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.
I wonder how common this was. I kind of assumed they were written just as (more or less) midi