Sonic the Hedgehog CD/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** SEGA themselves tried to avert this, in the game media. Review copies were beta 920, which is identical to the US release save for having the original music in an attempt to hide the change. It didn't work. Upon hearing that the music was changed behind their backs, a good number of magazines retracted their perfect scores. Despite your view on the music, most would agree that lying to the press to get a better score isn't exactly excusable.

** The common accepted theory/excuse for Sega changing the music because they had just built a new music studio for their American branch to use, and the flagship game was used to justify its existence. They probably also didn't want to pay the singers of the Japanese version's vocal tracks, nor for the [[Sampling]] used in the boss track. Since the beta had the Japanese soundtrack, it's a possibility that Sega's main American division wanted to show off an American studio's compositions, but as pointed out on this game's trivia page, when the 2011 remake was being developed it turned out that the soundtrack with rights issues was the ''American'' one. Fortunately, those were worked out, but had they not been, all regions would have had the Japanese soundtrack (which is the default option in the final version).

 

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