Where does Mario's "BAH" sound come from? Nintendo Music Secrets 2024
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- Where did the "bah" sound from New Super Mario Bros come from? What's the meaning of the morse code in Wii Sports Resort? Which Nintendo 64 song was SNUCK into an SNES game? In this video we're talking about 8 Nintendo music EASTER EGGS and mysteries!
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NUMBER 1
- Donkey Kong Country 3 footage via GAPMan / @gapman88
NUMBER 3
- Turntable footage via SNintendoFreak • Ashley's Song Hidden M...
- Ashley audio via Master Dimentio • Warioware Touched: Ash...
- Ashley video via FrancyNintendo&co • Warioware touched Ashl...
NUMBER 6
- Info from tcrf.net/Wii_Sports_Resort#Hi...
- Footage recorded by me using noclip.website
- Morse code generated w/ morsecode.world/international...
TIMECODES
0:00 Intro
0:35 Donkey Kong Country 3
2:16 Super Mario 3D Land
3:49 WarioWare: Touched!
5:14 Mario Kart 8
6:29 Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
7:55 Wii Sports Resort
9:04 New Super Mario Bros
11:22 Super Mario Maker 2 - Hry
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First true first person that is not a random jerk
Did your video from the Mario got his voice from Charles with the stuttering comedian true? If it is, I will be extremely disappointed in Charles and will no longer care for him.
@@MorganNyeI care
@@Cliffordlongheadhow am I a bot
"Bah" actually being "Pah" is earthshattering knowledge
Bah humbug!
The two are pretty indistinguishable, no?
@@snoxeri the Mario version yes. But the unedited version is clearly a Pah. My life has been a lie
@@k-leb4671Pah humbug!
Its clearer in Mario 64 as Pah, but in NSMB it sounds more like a Bah, and I guess people have been saying it says BAH, so it's become a bit more muddied, but the original clears it up, its a definite Pah!
You've got to wonder if the lady who originally did the pah sound knows that her voice is famous.
Just bahrely
yeah good point on that one
@@WaffleAbuser lol
Thomas Game Docs really should have taken the next journalistic step and figured this out, or at least followed the thread until he reached a dead end.
@@roachdoggjr722I agree. And I find the text on this video's thumbnail, "Who sang the bahs", kind of misleading because of this. I already knew it came from a sample pack so I felt a little disappointed Thomas didn't try to find out names.
I cannot believe I never noticed that Mario 64 and the NSMB series shared the "bah" sounds considering how many times I've played those games
I didn't notice that until recently
Same here...
Not sure how old you guys are but I'm in my late 30s, and played Mario 64 all the time for years so the PA PA PA PA PA PAAAAAAH bit at the beginning was stuck in my head a good 8 years prior to NSMB's release. When I got the DS and that game I thought 'huh, cool the same sound' What's even cooler is that every time that bit of music plays the Koopa's do a little dance to it, love that detail! @@niclasreiche1803
@@Zictor NSMBDS was my first ever videogame. I also noticed that the koopas do a little dance but I never knew that with the sound! Worst of all: I've also played SM64DS sometime later but I never realised it...
I have noticed that since i was a kid. I listen closely, and it's sounds exactly the same.
And I ever told my friend about it and he was shocked.
The "bah" connection is likely due to Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros. both being games released in a close timespan and using a lot of the same music and sound effects.
Those games share a ton of DNA in general, the NSMB character animations are even taken from 64DS I believe
@@sheiryard8149not only that but the two games share alot of minigames as well
They also use the same engine
The original Flipnote Mario drawing song is extremely nostalgic to me. Back then when I got to the special world in Super Mario 3D Land I couldn’t believe what I’m hearing. So glad Nintendo randomly brought it back and I think they should do it again. It’s a nice melody.
It was remixed in New Super Mario Bros Versus for the Sky Level. It was done by ipodtouch0218 who also developed the game
Oh yeah for the Mario game and watch
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du bist echt überall
@@flamingphoenix1425and that remix is the best version of that song if you ask me
Man I’ve been wondering if bah bah sound was made by a employee
I know right
Why do you beg for likes in sarriebarrie and djlovesturbo's channel
just like the peachs voice, was suddenly added
@@dalmutbrothers I agree that that's a lame thing to do, but I gotta ask: who cares?
