Yoshi's Island Restored - Bowser

[@rockclan7]

Kondo had no business creating something this heavy

[@protocetid]

Koji Kondo’s teenage son: “You’re so lame dad, you only make music for children’s games and will never be as cool as [insert rockstar here].” Koji furiously picks up his son's electric guitar, and comes up with this on the spot. His son can not believe the glorious music his own father is playing and tears down all the band posters on his wall. His boss, who had been invited over for dinner, overhears Koji playing and immediately calls various Nintendo higher ups. He begs them to revive the SNES CD just to have a high quality recording of Kondo shredding in game. After insisting it should happen despite being repeatedly told it would be a substantial revenue loss for the business, they compromise by adding an enhancement chip capable of handling a MIDI version. You heard me correctly, the Super FX is there just to process Koji rocking out so hard.

[@SonicTheJackrabbit]

And you thought Taro Bando was the only dude at Nintendo who shredded this hard.

[@rachelhendricks6886]

@@protocetid This comment is absolutely hilarious.

[@protocetid]

​@@rachelhendricks6886 I edited it, hope it's funnier

[@vaughngracey255]

No kidding. Asian Lives Matter.

[@some-say-gregms]

I'm a simple man. I see Yoshi's Island Bowser theme restored, I cry.

[@epicpotatofiend]

... like a baby?

[@Jadty]

Yikes.

[@senhordoouro]

You gonna cri?

[@daansstuff2952]

WAAH WAAH

[@cryodual]

*insert repeated Ding ding! Ding ding! Ding ding!*

[@Biscoitowl]

LISTEN TO THE DRUMS IN THIS THING, IT'S AMAZING

[@SHUTDOWNOfficial]

To win the game, you must kill me, Shigeru Miyamoto.

[@JsYTA]

This would be the music, and the fight would consist of literally every single game mechanic Nintendo has ever conjured up.

[@Link_1129]

I still can't beat him. I do really good, like, REALLY good, then comes the dual-screen monitoring/motion-controls combo. Any ideas?

[@cowboyluigi5275]

@@Link_1129 use the fangame attack. he’ll be distracted trying to give you a cease and desist, which makes him vulnerable temporarily.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

@@Link_1129 tell him your joycons are drifting and he’ll laugh so hard he dies

[@MarioKartSuperCircuit]

@@cowboyluigi5275 spam the "we want mother 3" attack I find it works great with speedruning.

[@Reoko77]

Thank God it was compressed on the snes. This restored version would've melted my 9 year old face off. It sucks Koji Kondo never made another metal song like this to my remembrance. He clearly has the knack for it.

[@simle6010]

Check out the Darknut theme for Twilight Princess. Not quite metal but goes extremely hard.

[@FrenchToasted1995]

this gives off deep purple vibes

[@IronManx70]

@@FrenchToasted1995 Oh my god I totally hear it now. First part is a Ritchie Blackmore guitar solo then a Jon Lord organ solo

[@SuperTeeter64]

Funny fact. This song used to scare the crap out of me as a kid. IT WAS SO INTENSE!!! My little heart couldn’t take it. XD Nowadays it’s one of my favorite songs now on the SNES.

[@JAZR]

Not to mention the boss itself being terrifying as hell on top of that.

[@SuperTeeter64]

@@JAZR Exactly. lol Poor adorable Yoshi!

[@Noizavin]

@@JAZR seeing yoshi look at bowser in a animation for yoshi gave me the chill

[@Setsuna161616]

Different game, but the Birdo boss fight in SMB 2 used to scare me as a kid. The music combined with the noises Birdo made terrified me!

[@tealmuchwow]

@@Noizavinthe single chill?

[@DaNintendude]

Hearing the Electric Guitar uncompressed is absolutely amazing. And those drums go way harder here than in the real game. I think the compression adds a bit to the background, but other than that this is definitely outstanding.

[@darthtroller]

I completely agree (this is dope, I find both you and Sean in the comments today)

[@Cheesewadduh8613]

I got you to 200 likes btw

[@Atlink]

You know Koji Kondo was going through some shit when he composed this.

