In line with song table & sound room stuff, went looking at the differences in music between the prototypes and the final game; FE8 is largely uninteresting since it’s just FE7’s soundtrack still from what I saw, but FE7 has a large number of both slight and major differences from the final including at least 1 song not in the final game at all. Here is an archive that contains all of the music in the 0206 prototype in .wav format, dumped with VGMusicStudio, as well as a text file that contains the differences I noted between these versions and the final ones.
Most of the songs seem identical to the final versions, and most most of the songs that don’t seem identical have incredibly minor changes, like so with A Hint of Things to Come:
Final
Prototype
Then there’s some that are significantly-altered versions of existing songs, like Arena Tactics:
Final
Prototype
Finally, there are the real interesting ones: entirely different songs! First is the song in place of Binding Ties:
Then, there are 3 instances of song indexes that are empty in the final game that contain songs in the prototype. One of them is just The Inn without background sfx baked in, but the other two are quite interesting:
You may recognize this song. That’s because it would later be used as Prologue from FE8. The other one doesn’t seem to have ever seen the light of day though:
I couldn’t place this one outside of it containing general leitmotifs present in FE7’s soundtrack, and I’m inclined to believe it’s an entirely lost song. There’s plenty of other interesting things, like Recollection of a Petal having an intro section that got cut or one of the renditions of the Fire Emblem theme having a part right at the end cut, but listing them all would take a very long time and I’ve just spent about 5 hours listening to similar songs and writing down the differences so I’m not up to that right now it’s all in the archive if you’re curious.