Sonic CD us soundtrack

[Anonymous No.9578578]

Does anyone here like this crappy soundtrack?

[Anonymous No.9578659]

>>9578578
no. we're all patricians who enjoy the japanese ost

[Anonymous No.9578679]

>>9578578
Both soundtracks have bangers but the Japanese more so.

[Anonymous No.9578757]

I do like the US soundtrack just not when I'm playing the game

[Anonymous No.9578837]

Why did US and JP have different soundtracks though
Is there any other game that does that?

[Anonymous No.9578857]

Anyone that believes Toot Toot is a better song than Sonic Boom is as a resident of Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Anonymous No.9578870]

>>9578857
What is even a "toot toot"? This fucking line drives me crazy. I sang it ironically, but, after years, it doesn't come out of my head. Maybe, if I knew what a "toot toot" means, the spell would be broken.

[Anonymous No.9578874]

>>9578870
>What is even a "toot toot"?

It's like boop boop but tootier

[Anonymous No.9578951]

>>9578578
I do. I like the JP soundtrack and understand that it's arguably the superior (having leitmotifs across all three time periods and whatnot), but for some reason, I prefer the english soundtrack.
By the way, the "Sonic The Hedgehog Boom" album has touched up versions of some of the US soundtrack:
https://youtu.be/8oZsC73f3XY
>>9578837
The story goes that NoA got a new sound studio or something and wanted to flex, so they had Spencer Nilsen come up with a new soundtrack in under a month.

[Anonymous No.9579253]

>>9578951
>[thing exists]
>SoA: "Wow! This is great! It will earn us lots of money!"
>Person: "Yeah, and it was made in Japan."
>SoA: "...actually, it's just passable, nothing to write home about, we can do it better."

[Anonymous No.9579282]

>>9579253
And tgat's why Sega deserved to fail and become the laughing stock of the bideo game world.

[Anonymous No.9579303]

>>9578578
Frankly, I'll take the moody and atmospheris NA soundtrack over the bland Japanese one any day. The latter isn't entirely bad, mind you, it just bores the fuck out of me.

Frankly, the only reason anyone ever liked the JP music was simply because it wasnt available to them for so many years. It's just cheap contrarianism.

[Anonymous No.9579621]

preferences:

Palmtree Panic - US
Collision Chaos - JP
Tidal Tempest - US
Quartz Quandrant - US
Wacky Workbench - US
Stardust Speedway - JP
Metallic Madness - JP
Boss theme - JP
Special Stage - US
Speed Shoes - US
Invincibility - JP
Stage clear - JP
Opening - US
Ending - JP

[Anonymous No.9579719]

I'll be doing a classic Sonic marathon soon, haven't replayed them since MegaCollection+. Is the Gems Collection version of CD alright? So I could just play it on my Wii. Or should I emulate the original on PC?

[Anonymous No.9579727]

>>9579719
>Is the Gems Collection version of CD alright?

It's perfectly fine. It's the PC version with that funky loading screen if I remember right.

[Anonymous No.9579748]

>>9579727
Thanks, Gems Collection it is then

[Anonymous No.9580085]

Tidal Tempest US is my favorite track

[Anonymous No.9580106]

>>9578757
this is the best answer. honsetly so good music but so unfitting (especially when travelling to the past).

[Anonymous No.9580118]

>>9579727
Gems is awful but keep spitting this dogshit take.

[Anonymous No.9580156]

>>9578578
I like both soundtracks just like I like fucking both skinny and fat bitches just depends on my mood

[Anonymous No.9580980]

>>9579719
>Mega Collection
>Gems Collection
Don't do that.
https://mega.nz/folder/VC8m3KKK#1uPokCSWN83wy4Uz2TeaPA

[Anonymous No.9581028]

>>9580156
based anon is correct on both takes

[Anonymous No.9581047]

>>9578578
The US soundtrack is great
>Quartz Quadrant Bad Future
Hnnnng
>Stardust Speedway Present
Hnnnng
>Stardust Speedway Bad Future
Hnnnng
>Metallic Madness Present
Hnnnng
The Japanese soundtrack fits a typical Sonic game better but this isn't a typical Sonic game

[Anonymous No.9581061]

I like the US soundtrack but the JP soundtrack wins by quantity for having its own unique past tracks. I will add there have been some pretty good fan arranges for US past tracks.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tYyk5Ukam9I

[Anonymous No.9581113]

i do

[Anonymous No.9581117]

>>9578578
Nope, US soundtrack is superior. And decidedly so. There is not a single track on the Japanese OST that I prefer.

