the reason for the sound is that the snes's soundchip was based on yamaha if memory serves me correctly and it was insanely powerful for it's day even to the point of allowing some small surround sounds if you had a hifi system with rear speakers plus the music format is still unsurpassed with it's compression tech.

There's that, and there's also the fact that Sega completely ignored the need for a good sound processing chip.

Yeah, the sound quality comparisons were my favorite part. Just embarrassing.

Pardon the sophomoric cheering, but this is my first video to actually be sifted to the front page, so YAY!

The AGVN slams Sega's 32X as "one of the biggest failures of all time." While I agree, it is possible that the collapse of the bronze age and the ensuing dark ages or, more recently, not preventing the rise of Hitler may be in the running for 'biggest failures of all time' too.

the reason for the sound is that the snes's soundchip was based on yamaha if memory serves me correctly and it was insanely powerful for it's day even to the point of allowing some small surround sounds if you had a hifi system with rear speakers plus the music format is still unsurpassed with it's compression tech.


That Yamaha FM sound was shit even for it's time. GF1 wavetable was where it was at. You need to hear Doom on the Gravis Ultrasound to appreciate the difference.

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