Yes! I have always thought that music and sound on the Genesis sounded horrendous. A few games used the hardware well and made stuff that didn’t suck (Sonic the Hedgehog and Ecco just to name a few), but the vast majority of games, especially those with multiple ports, always sounded the worst on Genesis.
It seemed to do deeper, bassier techno sounds better than any kind of higher pitched sounds. IIRC, it’s because the instrument types selected for their MIDI shit was just bad.
Yes! I have always thought that music and sound on the Genesis sounded horrendous. A few games used the hardware well and made stuff that didn’t suck (Sonic the Hedgehog and Ecco just to name a few), but the vast majority of games, especially those with multiple ports, always sounded the worst on Genesis.
It seemed to do deeper, bassier techno sounds better than any kind of higher pitched sounds. IIRC, it’s because the instrument types selected for their MIDI shit was just bad.