Only 2 Wii Games Used This Very Un-Nintendo Feature

[@RedMage8BT]

It's a very Nintendo thing to replace MP3 support with AAC and let you change back instead of just... supporting both formats

[@lpnp9477]

Definitely Nintendo style. Even more Nintendo style would be not letting you change back to the previous version.

[@suntannedduck2388]

For audio quality sure but MP3 being easier to use and well people passing files around yeah not surprised. It's why I didn't like the limits for DSI/3DS with the few M4A music files I have to test the sound player for music then just sound bites to make in it for fun.

[@TheCurlyP]

Seem to remember that there was some fuss about licensing issues with mp3 libraries at the time

[@djhero0071]

@suntannedduck2388 3DS can play M4A?

[@unicodefox]

probably due to Fraunhofer being stingy with the licensing

[@dailydelphox]

This reminds me of another feature nobody knows the Wii had, that only like, 2 games used: Games could pull information from the Weather Channel to change the weather in your game based on how it is in real life. NiGHTS Journey of Dreams had a Chao Garden-esque area called My Dream that would use this. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and a Fifa game did too. Such an immersive, subtle feature and yet it barely got used.

[@JosephRooks]

Oh wow.

[@2fernandoc1]

I think it was supposed to be used in the cancelled PilotWings reboot by Factor 5 :(

[@jamesbryan287]

I love this in games.. I want to see a toggleable form of it. Especially for games where weather changes things significantly

[@cooljonathan]

That would have been a great feature for animal crossing

[@hellohaveagoodday]

God I love it so much when games do that, the only game I've experienced that does that is Pokémon go and it isn't that accurate at times.

[@rotallyPumpered]

Reminds me of the Xbox One's massively underrated feature of being able to play music directly from CD while playing digitally stored games. I got a lot of mileage out of that on Skate 3.

[@RedMage8BT]

Can the Series X do this too?

[@rotallyPumpered]

@RedMage8BT I don't have one to try it out on, but the Xbox One links you to a media app when you first insert a CD, DVD or Blu-ray. Assuming it's the same app on Series X, I expect it would work.

[@jaimegarcia767]

Mannnnnnn if only I knew this 10 years ago😭 on 360 u could plug ur iPad nano and play music/ change it through the mini menu

[@lpnp9477]

Yeah Xbox OG let you rip CDs to play music in supported games. 360 let you plug in any media player by USB and replace the soundtrack. I think it let you rip too, never tried. Now on PC I can just play Spotify in the second screen and turn down the in game music, but the Xbox features were incredible at the time.

[@BagzAndPresident]

Or the xbox 360 playing backed up music to its hard drive or flash drive replacing the music in game without messing up dialogue or sounds. GTA 4 for life!

[@Spindash54]

I actually used the Photo Channel at my GameStop's Wii Kiosk to advertise Smash Bros. Brawl before it came out. I frequently updated the SD card with whatever new photos and music were released on the Smash Dojo and loaded it into the system.

[@GSpot1998]

That’s really smart!

[@protocetid]

@@GSpot1998Petah, the horse is here

[@Sashko_Dee]

@@GSpot1998 Doing unpaid advertising for a multibillion dollar corporation is smart?

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@Sashko_Dee I think they were probably a gamestop employee told to advertise the game.

[@Sashko_Dee]

@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit That's silly. They would have used press images pre-approved and provided by the company specifically for the ad campaign if that were the case instead of making the employee go to a fan site to pull up images.

[@koolaid33]

I like it when companies understand how important music is in a videogame. The Dreamcast had this feature where if you were to start the console with no game in it, go to the main hub of the console, place an official Dreamcast disc for a game inside & attempt to boot it as a music CD, some copies would let you listen to the game's soundtrack instead of just a small warning that the disc is only for Dreamcast devices.

[@MoonOvIce]

And a lot of PS1 games if inserted in any CD player, had the actual game soundtrack baked as a music CD. I remember MK Trilogy being this way, and there were others.

