Turbo Duo and other cd versions of SNK fighters

Axon · Post by **Axon** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:00 pm

Does anyone know if the ports of the SNK fighters to cd versions contained music from the arrange albums or do they just have arcade synth? I mostly want to know if Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury 2, and Fatal Fury Special for the Turbo Duo and Samurai Spirits: Amakusa Kourin for the Sega Saturn have music from the arrange albums.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:36 am

By listening to the emulated Neo Geo version and the sound from the Arcade CD, I can tell you they simply recorded the audio tracks from the Neo Geo onto CD as redbook. Which isn't bad. IIRC, the Neo doesn't synthesize its music. Its actually recorded on the cart. Without compression. Did SNK had a big pair back then, or what?

Axon · Post by **Axon** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:59 am

I'm sorry, but I don't seem to understand. The Neo Geo can't handle lifelike synth/live instruments, correct? When you say it is recorded, is that recording then changed to fit the sound board's limits? By your post, I'm guessing the cd versions don't have quality close to the arrange albums.

Post by **nZero** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:17 am

Specineff wrote:IIRC, the Neo doesn't synthesize its music.

You'd recall incorrectly. Most Neo games rely pretty heavily on large samples for higher quality music synthesis and sound effects, but the music is still generated by the onboard chip. A few later games streamed complete songs from the cart, but were ADPCM compressed.

Keranu · Post by **Keranu** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:46 am

Actually, the PCE versions of those fighting games have remakes of the original tracks and they sound outstanding, even better than the original!

it290 · Post by **it290** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:11 am

Yeah, several Neo games use a MOD-type format (not unusual really, some Genesis and SNES games use similar methods), and some of the newer games (particularly those Noise Factory were involved with) have soundtracks that are entirely compressed PCM.

As for the CD soundtracks, FFS on Sega CD has CD-quality audio, although it's not really 'arranged' per se (not sure if SNK had even really started that back then). I'm 99% sure that SSIV on the Saturn has the arranged tracks.