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Originally Posted by The Gambler
- since the Famicom 20th anniversary, and probably since the beginning, Famicom music has always been hot on CD. With series like the ROM Cassette, it's easy to build an impressive library of famicom OSTs. I guess the downside of this trend it to sacrifice looping for sheer quantity, thus each track doesn't "breathe" as much as it should (and did in earlier releases).
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Actually, they are getting better with this. The small singles that covered a lot of the classic first party NES games are all looped and the recording is excellent. The Sunsoft Collections and the Kunio collection are all looped as well. The Famicom Anniversary albums are well done as well.
Conversely, the early Famicom Game Music albums were a joke...incomplete medleys. You can imagine my rage when I paid $30 for Vol. 2 and it didn't even have the complete Kid Icarus or Metroid soundtracks.
Also, a couple releases (the Super Mario World NES music, Final Fantasy I and II) are in mono, which is annoying. Lastly, I have never liked the first Akumajo Dracula CD...the Castlevania III music is all in medley form and the Famicom music is very different from the NES version (I much prefer the NES version). The Dracula Box uses the Famicom medley version, which was VERY disappointing.