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I first played Another World (Out of this World) on the SNES. Even on SNES the game stood apart from the competition. Since then I’ve played it on many other platforms including PC and PS Vita. It never gets old.

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Did any other version have the sound of the SNES? That was my first experience with the game and love the sound effects and musical score. I believe the PlayStation or the Sega CD version had a technically higher quality score, but sounded completely different which was off-putting to me.

The drawback of the SNES version is there are a few parts where it suffers from slowdowns. I wonder could they somehow be addressed in an emulator.

The person who ported the game from the Amiga to the SNES made a video about the experience:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tiq0OL8rzso&t=2m

More stuff along those lines: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/

Really interesting thx. I feel a little bad for complaining about the speed after what she went through. I could understand them wanting to drop the fX chip version, but they used slower ram to save on 50 cemts a cart. I appreciate the optimisations she put in but at the end of the day, it does suffer from slowdowns. Again, maybe an emu can address them.

"Did any other version have the sound of the SNES"

Nope. The SNES also had tracks on it that no other version had. The "Danger" music was what really set the SNES version apart from the others, it really set the atmosphere of danger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSzWbMj5s78&list=PL8x7wHq_i5... - this song.

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