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That's right, MarioWiki/Super Mario Boards community, time for yours truly to bring to these parts...
This gallery itself that I have been maintaining has been in action for five years strong (going on six), despite some "opposition" at some other forums that I shared these works with. However, after giving it much thought, it's time to bring it to these venues -- one, being that these forums are a branch of the Super Mario Wiki and two, that this forum is titled the "Super Mario Boards" after all, uniting all fans of the Mario series as a whole together! This "music gallery" that I have with me in tow is targeting the "modern" music for Mario series' installments, and arranging them into the Super Nintendo music style! Ever since I started this a few years ago doing SNES-style arrangements from Super Paper Mario, it's been an awesome ride for me so far. But it's best I explain it in the next section... which I believe you all on these boards are asking...
Let me explain... or more importantly, let me ask you these questions:
(1) Are you a dedicated fan of the Mario music done for recent installments?
(2) Are you a dedicated fan of the Super Nintendo music style itself?
(3) Are you addicted to certain "instrument styles" from certain Super Nintendo games and wondered how they could be implemented to use for arranging certain tunes from recent Mario game installments?
If you answered yes to all three of these questions, that's what I've been aiming for here. And let's just say that the musical score of Super Paper Mario (constantly!) prompted me to do such a task. Not to mention that since I'm a member of a certain video game music community that I also won't mention here, a certain member hinted to me and others about getting "instruments" from Super Nintendo games (which I also won't mention for now). After getting news from "internal sources" on how to do this job, I was also told about ModPlug Tracker (if any of you have heard about that) to add the instruments and make the "set" that was created to be used for certain SNES games! After getting used to this process, I've been hooked on that ever since. Now, with that said let's get to how this gallery is going to work.
As I said earlier, I have attempted to gather certain "instrument sets" from Super Nintendo games via "internal means" (and using MODPlug Tracker to get the sets together) and used them to "arrange" modern Mario music in that instrument set/style of the SNES game in question. As you'll see in the Acknowledgement List later, for example, there are some tunes from Super Paper Mario that I have managed to "arrange" in the Batman Returns (SNES) style, more from that same game in the Spider-Man & The X-Men: Arcade's Revenge style, and so forth. Be forwarned, there may be some arrangements which are a mixture of at least two "styles". If you haven't guessed already, the BR style and the SM&XM: A.R. style are my top favorites, but I couldn't limit myself to those two alone. When you check out the "Gallery List" in the next post, you'll see what I mean. I'll also list the instrument styles I have used so far for this overall gallery under the "Acknowledgement List".
This part of the explanation is for those of us who are videogame music "insiders": as for the SNES arrangements themselves, we all should already know that compared to the "music approaches" for today's systems, the composing process for the Super Nintendo system was limited, but if done correctly, you're still able to create awesome tunes of great quality. The culprit, of course, was "channel limitations" -- especially in regards to making sure "music channels" didn't interfere with channels reserved for sound effects (especially for "gameplay levels"!). I've seen this for myself and that's what I have been trying to do here with my arrangements here in this gallery. Hard work, but it definitely pays off in the end. It's rare that all channels were used for SNES music itself, and if so, that would be targeted for title screen areas or game credits areas for SNES games themselves. Once again, you can thank ModPlug Tracker for giving me the opportunity to "emulate" this as well in my arrangement work here.
DETAILED REASON AS TO WHY THIS GALLERY IS AT THE MARIO WIKI/SUPER MARIO BOARDS:
The past years that I've been maintaining this gallery at a certain forum... although I have gathered a few responses on the works that I've done here, there were some folks over there tormenting me as if what I'm doing regarding this project was nothing more than a waste of time. Obviously, I ignored them, but I just could not stand and accept any kind of attacks against this kind of gallery itself. I've also came to the conclusion that those that viewed the gallery there might not have been interested in the awesomness of the Super Nintendo music process itself -- and second, even though I'm still happy that I'm arranging stuff using ModPlug Tracker using the Super Nintendo music style, it's time to spread this to over venues, and this site is one of those targets, since I came to conclude that it's best to share this in a community who REALLY appreciates the Mario series as a whole, PLUS to find those who still love to hear Super Nintendo styled music today. It's an honor to bring it to these parts, and I really hope you enjoy what I have to offer here.
While I owe huge thanks to those that let me know about getting instruments from the SNES games, I have to sadly undisclose the said community, for they're under "internal" sources. But what I can do is list the instruments sets from SNES games I have used so far for this gallery, as well as list the composers responsible for creating those sets to use for the musical score of the respective games. And that list is as follows (last updated December 31, 2014):
Batman Returns (SNES Version - Konami)
Jun Funahashi, Harumi Ueko, Kazuhiko Uehara
Spider-Man & The X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (LJN/Software Creations)
Geoff Follin & Tim Follin (as you can already tell, the SNES version of this musical score > all others, and yes, this INCLUDES the instrumentation itself)
Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage (Sunsoft/Viacom New Media)
Nu Romantic Productions (grr... and to this day I'm STILL trying to find who actually wrote this score!!!)
