Great topic. I don't have much to add directly, except that some years ago I contacted Hataya and he was very responsive and polite (I had a...
As a longtime MJ and Sonic fan, that was a great interview! There was another interesting tidbit in that interview when he was asked about...
Great work Ramona. To me it's always been a near-given that Doomsday and Big Arms were done by the same composer. Zero chance two independent...
I don't think that was ever actually confirmed by Masa or Sega... when the demos were released it was the leading (and most plausible) theory on...
I had an email exchange with one of the sound programmers around 2009-2010 (I think it was Jimita?) He told me that he would get a cassette,...
I think the biggest issue is also the Cube/Opus contributions. Cube supplied 8 tracks to the game, no idea what OPUS did exactly. Chances are they...
I've been doing research on this topic, following this issue now for probably 15 years, and every time I see this thread get bumped up, it's...
It was definitely speculated to be the reason on here but I don't think we ever got official word. Sounds plausible, though.
The comment on swing notes is absolutely true. It's super obvious in the demo of the title theme song. Whenever the snare is meant to play a...
Not sure if that information is available anywhere. There's a chance even Masa himself might not remember the order. However, we do know that the...
They were MIDIs recorded to DATs. Masa gave an interview around the time the demos were released (only in Japanese) and even dropped the name of...
I've heard several people comparing competition select to MJ's "You Rock my World" which was released well after Sonic 3 and without Buxer's...
Competition select was IMO the best of the MJ tracks and one of the best tracks in the game. It screams early 90s New Jack Swing, has a great...
Wow - it was so cool to hear him playing the Sonic 3 credits version of Stranger in Moscow... this might be the closest thing to a demo version of...
I've thought about this for some time now. I grew up with BOTH the Genesis and PC tracks so there's no "new/shininess" factor for me: Carnival...
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