[@TackyRackyComixNEO]

Not gonna lie, this is one of those tracks where I feel like the in-game compression helps a lot, namely on the guitar parts. The bitcrushing compression makes the guitars sound so much heavier than you'd think the SNES can handle. However, those DRUMS, these super crisp drums in this restoration. That kick drum and that snare go so hard.

[@burgerinabox6063]

hi def electric guitar (feat. crying toddler)

[@Pokewho-6475]

😂😂😂😂😂 the most perfect description of a yoshi island final boss I have ever heard

[@delsydebothom3544]

I'm a complex man. I see a "The Brickster" video, and I write a multi-volume thesis that inspires a Norwegian research and development team to produce a machine that builds robotic dragonflies obedient to human command, one of which I purchase in order to tell it to click.

[@Jadty]

Cringe.

[@delsydebothom3544]

@@Jadty Happy to be of service.

[@SHUTDOWNOfficial]

Based.

[@Goomba456]

@@Jadty ok

[@tehoneandonlyyy4074]

tell me you're listening to this in the process

[@turn7boom108]

Seriously among the best final boss tunes ever

[@gregholman2431]

Absolutely. No doubt.

[@Aresydatch]

This was too fire for the SNES Koji Kondo had to put it out, and it still is fire but weaker

[@superleviathan]

It's really weird to hear the samples used on the SNES used to simulate rock guitars. It really is an instrument onto itself.

[@FerGL]

the sony audio chip in the snes was a crazy thing

[@murab271]

They should remake Yoshi's Island with a hand drawn art style

[@DarkLink1996.]

I'd rather a new sequel by GoodFeel with that artstyle. They did it well with Wario Land: Shake It!

[@VinVonVoom]

But it's already got a hand drawn art style

[@SherbetAlex]

@@DarkLink1996. Oh my goodness. GoodFeel doing a 2D Yoshi game with hand drawn frame animation like Wario: Shake It would be a dream.

[@alexsilva28]

@@VinVonVoom He probably means higher resolution graphics

[@tehoneandonlyyy4074]

@@VinVonVoom I think he means a NEW Yoshi's Island game with crayon graphics

[@ChoobChoob]

It sound so different yet exactly the same. It's sort of mind-blowing.

[@toastedfoxx9777]

i love hearing that guitar in hd it drives me nuts

[@jess648]

YEAH! SPRITE SCALING

[@CrisNonsenseXD]

Yes

[@Mosky_2000]

God the nostalgia is hitting me right now. All I can hear and see from this image is rocks falling, fireballs, the background of the stage and countless fluttering. What a banger this is

[@MelodyMix]

THE SONG I WAS WAITING FOR ALL ALONG AND IT GOT THE FINE RESTORATION TREATEMENT :D amazing work seriously!

[@Boney9551]

Yoshis island final bowser theme try not to jam challenge second 1

[@soloshgg1002]

Probably Kondo wanted the organ/hammond part to sound like Highway Star and other rock songs at the time

[@MaxOakland]

This is a metal song. It would be cool to see it played by a metal band

[@nullvalue003]

Bit of a big leap from flower garden to this but I'm not complaining

[@nullvalue003]

@@ChurchofKondoh I'm not complaining. It sounds amazing.

[@WinkDaMan07]

@@ChurchofKondoh I can’t wait to hear the ending theme restored! I get choked up every time I hear it!!!!

[@Lizuma]

@@WinkDaMan07 Same, it's so beautiful

[@tehoneandonlyyy4074]

Chick 1: What's he listening to? Chick 2: Probably heavy metal or hard rock Dude: Indeed, I am listening to hard rock

[@Lizuma]

This boss fight theme is my favorite of any ive heard!! It sounds so GOOD both restored and from the game!! I wish more final boss fight themes were this exciting! Yoshi's Island has the perfect soundtrack!

[@Mushy6462]

This music is so fire it should've melted the whole SNES 😭

[@darkapocalyptica]

I've commented alot of these restores before and Ill keep parsing them. Soo good thank you 🖤. These restores are the video game ost equivalent of like archeologists and historians unearthing ancient civilizations or finding new dinosaurs. You guys are uncovering history

[@Tommi1981]

Never heard this back in the day. Blows mind today. Yikes 😬 Godlike composition.

[@thechargedcreeper3967]

Now let's contrast this theme with the mini boss one, it deserves this HQ treatment

[@hessxpress]

This...This is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.

