I found this CD in Tower Records a couple of years back, at a time when I'd only played Street Fighter III: New Generation a few times. Arranged soundtracks are free of all that, they allow the composer to really cut loose, as it were, and retool the familiar tunes they way they want to, free of the shackles of game design and hardware constraints.
This is true especially in fighting games, where the fight lengths vary wildly and so the tunes have to be written to be repeatable, and at the same time have enough initial impact to make an impression before the round is over. Time limits, file size limits, the requirements of the flow of the game, etc. In this day and age, in-game music and the hardware it comes from has advanced sufficiently to produce superb quality sounds, but there are still always constraints.
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