This Program RUINED Many Genesis Games
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Published 2024-05-01
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Difficulties with FM-based Sound
2:10 Creation of GEMS
2:45 Fantasia
3:40 Jurassic Park
5:18 Desert Demolition
6:33 Taz: Escape from Mars
7:50 Batman Returns
8:42 Stimpy’s Invention
9:46 Garfield: Caught in the Act
10:38 Aladdin
11:31 Other Games
13:27 Companies That Didn’t Use GEMS
14:18 Conclusion
14:56 Outtro
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All Comments (21)
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Aladdin is like how a world class violinist can make a cheap violin sound great but your average fiddler couldn't make a Stradivarius sound like anything special.
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Was definitely expecting more about the program based on the title, rather than a series of game reviews.
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It's weird that American devs had so much difficulty with FM audio considering most Ms-Dos games and arcade gsmes of the time used FM audio
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Bro said GEMS ruined many Genesis games despite having only one example for it
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Kind of a weird video. I thought this was going to be specifically about GEMS and how it shaped the music/sound for those games. But instead it was just an overview of a bunch of games with little focus on the music.
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GEMS’s farting sound was actually common in other FM-sound-based games from American companies, such as arcade or DOS games.
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“American companies” “American companies” “American developers” “Now let’s have a look at a few random games” (Immediately shows “Fantasia”, a game by Infogrames, a French developer…)
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i'm so sorry but this entire videos script sounds ai generated. almost none of this had to do with the music of the games
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Dude, you are sleeping on the Vectorman soundtrack. That is a very good example of a game that not only uses GEMS but also utilizes it to its full potential. Tidal Surge is an excellent example of this. See or rather hear for yourself.
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Would be great if you did a deep dive into GEMS itself rather than the games which used it.
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With a title so focused on a specific subject, I was expecting to learn more about GEMS. I feel like I hardly even got to listen to the sounds produced by GEMS in this video to be able to gain an ear or compare the songs. It would be very cool to delve into what the experience was like using GEMS or maybe even see it in action, compare it to newer tools, show how it was lacking in sound design features on such a robust sound chip, etc.
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Oh, the good (bad) old GEMS driver! It sounds like crap because composers were lazy, listen to something from Howard Drossin. He was one of the best GEMS composers.
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The problem was not the GEMS, some lazy developers were.
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this video is confusing. The title says that gems ruined the games. except for the first one you've been nothing but positive "good for soundtrack made with GEMS" .you could've showed more examples of bad ones. If you're gonna say that gems ruined Genesis/mega drive then be more negative. my brain hurts watching this.
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One of the worst offenders was X-Men on the Genesis. The fart noises was strong with that one! Haha. Cool idea for a video, Pojr!
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I recall the early days of the Genesis being amazed by the sound (especially music)... then sometime in 1991 so many games started to sound "farty", it was unbearable and made it sound very annoying... especially with the brand new SNES's sound capabilities. This program killed music on the Genesis, they should have put a decent set of default instruments instead the the farts collection.
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I also want to add that Japanese xenophobia and racism against western developers was also a fact for Sega (and other Japanese developers of the time, like Nintendo) to withhold vital development information for their consoles to non-Japanese creators, hence why Sega had to develop a low-rent solution for western developers to create music.
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you made this whole video to make me listen to you saying "farts" over and over first thing in the morning. admit it.
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I'll be honest, none of the music you played here sounded good to me. Would have been nice to compare it with the music of Genesis games that did not use GEMS.
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It´s all in the talent of the composer. Varios of the best soundtracks on the Genesis uses Gems
