Sonic Generations Megathread

It's a way to get the music into Smash Bros. Brawl, which makes it automatically good.

I assume these BRSTMs have custom loops? Too lazy to download and find out.

 

I'm liking that Bigarm music too, but just for clarity, those Sonic sound effects in it are somebody playing it right? they arn't part of the song? You never know sometimes with these crazy music artists.

 

Here's a basic comparison, first is correct, second is what I'm hearing from the 3DS version.
http://www.mediafire.com/?d8evy2t8nga3pwd (Excuse the poor file host)

Also, in bass guitar tab format (learnt the song to make a remix :v: )

Code (Text):

1.  
2. Correct:
3. ----------------------------------|-----------------------|
4. ----------------------------------|-----------------------|
5. ----5-7-8---7---5---------5---7---|-----------------------|
6. —3-----------------8---8----------|--8-6—6—6-8-6—6—6-8—6--|
7.  
8. 3DS:
9. ----------------------------------|-----------------------|
10. ----------------------------------|-----------------------|
11. ----5-7-9---7---5---------5---7---|-----------------------|
12. —3-----------------8---8----------|--8-6—6—6-8-6—6—6-8—6--|
13.  

 

<3 You're my hero. I wonder how many people are working on the music for this version. We can obviously see the different amounts of effort comparing MHZ to Big Arm (Holy Shit!).

 

I really can't say the tiny difference makes much of an impact. I wouldn't have noticed it without a side by side comparison. It sounds a little off, but it so easily ignorable it's not worth mentioning. The backwards rolling and spindash sounds in S4 however... rage! About the amount of people working on the music, this is what we know so far:
Modern Green Hill: Jun Senoue
Classic Green Hill: Naofumi Hataya
Modern City Escape: Jun Senoue, vocals provided by Ted Poley and Tony Harnell, just like in the original
Classic City Escape: Original track, remixed by Cash Cash
Big Arm: Alex Makhlouf of Cash Cash (the guy who was doing the 'singing' at TGS)

 

I had to do it. When you pointed it out, I couldn't unhear it. =P

 

Not exactly. I mean, BRSTM looping was popularized by brawl, but it's really a proprietary looping format for Nintendo games. It just happens that its easier for me to loop music and convert it over than to split an ogg. It just loops better in the long run. (Unless of course you take to the time to set up the internal looping in the OGG which is a pain in the ass a lot of times... :/)

 

Actually he wasn't the one singing at TGS, though he did perform at Sonic Boom. TGS was some other guy I hadn't heard of.

Funny side note, the dude from Cash Cash is cousins with the guitarist from Action Item, who I went to high school with and was a colossal dick, those bands aren't about making music they're about being famous.

 

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Okay, so it was originally supposed to be Alex, but he couldn't attend so his brother Jean Paul (of 'Reach for the Stars' fame) sung instead.

 

Ah I didn't know they were brothers, I reckon that's just as good

 

I was just browsing the Cash Cash website, and it appears that they're actually doing a lot of music for Generations. This is what their client list says:

10 Classic songs? We know of City Escape and Big Arm, but what else? I think Classic Mushroom Hill sounds like their work, and they've probably done a lot of the Modern/Dreamcast stages in Classic style too.

 

At first I was like he's not TOO bad, but then the second half of Reach for the Stars came on and I was like wat. This guy needs vocal lessons...he should also stop prancing around the stage and fucking around with the crowd and focus on his singing. It's not like he can't sing, he's just not trying.

As for the musicsss, I'm gonna hold off until the game is released. So then I'm all ultra surprised. From the little I've heard and seen, it sounds absolutely fantastic.

 

Both the recently released 3DS tracks sound great. The Big Arm track is just ear-bleedingly awesome to hear in an official capacity again (and done so well, too!) and Mushroom Hill, while never one of my favourites, sounds pretty good here.

That TGS performance though? Dear god, that was fucking abysmal from Jean. People thought Sonic 4 had problems with orchestral masterpieces? They clearly need to listen to this guy sing without any form of autotune to make him 'good'.

EDIT: Okay, so auto-filter fail, though I'm sure anyone in the know will guess what I was referring to. =P

 

The Big Arms Remix is a thing of beauty! MHZ is most impressive as well. I wouldn't expect anything more from a Classic mix at this point - I agree with others that it's definitely on par with GHZ and CPZ classic remixes.

Here's a question. Obviously the music credits to Sonic 3 and S&K are muddy at best, but have we ever gotten a firm answer on who composed specific tracks? I know Drossin has mentioned his admittedly minor contributions to S&K, but for instance, do we know who composed Big Arms? Mushroom Hill? Maybe I'm missing an obvious wiki article...?

BTW - there's a somewhat odd and blatant deviation in Big Arms...at 58 secs (through 1m). The chord is a few notes off from the original (it sounds more 'major' in tone here). It's no deal breaker but it definitely is jarring on the ear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD8tSDQ9e-0

 

So Jun Senoue uploaded a recording of the TGS performance, without the video lag and with better audio quality.

Though, the video quality isn't the best, the music does sound pretty damn great, and the gameplay footage has me excited to play these stages for myself.

 

Retro delivers once again.

Thanks for the rips, Big Arm remix sounds fucking amazing. The soundtracks for both versions of this game are going to be so good.

 

Chrome Gadget, please. Crossing my fingers so effing hard to hear a Chrome Gadget remix somewhere.