What is your favorite PSG music?

[GUTS]

Bonk's Revenge, Neutopia II, and Dragon's Curse all have my favorite tracks.

[nat]

nat, I cannot believe you didn't list Space Harrier.

Sadly, while I really like the Turbo port of Space Harrier, NEC Avenue's white noise drumbeats ruin the main theme to some degree. They could have done so much better. I greatly prefer the arcade/Saturn/Dreamcast SH theme. I guess they did a bang up job on some of the boss tunes, though, so let me go edit my original posting.

Bonk's Revenge, Neutopia II, and Dragon's Curse all have my favorite tracks.

Can't believe I forgot Dragon's Curse... I'll be adding this as well.

i think the PSG of R-type is also better than the red book audio of the complete cd. but that's just a question of everyones own personal taste.

Nah, the CD is better. But you're right-- that's just a stylistic preference. Compositionally, I think the music on the CD version is far superior. Although the cart isn't bad, the music sounds a bit "empty" to me. Definitely wouldn't (didn't) make my list of all-time best PSG music.

[Necromancer]

Dungeon Explorer
Hatris
Devil's Crush
Galaga '90 (vastly superior to '88)
Military Madness
Soldier Blade

I think Bonk 3's PSG music is better than the CD music of the same game.

Dragon Slayer's PSG background music also falls into this category.

[ParanoiaDragon]

I think Bonk 3's PSG music is better than the CD music of the same game.

Absolutely, no question. It's possibly the only game in the entire history of the world that I can say that about.

I deffinitly love the cd music more.......however, I feel that the cd music does not fit the game for the most part.

BTW, something I just realised, is that the Turbo does not use PSG, it uses PCM.  Somebody should change the title.

[Kitsunexus]

Is the Turbo capable of doing subtractive synthesis with it's waveforms?

[OldTurboBastard]

Salamander!! It was great on the NES even..

[Ninja Spirit]

Burning Angels
Cyber Cross
Space Invaders: Fukkatsu
(Since I'm a big fan of NES/Famicom music, I particularly like the first three soundtracks I called out because the samples they use have that 8-bit ring to them.)

Gradius/Salamander/Detana! Twinbee (it's all about Konami's PC Engine synth drum set)
Dragon Spirit/Saber
Son Son II
Final Soldier
Soldier Blade
 

[Joe Redifer]

Keranu... you got me!!  Oh I wondered why this felt so familiar.  Can you merge the threads?

[Black Tiger]

BTW, something I just realised, is that the Turbo does not use PSG, it uses PCM.  Somebody should change the title.

Somebody should also change all those Turbo CD games that refer to it as "PSG".

[ParanoiaDragon]

Indeed!  Actually, I've been gradually changing my soundtracks to say PCM instead of PSG.

[Joe Redifer]

Don't the games themselves refer to it as PSG, like Dragon's Lair: The Legend of Heroes?

[ParanoiaDragon]

Yeah, you might be right, which is why I probably originally thought that's what it's called.  But, apparently the Turbo can't do actual PSG, but does PCM & ADPCM(sampled sound).  I'm only repeating what Malducci & other technical guys have said.  I personally know nothing about this kind of stuff.

[Keranu]

I think Bonk 3's PSG music is better than the CD music of the same game.

Absolutely, no question. It's possibly the only game in the entire history of the world that I can say that about.

I deffinitly love the cd music more.......however, I feel that the cd music does not fit the game for the most part.

I agree. I was disappointed with the music in Bonk 3 to begin with, but I found the CD tunes to sound pretty cool.

Keranu... you got me!!  Oh I wondered why this felt so familiar.  Can you merge the threads?

Not sure, I know I can "split" the topic though. I think I've done it before with another thread.

[malducci]

There are a lot of great PSG ( or PSGPCM as Ccovell pointed out that the developers referred to it as - the term still doesn't make much sense though) tunes. The one that sticks out though is the Aldynes level with the Sonic rings (stuck in my head as I type this!). I love that music. Also the PSG music in the first Xanadu was catchy and cool.

[sunteam_paul]

All this confusion is why I just refer to it as Chip Sound.