Mario games are full of iconic music, we all know the main theme song in all its traditional 8-bit glory. Super Mario World saw us move to 16-bit tunes and sure there are plenty of retro bangers in this game too. Thanks to a big leak of Nintendo files last year (aka Gigaleak), including the source code of the 2002 Game Boy Advance re-release of Super Mario World, some clever data mining fans have taken the compressed sounds and released them on YouTube as remastered lossless versions. The Brickster, who is also the owner of the YouTube account the videos are posted to explains more background on the process on Twitter:
Thanks to a breakthrough I had, regarding the Gigaleak, we were able to find proper names for many instruments for Super Mario World, which lead to some friends finding the source for those samples. With these source samples, they are now restoring the OST for Super Mario World.
— Infomaniac95 (@lebrickster) January 31, 2021
For anyone curious as to how these findings were done, its actually rather simple. Know how the Gigaleak had source code for Super Mario Advanced? That game reuses samples from Super Mario World. Those samples had names we didn't have, which is how we were able to find them. pic.twitter.com/qWFTG1YdYW
— Infomaniac95 (@lebrickster) February 3, 2021
My favourites have to be the remastered Overworld theme and Athletic theme, you can find them as they are completed in this playlist.
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When Eleanore isn’t trying to figure out how the Earth works she’s trying to pay off her loan in Animal Crossing, complete her Pokedex or finishing one more RPG or platformer. She is a lover of great characters, cute or creative art styles and awesome game soundtracks.
