ITT: Most grating game soundtracks/songs

[Anonymous No.10156290]

Sometimes I forget how bad the GBA soundchip can be, especially in regards to picrel and its sequels. I feel sorry for the nips who had to experience the normally godlike OST bitcrushed to hell and back

[Anonymous No.10156336]

>>10156290
>GBA soundchip
It's just an old Game Boy soundchip backed up by a CPU rendering low bitrate audio in software. There's no such thing as "GBA soundchip".

[Anonymous No.10158461]

>>10156336
Imwonder how they managed to get games like Mother 3 sound sound as good as it did if that ws the case

[Anonymous No.10158524]

>>10156336
I wonder how they managed to get games like Mother 3 to sound as good as it did if that was the case

[Anonymous No.10158586]

It just cannot imagine playing Phoenix Wright 1-3 on an unlit 2.9" GBA screen. Some of those cases are long as hell.

[Anonymous No.10158840]

>>10158586
Japanese is much harder to read at lower resolutions than English too.

[Anonymous No.10160812]

>>10156290
>Sometimes I forget how bad the GBA soundchip can be
problem isn't entire the sound chip, a lot of problems go back to terribly written audio drivers that can't do multichannel mixing properly without severe quality loss and the use of very low sampling rates to save on rom space.

[Anonymous No.10160817]

>>10158524
Mother 3 is a 32 MiB game. There's enough space for higher quality audio samples.

[Anonymous No.10161135]

>>10156290
The intro to "The Evil King Bowser" got pretty butchered.
https://youtu.be/8asr6carh4Q
Then, of course, there's Spinball's options menu which is kind of a catch-22 in that, as grating as they can be, the "coils" do add to the song; see any reconstruction that removes/heavily lowers them.
https://youtu.be/gjREyGgR2yg
Also, not as grating but with no excuse of actually having a clear rhythm:
https://youtu.be/7rFqDlEXl8U

[Anonymous No.10161194]

>>10161135
Spinball Options gets a bad rep from 2000s emulators (including official ones from Sega) not emulating low pass filters present in real audio chips (especially on Model 1 consoles), producing really grating unfiltered sound.

[Anonymous No.10161278]

>>10156336
There is a little bit of hardware to handle the two PWM channels that digital sound on the GBA outputs to, but yeah otherwise it's mixed in software.

>>10158524
>>10160817
That and it's an RPG, so the CPU is usually more free to spend time outputting sound at a higher/cleaner bitrate, although the samples still aren't played back at the same quality they're stored at in Mother 3.

[Anonymous No.10161434]

>>10156290
I don't remember having any issues with music in GBA attorneys, but anything that was ported from Genesis to that console was instant ear-crusher. With exception of Rock'n Roll Racing maybe but including Comix Zone, that port was SHIT.

[Anonymous No.10161437]

>>10158586
Can't you save inbetween the trials?

[Anonymous No.10161671]

>>10156290

The Duke 3D theme sounds awesome, unless you're playing it through a really primitive soundcard, in which case it makes you want to rip your ears off.

Similarly, Monkey Island without any soundcard through your internal speaker.

[Anonymous No.10161974]

Does all of the mixing happen in the chip where we can't touch it outside of software? Like is the dac inside of that bitch?

[Anonymous No.10161979]

>>10161437
You are given a hard save every time court calls for recess (a few times a case) and you can make a suspend save whenever you want by hitting start.

[Anonymous No.10162031]

>Play Sonic 3 & Knuckles
>Accidentally trigger super.
>Mute game.