Honestly, those are still solid for use in emulators and source ports.
But if you don't want to bother with figuring all that stuff out, Sonic Origins is still a solid deal for what it is.

Originally posted by Alice and Astreus Grimaude:

Honestly, those are still solid for use in emulators and source ports.
But if you don't want to bother with figuring all that stuff out, Sonic Origins is still a solid deal for what it is.

The Sega Classics Emulator is easy to use. Which do u recommend? Pros/Cons? Does Sonic 3 on Sega Classics have the original music?

Originally posted by cent208:

Originally posted by Alice and Astreus Grimaude:

Honestly, those are still solid for use in emulators and source ports.
But if you don't want to bother with figuring all that stuff out, Sonic Origins is still a solid deal for what it is.

The Sega Classics Emulator is easy to use. Which do u recommend? Pros/Cons? Does Sonic 3 on Sega Classics have the original music?

If you can find a key for the Steam version of Sonic 3, it does still have the original music in it.
One of the big cons for the Sega Mega Drive Classics emulator is that it has a lot of overhead in it (at least if you go for the Game Room version) that can cause input lag, slowdown in games and emulation errors.
The actual extracted ROMs from that collection (there are tools online which I won't link, but which are legal) can, however, be run in any Mega Drive emulator of choice, which opens up plenty options.

In contrast, the Sonic Origins collection has native Retro Engine ports of Sonic 1 through 3 in it that run in a mostly stable manner, with just a few bugs in there and with some nice bonus features thrown in.
The downside is that because these are essentially total remakes of the games, they aren't running on any of the original ROM files, and thus you can't extract ROM files from them for personal use.

Thanks I think I will go with Sonic Origins for Sonic 1-3. Do you recommend the delisted version of Sonic CD or Sonic Origins version of Sonic CD?

Originally posted by cent208:

Thanks I think I will go with Sonic Origins for Sonic 1-3. Do you recommend the delisted version of Sonic CD or Sonic Origins version of Sonic CD?

Those are almost the same, bar some weird little differences.
But the Origins version does have full vocals for the intro and outro songs.

Originally posted by cent208:

Thanks I think I will go with Sonic Origins for Sonic 1-3. Do you recommend the delisted version of Sonic CD or Sonic Origins version of Sonic CD?

If you're already going to get Origins for Sonic 1-3, then you're good for Sonic CD.