[@arthurag.8267]

The people that just restores these masterpieces, have a special place in heaven. :,)

[@chrispatriots]

First time listening to this outside the SNES and GBA.. Its like I'm listening to it for the first time again

[@muizzsiddique]

This was shown on the DOOM Forums, and I was just wondering: has anyone used this MIDI in a map before?

[@lamouchelhorloge855]

Simply astonishing 🤯!

[@idemresta7519]

It's unbelievable kondo has composed this for a Mario game, but most of all this hq version is incredible 😵😲

[@MontoyaGamer1_Entertainment]

Behold, the King of the Koopas!

[@EliJah-vu8vh]

I was waiting for this one. Sooooo great. Thanks for all of this and keep up the great work!

[@VoiceOfButters]

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

Oh hell yeah i've been waiting for this...though the guitar riffs just sound weird without the reverb effect.

[@warfu_]

Ikr? I knew I wasn't the only one who remembered some reverb in the original one

[@trashymc4564]

Here we go. *BANGS HEAD*

[@Super_ATI]

just try to listen to this with headphones on. it feels like you're in a rock concert

[@sublime_tv]

I'm hearing guitars and cymbals I've never heard before, holy fuck! Funny how growing up I thought I wasn't going to like this game when I first played it. Oh, how I was so naive!

[@Cheesewadduh8613]

So you told me you can hit a riff on a guitar Mr.Kondo Koji Kondo: yes 🗿

[@Lizuma]

I hope you're going to restore the beautiful credits theme, I love that song and am curious what it would sound like!

[@cincoln2829]

This song is so intense it’s making my phone vibrate.

[@KayFiOS]

Y'all need to upload extended versions of these; 2 minutes and 45 seconds is too little time to listen to godly music such as this.

[@SherbetAlex]

The one dislike is from Baby Bowser because he didn’t get to ride the green donkey.

[@KungFuFurby]

The organ at 1:04 needs some vibrato to go in there (and possibly at 1:18 and 1:28 as well)... but other than that, an excellent end result!

[@Techro-mancer]

Been wait'n for this

[@Lizuma]

I want to hear Underground, Overworld, Fortress, Intro and the beautiful credits theme restored so badly! I hope those are coming soon!

[@sublime_tv]

Amazing work. Thank you for all involved. If you ever take requests in the future, could you please remaster Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2? It's my all-time favorite track from the game. The boss theme also hits hard! 😄

[@q-funk6408]

I’m jamming this to my workout rn, best song ever for it lmao

[@LotsaSpaget]

YEEEEES again HECK YES BEEG BOWZ first beeg yoshi then beeg bowser what next....?

[@fatyoshi6452]

don’t get me wrong it slaps

[@Alusiren]

IT’S TOO POWERFUL

[@SonAzeTailsFan]

Wonderful. Just wonderful

[@Bloxed]

Honestly I do prefer the compressed version to some degree, like the guitar is much louder and screeches during the middle section

[@retrosquid4438]

Imagine if they made a total remake of Yoshi’s Island using the original artwork they had with the original tracks restored and edited to sound clearer and smoother. Fun Fact: They actually based off the sprites off of scanned artwork they had to draw. They had to recreate it pixel by pixel apparently. At least we got a cool children’s storybook style for the game. Edit: My comment got unhearted ;(

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

I think it gets unhearted solely because you've edited the comment. It does that for some stupid reason. Hopefully OP will see this again

[@YoshiWithHat]

@@Idiotic_B_Purcell I think it's Incase you make it say something bad or something idk it still is weird tho

[@ManillaHeep]

I never actually got to Bowser (yet) in this game. I got caught up in trying to find every last flower and get high scores...

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Those are difficult, but doable. Its the bonus levels that are evil.

[@theraymunator]

Dude, this shit FUCKING goes ballistic

[@smnio5619]

Banger

[@Shado_Chimera]

Now I just need the credits and my life is complete.

[@pixelator5312]

this really makes me want a high quality restoration of Pokey Means Business

[@LoyalmoonieProductions]

Did Koji Kondo take an influence from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to make this??

[@allahu-s2h]

this feels like it wouldve been on a ps1 game

[@Dani5ooo]

BEST BOSS BOWSER VERSION OF THIS MASTERPIECE OF THIS GAME!!!