[@VexAcer]

Technically it's just a side effect of the music being Redbook audio, but some of the devs 100% intended it as a way to play custom soundtracks. The original Ridge Racer advertised being able to play your own music. Since it's only 1 race track, the game is small enough to load in one go.

[@podracer35]

My DSi was my main music player for a significant amount of time. I didn't know Excite Truck let you use custom music. I didn't have the game, but this makes it so valuable. Sure, you can mute the in game music and play the music on a phone or computer, but having the functionality baked in is so dang satisfying. My only problem is choosing what songs are worth putting in. So many good options ahaha

[@LeifEricsonYT]

Reminds me of when I used to play GTA III on the original Xbox. You could rip songs from CDs, and then have those play on the radio when you’re in vehicles. At the time it was an amazing feature.

[@Larry]

Ah, you should have used the underwater level music from Donkey Kong Country for endless ocean. But it's a shame they didn't go further with this, like some Ubisoft games at the time allowed you to upload photos of yourself to wrap onto character skins Etc.

[@daimena.cianci2651]

I used this feature HEAVILY on endless ocean and excite trucks. Id use my 3ds [sd card] as an mp3 player and swap it into my wii to play excitetruck with my friend and my favorite songs. So fun!

[@chipwiseman2]

"With the Wii, they trusted us to not exploit [the SD card slot], and of course no one did." Underrated joke right there

[@Timic83tc]

LOL

[@protocetid]

I get that Jon wanted to cover only Nintendo approved ways of using files on the SD card but part of me wishes he had covered how you can use it unofficially in Brawl. Thanks to an exploit Brawl can be tricked into loading a modded version of the game therefore turning the worst Smash into the best. Project+ (or Project M as it was once known) gave Smash fans the true Melee sequel they had wanted all along, it became the biggest unofficial Smash game and it continues to overshadow official old Smash games Brawl and its sequel. Doesn’t even mod your Wii or anything permanently if you use the hackless version. And you can customize the music on it too if you don’t like what it came with.

[@KopperNeoman]

​@@protocetidIt's hilariously ironic that the "hackless" version requires you to use an entrypoint hack EVERY TIME rather than just once.

[@IceBlueLugia]

@@protocetidHe didn’t mention it because everyone knows about it. I’d guess at least 80% of the people still playing wiis in 2023 have them hacked

[@kenrickkahn]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@DonWeaselYeehawEdition]

A 2gb Fat SD card and a copy of Excite Truck was not something I planned to add to my grocery list, but here they are all the way at the top. Thanks Jon!

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

I still have my original 2 gig SD card from when I modded my Wii in 2012, may try this out!

[@JeskidoYT]

fat, dont you mean exFAT?

[@cesardka]

Same lol I gotta find a 2GB SD card now!

[@ToaderTheToad]

@@JeskidoYT FAT is for small SD Cards, FAT32 is for large SD Cards (like SDHC) and exFAT is for even larger SD Cards (like SDXC) (And yes you can use FAT32 on SDXC but that's generally only for if the device you need requires it)

[@Spencer-wc6ew]

​@@JeskidoYTexFAT is way to modern for Nintendo to handle even today. The Switch still uses FAT32.

[@NathanielBandy]

How did I never know about this? This is so cool

[@coolman2805]

Can you beat Nintendogs without dying

[@21backwards78]

​@@coolman2805 No

[@STICKOMEDIA]

I'm surprised you didn't r/Nintendo guy

[@kokoko0064]

Jon, it was wholly unessecary to remind me of the ending to Xenoblade 3 with that music. I don't need to be feeling all these emotions all over again.

[@ItsDanielPika]

The kamen rider games for PSP and vita let you use your own custom music, and being able to put the soundtracks from the show in, or your own meme songs, made the game insanely more replayable. Any time I get into Brawl modding I also get obsessed with adding my own custom music. It's such an amazing feature for personality, even more than custom characters Also, I love that Rhythm Thief music you snuck in there!

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

And VibRibbon's PSP port allows you to use the music in your library for stages!

[@Youtubeuser797]

The Ports of Crazy Taxi 1 and 2 for PSP allowed you to use custom music as well.

