What 16 bit Videogame console has the best...

Post by **marshallh** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:14 pm

SNES.

The Genny had some catchy tunes, but then the SNES had Final Fantasy and its amazing music. The SNES also had a much better sound system, a 8-bit wavetable synthesizer, something the Yamaha sound chip in the Genesis could only dream of being.

Dragunov · Post by **Dragunov** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:16 pm

I say Genesis, SNES had good tunes, but Genesis had this...'feel' to the music. There are the mainstream games that had awesome music and the lesser know ones like M.U.S.H.A., Alisia Dragoon, Beyond Oasis, and Comix Zone. Neo-Geo was more for sound effects like SVC, but was kind of lacking on musical score.

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:58 pm

SNES has some great tunes. Super Metroid and Power rangers come to mind.

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:02 pm

Jongamer wrote:SNES, the Genesis was just...... BLah, Games to me on the Genesis looked awful, (that realistic look for almost every game of it got Sickening)Not enough color for me on the Genesis, and Genesis had to many Sequals.
(4 sonic games, and a Sonic 32x game right?)(Street fighter 2 games)(Streets of Rage: 3 games) (Ecco:Never played it, but I know there is 2 or more.)(Phantasy Star: 2 games)

Super Nintendo (Can't beat the Awsome nintendo Franchises)
Had Awsome Graphics with Graphic Enhancmnet Chips built onto game carts, (AKA:Starfox, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Mario Kart)

Not to mention, the Cosmetic Differances in the systems, I loved the Boxy somewhat robotic look of the SNES, and the Genesis just looked like every other electronic thing at the time (aka: VCRs, Tvs, just ewwww)

Genesis would have looked better white.

Or that may just be Today's Ipod standereds kicking in, in my Brain.

fanboy

i vote genesis, it had better sound and better graphics than the snes, and who cares that there were sequals, that just means that those games were popular enough to spawn sequals, blast processing kicked big N's but anyway, so again i say

fanboy

Rekarp · Post by **Rekarp** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:30 pm

you forgot the Turbo Grafx 16 and the CD-i

Post by **benheck** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:23 pm

Neo Geo pwns all.

Of note, both the Neo Geo and the Genesis use a Zilog 80 as a sound co-processor to run a Yamaha synth chip... They even use synth chips in the same series (type) but the Neo Geo one is a few steps above the Genesis.

The SNES had a... dum da dumm!!!! SONY sound processor! Similar to older MIDI Soundblasters.

-Ben

Unidentified Assilant · Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:43 am

I shouldn't really vote in this poll because i've never played Neo Geo (played Neo Geo Pocket) or Atari Lynx, but SNES had better music than Genesis, one exception being Streets of Rage but...

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:54 am

The only time I see the Genesis being the best out of all those listed in sound quality was when it had the add-on, Sega CD, or for everyone else the Mega-CD. That add-on gave the Genesis CD quality audio, FMV and a few lame "make your own music video" games.

Neo Geo, never played, so I know nothing of this great audio some of you speak of.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:25 am

benol wrote:
Jongamer wrote:
benol wrote:
Jongamer wrote:SNES, the Genesis was just...... BLah, Games to me on the Genesis looked awful, (that realistic look for almost every game of it got Sickening)Not enough color for me on the Genesis, and Genesis had to many Sequals.
(4 sonic games, and a Sonic 32x game right?)(Street fighter 2 games)(Streets of Rage: 3 games) (Ecco:Never played it, but I know there is 2 or more.)(Phantasy Star: 2 games)

Super Nintendo (Can't beat the Awsome nintendo Franchises)
Had Awsome Graphics with Graphic Enhancmnet Chips built onto game carts, (AKA:Starfox, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Mario Kart)

Not to mention, the Cosmetic Differances in the systems, I loved the Boxy somewhat robotic look of the SNES, and the Genesis just looked like every other electronic thing at the time (aka: VCRs, Tvs, just ewwww)

Genesis would have looked better white.

Or that may just be Today's Ipod standereds kicking in, in my Brain.
Ummm... the question was about MUSIC, not GRAPHICS!!!
WHAT!!?!?!?!? he must have edited the post because he said nothing bout music before, just they system.
nope. read the post next time

He Edited his post before you got here, so don''t argue with me.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:18 pm

Rekarp wrote:you forgot the Turbo Grafx 16 and the CD-i

TG-16 was actually 8 bit haha, they used 2 8-bit processors. As for sound, I would have to say SNES by a wide margin. How I figure this was by playing both Mortal Kombat 2 on both systems. Sound capabilities are far superior on the SNES version of this game.

Other games I have noticed on Genesis didn't sound all that great to me either, like on par with the NES.

benol · Post by **benol** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:40 pm

Jongamer wrote:
benol wrote:
Jongamer wrote:
benol wrote:
Jongamer wrote:SNES, the Genesis was just...... BLah, Games to me on the Genesis looked awful, (that realistic look for almost every game of it got Sickening)Not enough color for me on the Genesis, and Genesis had to many Sequals.
(4 sonic games, and a Sonic 32x game right?)(Street fighter 2 games)(Streets of Rage: 3 games) (Ecco:Never played it, but I know there is 2 or more.)(Phantasy Star: 2 games)

Super Nintendo (Can't beat the Awsome nintendo Franchises)
Had Awsome Graphics with Graphic Enhancmnet Chips built onto game carts, (AKA:Starfox, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Mario Kart)

Not to mention, the Cosmetic Differances in the systems, I loved the Boxy somewhat robotic look of the SNES, and the Genesis just looked like every other electronic thing at the time (aka: VCRs, Tvs, just ewwww)

Genesis would have looked better white.

Or that may just be Today's Ipod standereds kicking in, in my Brain.
Ummm... the question was about MUSIC, not GRAPHICS!!!
WHAT!!?!?!?!? he must have edited the post because he said nothing bout music before, just they system.
nope. read the post next time
He Edited his post before you got here, so don''t argue with me.

What are you talking about? this is MY post. Or are you just referring to me in the 3rd person instead of the 2nd for some reason

johnbjuice · Post by **johnbjuice** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:29 pm

SNES music ROCKED! My favorite music (if you couldn't tell) was from Earthbound.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:29 pm

For those that don't know, http://vgmusic.com/

Proof that SNES reigns supreme.

Megaman:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... MXMain.mid

Earthbound (The most lovable game ever. The goal of this game was for fun, not gaming. Tell me this music isn't fun!)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... lya-v2.mid

FF3: (Never played it, but I must admit, the music is very advanced for its time, and its file format:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... 3battl.mid

My dad just took over the sound system, so the rest are by how good I remember them being:

Legend of Zelda Rain Scene (Amazing Opening scene)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... _Scene.mid

Kirby Green Greens:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... Greens.mid

Star Fox: Corneria:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... rneria.mid

SMW:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... wcstle.mid

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:46 pm

I feel like such an ass now

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:50 pm

I think SNES games all sound exactly like MIDIs. The Yamaha chips in the Genesis and Neo Geo have a distinctive sound to them, like the Atari Pokey or the 80s Casio keyboards. I dunno, the SNES doesn't have a unique sound to me. (And everything the next generation on had at least nearly-CD quality sound...) There's no "personality" to it, if you get what I mean.

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