You're not the only one, friend. A lot of the GBA version's soundtrack sound worse than the SNES's, but some are better on GBA, and this is one of them.
I thought the other way around; the SNES one may have higher quality instruments, but sounds empty in comparison to the GBA version. Like it's playing less instruments, and the bass isn't as strong as the GBA bass.
The thing is unlike the SNES, the GBA did not have any dedicated sound hardware, so it all had to be done on the CPU. And there was still gameplay, graphics, I/O, etc. to handle. So for what they had, it's awesome.
![Final Fantasy OST - Battle Medley [SNES Edition Special]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NLwcSm7p-e4/mqdefault.jpg)
I love it! I know I may weird but I love this GBA ver than the SNES ver. Now i'm able to hear this one longer than 2 minutes.
You're not the only one, friend. A lot of the GBA version's soundtrack sound worse than the SNES's, but some are better on GBA, and this is one of them.
@NeoArashi another is Megaman x Advance
like Golden Sun and Sword of Mana
@@FROST_PACT I meant compared to their SNES counterparts. SNES games that got remade on GBA.
Not bad, but feels so simple and washed out next to the original snes version...
I thought the other way around; the SNES one may have higher quality instruments, but sounds empty in comparison to the GBA version. Like it's playing less instruments, and the bass isn't as strong as the GBA bass.
The thing is unlike the SNES, the GBA did not have any dedicated sound hardware, so it all had to be done on the CPU. And there was still gameplay, graphics, I/O, etc. to handle. So for what they had, it's awesome.