I found the full sample of Megalovania's/Earthbound's guitar sound

[@virtualdash]

At this point the guitar in megalovania doesn't even sound like a guitar

[@joshshrum2764]

Yeah the guitar in Hopes and Dreams sounds more like a guitar.

[@SnowyFoxlinn]

It's a guitar from 1995... It was heavily limited... I still think that Cease to Exist sounds metal enough, though...

[@archusrtm6325]

Well I mean toby took it from earthbound which is a snes game. So kinda expected

[@fieratheproud]

Yeah it just... sounds like Megalovania now

[@zenith8417]

The guitar from Oh My sounds more authentic.

[@ChristopherMoom]

Clearly the real reason only part of the guitar is played is because Sans was too lazy to find the full sample

[@snesmocha]

The in-depth technical reason is due to memory constraints on the old ass version Toby originally used, it forced only certain parts of the sample to be played or the system will just commit suicide and die.

[@ZenTerra-N.O.V.A]

You are everywhere around Undertale Fandom

[@snesmocha]

@@ZenTerra-N.O.V.A you get used to it

[@Youhadabadday2021]

@@ZenTerra-N.O.V.A I mean, the fucker uses a Chara profile pic, what do you expect?

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

@@snesmocha fun fact doesn't care

[@Snukkuri]

I never knew the origin of Megalovania was from Megalovania

[@DestroyerOfWeebs]

Same

[@KyleDavis328]

It's actually really interesting how much of Undertale's soundtrack is arranged from ripped soundfonts from games, especially Earthbound.

[@wingedfeline5379]

How are you everywhere

[@nonexistant8557]

Just like how you can make floor using flour

[@ocationalyfunny1927]

@@nonexistant8557 They've learned the powers of uwu and justin y

[@cometaHavoc]

Apparently the real original sample is a sample of Miyamoto playing a strat guitar. I doubt it'll be easy to find unless there's like a leak like what happened with Wii Sports or Super Mario 64

[@snesmocha]

He used a fender strat 1970 model, bridge pickup. Judging from the sound he used a beer can trick

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

@@snesmocha that's weird lol

[@tarnkazsuhara1098]

That's the guitar from the *intro* of Earthbound, a completely different guitar and sample from the one in Porky Means Business

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

@@tarnkazsuhara1098 no lol, its just that the creator of Earthbound.sf2 sampled it wrongly

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

Oh wait NVM read it wrong

[@SpringySpring04]

I remember spending almost an entire year dissecting this sample from the soundfont and then the actual earthbound rom. It really led me on my journey of sound design and audio synthesis programming, so it was pretty nice.

[@maiwang2040]

Yuyuko sama!

[@SpringySpring04]

@@maiwang2040 food detected

[@snailcheeseyt]

@@SpringySpring04 wha

[@Radicaldude]

thats cool af

[@rollanddev]

So... given your avatar, would you say it was the SPCB700 chip that you messed around with? :D :D :D

[@rat4730]

huh, i never actually realised the main instrument of megalovania was a synthesised guitar. the more you know

[@rayredondo6349]

It's not actually synthesized, according to some other comments.

[@aurisbunni]

EarthBound samples aside, it warms my heart seeing someone using OpenMPT for stuff. Maybe it's just me, but in these days I think it's fairly underrated.

[@ASmolBoy]

Music trackers rule!

[@thealandude9146]

@@ASmolBoy I usually only hear stuff like fl studio, lmms ableton, what is this Openmpt?

[@Xerin]

@@thealandude9146 it’s a different way to make music using trackers. Renoise is a really popular music tracker and I actually use it a ton, I freaking love trackers. It’s just a different work style

[@SpringySpring04]

I never heard of this program, even though I'm such a user of audio programs and such... Dang

[@Xerin]

@@SpringySpring04 get Renoise it’s insane!!! Especially if you make chiptune or breakcore, that’s what it’s best for imo

[@werferyt6092]

Never realised this, also PLEASE release the sans remix you used for the bgm

[@gottacannonfast]

@@ASmolBoy do it

[@cardi1783]

Lil'Alien DO IT

[@mayhemical]

@@ASmolBoy do it

[@SuperKirbylover]

@@ASmolBoy please consider releasing it, shit is jazzy

[@thenooblet7535]

@@ASmolBoy do it

[@_aitchfactor188]

The incorrect loop points in the soundfont are quite interesting since the SNES's sample format only supports sample lengths and loop points that are a multiple of 16, a detail that seems to have been ignored or unknown to whoever entered those loop points.

[@DogsRNice]

It does sound less jarring than the original

[@NoName_NoTitle]

There's no "incorrect" way to loop a sample. In fact, what I do is set the loop in the middle with some crossfade added. And then leave the tail for the release. Makes for a much smoother sound.

