Something to freak out Michael Jackson haters

[ThirdMarioBro]

Originally Posted by Krang

However, like I posted above, the music was only changed in the PC version. Every other version of Sonic 3 released after that retained the original music.

Yes, but from a legal point of view, you are allowed to do whatever you want with the music in the context of the "unaltered" original work, and all console re-releases of the Sonic games have been emulations of the original unaltered Genesis code. Sonic 3&K PC was a rebuild released on another platform, so it would make sense legally that any music he had anything to do with would have to be altered. The argument that the music on the PC version "had to be changed due to the use of voice samples that MIDI couldn't reproduce" doesn't stand either. Almost every track in the Genesis game used scratchy PCM drum samples. Genesis sound emulator wave tables prove this. All those drum samples were replaced in the MIDI versions with equivalent MIDI drum kit sounds. And again, I cite the MJ "Jam" voice sample found in the sound test.

But then there is Sonic Jam, and that was a recompile released a year or so after Sonic 3 & Knuckles PC. Who knows how that gets by.

At the very least we can possibly assume he had something to do with the music early on. His works were likely tweaked and build upon by someone else after his departure (Howard Drossin most likely), but the core similarities are too uncanny to really believe all his work was completely thrown out.