love the music in ToeJam & Earl, and the track that plays over the first level in Ghouls 'n Ghosts has always stuck with me as being great (probably because I had to play the game from the beginning so many times due to the nightmarish difficulty - brilliant game, though). DecapAttack has a catchy, fantastic soundtrack as well.

[Kamahl]

All the answers in this thread have been nullified by the Project Y sampler.