Kazumi Totaka (戸高一生, Totaka Kazumi), born 1967 is a music composer for many… Read Full Bio ↴Kazumi Totaka (戸高一生, Totaka Kazumi), born 1967 is a music composer for many major Nintendo games, including Mario Paint and Animal Crossing. He occasionally also does voice acting for Nintendo games, including Yoshi from the Mario and Yoshi series.

Totaka's Song

The infamous "Kazumi Totaka's Song" is a short, looping song, earliest cited feature in X, that has been heard in almost every game he has worked on. Such games include Mario Paint, Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Link's Awakening, Yoshi Touch & Go, Super Mario Land 2, Virtual Boy Wario Land, Pikmin 2, Luigi's Mansion, and Yoshi's Story.

Other games which Kazumi Totaka has worked on, but have unconfirmed appearances of the song, include Wii Sports, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, and Wave Race 64.

Animal Crossing series

To hear the song in Animal Crossing or Animal Crossing: Wild World, enter the request "K.K. Song" from K.K. Slider between 8pm and midnight on Saturday nights. You will also receive an aircheck to listen to in your house (requesting is not required in Wild World). K.K. Slider has the real name of Totakeke, which is Totaka's name shortened in Japanese. Totakeke is said to be an animal version caricature of Totaka. This name could be derived from how Totaka's name is said in Japanese (the last name coming first), Totaka Kazumi.

Television
Kazumi Totaka Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Television' by these artists:

6 Voltios Estoy calmado, estoy tranquilo estoy viendo la televisión …
A.K.A The Fox 길 잃은 두발은 너를 향하고 어설픈 가슴은 고갤 돌려 말했던가 너를 사랑한…
Albert Frost What I is is what I am and what I…
Bad Religion Television, television, television, television Oh yeah! I w…
Baxter I wish I had Seen you in front of your T.V…
Bedårande Barn Television, television Döljer en bit av vår civilisation Tel…
Brighten And you believe everything your lyrics tells you And you…
Buller Jag undrar vem vem vem E fuckad i hela huvet Ändra ditt…
Bunji Garlin All over your television When we pull up, whole club full…