[@RyonMugen]

Lets go further back! on the PS1 some games allowed you to play your own sound track, for example Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Once the fight loaded up, swap the discs with a music cd, and it would play it.

[@Dittoritos]

​@@DryPaperHammerBroPS1 version let you do that as well with CDs

[@LunarShift]

Dead or Alive Paradise on PSP as well, though it's not much of a game.

[@adam_roman]

The second I saw Excite Truck in the thumbnail I knew this was about MP3 support. That was easily my favorite feature of the game. I remember spending so much time racing with different songs to see what ones fit well.

[@ArcadeTheatre]

Jon putting "Where We Belong" from Xenoblade 3 into these games as if I wouldnt start crying and crash my truck immediately.

[@NanaKyoto]

Kind of reminds me of when one of the major features of the Xbox and Xbox 360 allowed you to rip CDs onto the hard drive, and can then use the tracks for games that supported the feature (off the top of my head, I can think of Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2, Rallisport Challenge, and some WWE games)

[@Azran127]

Where Wii Belong, from Xenoblade Chronicles 3

[@nahumgardner]

This reminds me of space Invaders genesis. You could stream MP3s from your network or off your PS3 and it would generate levels based on the file. With all the systems being so locked down nowadays, that feature will never happen again on a console.

[@thestripedmenace]

Space Invaders Infinity Gene, you mean... And you can also do that on the original mobile version

[@FigureFarter]

You could also do that with Vib-Ribbon. Also MLB The Show 10 let you use your songs as your stadium walk up song

[@eightcoins4401]

Vib Ribbon needed the ps1 cd rom chamged with the cd. The game is small enough in mb to stay loaded on console ram

[@matthewdunaway7622]

3:23 dammit Jon you can’t play Where We Belong without warning us otherwise 😢

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

I was already sad and listening to the video at double speed it felt like a punch in the gut

[@bld9826]

He hits us with it again at the end of the viddo too! ...Jerk...

[@jackeldridge1319]

SD was a very different medium when the Wii was in development. It was initially part of the Secure Digital Music Initiative by the record industry (SDMI), hence the name "SD". They were marketed on that little lock on the side of the card, which write-protects it. The thought behind it was that, by doing this, music could be distributed in a write-protected codec (like AAC) that was also on a write-protected medium. It didn't take off for music distribution bc nobody likes DRM, however its small size and write-protect made it super appealing for hardware applications in other tech: especially cameras, PCs and game consoles. MicroSD was a seperate thing called TransFlash (sometimes you'll see SD cards listed as TF cards on places like Amazon: this is why) but they can both be formatted just like a conventional hard drive and can be easily adapted to be electrically compatible, and ended up being included in the SD standard ultimately because of these facts Nintendo likely picked it up because of its heavy early marketing surrounding its anti-piracy measures. The switch to AAC codec was likely due to fear about bad PR surrounding the Wii being used as a piracy device. Ever like Nintendo to be paranoid about brand enforcement, lmao Also the reason you couldn't get more modern cards to work with the Wii for music playback. It expects all of that SDMI anti-piracy stuff that's in original SD cards, rather than the more modern SDHC and SDXC extensions which streamlined that away for faster transfer speeds and more writes before it blows up. The original SD was so locked down that the cards have to be perfect, and more modern SDs are so different that it isn't forwards compatible, only backwards compatible (i.e SDXC reader supports SDHC and SD original, but not the other way around) and this is largely down to software and firmware as all the same electrical connections are there

[@jackeldridge1319]

@@TheDsgfdssd If you homebrew it, bc it's software and firmware dependent. You obv didn't read my comment fully

[@eXtremeLink859]

Wipeout HD on PS3 allowed you to play your own music straight off the HDD, I played that game a ton more than I otherwise would've because of that feature alone

[@Totavier]

I remember that amazing feature on Excite Trucks, still it baffles me that Nintendo took out that feature and also didn't allowed to the developers in not include that feature anymore in the games. Because keep in mind that Excite Trucks and Endless Ocean were 2 games that WERE NOT made by Nintendo, they were made by third-party developers and Nintendo only published, Monster Games Inc. developed Excite Trucks and Arika made Endless Ocean.