The Adventures of Batman & Robin (SNES Version - Konami)
Jun Funahashi, Masanari Iwata, Masahiko Kimura, Kayo Fujitani, Harumi Ueko, Masahiro Ikariko, Kazuhiko Uehara (eeesh... what a HUGE list of names!
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Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day (Viacom New Media)
Nu Romantic Productions (Okay, Nu Romantic Productions, why haven't you given us the acutal composer of this game either?!?!?!?!?! HUH?!?!??!?!)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES Version - Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara, Hideto Inoue, Harumi Ueko
Plok! (Tradewest/Software Creations)
Geoff Follin & Tim Follin (Yep, the same guys who created the instrument set for Spider-Man & The X-Men: Arcade's Revenge! And yes, I love the Plok! instrument set they made along with the former. :P)
Disney's Magical Quest 1 (Capcom/Disney)
Mari Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nishimura (NOTE: The SNES version is obviously known by the title The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse; a GBA version was made as well, but it's titled Disney's Magical Quest Starring Mickey & Minnie. Of course, main acknowledgement goes to the two folks responsible for doing the SNES version of the game's musical score. :P)
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose (Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara, Yukie Morimoto
Animaniacs (SNES Version) (Konami)
Tomoya Tomita
Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind - SNES Version (Accolade/Solid Software)
Matt Berardo
Smart Ball (Sony Imagesoft/System Sacom/Game Freak)
Hirohiko Fukuda, Manabu Saito, Akira Yamaoka
Disney's Magical Quest 2 (Capcom/Disney)
Mari Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nishimura (NOTE: Same as the Disney's Magical Quest 1 set, but the targeted SNES game in question is called The Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey & Minnie; a GBA version was made as well many years after the SNES game itself, but it's titled Disney's Magical Quest 2 Starring Mickey & Minnie. Of course, main acknowledgement goes to the two folks responsible for doing the SNES version of the game's musical score. :P)
Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge (Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara/Saiko Miki
Inspector Gadget (Hudson Soft/Fourty-Five)
Kennosuke Suemura/Saori Kobayashi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time (Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara/Harumi Ueko
Mega Man Soccer (Capcom)
Toshio Okamoto/Kenichi Tomizawa/Norihoko Togashi
Disney's Aladdin (SNES Version - Capcom)
Yuki Iwai/Yuko Takehara/Setsuo Yamamoto
Disney's Bonkers (SNES Version - Capcom)
Norihiko Togashi
Castlevania: Dracula X (Konami)
Tomoya Tomita/Masanari Iwata/Harumi Ueko/Masahiko Kimura
3/7/2012 - After two years of maintaining this gallery, it's time to bring it to an all-new venue -- the Super Mario Wiki/Super Mario Boards! Very excited to be here, everyone! Also, along with bringing the gallery here, I have new SNES-style arrangements targeting the musical score of Mario Kart 7!
(1) Are you a dedicated fan of the Mario music done for recent installments?
(2) Are you a dedicated fan of the Super Nintendo music style itself?
(3) Are you addicted to certain "instrument styles" from certain Super Nintendo games and wondered how they could be implemented to use for arranging certain tunes from recent Mario game installments?
If you answered yes to all three of these questions, that's what I've been aiming for here. And let's just say that the musical score of Super Paper Mario (constantly!) prompted me to do such a task. Not to mention that since I'm a member of a certain video game music community that I also won't mention here, a certain member hinted to me and others about getting "instruments" from Super Nintendo games (which I also won't mention for now). After getting news from "internal sources" on how to do this job, I was also told about ModPlug Tracker (if any of you have heard about that) to add the instruments and make the "set" that was created to be used for certain SNES games! After getting used to this process, I've been hooked on that ever since. Now, with that said let's get to how this gallery is going to work.
As I said earlier, I have attempted to gather certain "instrument sets" from Super Nintendo games via "internal means" (and using MODPlug Tracker to get the sets together) and used them to "arrange" modern Mario music in that instrument set/style of the SNES game in question. As you'll see in the Acknowledgement List later, for example, there are some tunes from Super Paper Mario that I have managed to "arrange" in the Batman Returns (SNES) style, more from that same game in the Spider-Man & The X-Men: Arcade's Revenge style, and so forth. Be forwarned, there may be some arrangements which are a mixture of at least two "styles". If you haven't guessed already, the BR style and the SM&XM: A.R. style are my top favorites, but I couldn't limit myself to those two alone. When you check out the "Gallery List" in the next post, you'll see what I mean. I'll also list the instrument styles I have used so far for this overall gallery under the "Acknowledgement List".
