Anybody else love the Master System sound chip?

[HawkClay]

There's just something about it that I absolutely love! I was listening to the music from Rambo First Blood: Part 2 thinking about how much I just liked the actual sound of it... and the melody is catchy too! I think a lot of it is the percussion sounds it puts out as well as the distinct sounds it has for other pieces of the song. Anyway, just curious, because I love Master System music... and yes, I know about the Japanese FM sound capabilities... but there's just something special about the raw music in regular Master System games! :flirt:

[jp]

Hells yes man. I love the music in SMS games.

[Frogacuda]

It's not that different from the sound chip in the NES. But yeah, some of those tunes really strike a chord with me. A few (Penguin Land and Kenseiden for example) even sound better with the regular SMS sound than with the FM module.

[Bruhaha69]

Do you mean it's not that different from NES in terms of the way the music sounds in games or from a technical capability point of view?

To answer Hawk's question, I love the hell out of it. I think the SMS had a great, unique sound.

[NeoZeedeater]

I love the SMS' signature sound. Compile was especially good at using it (Golvellius and R-Type stand out). Even Compile's NES games sound SMS-like to me.

I think NES sound tends to be a bit more varied though because of the various chips added to cartridges.

I would have liked to hear more original European game soundtracks on SMS. Robocop versus The Terminator has a great one. You can tell the composer made C64 games before it.

[Frogacuda]

Do you mean it's not that different from NES in terms of the way the music sounds in games or from a technical capability point of view?


I mean the sounds it generated (basic sawtooth, square wave, and sine wave) were similar, as was the way it worked.

[Bruhaha69]

Ahhh.

As much as I loved the SMS sound, a lot of games did sound similar. It kinda reminds me of the SNES in terms of being able to easily tell "this is an SMS game". Easily distinguishable sound.

I love how they used Vibrato in there tunes, though. That was somewhat unique to the SMS.