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Your second link isn't the original SNES version, it's a remix designed to sound better. Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dghlAQDQneU

I still agree that the SNES version sounds much better than the GBA version, but people shouldn't think the SNES version sounded like that remix.

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Huh, you’re right. I thought something was off about the video when I listened to it. Although the version I linked calls itself a remix in the description, it sounds like someone just played a MIDI version with new samples. I’m not sure I’d even call that a remix.

It is, in an older sense, "remixed", much as some older music was remixed by taking the original sub-tracks and re-combining them in a different way with different audio levels and balance and similar. It certainly doesn't qualify in the modern usage of "novel music inspired by the original".

Maybe "remaster" is the better term here?

Apparently the "OSV" in the track title means "Original Sound Version". TIL!

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