Michael Jackson worked on Sonic 3?

I dunno. It would hardly have been negative publicity for Jackson to have been associated with Sonic 3 back in the day, when he was still the King of Pop. It's unimaginable to me that, had Jackson really had a hand in composing for Sonic 3, he would go completely uncredited and Sega wouldn't have used his name in any capacity. They certainly weren't shy about touting Dreams Come True as the composers for Sonic 1, so why wouldn't they have Michael Jackson plastered all over the Sonic 3 ads?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Posted by Clorettes
Boy, I feel as if my copy of sonic three was just molested.

Aw c'mon, 90s Michael Jackson was cool, before he had that fatal accident and had to be replaced with a child-molesting soundalike.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Posted by evilboris
All of the tracks were proven to be possible to do in MIDI. It would've needed heavy editing put its possible.

That would be work, though, and no company in existence has ever put work into a port.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Odds are, it was faster and cheaper to just replace the tracks. The two likeliest scenarios are that it was decided it would take the resequencer too long to fix the tracks, so they got a composer to quickly hammer out a few tracks for them. Or, it proved cheaper to bring in a composer than it would be to bring on someone with the expertise to fix the busted MIDIs.

There's a good chance the port was done with just a handful of programmers and a FM-to-MIDI program, since companies don't allocate a whole lot of resources to these projects, and they didn't even have someone knowledgable about the MIDI format on hand.

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