Musical Secrets & Trivia in Super Mario RPG! (+ the Mario & Luigi Series)

A bit of credence to the idea of the unused track from Brawl being Forest’s Mushrooms is the fact Sakurai has gone on record saying he wanted to put Geno in Brawl, only for Square to turn him down.

Shoutouts to the 10 people having an out of body experience at the mention of Super Mario Crossover. That's me.

Do you ever think of the Super Mario World TV show intro

That thing with Cackletta's theme being in deep castle, to me it diverges so heavily after the first 7 notes to show just how far Fawful has come. Like yeah, it all started with Cackletta, so there's your nod to her of course. But it kinda shows that Fawful has grown up and become his own villain in a way where he wasn't before, and just how he's following in her footsteps while still being distinct and threatening in his own right At least that's what I got out of that after the 3 seconds of knowing that Cackletta's theme was hinted at here lmao

two more fun callbacks! 1. the superstar saga battle theme reappears in paper jam as the battle theme at the start of the game before paper mario joins your party. 2. the superstar saga track "departure" that plays in the ending cutscene reappears in partners in time's ending cutscene.

Another official instance of Mario RPG music is in one of the Very Best of Yoko Shimomura albums. These are two albums of orchestrated arrangements of Yoko Shimomura music from throughout Square Enix's history, and the second one ("memoria!") has arrangements of "Beware the Forest's Mushrooms" and "Goodbye Geno... ~ Seeking Dreams Through the Window of the Stars" from Mario RPG. It's a rare instance of Square acknowledging the game before remake was announced and they're both great arrangements.

the Mario & Luigi series is one of the biggest reasons why I love video game music so much. All of the nods to older mario songs blew my mind! And made me have such a greater appreciation for how influential game music can be on my life! This is such a great showcase of a really underappreciated aspect of that series!! ALSO I had no idea the BiS remake had the Cackletta boss remix??? That is so cool, that is one of my favorite songs in that game holy moly!

Another Mario RPG and Superstar Saga musical connection is that the SMB1 underground remixes (From Inside the Earthen Pipe in Mario RPG cause there's a few in that game) both use the same drum fill when the drums begin to be introduced. I don't know if that was in an earlier Mario game than that, but my brain always attributes it to the Yoko Shimomura remixes.

Ah, Super Mario Crossover. AKA Blaster Master's playground. What fond memories.

So glad mario crossover was brought at the end bc it was all I was thinking abt when u brought up the vs mario theme

Also a few notes of another's requiem from partners in time plays during the baby scene in the mario movie.

pikmin would be good for this series if you’re interested in it! pikmin 4 alone has a ton of them like the songs pikmin sing while following you, the music box treasures, and olimar’s side story

I Always love hearing bizabizows voice in these videos

hey! vinyl collector here, a vinyl release takes around 3-6 months to be completed, so the music is submitted way before its release on streaming, what probably happened is an earlier version of the song was submitted but changed for legal reasons when put on streaming but by the time it was changed the vinyl production had already started and it’d be way to expensive to change, but that’s just my guess, luv u. :))

1:00 you're absolutely right! It explains why playing it in the Arcade was SO much harder than on my Nintendo at home! I was saying "This won't waste my quarter, I have it at home!" Then I promptly got my little Mario bootie handed to me in the first level! My jaw dropped! Bye bye quarter, and bye bye faith in my ability to play Super Mario...

Specifically the Superstar Saga remake (not the original) if you defeat 2 or more viruses at the same time by matching the colours, some notes from the song Fever from the Dr. Mario series plays

I'm so excited to see another musical trivia video from you, these are my favorite videos of yours!

18:09 I AGED 10 YEARS THE MOMENT YOU BROUGHT THAT GAME UP ITS BEEN AGES SINCE I EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT MARIO CROSSOVER, YOU’RE A LEGEND!

Another fun one is in Bowsers Inside Story. Short Break in Toad town, aka the toad town theme has a small little reference to Mario rpgs forest maze theme

Me: zooning out during the end of the video as biz reads the patrons Biz: soy sauce flavored tide pod Me: 👀👀 I truely love these videos and anything you as they are so fun to learn and just funny overall. keep up the good work biz!