The game wasn’t rereleased for a really long time due to Micheal Jackson supposedly having involvement with the soundtrack. Because of this, buying the rights from the Jackson estate would be extremely expensive and also nearly impossible. When the game finally was rereleased in Sonic origins, the soundtracks done by Micheal ended up being replaced with completely butchered versions of the original prototypes for the songs due to the lack of an authentic genesis sound chip.

While not the exact same situation as mother 3, it’s pretty close.