[@_aitchfactor188]

If a sample's looped a certain way in a game and then someone releases samples from that game, but the loop points are different to how they were in the game, then those samples won't sound accurate to the game. You can decide whether that's "incorrect" or not, though.

[@backwardsface3046]

@@_aitchfactor188 inaccurate and incorrect are different imo

[@fluffycritter]

I'd argue that there is an incorrect way to loop a sample, by not paying attention to zero crossings (or crossing direction) and getting audible pops at the loop.

[@komarunaegi7460]

PLEASE RELEASE THAT "sans." REMIX IT'S SO GOOD I LOVE HOW JAZZY IT IS

[@TheAdvertisement]

1:31 Gaster get out of my head.

[@nightfall_9411]

My brain just crashed after recognizing the leitmotif

[@neverhelios]

@@nightfall_9411 Lol for me it was the start of masked dedede

[@LynnWolfgaming]

Toby Fox does this with a lot of instruments he uses. Napstablook's theme, the main instrument is a small, starting note of an even longer sample. Kinda insane how he thought of doing that, at least imo

[@owenbowsher7595]

it’s called granular synthesis

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@owenbowsher7595 no that's like, wayyy smaller sample sizes than this

[@icicleditor]

dude I love that “sans.” Remix I wanna listen to it more

[@R4tdepic]

0:34 is my brain trying to decide the words being spoken in math class

[@Signedcentaur]

I know the guitar might not be the same, but a similar font can be heard in "Pokey Means Business" from Earthbound, but also a similar guitar is used in "Big Shot's Theme" in Mother 3. Basically, this guitar has made it's rounds in Mother

[@icantthinkstraight8853]

Nows your chance to be a-

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

It's the same guitar as Porky Means Business. IIRC that's actually the only track in the game that uses the overdrive guitar.

[@nickythehickey]

in WHO’s theme?

[@foursidekm]

Pokey means business is where it comes from

[@too_online.3441]

the pokey guitar is just the same guitar, just with a makeshift chorus applied

[@Ammiteur9]

I love your 'sans.' cover! I don't think it's crappy at all!

[@Dafisha]

Oh my god it actually sounds like an overdriven guitar

[@ModernAegis]

Sans: Hey, can I copy your homework? Andonuts: Sure, just change it a little so it doesn't look like you copied it.

[@NBttlr]

I like the background sans. remix you did, honestly. It doesn't sound crappy at all.

[@scsinewport]

absolute chad for using openmpt

[@ASmolBoy]

It's the only program I have that supports loop points in wav files Audacity unfortunately doesn't

[@foxboxray]

When you’re letting the sounds play a couple times and it almost sounds like Megalovania but it’s like one note off, that sounds cursed to me. What have I become?

[@npc_blob1609]

That's them manually playing megalovania with the sample, the sample is just one note.

[@JohnPaulBuce]

sans in your head

[@notvex3987]

From now on we call this instrument The "Funni skeleton megalovania thingy"

[@toddoverholt4556]

the Halloween hack version also sounds like the version that was used in that one Homestuck video

[@milo_south3670]

The background music is very nice. It suits the theme of this video.

[@meme_gunner]

Now i feel stupid for thinking that this soundfont was Toby Fox's Original. I really should play Earthbound, but i don't know if i should wait for switch port or get the ROM now...

[@FanofGuardianTales]

Nintendo Wiil port thousands of random SNES games to Switch before they'll port EarthBound to Switch. Emulate it dude, it's the best option. Or play it on Wii U, if you can. Edit: put, not port.

[@cometaHavoc]

Get the rom for PC or emulate it on Wii U. Because I doubt they'll ever release it on switch.

[@cometaHavoc]

@@FanofGuardianTales they arent even ports I think, they are emulations

[@mjdxp5688]

If Nintendo was going to put EarthBound on the Switch, they would have by now. It's on the Wii U or New 3DS eShop.

[@FanofGuardianTales]

Also, waiting for Nintendo to put EarthBound on Switch, or just doing anything with the series in general, is kinda like playing the lottery. EarthBound Begginings officially left Japan in June 2015, after more than 15 years since its first release. MOTHER 1+2 never officially left Japan, the same goes for MOTHER 3. And, despite fans requesting them to put EarthBound on Switch constantly, they still didn't.

