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Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

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The YM2I5I is a lovely sound chip that truly needed to be a part of the Sega Genesis and Megadrive 02, and it is a major shame that the consoles did not use it, it truly does have a lovely feel and mood that makes even the best of tracks sound far better when on it compared to the YM2608 amd YM26I2.
Another downside about the consoles is the fact that most to all titles that were originally made for the Genesis and Megadrive did not have the ability to support the channels of PWM when the cartridge was placed into a Super 032X, which could have been interesting for setting the games to their optimal limits audio wise.

Sonic the Hedgehog 03: Complete Collection was a perfect title to test out how the sound of the YM2I5I and PWM work work after editing MIDI files to give the audio a test run, it truly had come out decent for such a concept in giving the game a new soundtrack.
If you happen to have any thoughts and/or questions on the way that this could be used in future works, then do deliver your insight below, this truly would be a rather interesting approach for making Sonic 03 and other titles feel more similar to how a Mid~I98X Arcade title was, perhaps this could go somewhere decent. (:

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