Saying what you said seems... equally weird, honestly. Like clearly if they feel the need to do that, then they probably have something going on in their personal life that necessitates that. Maybe nobody pays attention to them in their personal life or something, idk. They're not hurting anyone so it doesn't matter.
However, the fact that you feel the need to give some rando internet stranger shit for being _mildly_ cringe makes is way, WAY more embarrassing than anything they could have said.
ok geez you didnt need to write a whole essay wtf..@@idontwantahandlethough 🤓👆
I love how there's jokes like:
Does anyone know morse code?
Well, I definitely don't.
I find that funny😂
It’s kind of strange the joke is in English, would translators even bother with a morse code easter egg?
morse code is mostly used for english so that's why it's in english
Why that this username
@@kaleenar963Wii sport was made a a external studio , i believe its based in the UK.
I've been playing Mario Kart 8 for close to a decade, must've zoomed past those teacup ride things in Water Park thousands of times, and only today did I learn there's a special song that plays for them.
Same - amazed at the amount of effort on those small details put into that game
Jesus Christ what do you mean MK8 has been out for a decade
He’s talking dog years.
@@delta3eight In dog years, Mario Kart 8 originally released about 60 years ago on Wii U.
The Bah Bah sound has always been my favourite sound in New Super Mario Bros, ever since I first played the 3DS version. That's among the reasons New Super Mario Bros. And Nintendo are my childhood.
I hate the sound because I always play games muted and with the game muted it just makes enemies act unpredictably. It would have been nice for the game to recognise that it was muted and so it shouldn't make them stop or turn around or whatever. I went back to NSMB2 and quit after being hit too many times by enemies acting to the music. I have auditory processing disorders and don't like noise especially game music as it's a bit much. Those bah bah sounds make the game a lot more tedious for me and I'm probably not going to bother completing NSMB2 because of them
@@precumming Nintendo did overuse the Bahs in NSMB2 by just taking NSMBWii's songs and adding extra bahs into them with nothing else really new. The reason why the enemies still react to the BAHS in NSMB2, and in every other NSMB game, is because even if you mute the game, they can still hear the music.
@@ignatiousmary8413 10:48
They should bring back the "Bah Bah" again because it's the best soundtrack for mario games.
@@Uesr2004D they might bring it back if they make a game based of NSMB, or if they make another NSMB game. That will be amazing.
I think the syllable in Ashley's Theme mistaken for "hell" is 'tal' in "pantalones giganticus". But the funny thing is the Japanese version has a similar easter egg put there intentionally-- the chant she sings, if reversed, spells what can be pronounced as "Made in Wario is Number One" (Made in Wario is the Japanese name of WarioWare). The English localization, while it did a good job, just made up something silly.
Also there are more hidden sounds like that in MK8, including Nook's Cranny, K.K. Slider playing a different song depending on the season, and Yoshi (appropriately) humming Totaka's Song and a unique thing that's just super cute.
I know like dozens more of these facts, I have to restrain myself from rambling about them.
Explaining the bah starts at 9:10, you're welcome
Was about to say, this video doesnt need to be 15 minutes long
This could have been a YT short
Worst attention span ever @@FishWash
Thank you 😂
@@watchf Title literally says its about the Bah
To the best of my knowledge, the reason the pah!s are reused in New is because it was meant to be a quick and easy project for all the devs, recycling assets from Super Mario 64 DS. This is why the eel enemies use Unagi's model, Dorrie shows up, etc. New recycling instruments as well feels par for the course, and connects those games in a really interesting way. On that note it's really funny that all the holdovers carried all the way into Wonder are borne out of something meant to essentially serve as filler.
6:59
Makes sense. Especially when DK.Jr was supposed to be in the game originally as DK’s partner.
He only appears in the audience in Waluigi Stadium, IIRC
and would have made alot of "cranky is og DK" theorist sad.
@@ShadowSora8491 he was originally supposed to be playable before being swapped with Diddy.
