Name: Walking in Speed Runs by Xander Martin 2
Duration: 3 min
Description: Smash Mouth's Walking On The Sun in the sound font of Nintendo's Super Metroid

Thumbnail artwork by Charger342.

Xander Martin requested a WL4 cover of this from me. Unlike some of his past requests this one seemed easy enough to warrant actually following up on. So I took a stab at it. 

At first I was using WarioWare, inc. as my standard for which sounds I could use. Actual Flute and Pan Flute sounds would be open to me this way, and the choir as well. 
[30,2] was an absolute shoe-in for the chorused plucked string, so that was obviously the first thing I did. I also went to the trouble of making this with Sappy playback in mind, unlike some of my other recent WL4 covers. 

Because of these 2 things I'd been flip-flopping on the idea of going full Arabian Nights with this waarangement. Finding ways of limiting the # of sound channels and # of voices while keeping audio seamless put the idea of also limiting myself to base WL4 instruments (justl ike good old day) in mind. 

So, after the initial arrangement was finished, I basically halted production for a while. I finally took a drug holiday this week, and I may resume it tomorrow (not sure just yet).
But anyway, today I came back to work on it a little more, since I remembered not being satisfied with it where it was. I did a bunch of patch event changes, and spruced up the choir part (which is now strings). 
For a while I had the 1st Flute set to be the Soft Electric Piano, but ended up changing it to [113,2], the Arabian Nights shanai. I ended up leaving the echo as [5,2] though, because it sounded like an echo for just the flutier portion of [113,2]'s sound. This gives the illusion that the lead is a doubling.

Cursed Wathedral - Wario's Mystery Meat

Smash Mouth's Walking On The Sun in the sound font of Nintendo's Super Metroid

Walking On The Sun

Walking in Speed Runs

I uploaded this song on soundcloud all credits to creator                 Link on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watchv=gW0AlJoeiPw&t=17s

Kraid's Lair (Super Metroid Arrangement)

Izzy and I jam in our duet-ish band, Safe Sex.

Ganymede Fridge Lobster

From Gotti - ralphthemoviemaker
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Supernature (ralphthemoviemaker Mix)

So-called "Game Of The Decade" (Earthworm Jim), meet Actual Contender For Best Game Of The 1990s (Super Metroid, thanks to its ROM-hacking community). You'd better believe that I REALLY "used my head" when composing this.

Super Metroid @ Nintendo, 1994

Earthworm Jim @ Shiny Entertainment, 1994

Upper/Lower Brinstar and The Queen's Lair

Buttstar: Overgrown With Vegetation (Super Metroid / Earthworm Jim 25th Anniversary Tribute)

I needed an excuse to finally Public my Monster Hits playlist, and I'm sure some of you people will appreciate this track, so here you go.
MIDI from midi-world, with the exception of the main riff (which, as we all know is the most important part). That's the same notation I wrote which is to also be heard in that "nah nah nah you playin" track I posted.

Sweet Dreams but it sounds like Wario Land

This one was pretty much set in stone from the beginning, hombie. What can ya do, know what'm sayin'

Wario Land 4 II: The Moon's Lamppost - Ruby Passage CD

The spiritual successor to https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/eb-arpeggio (and its elevated form, https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/battle-against-a-reheating-opponent)
For one reason or another this is my favorite composition of mine to leitmotif, it would seem. As I recall, the original has some comment on it made by Xander Martin. He mentioned something about calling it "Depressed Guys", or "Depressing Guys", something like that. ...which is kind of fitting for this, I suppose, because originally I wanted to have an edit of Zombie Man with dark WWII winter pilot gear as my thumbnail enemy.

Freeze-Dried Guys

If you know, you know.

Music from Crash 4. Game and music belong to Activision.

Walking in Speed Runs

Xander Martin 2

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