[@Fionacle]

That background music is lovely

[@stkproduction]

I do like hearing the Cafe styled sans music and I want to give it a listen while I'm vibing

[@NLind]

I've heard this in other games. For example the acoustic snare drum used in FF8 is shortened in-game and given a volume envelope ( If you have a 3DS open the music player and select one of the available sounds you can trigger w/ the shoulder buttons to hear it in full). Same thing with MGS 1, the splash cymbal like sound you hear is a very small snippet of an orchestral clash cymbal sample that you can hear the "full" version (still a truncated sample)if you extract the samples. They just drenched it in reverb to give it a splash cymbal effect. Also on a rather strange note when I was looking through the FF9 samples on Disc 1 it for some reason has samples that aren't used until much later in the game (e.g. the synth sounds from the Iifa Tree stage and the punchy snare used in You are Not Alone.)

[@Wuuzi]

dog they didnt get the loop points wrong, its entirely a stylistic choice. Writing with granular looping is just like that.

[@lavacakes]

never thought id find you in the vgm sample community

[@Wuuzi]

@@lavacakes I like vibeo gaem

[@hi_im_joe]

I accidentally clicked on it but I'm glad I did!

[@aioia3885]

I mean it's very obvious that most samples Toby used in undertale come from earthbound, just listen to amalgam for example. I thought most people knew that the sample used in megalovania comes from pokey means business

[@CGFillertext]

And Amalgam’s sample itself samples from the opening of Deidre by The Beach Boys

[@unitariansavage8513]

It's also in Homestuck's version. Weird of you to ignore the best one.

[@aeroxya]

it sounds pretty good and i want to use it for a song, but i'm afraid it might be too obvious and it just might sound like some megalovania remix or something

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

How is it gonna sound like a Megalovania remix lmao

[@9nikola]

Well technically Megalovania is a remix of this

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

@@9nikola no not at all

[@SnowyFoxlinn]

@@TakenUsernameAuradium Because like 99% of Megalos use the EB OG for the beginning of them... Myself included, but it's not gonna be in some overly-complicated AU fight that gets dumped in the millions of other ones...

[@TakenUsernameAuradium]

@@SnowyFoxlinn a song can't be a remix of an instrument

[@downergamin]

0:05 that actually slaps tho

[@pixelpastiche]

You know... the more I look, the more I find connections between Sans and earthbound... Its like if Ness.... Really cool video.

[@Jonloo1]

Oh, cool! It's nice to see more details on little tidbits like these.

[@thisisasupersayin376]

Nice to have a concrete answer for why Halloween Hack Megalovania just Hits Different

[@genderlessstudent_92]

I have this entire video stuck looping in my head as a song: "'sans' in swing rhythm occasionally interrupted by the earthbound guitar".

[@jellycore1316]

Thanks for the video and sample!

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

A bit late on the party but just wanted to say thank you for finding this

[@Pkhemi]

Thanks so much for the sound fonts

[@NominalDingus]

now what if I told you, that the sample sounds like a thunderstorm when played at a very low octave. this isn't from anything it's just when I discovered when playing around with the instrument/sample

[@MeMeMcsplosion]

I think that's normal for a lot of samples I played a synth patch I made on my keyboard at the lowest it can go and It sounded like turning gears

[@hiveknight7416]

That Sans. remix is so good

[@thawmas]

Dude I love the sans remix, you should release it

[@dusttrustthemovieproject3276]

Fun fact the od guitar is just a heavily modified version of Md seeger

[@scarm_rune]

shut up snes

[@inukoinu.k9]

one thing i noticed, is that, this guitar sample was used for the beginning of Pokémon Platinum’s Intro (and only platinum) in the background. you can probably hear it better with headphones.

[@quadrillage3838]

at the very begining, it's surely just a sawtooth, and for the rest it's an acoustic bass and some cellos

[@the_magician177]

"can you hear it?" *randomly starts playing megalovania*

[@Hamster07]

love people like this

[@DukDolan]

now I want to know what it sounds like uncompressed

[@Randych]

I once made a crispy sawblade synth out of a piano, so not even surprised

[@fluxonixx]

That background music in the video is so funny... I can't explain it but it's just funny lol

[@SixWatt]

Awesome, now I can Megalovania on my electric piano with the actaul sound :)

[@LightIsAWaveNotAParticle]

the background music sounds like a post race song in Mario cart

[@editonti5227]

I like to think that Megalovania and Megalo strikes back are the sons of the original Megalovania of the Halloween Hack, and now I discover that the latter was a part of something even bigger. It's like an historiografy of the music, but just for one music.

[@AleksanderFimreite]

Btw, I would recommend that you mention when you are changing the pitches of the playback at multiple stages. I was initially thinking you were faking it, since this is not how a playback of a audio wave normally sounds if you play back different segments of it. Only by pure chance I noticed the tiny "frequency label" in the bottom right which diplayed the different notes.

[@npc_blob1609]

It seems like a lot of people mistakenly think the parts where the uploader is playing a tune with the sample, _is_ the sample.