@@MikePhantom
That's not a theory
That's the actual lore
Yeah but given DK mountain was first it was fairly obvious the song was written for that track. Dino Dino Jungle doesn't even have an associated character, instead having a character literally made for the stage. But the easter egg referencing DK Jr is pretty neat. It has the same rhythm, but doesn't have the same notes attributed to the rhythm if you slow them down. Feels more like a coincedence though as DK Mountain sounds more like Mario Sunshine's Pianta village.
You either love the bahs or despise the bahs with every fiber of your being. There is no in-between.
I might be the only person that likes nsmb2’s Oops! All bahs songs.
I loved them in 64, but having them in every song was overkill in the NSMB series
*in-bahtween
@@RipVanFish09 I think you might be right
Raving rabbit 🐰
10:45 the part you came here for
There is more to the Ashley's song; if you continue to play the record at the same speed she goes "All never return. I rise above them!"
really? whoa, you got to think to yourself if this really is a coincidence nintendo put this in there like doom and the 666 hidden in the music 😱😱
@@HUYI1 if you play it backwards at 3AM on Friday the 13th you hear mario's voice and children begging for mercy 💀💀 source: *trust me bro*
this is truly a bah bah moment
Yes bah bah
BAH BAH
we need a koopa in the comment section
@@Jack6J57 🐢 🐢
🐢 🐢 🐢
bah bah
I hope nintendo brings the soundtrack again.
I did it 👀
what
???
Did what??
Did you even READ the title...?
wha.
7:35 it's like Jump Up Superstar using the theme of Doneky Kong.
idk how this wasn't mentioned tbh
Omg totally
Fun fact: Mario maker takes a lot of inspiration from Mario Paint. One example is that the Course Bot is a direct reference to the robot you see when saving and loading art, design AND theme! Heck, even the interactive title screen and (SMM 1's) flyswatter game come straight from Mario Paint!
And the funky banana guys
it's not inspiration, it's a reference entirely, and also the music is the exact same unchanged music from the SNES.
Mario Paint is the single weirdest "game" Nintendo ever made
@@Superabound2 there's definitely weirder games lol
Bah humbug
Many Kirby games feature a Roland keyboard sample that Roland themselves sampled from an earlier sample from Fairlight (the first computer intended for music production) - called ARR1 or SARARR. This sample was also featured prominently in many pop songs from the 1980s to the 2000s, most notably Tears for Fears' Shout. It's a very distinctive sound - a lo-fi recording of an Australian woman by the name of Sarah Cowan singing "uhh". In Kirby circles, it's known as "That Synth".
I still regularly use the sampled voice of a former friend, grateful to live in a time when the technology is accessible to anyone with the interest and patience to take advantage of a device they already own. I sometimes think about how a half-second audio clip of a now-stranger saying "aah" into my laptop's microphone has been recontextualized, repeated, etc., so many times, and I don't even try to make it sound like a voice half the time... yet often do... it's amazing how quickly our species has gone from never hearing the same sound twice to being able to hear it thousands of times per minute with wavetable software. Now, I'm thinking about all the interns at electronic music equipment companies that had nice sultry voices, were asked if they could say "aah" into a microphone, and despite their lack of vocal training or practice, ended up on hit records and amateur recordings on the Internet - only to be fired in a week.
That “BA” sound is engraved in my brain and will be in there till the day I die
maybe you shouldn't have played those games. It wasn't worth that pain, you're missing absolutely nothing by not playing any of the four "new super mario bros" games.
So Koji Kondo is like the Skrillex of Nintendo because Skrillex is infamous for using the sound clip from the iconic video of a tween girl going “YES!!! OH MY GOSH!!!” in some of his songs😅
When Donkey Kong Country 3 was released in Europe, the Nintendo 64 wasn't released until three four months later, so it was such a surprise that I heard Wrinkley 64 in Super Mario 64, thinking "Hey, that's from Donkey Kong Country 3!".
Ha, that'd be a much stranger reference the other way around.