[@podracer35]

That XC3 Ending Theme hit me out of nowhere... The feels mannnnn Also Jump Up Superstar is such a good fit. I keep forgetting how much I love that song

[@Eaton.]

i actually had Excite Truck as a kid but only a few years ago realized you could import your own music. Brought a lot of life back to the game for me and reminded me of the OG Xbox days.

[@kaspauf06]

GVG is awesome, everyone has different styles and Jon has some of the more obscure videos but I mean that in the best way possible! I mean, I bought a toilet paper roll game I would have never heard of if it wasn't for him, keep up the great work!

[@Valkyrie247]

wow, the water building up in your eyes when Where We Belong starts playing really makes you feel like you're in the Endless Ocean

[@corrinleivan]

I can always rely on Jon to remember Endless Ocean. If Endless Ocean allowed you to do MP3 playlists, it would definitely be a lot better.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

@corrinleivan endless ocean is corny. Not near as corny as you though, crying over rumors lmao 🤣 😂 😆

[@randmiller88]

I still have both of these games and this feature added a MASSIVE amount of replay value for music fans like me. I even combined 30-45 minutes of music onto a single file for long dive sessions on Endless Ocean. The sequel is much less enjoyable, and partly because they removed that feature.

[@TetsuoKunio]

I did the same long mp3 trick to get my playlist in Endless Ocean. The effort was worth it to have your own music playing in a console game 2007.

[@denn_is_jut]

Ok so Excite Truck was already on my radar of Wii games I missed out on and should try out, but this REALLY definitely sold me on the game! I had no idea any Wii game at all supported in-game usage and/or listening to your own music, always thought the SD Card officially was just kinda used for photo stuff! On 360 and PS3 I also liked having my own music to listen to and use in games, and it was easier to store the songs on the consoles thanks to HDD, but the catch was the music by default was playing via a seperate app, which made it pretty janky. Like even when you finished a race in a racing game or were done with your drive to a location in GTA and a cutscene started playing, your own music would still play over all of it. Actual in-game support like the custom radio stations in the GTA PC Versions was rare to non-existent on HD Consoles, at least in the games that I played on them. So all I'm saying is, props to f'n Excite Truck on the f'n Wii in f'n 2007 to actually properly support this in-game.

[@6ch6ris6]

original xbox had quite a few games that let your play your own music from the installed HDD. loved that feature !!

[@Claydood]

360 let you connect an iPod or USB drive with mp3s and play music from the guide menu, while disabling in game music in any game. Was so disappointed that didn't carry over to the One.

[@6ch6ris6]

@@Claydood i never had a 360. i recently read about that feature for the first time in a paper about music choice in games and how it affects players. the paper was hyping that feature up so i am quite amazed that i never knew about it.

[@paulw858]

I remember putting my favorite song from SAW III on the SD card, and I only ever played that song and nothing else when I was playing Endless Ocean. It added such a haunting feel to the game, and it aided in the eeriness of diving deeper and deeper. I remember it always felt perfectly synched to what was happening on the screen. I also remember looking up and seeing a whale for the first time, right at the perfect moment in the song. Still an obsessed SAW fan all these years later. But this is one of many stories I have of me showing my love to my favorite media franchise ever. EDIT: The song is called "Baptism." You can hear it or its motif in SAW III, SAW VI, saw 3d and JigSAW.

[@leafchill8821]

Reminds me of Burnout Paradise and Shaun White Snowboarding on PS3 supporting Imported songs

[@andrewjustandrew]

This was a really good video! I’ve only just found you, and it seems like you’re a rising star for sure! …Can you talk about either GameCube games that REQUIRED the Dpad or N64 games with weird play controls? Maybe the single player Atari games that require two joysticks? Sorry I just haven’t seen those videos yet on KZbin, and you seem like the right guy to make them! ❤

[@Zectifin]

this reminds me of when I was a kid before you could easily access music everywhere on the internet and before I had a CD burner (might have not been cheap enough back then) and you could load up a game in Total Annihilation on PC and after the game loaded the only thing it read from the disk was the music, so they gave you the option to just swap the cd out and play music from any cd. once the game ended and it went back to the main menu it would ask for the game disk again when you went to load up a new game. Felt very cool at the time. The funny thing is now I look back and miss the music from that game and listen to it when I'm not playing it.

