Mario Teaches Typing (Mac CD) | MIRT Head Compilation w/ Enhanced Audio

The popular video game plumber's floating disembodiment of early CG nightmares that became a viral KZbin sensation for almost 30 years, now gets a boost in audio quality!
Straight from the 1994-5 Enhanced CD-ROM Macintosh port of Mario Teaches Typing, is a compilation of (almost) all the MIRT (Mario in Real Time) head clips with audio enhancements of the voiceover by Charles Martinet (Mario's current actor). It was one of those rare ports that (for the most part) the audio sample rate of the MIRT clips would be higher than the compressed 8-bit ADPCM samples in the Windows CD-ROM port.
Apart from that improvement, the video resolution of the compressed MIRT clips also had a slight upgrade from the Windows port, where the game's 256 color scheme and enhanced graphics (essentially the same as the original Mac floppy port) applied more bits to the 3D head model at a slightly large 272x218 resolution in a 512x320 display; compare to the 220x144 resolution in the Windows port.
This was a profound discovery that rarely any MTT fan or YTPer would share to many who wish to edit sources for any passionate project, and this may be your golden opportunity to preserve these MIRT clips from an obscure port of this mediocre-at-best typing game built for schools in the 90s.
You can download the Basilisk II emulation of the Mac OS (System 7.5.3) installed with the MTT CD-ROM by following this Internet Archive link: archive.org/details/mac-os-7....
Original game © Nintendo / Interplay Entertainment
Macintosh version © Presage Software / Lion Entertainment

[@PizzaPieOverlord]

Okay, this is epic.

[@tomcat1768]

Looks like a good day for you!

[@MattIsTheCat]

@@tomcat1768 don’t talk so dirty.

[@QuantumSurge64]

Feels unreal hearing this in better quality

[@damifunky]

The first appearance of Charles Martinet, simply beautiful. ❤❤

[@CardcaptorLiShowron]

Even though people keep thinking it’s the older version one that came out in 1992, but it’s actually this one that came out in 1994

[@Angie2343]

Thank whatever deity you berelieve in, because Charles can still pull it off.

[@WeegeepieYT]

oh my god I found it

[@ThomasFan1945ProductionsTM]

Yay, I love the audio quality so much.

[@Angie2343]

Charles actualy requests changes be made to the script he used. The script called for Mario to say things like "uu lose, tr again", etc. but Charles knew that it would made Mario too mean.

[@Mike-77-YT]

And interplay's like "Well... Okay then! Whatever works the best for this!"

[@Angie2343]

@@Mike-77-YT Exactly!

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

The audio is absolutely great with these advances

[@Icesta663]

Mario’s voice is now clean

[@RetroBit_16]

Mario's head goes bye bye then comes back in 1:24

[@GWKTM]

Lucky for this game to have better audio quality than sequel...

[@mattcrowley8993]

I just wanna flat out say I am missing Charles in doing Mario's voice. The new actor, however, shows little to no difference in the voice.

[@Angie2343]

I even tweeted to him about it, saying that I feel bad that he's leaving.

[@facanadio]

Wait did mario's face dissapear and he just improvised. 1:28.

[@robbiewalker2831]

Yep!

[@GWKTM]

If only this didn't have those frameskips

[@grandpasheartpain2744]

Have you tried using Adobe enhance on these lines to see what it would sound like? It probably could rid of that crispy sound at the beginning and end of each line.

[@megachristianx6592]

So this is where the weird Mario head comes from

[@chrisfratz]

As cursed as the floating head is, we have this to thank for giving us Charles Martinet because if I remember correctly the floating head thing was originally used by Nintendo at trade shows and people could actually talk to Mario, and it was Charles Martinet providing the capture and The voice

[@Angie2343]

yup

[@mariofanv340]

8:54

[@Lepharmory]

Surreal.

[@EeveeEuphoria]

oh wow this is a good discovery! i wonder if it'll be just as easy to chroma-key out the purple background as the blue backgrounds were in the windows version

[@BLMT-df4on]

smg4 should use these voice clips in his future videos. unless some smg4 fan uses them in restored versions of past smg4 videos along with restored version of game soundtracks from the snes, n64, gcn, gba, etc... consoles made by various fans using the original synthesizers and samples.

[@RobertoneasProductions2002]

Sad I can't watch it right now. I blame timezones. I can tell it's gonna be great tho! 😃

[@letaco5510]

Criss prat make room

[@UkTbEr7356]

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