@@Chubby_Bub
Anything is possible time time travel
Even stateside I could imagine somebody playing Donkey Kong Country 3 first considering it came out around the same time
The exact same thing happened to me, and I was totally bamboozled by it when I heard it in Super Mario 64. I was like "Wait a minute, I know this from somewhere else" but wasn't able to pinpoint exactly where I heard it first. Since Donkey Kong Country 3 released first in Europe, I excluded it as a possibility, so it was really confusing to me at that time. I found out after I beat Super Mario 64 and went back to playing some more SNES games, including DKC3.
The Mario drawing song is also featured as a secret on the Super Mario Bros game and watch.
Here's another music secret: Wii Bowsers Castle sped up sounds like Maple Treeway
THAT is really cool. I love how different music sounds when they're sped up and pitch shifted (and changed to minor key). Great way to reuse similar themes for drastically different music.
It’s also the mini game island theme from
Mario party 1
This guy's already prepared to take matpats place when he's gone
clearly! i agree 👍
girl*
@@goblin1873
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Thomas goes by she/her pronouns.
@@TroubledTrooper i think the "he" here was referring to matpat, who doesn't use she/her as of writing this
The "Satanic message" in Wario Ware very much reminds me of the old Satanic Panic here in the US I know of; especially when people would turn records backward to reveal "hidden Satanic messages." It's no surprise that the cause here is every bit as simple, and ironic that it's in a highly similar scenario, with both revolving around turning record discs.
For those who may not know, turning a record backward in real life while still playing it simply scratches the record to heck; take that as a pun if you want; and ruins it, making it make noises that humans' naturally pattern-seeking brains interpret as "backward messages."
Yeah, definitely more of fans blowing it way out of proportion than intentional. When they brought the record back in Wario Ware Gold, they added pitch shifts and now randomize the speed and added gibberish sounds so it's not possible to accidently hear the offending phrase. Just a wild coincidence.
Stop hiding the fact that Nintendo has granted children to hell.
honestly i have always scoffed at people who do this. none of those "secret messages" sounded anything like what ppl claimed they did
@@thatonekid220 Yeah, usually not unless you deliberately listen for what they claim they heard, which just brings up confirmation bias, lol.
What especially gets me about these "conspiracies" is that if they were meant to be there and mean something, would they not, you know, be grammatically correct? Why is it that none of these "Satanic conspiracy messages" even make sense at all as messages?
10:06 truthfully I never really thought about this, but now that I know this, not only can I not unhear it but my mind is utterly blown
Same
The music from DK Mountain being based on DK Jr.'s stage theme might not have been a simple homage, as DK Jr. himself was originally going to be DK's partner! DK Jr.'s icon and an image of his model were found in one of the Mario Kart DD demo discs. All thanks to the good people at The Cutting Room Floor.
9:29 why does it sound scary when you remove the music from *”Bah Bah?”*
3:14 ah yes, my favorite language, Japanaese.
TYPO ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Koji Kondo added the "Bah" in NSMB just as a re-use, not knowing that he made history
It’s like you watched the video or something
Pah
chill @@alainchristian
@@spencerthegoodgamer80no
Koji kondo made history on multiple occasions what's your point
A minor note: Flipnote Studio is a 2D animation app, not a stop-motion animation app. Stop-motion animation strings together photos taken of objects between altering their positions which gives the appearance of movement. Examples include claymation, brickfilms, movies like Chicken Run, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline etc..
"I'm dying please help"
Koopa:Bah Bah
In my german textbook, there was a listening exercise about aliens and the at the beginning it played the tower theme track from new super mario bros. I was absolutely shocked and could not even focus on the exercise....
Shinobu Nagata mentioned in this video. Thank you. She was my answer under your "most underrated Nintendo composer" community post.
She has an amazing range of styles she composes in. I like how she worked on both the original Animal Crossing and came back to the series for New Horizons, even rearranging her own "Radio Exercises" theme
Fun fact: some sound clips from the best service voice spectral volume 1 was actually used in prototype versions of Mario 64.
Interesting, thanks for letting me know.
@@MK8MasterJunjieno problem 😁
Here a interesting fact: Zelda ocarina of Time used some samples from the Best Services packs and a lot of SFX from Nintendo games come from the Creative ideas and Spectrasonic samples packs.
