Masanori Miyamoto, who used to compose music for many Compile games (Guardic, Aleste, Zanac, etc.), has uploaded something very interesting to YouTube – the original source sketches he composed on a synthesizer, before they were converted to chiptunes!
Hearing the Guardian Legend music in midi is freaking amazing.
Nice! I hear some familiar soundfonts in there, I wonder if Japanese composers back then had a lot of the same ones.
Back then most of the synths came from Japan, if not whole product than the chips and other internals.