[Anonymous No.9581119]

>>9580106
>honsetly so good music but so unfitting (especially when travelling to the past).
All of the songs from the "Past" versions of each zone were taken from the Japanese OST, Anon.
They were the only tracks that weren't replaced.
(also they fit perfectly)

[Anonymous No.9581123]

best songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOWIZ-KCVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcVOXb3wXY

[Anonymous No.9581140]

>>9581123
I got sonic cd when it first came out. I was like 6 and always thought it was strange the past songs sounded nothing like the present good future and bad future. Why couldn't they have been assed to change those tracks?

[Anonymous No.9581301]

>>9580118
Why is it awful?

[Anonymous No.9581325]

>>9581061
Thanks for this link, anon! I just listened to all of his "P" tracks like this (full playlist here https://youtube.com/watch?v=ObW1eZ0GdUk&list=PL03nkEZaQd7ad3Kz0HeU3HWGPc6HtStxv&index=1)) and thought they were all pretty great, but what do you think?

Also, are there any prototypes of "Past" songs for the US game made before they realized they couldn't replace the iso-JP Past music files?

[Anonymous No.9581326]

>>9581301
Stupid emulation and everyone is unhappy about the sound tracks especially the brits also its 90% game gear game

[Anonymous No.9581331]

>>9581140
They say it's because they couldn't replace those with new tracks because the Past songs are on the ISO part of the disc rather than being individual tracks like every other song in the game is.

[Anonymous No.9581337]

>>9581326
But what about the Gems version of Sonic CD, specifically, is bad? Outside of preferences for the JP tracks, I mean.

[Anonymous No.9581351]

>>9581325
If I had to rank Meteor's past arranges, I would go SS > WW > PP > QQ > TT > CC >>> MM. Metallic Madness feels like a subdued version of the present version and overall feels weaker compared to the rest of the set, except for maybe the power drill whirring in the background. Stardust Speedway and Palmtree Panic give some really cozy and relaxing vibes, while Wacky Workbench makes me want to dance a little, and the rest have this melancholy feel to them, they really establish a strong atmosphere.

As for your question, I don't know. I reckon they figured the infeasibility of replacing the past tracks early in development and never bothered creating tracks for them, and if they did, they're probably long discarded by now.

If you're still craving Sonic CD music, here's some more past arranges. These ones take more creative liberties than Meteor's.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dFd6XzyI8Js
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IghUjmvSWEk

[Anonymous No.9581378]

>>9578578
SEGA CD and metal just go together like butter on popcorn. It's not the same without it

[Anonymous No.9581939]

>>9579621
Damn, are you me? We have the same taste!
>>9580980
>Sonic 2 Absolute
This is outdone by Sonic 2 Community's Cut: https://heyjoeway.github.io/s2cx/
Hopefully it's a matter of time before Sonic 1 & CD get their own AIR equivalents that obsolete the Retro Engine versions.

[Anonymous No.9581980]

>>9578578
Yes. We're all contrarians who hate the Japanese ost

[Anonymous No.9582045]

>>9581378
Bruh that fucking cover art

[Anonymous No.9582050]

>>9581939
What's wrong with the Retro Engine versions?