@@Plaston_ intriguing 🤔😌
Koji Kondo was invited backstage at a Paul McCartney concert back in the 80s, and when introduced, McCartney was told that Kondo composed the music for Super Mario Bros.. McCartney was excited and then sang the theme for an elated Kondo. I always thought McCartney sang the notes as "bah" and that's what inspired the sounds in Mario 64 and later New Super Mario. Who knew it was a more simple explanation...
Erm actually koopa’s sang the “bah” tragically many passed away while singing, may they rest in peace
um, did you watch the actual video? 💀
@@SMB_Fan2010 um, did you get the joke?
"Bah bah" was done by an unknown woman in the CD "Voice Spectral"
You're welcome
I just saved you 15 minutes
It's not a CZcams short. You're actually a loser if you think you "saved" 15 minutes. If you want short form content, go watch your skibbity toilet on shorts.
4:20 kind of weird that this offended people when the regular song was already about witchcraft
The internet has in backwards-it isn’t that every copy of Mario 64 is personalized, it’s that Mario 64 has infected every game after it. 😉
Happy new year Thomas, it’s amazing how a lot of these references go back all the way to Super Mario 64 which is one of the greatest games of all time!
these are sometimes so random yet so intresting, I love it🤣
this guy has a really good ear to notice all of these, legit these are cool and i was surprised by all of these songs especially the super Mario world special music, i wonder if nintendo land on the wii u has any musical secrets also?
Tommy Tallarico did it. His mother is very proud.
The end of the sound at 10:37 reminds me of the FLUDDless level theme from super mario sunshine
8:08 The morse is a little messed up with the double and tripple dashes being mashed into one long line, and it gets cut short, but I'm assuming it's saying "morse code takes forever to write"
oh. Well, only like 20-30 seconds later the video shows the message, I guess there is no secret easter egg to find in the video for me
@@AlbySillyWell, Thomas only showed "Morning" mode- there's two more on "Evening" and "Night." And like he said, fly past the Candle for about 5 seconds to hear it (they're like, "Do you really want to determine the code?")
Speed ~ 20 WPM, by the way (almost exact, in fact!)
This is your best video ever!!!!!! I didn't know any of this!!!! All of it is really cool!!!! I think the craziest ones are the WarioWare one and the Wii Sports morse code one!!!! thank you for making this video!!! Keep up the great work Thomas Game Docs!!!!
Me thinking its toads “bup’ being reused 💀:
For the Double Dash section, you can hear the same music in Mario party superstar’s look away minigame
Now THAT is a good homage. The melody, rhythm AND pitch is the same, unlike DK Mountain where the rhythm lines up but the melody is different. Almost completely different, just using similar notes.(Hehe sorry for being pedantic, but as a musician myself it bugs me they're not as similar as they sound to an untrained ear looking for similarities), but the Mario Party 2 thing is so on point as even I didn't know that until you just mentioned it.
always love this kind of videos cuz you learn so much from composers secrets and history behind soundtracks
I miss the bah, it makes me remember all the times me and my brother would play Mario Wii, it’s just so nostalgic. The bah sounds so serene, it won’t be forgotten.
Love it. One if the best I found was in Mario Galaxy, where hovering over a menu button plays a note from a melody that complements the current background music.
It's a bit hard for me to describe, but quickly moving the cursor over menu items reveals a whole extra melody in every background music. They did this more in later games I think.
13:38 I've never seen your face before!
shes SO PRETTY
@@goblin1873 Don't beat me up but I thought she was a he.
Why does he look like a girl😂
@@goblin1873🤣
I actually found out about the NSMB sound origin on my own a while back while going through some audio CDs.
I had download a few from the internet to listen through, namely for the Fire Temple chanting and a TON of stuff from Jet Set Radio, and come to find out, those random "Bah/Pah" sound effects stood out like the sorest of thumbs. It's always super fun to go through stuff like that, and I recommend it to anyone willing to head to the Internet Archive and spend a few minutes downloading a CD or two to go through. Who knows what sounds you might recognize!
6:30 The final level of donkey kong country returns also uses the donkey kong junior music prominently.
What a fun video! It put a huge smile on my face, amazing job as always Thomas! :D
Thomas: “No one does music quite like Nintendo.”