[@CrisNonsenseXD]

AWESOME!!

[@tatertot64]

ROCKIN!!!!!!!!!!

[@bowserjrblyaat]

Это так божественно masterpiece 🛐

[@juanfinds4926]

This sure brings me back, I remember the warlock threw the magic growing dust on baby Caseoh, and then he grew to future full size Caseoh

[@dinkledonker801]

This game was the first instance of Bowser being shown changing size isnt it?

[@mariowario5945]

This sounds like the doom spider mastermind song

[@unRandomSm64]

I got scared by the giant baby bowser when I was kid meanwhile this track was breaking up lol

[@jayearley5671]

I came here on a nostalgia trip, not realizing it wouldn't be Super Mario World 2. It would be Darkkmane Christmas Special

[@SlyHikari03]

This is rad. \m/

[@josephrose4061]

FINALLY! Thanks!

[@giulytsme]

Cant believe i'm actually listeing to this aaaaa

[@Marcelo86790]

Rockman CX Complete Works OST:Dr.Light Final Boss 2

[@soundspark]

The beginning guitar seems to be missing a bit of reverb.

[@Zapdos0145]

you feel your sins crawling on your back

[@WeDoNotTouchOfficiallity]

Something is about to happen

[@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming]

please tell me this restored OST will end up in a MSU1 pack

[@SuperSonic-ui7od]

Beautiful I love this!!!!

[@scrowfunk8109]

As other people have said, I think we're missing a lot without the compression these tracks originally had. I think a lot of SNES music is originally composed with the compression of the sounds in mind, and when you take that away it does sound a bit off. I do really really like the drums though, very clean compared to the original version where you can barely hear them

[@vergil114]

Excellent work on finding the original samples, but I've got quite a lot of criticism on this song. tl;dr, it sounds like the samples were not put through the original sequence from the game, but rather the sequence was remade by hand, and it shows. I'll start by saying: As good as it sounds, I believe the percussion is much too loud. I feel that there isn't enough range in between all the instruments. 0:00 - The intro's "Reverb" effect is much more pronounced in the original, and pans much more to the left in this version, when the original had it pan all over the place. 0:23 - The "guitars" are really faint in the mix of everything else. Should be much louder 0:29 - Why aren't my ears getting pierced into blood by the high pitched noise that fades in? I can barely hear it. 0:42 - To the untrained ear, this sounds like a jumbled mess, but this jumbled mess doesn't match the original sequence. 0:47 - 0:50 -This shouldn't have gone unnoticed. In the original, the high note before the following bunch of lower notes alternates from a lower note and a much higher note evenly, and that didn't happen in this video. It's kinda hard to explain with words but you'll understand if you directly compared the two 1:02 - The "keyboard" also sounds like it's being washed out by the rest of the instruments in the mix. Again, my ears are not bleeding from the keyboard. Overall this is very nice, but it wouldn't be correct to call this a restoration with the mistakes at hand. . . . . . While commenting about yoshi's island music, in your video of flower garden, the harmonica's timing seems off compared to the original, it's really noticeable at 0:41. Yoshi's Island Restored - Flower Garden - KZbin

[@elliev1sion]

OH MY GOD YES

[@Chrissaiyanjojoknight]

So epic and how many themes in mario games are this epic?

[@BrigitteMain33]

I love to fight Zorah Magdragos with this theme...its so fucking awesome

[@NyanKarichannel]

Spade

[@EdulinkZelda]

I heard MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONN

[@theraymansonicandretrogamesfan]

It doesn’t really sound the same with the crushing sounds at the beginning. But such an amazing remake.

[@chocolatiel9162]

HOLY MOLLY!!!!

[@VinVonVoom]

Whenever I listen to these resamples I can't tell what's different but when I listen to the original it always sounds so crusty by comparison.

[@angeljosue4132]

Fuck yea, sounds like i want to have an epic adventure

[@matavastros]

Put this on 1.25 speed. Trust me it sounds like a sonic theme.

[@JohnnyMatherson]

* *baby Mario head explodes* *

[@superprincess2010]

Amazing!

[@alizardincrimson]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@TimEagle77]

ROOOAAARRRR!

[@ilikecorndogs]

YES! HERE IT IS!