[Anonymous No.9582062]

>>9579621
>Tidal Tempest - US

[Anonymous No.9582063]

>>9579719
>>9579748
Yeah, no, don't listen to this anon. The Gems Collection port of PC Sonic CD has so many issues it might possibly be the worst version of the game.
>Due to poor PC emulation, it has many layering problems, for example the unique water colors throughout Tidal Tempest's time periods are now clear and you can barely tell you're underwater if you're half-paying-attention, and Stardust Speedway bad future's background is inverted so the lightning is static and flashes to the wrong, non-lightning image.
>The compressed-from-console sound effects have been compressed even further (this is what everyone's referring to when they say "SCD's Jump SFX hurt my ears").
>Music is completely region-locked (the not-US PS2 version has files for both but you still need to do trickery to play in another language and then you'd be sacrificing 4P Sonic R for 2P only).
>If playing JP soundtrack, the Time Attack menu and racing Metal Sonic in Stardust Speedway good future now play the wrong themes due to not accounting for regional tracklist.
>Special Stage and ending cutscenes play at a wrong, faster speed, and the latter is missing the credits/text to hide how cheaply-made it was.
>Due to the controller mapping not accounting for all possible PC keys in use, the debug mode is now broken.
But no, the -loading screen- (taken from D.A. Garden) negates it, all right..Nah, the only reason to play Gems Collection anymore is for more accssible Sonic R and Sonic the Fighters.
>>9581980
I swear to god these people have been coming out of the woodwork AFTER Sonic Origins came out and made the US soundtrack the default outside Japan for the first time since Gems Collection.

[Anonymous No.9582165]

>>9582050
NTA but nothing's really inherently wrong with the later ones. Sonic CD came at a time when everyone was starved for a decent rendition of the game due to years of Sega neglecting the game and the constant last-minute blueballing in compilations (the og console version only just recently got officially re-released via the mini). If you go back, it's got tons of oversights that weren't there for the sake of upgrading the physics, including a few new gamebreaking bugs, mistiming time travel, and easily wrecking Time Attack mode times if you use the default/redone Spin Dash. Stealth coming on board post-CD was clearly the missing piece that made the Retro Engine versions of 1 and 2 far better, but even his autism has limitations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvj5__-uIu4
The simple fact is that the Retro Engine, while impressive in its own right, can never fully replicate the original engines, and the fact that A.I.R. was generally better received than Origins' 3&K is telling.

[Anonymous No.9582179]

>>9578578
US ost predicted modern Sonic osts, US ost is like boomery rock heavy kinda vibe that kinda close to buttrock stuff we get later vs the JP ost more black influence hip hop,house,etc vibe that honestly fits Sonic more and wish it stay in that direction.

[Anonymous No.9582341]

>>9578578
I like them both, during work I sometimes put on the JP/US ost, but during gameplay I prefer JP with the exception of Sonic Boom because that shit is one of the all time greats as far as I'm concerned, same for the ending rendition.

[Anonymous No.9582921]

>>9582062
no u, the sirenic vocals of the US track make me imagine luscious shell-bra mermaid babes.

[Anonymous No.9582982]

>>9582062
Va va voo hey hey hey

[Anonymous No.9583795]

>>9579621
>QQ - US

USfags, sigh

[Anonymous No.9584352]

>>9579719
Someone actually made a Sonic CD port for Wii. As well as Mania, but the last time I checked, the special stages ran like complete shit. I imagine CD should be fine though

[Anonymous No.9585808]

>>9578578
Except it wasn't crappy. Just because some YouTuber says it is, doesn't mean it's crappy.

[Anonymous No.9586241]

>>9578578
I feel like its a 50/50 split between the US and Jap music.
Right off the bat, Sonic Boom is wonderful opposed to the Toot Toot Sonikku Wahyah bullshit.
Palmtree Panic US is so much better of a beach theme than the corny Jap one.
I love the US Robotnik theme being nightmarish. I prefer the piano and guitar Stardust Speedway US more than the "HURR HURR HURR" of the jap one.
In fact most of the Jap music is ruined by the stupid as fuck vocals. Metallic Madness Jp is kicking ass until a goblin starts rapping

BUT I'm a weirdo who really like how the Past music was vastly different from the Present and Futures.

[Anonymous No.9586247]

>>9578578
Why didnt Sega just pay the money to get a license in the US release?

[Anonymous No.9586254]

>>9586241
What do you mean corny? Sonic music is supposed to sound like that. Also, Toot Toot Sonic Warrior kicks ass.

[Anonymous No.9586283]

>>9586254
Sonic music is constantly exciting and driving, not corny. And, no, Toot Toot is embarrassing. The tune was actually better used on the Game Gear.

[Anonymous No.9587412]

>>9586254
Toot Toot is cringe in almost every way.