Me: UNDERTALE
New Super Mario Bros also uses Super Mario 64 DS sounds/instruments, so it makes sense
7:21 - Not really the same theme or melody. It's somewhat a stretch.
We just have to check every single bit of music Koji Kondo has composed. He's the sampler, and we should find every single one of the samples he's used.
This time I’ll teach you something! On #1, it’s not just the SM64 castle theme, it’s the beta version!
You're out here doing the true detective work we all needed. An unsung hero of our time.
5:00 soopan = the word
It would be funny if you stayed on the main course world menu for long enough it would switch into the mario 1 ground theme like it does in mario world
12:00 the special world theme form mario world actually houses a secret of its own. When listening to it long enough, a different theme starts to play. I'll let you go and figure out for yourself which theme it is (although it's not too hard to guess)
What is it? I'm too lazy to check lma9
@@spidermania3708 the song turns into the smb theme. Me and my brother discovered this when we were eating while on the map screen of the special world.
This was a fantastic video! Thanks so much Thomas!
Wait, wait, you're telling me that it's actually "pah, pah"? My life is in shambles...
Ooh back to Thomas Game Docs, such a wowing way to give us information
8:21 GUYS IT’S ROBOTY
From beefy die
11:16 Wii Used
XD
Just heard that and had to check comments. I'm glad it was acknowledged recently lol
6:52. That's just a theory. A game theory! 😭
let’s hope mato at comes back after March 9
Hey Thomas, I just want to tell you how much I love your videos. You are probably my favorite gaming facts channel. I hope you continue to make awesome videos.
P.S: I like your Mii
10:39 that sounds like the melody/horn that meitetsu line trains play, mainly on inuyama Bridge before 2000, where the train bridge was shared with the road
I love this tipe of videos about finding who did the most random things
Yeah but who sung track 53 and do they know they’re in Mario games.
Great video! It’s so fascinating seeing the secrets in the songs by Nintendo.
3:47.
That's amazing it gives me chills
10:50 sounds like that mario basketball game with a bunch of cool unique characters on the ds
Mario hoops 3 on 3
ik this is so unrelateed but my god you are so pretty :O
7:24 this music is also in the golden temple level (floating fruits and veggies part) in DK returns
One thing I feel adding to the last bit about the SMW Special World theme in the original SNES game (idk about the GBA version), if you let it play for like, 5 to 10 minutes, it will change into SMB1 classic level's theme, it's something I found out because I really LOVE idling on game's menus for no reason at all lol.
3:54 what?!
HELP 😭😭☝️
Sußssssss
4:30 relatable
What do you mean by that
Woosh
Ddlc fans will recognize this
Thank you so much for clarifying the Ashley's theme backwards message. I always thought it was real 😅. You always bring quality content
I was surprised when you said everyone associated the Pah Pah with the new Super Mario Bros. Games. It's such a SM64 classic to me
I thought it might be worth mentioning that you have a typo around 3:14. “Japanaese”
Fun Fact: The dos that appear in Mario Wonder don’t actually originate in Wonder but possibly in the credits theme for New Super Mario Bros. 2
It seems like the Metro Kingdom Pauline song also takes inspiration from the Mario Drawing song! That was my first thought when I heard the song, as the “Jump up in the air!” part sounds very similar to it, although that may just be a coincidence.
I never thought about any of this. What I did wonder about though, is who made the laugh track sample used in the opening sound clip for Diddy Kong Racing for the N64.
BRO IS LEGENDARY! Since i heard that sound, i wanted to know from where it comes! Thanks!
GO OFF THOMAS ALWAYS A JOY TO HEAR YOUR VOICE
I love hearing about the unusual, unexpected or obscure things used to make Nintendo music, like those sampling CDs. A sound designer's tools really do go far beyond instruments.
Interesting information, always wondered who made that sound, thanks!
10:11 actual answer
🎶Bah Bah🎶
This is really awesome! Thanks for the hard work
I'd guess regarding the Morse Code, they just wanted to have Morse Code to give it a feel of being near a Radio Tower or something... And they just had a little fun with the messages!