[@MegaAmpster]

If Nintendo ever brings back the Excite series, they better get Jon to say the game’s names on the title screens 😂

[@OmegaMetroid93]

3:16 - If by "Serene", you mean "bawling my damn eyes out", then yes

[@milkshakes93]

Decides to play Endless Ocean. Puts on a random track. Shark appears. Sephiroth Theme starts playing.

[@ChicagoMel23]

At least they don’t hurt you in that one unlike the sequel.

[@Matthordika]

Oh man, I spent hours racing to U2's Vertigo, or any high-octane rock I could find. Excite Trucks was a blast and brings back many a great memory. And I'm still impressed by how great it looks!

[@humulos]

I LOVED this feature in Excite Truck. To this day I still have no idea what the original soundtrack sounds like because I was listening to Muse and Dragonforce instead.

[@Brawler_1337]

The original soundtrack is baller.

[@j0hnthe5th]

Definitely check out the original when you get the chance, especially on the Nebula track

[@PikaPhantomVG]

Haven't really heard of Dragonforce but Muse's stuff is great and seems like it'd fit the game quite nicely

[@MartKart8]

I wish people would stop starting sentences, saying no body did, when I literally did, I used my SD card to play music using the radio on the boat for music, in Endless Ocean, had some Zelda music playing from The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess playing.

[@bland9876]

I would always select "off" on tetris and go on KZbin to play whatever songs i want while stil hearing the sound effects.

[@blazingcynder6617]

Dang. I have endless ocean. Maybe I can put some beautiful Abzu music while I’m swimming. Seems appropriate enough

[@tsunderefandomer3425]

I hope when John covers more underrated game features, we get one for closing the DS.

[@calebmezenberg137]

My solution for endless ocean is to go in audacity and combine my playlist into one big MP3 file

[@SirCarcass]

I love games that let you use your own music. I have both of these and didn't realize they were the only ones to support it, but I definitely use it.

[@Panacamanana]

Oh man, the Endless Ocean section would have been amazing if you used the Underwater Song from Super Mario 64.

[@MrMegaManFan]

"They trusted us with a SD card slot that we wouldn't exploit it." Ah, silly Nintendo. (And thank you Team Twiizers.)

[@minecraftWithDanielD]

UDraw supported SD so you could save your drawings

[@MegaNerdX]

Made Excite Truck more amazing! Giving that arcade style game some amped up punk, ska, & J-rock was great. Hell I still pop it in now & then with my custom tracks.

[@JonLeung1]

I think because back then it was an uncommon feature then, and even now, to replace a soundtrack with your own, they didn't want people to put in songs with explicit lyrics, or other questionable audio, and then have someone else play the game, and get a different impression of what a game is. You could mess with people too, by putting in a normal tune, but then adding something freaky like a suddenly loud scream at a random point in it.

[@linkthehero8431]

You could get around Endless Ocean's one song limit is by simply making a whole album one MP3 file in something like Audacity and then putting it on an SD card.

[@snes90]

My brother and I loved Excite Truck and loaded our SD card with tons of OC Remix songs. Since it was a launch title, I eagerly awaited more games to do this. For 6 years.

[@Henshingod]

I totally used this in Excite Truck and just loaded my card with a bunch of buttrock and anime songs. It made the game WAY more fun, and it was already really good!

[@Regimeta]

Man, I never knew what I missed. Excite Trucks looks awesome. I have a sudden need to listen to Daytona while playing that.

[@Liggliluff]

(4:30) Technically music from games are still protected by the same laws as non-game music. But companies are usually just more lenient, and if you do use the music alongside your gameplay of the same game, it's usually considered perfectly fine. But when you use music from a different game to your gameplay, or music from a game to fill the background of a video not even about games, then that's not exactly okay.