[@stolenfoot8747]

It's literally just from the earthbound soundfont.

[@Yawnscast]

Getting some serious early Daft Punk vibes off that short sample loop.

[@randomrhynos]

given your seemingly extensive knowledge about soundfonts, (atleast this one,) I would appreciate it if you made a compilation of all of the instruments used in earthbound/earthbound halloween hack, in both .wav and .sf2 format.

[@feiratt1224]

Holy moly this feels like youve shown me magic and im surprised about it..

[@zachemotcta5798]

0:05 - 0:08 sounds so good

[@Aubergineman83]

0:58 I'm having trouble trying to slepp

[@Qweze]

"you may recognize this version of the guitar because its used in the halloween hack version of megalovania" undertale megalovania sobbing in a corner:

[@too_online.3441]

you can find it in the 30th patch of the 0th bank in the MOTHER 1+2 soundfont if you need a soundfont that has both, also, the full sample is the replacement for the intro guitars, you know, the ones used in the evil giygas attacks part 2

[@ThijsFilms]

I need a release of that 'sans.' Cover

[@ItsCenrryTH]

Now somebody needs to remake Megalovania using this fixed soundfont

[@pokeplazagamer]

sams meme bottom text

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

the reason the loop points are "wrong" is because the loop it creates is much better.

[@dracokinerek]

fun fact: the megalovania guitar was first used in pokey means business (go to the beatdrop of pokey means business at 0:52 in song)

[@mysticat]

interesting!

[@noonetookthis8935]

:O

[@KayaVulpes]

Interesting indeed, sir.

[@blendyboi5023]

Interest

[@Stennishh]

int

[@belfordk]

Interesting, like your void house

[@Thenicksamples]

please release that version of sans on youtube. It's awesome!!

[@admg2005]

Serious and Megalovania go together like peanut butter and chocolate

[@Dennis_Ryan_Lynch]

I liked the sans. Remix in the bg, that’s aren’t enough remixes of that song

[@carpet_appetite]

Oh god. I feel dumb. I thought this was just a distorted square wave, not a guitar, since fucking 2015

[@QuirrelSquad]

I hope that in every single thing Toby works on megalovania or a reference to it is in it cause so far that's been true (earthbound halloween hack, that Web comic, undertale and deltarune(in the form of sans)

[@createinsumos2804]

Damn, everybody in the comments are talking about that really good bgm, and saying that you should release it, guess I'll have to turn up the volume and hear it myself

[@minethink1442]

Well, maybe it's the way you're dressed

[@sanyanders]

This video is filled with determination

[@svmpforsans]

WOAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAHH

[@enginerdy]

Biggest brain version is finding the DX7 presets lol

[@briancarnett5288]

at this point the other starting point replayed sounds like actuall megalovania.the sample was coded to repeat with perfect like autoclicker setting and boom inputted it as a full sample

[@söösser]

OMG I can't believe megalovania sounds like megalovania!

[@-_--jq3kw]

sans

[@tiredalien3722]

Nice pfp n name

[@luisl173]

0:08 washing machine

[@zalk256]

Okay.

[@luisl173]

@@zalk256 👍

[@dollycheesecakes3658]

Btw the beginning part of megalovania is from earthbound Porky Means Business

[@scept3r.studios]

Tracklib is typing...

[@thematty_r4656]

I would like you to do a cover of EarthBound's Pokey Means Business! with this sample, as that is where this mystical Instrument comes from.

[@noteleks_]

The people say: release the sans. remix

[@megasonic64]

R.I.P

[@ToffeeBun]

Interesting stuff!

[@combjbx5qkc198]

1:51 sans: DO YOU WANNA HAVE A BAD TIME

[@strider_hiryu850]

mix in a short snipbit from the Seinfeld theme song, and you're a stone's throw away from Megalovania

[@kip258]

Your mind is going to be blown when you learn that the source sample was found on a sample cd lol

[@ASmolBoy]

Can you provide a source?

[@FiensZy]

1:27 me when taco bell

[@The_AuraMaster]

holy shit, Toby is a fucking genius

[@funkyou9614]

Thanks I learned a lot!

[@PotatoesBasket]

The full sample (especially at 1:34) made me think of the intro of 'Guns' from Friday Night Funkin'. Sounds like it could be using this sample too.

[@justcallmetlc]

OH WAIT U R RIGHT

[@Nottinertv]

no, It's just a similar synth, kawaiisprite doesn't use soundfonts, infact I'm 99% sure the thing you are talking about is a preexisting loop made with some vst plug in synthetic lol,

[@CartolaDourado]

The song you did make is like of Error!Sans

[@duolingo1658]

It’s simple, Español o desaparecer!