Quote Originally Posted by Torren McHasselhoffgard III
Considering that the music for FFI on the Famicom was the original source, how in the heck do you figure it's unfaithful?
I'd be willing to bet that when Uematsu heard the tunes in his head he wasn't hearing them as they came out on the game. He probably heard it as a band playing the songs. Replace the archaic beeps and boops with violins, flutes, and so forth. That's probably what Nobuo himself had in mind. Of course, the technology limited what he could do. So he probably had to cut down the songs a lot. He probably had to remove a few ideas from the songs to make them adapt to the technology.

Just listen to how intricate a lot of his newer work is. Like "Dancing Mad" from Final Fantasy VI. You couldn't do that on the NES, and I'm sure even the SNES had to cut back on what Uematsu had thought up.

So transferring music from a greater medium onto an NES game causes it to be unfaithful to how it ought to sound.

Now, I guess the possibility exists that Uematsu did compose it just as we hear it on the NES cartridge. But I doubt it.