[@CalebWillden]

6:04 RHYTHM THIIIIEEF!! An over-the-top car chase with that theme is just so fitting.

[@alexs-mind]

I remember getting the sd card when I first got the Wii and used it to play slipknot while playing excite truck haha the good ol days The fact that these two games are the only games that do this is surprising to me, and yet I had an experience with one of them. Lol

[@TwoEyesOpen]

Excite Truck is one of my favorite games ever, definitely my favorite racing game on the Wii. I'm hoping to launch a gaming video essay channel this year, and I talked about this cool little unknown feature in that video. Glad to see more people recognizing how cool this was in 2006. Excite Truck is so underrated!

[@Silverguise]

I played Excite Truck to my early 2000's rock playlist all the time. In other words, the game was fun to play to Linkin Park

[@SomniRespiratoryFlux]

Putting the Halo theme over Excite Truck gameplay was so smooth, I just hope the game handles better than the Warthog does.

[@Liggliluff]

Excite Truck might be one of the very few games by Nintendo that uses the European comma when it comes to time display. What I mean is that a game like Mario Kart incorrectly uses a decimal period even in German, while this game does use a decimal comma. Now it would make more sense to use a decimal period for English. But you could still technically use a decimal comma in English too. But games not using a decimal comma in German is wrong.

[@ODDERZPlays]

When I was a young(ish) teen I used the Photo Channel as a music player with mp3s I downloaded at the local library.

[@colororb4105]

I think companies were throwing a ton of support into AAC as a replacement for MP3 back in the day, but MP3 was just too recognizable. AAC is just better than MP3: same/higher quality at much smaller file sizes

[@lpnp9477]

Sure but portable player support was awful and those who legally obtained mp3 didn't want to have to rebuy them in a different format. It was DOA.

[@NeovanGoth]

Licensing issues, or the fear thereof. Same issue why almost no devices implemented OGG support (even though it was explicitly meant to replace MP3 and AAC for the very same reason).

[@MumboMod]

I tend to associate Green Day and Foo Fighters with Excite Truck for this exact reason. What an incredible game!

[@natef15]

So nice to see someone who appreciates Excite Truck! It was so much fun to hit huge jumps with the perfect background music playing. X Japan fit in nicely.

[@jonus04]

I uploaded music to my original xbox since some games could use "custom soundtracks" but all I remember was Kung Fu Chaos and I think one of the GTA games had it as a radio station?

[@SerotoninSystem]

The aggressive smash into the other truck with the Mario Odyssey song absolutely sent me

[@pichaelthompson]

As soon as “can you feel the sunshine” started playing, the biggest smile formed on my face

[@Manabender]

Y'know, I've been having the niggling feeling lately that something has been missing from my life. A racing game with sick eurobeat tunes. And now I've found it. *Thank you.*

[@VexAcer]

Custom music was one of the best features of the OG Xbox. Being able to load your own music into GTA, Burnout, Midtown Madness, Tony Hawk, Forza, etc. really added to the experience. Really puzzling why more games on the Wii didn't take advantage of this, let alone both the sequels for Excitetruck & Endless Ocean dropping it.

[@nullsmack]

I miss the early 2000s trend of letting you use MP3s in games like that. I did that in some things I played on my xbox. The old GTA games like Vice City did it too (at least on PC, didn't play that on my xbox)

[@nicks4802]

Nothing like starting a race in Excite Truck and hearing “CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES, THIS IS MY LAST RESORT”

[@TreeFallStudios]

It's crazy. I actually just played Excite Truck for the first time in years a few weeks ago and had forgotten all about the music feature until I played my first race and my 2006 playlist started jamming LOL.

[@ColonialSun-mg6tq]

Thanks Jon now I need to play xenoblade 3 again😭

[@mattwcook9127]

Easy fix for Endless Ocean: purchase your album digitally, then use a video editor to put each track back-to-back making a single mp3 file out of the entire album/OST

[@StonerJames]

Damn! You threw me for a loop! When I saw your babyface but then heard the bassiest voice I've ever heard come out of that head floored me! Unless you tweaked the mic to get your voice to sound like that.

