Sonic CD Re-release

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Well, it always seemed to me like the point of the american soundtrack was more to "inaugurate" and show off the american SEGA sound team, with Spencer Nielsen and all, but yeah, the boss theme uses samples from the Xavier music "Work That Sucker To Death", which I guess could have spawned legal issues at the time.





If anything, SEGA might have just asked Naofumi Hataya to do a new version of the song without the samples... Or used his remix of it for the Sonic CD Remix album:



I prefer the japanese soundtrack too, but the american one isn't bad, I learned to appreciate it.


Features I'd like this new version of Sonic CD to have would be:

- Toggle between both soundtracks individually (like putting the past version of certain stage american or japanese and all)
- Time Attack with Past, Good Future and Bad Future stages
- Toggle having or not the "time travel" loading sequence. Naoto Oshima originally wanted the time travelling to be instantaneous, in a flash of light you'd be in another time period, but the programmers couldn't do it, so that's why you have that sequence of Sonic flying through this time tunnel, as some sort of "loading screen" while the game loads the Past/Future level. So it'd be cool to have a more fast-paced time travelling, the way Oshima originally intended.
- General tweaks. There are a lot of things on Sonic CD that are somewhat incomplete and/or don't work as well as they should have, partially because the programmers weren't as awesome as Yuji Naka (Naoto said that if Naka was on their team, he'd probably manage to get around that time travelling loading screen), but also because the game didn't have as much attention and budget as Sonic 2 had (and Sonic 2 was still left sort of incomplete too, but because it was rushed)
- Have the whole official soundtrack available in mp3 to listen to? Maybe even the Sonic CD Remix album?