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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:51:11 No.2768151 View Reply Report Delete

>Japanese Castlevania 3 had a wire or some shit that made music more awesome including more channels and bass even 2015 would cream over but only for jap version of NES

Why was this allowed again? I mean I'm sure there was a reason (obviously), but as an owner of the American NTSC version can someone explain to me why my music although still awesome is shit in comparison and drops notes and shit when I hit shit? And Japanese version doesn't?

>muh evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-RdjNFCYs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgaCJSF7j8

Picture only semi related.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:02:46 No.2768159 Report Delete

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google.com would help you a lot.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:09:43 No.2768165 Report Delete

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Nintendo hate forigners.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:14:25 No.2768209 Report Delete

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There are a number of reasons. First, the cartridge slot of the Famicom contains pins that support expansion audio. On the NES they moved those pins to the expansion port on the bottom of the console. At the time, Nintendo thought that most future games would be released on disk, as cartridges had reached their limits (Super Mario Bros. was a demonstration of the best that cartridges could do). My theory as to why they moved the pins was so they could be used in the western release of the Famicom Disk System. After all, no cartridges had used expansion audio up to that point.

Of course, they later realised that they were able to increase the capabilities of cartridges through mappers, and they decided not to release the Famicom Disk System in the west. But this meant that no NES games could have expansion audio, as the pins were not present in the cartridge slot.

Even if they had not made that design decision, Konami would not have been able to put the VRC6 (the sound chip that is in the Famicom version) in the NES version anyway. This is because of Nintendo of America's policy at the time that third parties could not put their own chips in NES cartridges. That is the reason why the NES versions of Contra/Probotector did not have the cutscenes that were in the Famicom version. It's also why the west never got Gradius II, one of the most technically impressive Famicom games.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:38:10 No.2768249 Report Delete

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>>2768151
I prefer the US music. It's classic chiptune sound, instead of the Japanese version's "failed orchestral" sound. I think uncanny valley is mostly bullshit, but in the case of audio there may be some truth to it.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 12:29:13 No.2768474 Report Delete

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>>2768249

You think uncanny valley is bullshit with human-looking robots/CG models, but you believe it exist with synthesized music? You're weird.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 12:54:07 No.2768513 Report Delete

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>>2768249
I, too have an uncanny valley for music, but it's much higher up the scale. Often about the Gamecube/PS2/XBox, era, where synth no longer sounded completely like digital stuff, but utterly failed at sounding like actual orchestration. You can clearly tell which instruments they are trying to synthesize, but you're also aware that they are terrible, awful attempts at doing so.

with 8, 16, and even most 32 and 64 bit synth music, the sounds themselves are still so innately digital in origin that I'm fine with them. The other thing is also the specific arrangement. A lot of JRPGs at the time specifically tried to invoke the composition of classical/orchestral music, while songs from, say, Ocarina of Time or Mario 64, while emulating actual instruments, are still clearly composed to sound like video game music.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:13:20 No.2769090 Report Delete

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>>2768151
Lot's of stuff gets dumbed down for murica. It's not just allowed but often encouraged and sometimes even legislated.
Just get a jap console and the games you want if it bothers you that much.

>>2768249
>hipster scum detected

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