[@mayatung]

I immediately knew you were going to cover Excite Truck. The year before I got a Wii, I had asked for a new MP3 player with SD card support for Christmas. I was able to plug my whole library right into the Wii from the start!

[@MCMcommunications]

0:35 take stuff and put THEM... 1:05 taking those pictures and turning IT... switch 'em round!

[@jevawoah]

being naughty and putting stuff from one console holder onto the other’s console is like my favorite thing, i remember when i made my ps4 picture link and i couldnt stop gighling

[@GoldenSon18]

Back in the day I made my Xbox wallpaper Fire Emblem and my gamertag was "Wii Fit". I thought it was the funniest thing

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

See, everyone talks about Excitebots being better than Truck in every way. But you can't listen to your own music. So you're left with generic meh music the entire game. Literally ruined the vibe of the game. I'm not even joking, I could never get into bots as much because of this. Truck was a vibe, you'd get in a trance where the game would sync perfectly with your music and it created a state of bliss. Same with Endless Ocean 2, they removed the feature and I just don't know why.

[@captainnintendo]

I remember actually making really good use of this feature in Excite Truck back in the day. I honestly don't even remember how I learned about it even being a thing but I remember racing to the tunes of Live and Learn and the 80s opening to Ninja Turtles It's baffling why no other games would make this standard. especially when a bloody launch game got it right on the first try.

[@PabloMarinus935]

OMFG, you got me tempted to play excitetrucks while listening Free Bird on the background

[@alecadabra_]

I had Endless Ocean, and loved it so much. Had no idea this was a feature though, that’s so cool

[@ChicagoMel23]

Same

[@maxibash]

Reminds me a lot of og Xbox games supporting the ability to playback CDs dumped on the console's hard drive. Being able to play RalliSports Challenge with eurobeat music in the background makes the game just more hysterical lol.

[@Izolus]

This is just a love letter to Excite Truck and I am HERE for it. That was a game that really had it all: boosts, crashes, stage transformations, tricks, custom music and more!

[@oaf-77]

Excite truck is an amazing game that’s still super playable

[@Supersayainpikmin]

The OG Xbox had a similar feature where you can rip CD's (even burned ones) to the hard drive and get custom music that way. Launch titles in 2001 like Tony Hawk 2X supported it.

[@Dinomaton]

Excite Truck with Rhythm Thief music is so exactly up my alley you cannot even believe

[@PeacefulAutistic]

It’s hilarious and actually fits that you used the Daytona “Let’s go Away” song!

[@joniivee]

Leave it to Jon to include the vocal version of the Puyo theme. We love to see it ❤

[@MrRom92DAW]

I remember this being a big feature prior to launch - an exciting one for me, at least, even though I never bought excite truck! It’s easy to forget sometimes how futuristic the Wii felt at the time. There are a lot of features we take for granted now but it what it lacked in graphical power, it more than made up for with sheer innovation.

[@SeaSlug]

The sd card is the games slot card now on my wii

[@duncangarnett1976]

That 'Excite Truck' still looks and plays rather good to this day. It should be ported to the Switch.

[@jkitty542]

Always love a Jon video as I get ready for work.

[@stephenbereznicki7506]

5:20 - Holy Fraggarolli! I definitely recognized that "Halo 3 [Warthog?]" track! W00T!!! Definitely goin' in my "Favorites"! :D

[@robotortoise]

This video was just an excuse for you to gush about Excite Truck for ten minutes and I admire that. Also, I'm pretty sure I have Pavlovian conditioned myself to cry whenever I hear Where We Belong...

[@ps2656]

The best implementation of custom soundtracks was the way the OG Xbox handled them. A feature that most likely we will bever see again. Suripised, i never knew it was in Excite Trucks!

[@tomtom98]

i haven't thought of excite truck in year. used to play it all the time as a kid. that warning sound effect definitely brought me back lol

[@milkshakes93]

Plays Endless Ocean. Doesn't pay attention and puts on random track. Goes in water. Shark appears. Sephiroth Theme starts playing.

[@DeltaC79]

Paint splash allows you to save your creations to the sd card.