Michael Jackson & Sonic 3

There doesn't seem like much link for that though. Didnt the guy who did Streets of Rage soundtrack make that track, and all the others on Sonic 2 GG?

 

Yuzo Koshiro coposed all the songs in Sonic 1 GG except Green Hill, but he didn't do a thing in Sonic 2 GG.

 

Interesting. They use the same notes tunes and everything.

 

Well, it's probably just a coincidence. In one song I made I used this small piece of melody that sounded exactly like The Kids Aren't Alright by The Offspring and didn't realise it until later.

 

Am I the only one who wouldn't be surprised if Together again was a hiddin song in Sonic R?

 

I wonder who else it will turn out did music for video games in the past.

 

Actually, the act 1 and 2 tracks for Carnival Night and Launch Base are different. They may start and end the same way, but they are different in very unnoticable details.

I brought my theory on why the S&K tracks replace the S3 tracks when you hook S3 to S&K (likely they're in the same place in each ROM), and why the music in S&KC was replaced (not possible at the time to replicate the music on a MIDI)...

As I said, if the original, unedited tracks were in there and they WERE Jackson's, he would've said something about it and the PC counterparts would've been the same in every version of Sonic 3 since S&KC. Which is not the case.

And if somebody says "Oh Sega was lazy", even if they WERE, that's not a wise idea as they COULD get sued for doing that. It's like when Sonic Spinball initially had the original Sonic theme: had that been in the final game, Nakamura would've done something about it.

 

I don't think I've responded yet, but I think this is really neat. ^^

Great work, too, QJimbo.

 

After listening to these 6 songs over the past.....well, 12 years, I can safely say that things ARE a bit different between the Act 1 and Act 2s.....but the fashsion in which they were done was the worst and most lazy fashion possible.

With the exception of THREE notes added to the baseline of Carnival Night Zone Act 3, there isn't any difference made musical wise.

In all three act 2 zones , the only differences are actually the REMOVAL of some voices for all or part of the songs.

This is why it's VERY hard to hear the differences because things like this are usually done the other way around ever since Sonic 3. In every other Sonic game that had zones with an "act 2" musical change, something has been always added or significantly changed enough for one to notice.

In the first 3 Zones the changes are very obvious (I admit when I first played the game, it took me awhile to notice that I was hearing something a bit different. That's when I first started experimenting with Angel Island's music, entering Act 2, then retarting the game to go to act 1 to see if the music was really evil sounding all along, but of course it wasn't....but the Act 1 on fire/special stage glitch didn't help matters at all), as well as the remainder w/ Sonic and Knuckles.

So in conclusion, they did a really bad job with these act 2 remixes...I really think that when they were made, the people were initially unaware that there needed to be changes and when they were told, they took the EASY way out because they didn't want to take the time and spice up the songs a little bit....oh well. I would have to say that Ice Cap's Act 2 remix was the best one done out of the three though.