This part of the explanation is for those of us who are videogame music "insiders": as for the SNES arrangements themselves, we all should already know that compared to the "music approaches" for today's systems, the composing process for the Super Nintendo system was limited, but if done correctly, you're still able to create awesome tunes of great quality. The culprit, of course, was "channel limitations" -- especially in regards to making sure "music channels" didn't interfere with channels reserved for sound effects (especially for "gameplay levels"!). I've seen this for myself and that's what I have been trying to do here with my arrangements here in this gallery. Hard work, but it definitely pays off in the end. It's rare that all channels were used for SNES music itself, and if so, that would be targeted for title screen areas or game credits areas for SNES games themselves. Once again, you can thank ModPlug Tracker for giving me the opportunity to "emulate" this as well in my arrangement work here.
DETAILED REASON AS TO WHY THIS GALLERY IS AT THE MARIO WIKI/SUPER MARIO BOARDS:
The past years that I've been maintaining this gallery at a certain forum... although I have gathered a few responses on the works that I've done here, there were some folks over there tormenting me as if what I'm doing regarding this project was nothing more than a waste of time. Obviously, I ignored them, but I just could not stand and accept any kind of attacks against this kind of gallery itself. I've also came to the conclusion that those that viewed the gallery there might not have been interested in the awesomness of the Super Nintendo music process itself -- and second, even though I'm still happy that I'm arranging stuff using ModPlug Tracker using the Super Nintendo music style, it's time to spread this to over venues, and this site is one of those targets, since I came to conclude that it's best to share this in a community who REALLY appreciates the Mario series as a whole, PLUS to find those who still love to hear Super Nintendo styled music today. It's an honor to bring it to these parts, and I really hope you enjoy what I have to offer here.
Batman Returns (SNES Version - Konami)
Jun Funahashi, Harumi Ueko, Kazuhiko Uehara
Spider-Man & The X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (LJN/Software Creations)
Geoff Follin & Tim Follin (as you can already tell, the SNES version of this musical score > all others, and yes, this INCLUDES the instrumentation itself)
Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage (Sunsoft/Viacom New Media)
Nu Romantic Productions (grr... and to this day I'm STILL trying to find who actually wrote this score!!!)
The Adventures of Batman & Robin (SNES Version - Konami)
Jun Funahashi, Masanari Iwata, Masahiko Kimura, Kayo Fujitani, Harumi Ueko, Masahiro Ikariko, Kazuhiko Uehara (eeesh... what a HUGE list of names!
)Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day (Viacom New Media)
Nu Romantic Productions (Okay, Nu Romantic Productions, why haven't you given us the acutal composer of this game either?!?!?!?!?! HUH?!?!??!?!)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES Version - Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara, Hideto Inoue, Harumi Ueko
Plok! (Tradewest/Software Creations)
Geoff Follin & Tim Follin (Yep, the same guys who created the instrument set for Spider-Man & The X-Men: Arcade's Revenge! And yes, I love the Plok! instrument set they made along with the former. :P)
Disney's Magical Quest 1 (Capcom/Disney)
Mari Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nishimura (NOTE: The SNES version is obviously known by the title The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse; a GBA version was made as well, but it's titled Disney's Magical Quest Starring Mickey & Minnie. Of course, main acknowledgement goes to the two folks responsible for doing the SNES version of the game's musical score. :P)
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose (Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara, Yukie Morimoto
Animaniacs (SNES Version) (Konami)
Tomoya Tomita
Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind - SNES Version (Accolade/Solid Software)
Matt Berardo
Smart Ball (Sony Imagesoft/System Sacom/Game Freak)
Hirohiko Fukuda, Manabu Saito, Akira Yamaoka
Disney's Magical Quest 2 (Capcom/Disney)
Mari Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nishimura (NOTE: Same as the Disney's Magical Quest 1 set, but the targeted SNES game in question is called The Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey & Minnie; a GBA version was made as well many years after the SNES game itself, but it's titled Disney's Magical Quest 2 Starring Mickey & Minnie. Of course, main acknowledgement goes to the two folks responsible for doing the SNES version of the game's musical score. :P)
Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge (Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara/Saiko Miki
Inspector Gadget (Hudson Soft/Fourty-Five)
Kennosuke Suemura/Saori Kobayashi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time (Konami)
Kazuhiko Uehara/Harumi Ueko
Mega Man Soccer (Capcom)
Toshio Okamoto/Kenichi Tomizawa/Norihoko Togashi
Disney's Aladdin (SNES Version - Capcom)
Yuki Iwai/Yuko Takehara/Setsuo Yamamoto
Disney's Bonkers (SNES Version - Capcom)
Norihiko Togashi
Castlevania: Dracula X (Konami)
Tomoya Tomita/Masanari Iwata/Harumi Ueko/Masahiko Kimura
