Ah, forgot my post above.
Track 01-16 = What Sakimoto originally composed with no constraint.
Track 17-26 = What Sakimoto then arranged for the Saturn / ST-V board, and what was used in the game.
So, while Track 17-26 are called "Original Version" in the booklet, the actual origins of the in-game music were Track 01-16, and Track 17-26 are arrangements of them. It sounds muddy, due to the hardware problem.
I used to wonder if another classification would be helpful in such a case, but now I think maybe we should simply classify whichever appears in the game as "Original Soundtrack", and then the rest as "Arrangement", since what matters most is whether the soundtrack sounds different from the in-game music, and how the soundtrack was crafted would have only secondary importance.
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