Crooks & Nannies A couple comforts shows I've seen them all before The office…
D.I.E. Saw the ice face fail For the first time in years And…
Daft Punk Television, Rules The Nation Television, Rules The Nation …
Daniel Bélanger Soir de novembre, morne est mon automne Des chasseurs desce…
Dave Edmunds Television written by Nick Lowe At the end of every work…
Davide Van De Sfroos L'è capitaa tücoos in quéla televisiòn E la vardàvum al bar…
Delmer Darion Blue milk and Lucky Charms watch A Grayskull supernova Get s…
Disco Noir Television, it couldn't be no lie, I watch it everynight…
Dr. John Television eye hypnotizing me in my bed I've got no time…
DROP DEAD XX You look just like the girls on TV The way I…
Eduardo Cruz Dan las cuatro y media en la tlevision cruzando Las piernas…
Forth Wanderers I wanna be famous on TV So you'll hear me Want you…
Grand Blanc On s'abreuvait de sources sûres aux fruits de la passion Des…
Hans Zimmer Henning Lohner & Martin Tillman Look at me, I'm on the tele-v How could this be,…
Hard Fi Life means nothing When no one knows your name I've never …
Hard-Fi Life means nothing When no one knows your name I've never ha…
Hard‐Fi Life means nothing When no one knows your name I've never …
Harpo I see Lucy Ball Show Kojak's lollipop I see the rain is…
Idles If someone talked to you The way you do to you I'd…
Jack's Mannequin Run around the spiral it's our choice now, Up or…
Japan I apologize again Time after time after time The conversat…
Limbeck The TV is depressing me tonight It only shows the guys…
Little Cub You've been caught out wanting Something shameful Don't be …
Lower Definition I see the world and what it could do to…
Luis Otamendi Sigo siendo el rey de mi ciudad Aunque roto adentro esté Por…
Lula Wiles It's a sharp knife between greed and ambition You start to…
Mansun On top of the hour (Compulsive my behaviour) I see my…
Marshall Crenshaw Television light Shining through a hundred bedroom windows …
N.K. Turn me on turn me off when im off im…
Natalia Kills Hello Mr. Officer We're just having fun You can take the han…
NK Don′t blame it on her She's got to be The only one To…
No Romance Have you noticed the way That life keeps you numb When it…
Noice Television H, television Dljer en bit av vr civilisation Tel…
Oceanvs Orientalis Kidnapped in the sky My lungs are not enough And the night…
Pantera Maravilla Y ahí va tu school Un reflejo de lo cool Una alarma…
PMX Turn up your television if you want to live Like you…
Quorthon Before that sacred holy flickering tv-screen You're served c…
R.M.F.C Saw the ice face fail For the first time in years And…
Reeperbahn Don't disturb them - Don't you talk so much They are…
Reunion Show Look at me, I'm on the tele-v How could this be,…
Robyn Hitchcock Bing-a-bong-a-bing-bong Bing-bong Bing-a-bong-a-bing-bong …
Rock And Roll Mafia I'm another T.V.DEE Check me out on channel 3 Looking very…
Rosemary & Garlic Waking up when The boys they ran away On a summer′s day My…
Sam I Am Leaves his mind there at five. He knows his work's…
Samiam Leaves his mind there at five. He knows his work's…
Scud Mountain Boys Say you're just an idiot But they don't know you well Like…
Short Stack I hate this town, I'm breaking out I hope you don't…
Stabbing Westward I sit alone contemplating What is missing inside me I desper…
Sunny Day Real Estate she's always around and under my skin watching her move how …
Talking Heads I'm looking and I'm dreaming for the first time I'm inside…
The Academic Love is dangerous Is it safe enough When it's pouring rain i…
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy One nation Under God Has turned into One nation under th…
The Dove & The Wolf Es cómo una modelo de televisión Su mirada brilla tanto cómo…
The Heads I'm looking and I'm dreaming for the first time I'm inside…
The Helicopters You just sit at home Never doing anything Piled movies stack…
The Kevin Bennett Back in the day, I was doing the shows I don't…
The Reunion Show Look at me, I'm on the tele-v How could this be,…
The Rooves Making sense of words Waiting to be misheard Recommend me a …
The Verve Pipe She's signing autographs for hours the line is longer when…
Tim Timebomb & Friends Why do I feel the way I do Inconsequential to it The…
U.X. Vileheads Television girl you can read my mind I turn you on…
Ulysses Television, indecision Keeps me on the floor Frustration, me…
V-2 BERLIN Cafeteria catholic Too tired to chew Do butchers dream of ch…
Warrior Soul Take me out for the super future Tellin' you man I'm…
Wilmah Had dreams of New York City The girls are tall, the…
You Won't Back when I was young enough to know from where…

Young and Sexy See your eyes See your face 자꾸 가슴이 뛰어서 See your face See yo…

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Fail Master

3y↑2

I have an idea for searching WaveRace 64, based on my very limited experience with assembly, machine code, and old computers, but it would probably take a loooong time (if it's even feasible):

1) dump the rom (since downloading is illegal, of course)

2) figure out/look up the address(es) of the N64's sound hardware

3) search for the address(es) in the code to find every place where sounds are made

4)run/analyze the code near each instance of the sound hardware being used.

I remember, on my Apple IIc, jsr $fbdd (which, I believe, was 20 dd fb, and which I think had a $) made the speaker click, as $fbdd was the address of a subroutine that did that. Of course, the N64 doesn't have its own speaker, and addressing its sound hardware is surely much more complicated, but the idea is that you do the same as searching for $fbdd in the assembly code for the IIc, and looking at/running stuff near all the results.

I imagine that doing this for the Wii titles is next to impossible, as it pretty much has to all be done manually. (If code could be written to do it automatically, whether for the Wii or the N64, I'm pretty sure it would take a familiarity with the game code that could only come from going through it all anyway.)

Anyway, I've rambled long enough. Hopefully this is coherent - my phone only shows me four lines at a time, and scrolls away every time I manually move my cursor, haha.

All comments from YouTube:

Shesez

4y↑511

Thanks for having me on man! Love the channel

Parody Time

3y↑1

Nice

SharkandMinno

Man - you're everywhere!

NIMPAK1

4y↑2

Not related to any of the mentioned games but I think I have a theory on where the third "unused" version of Totaka's Song in Link's Awakening might be.
When you play the Song of the Wind Fish in front of the Wind Fish Egg, different versions will play depending on which instruments you have (provided you at least have the instrument #3 because that activates the trigger). I already tried it while having instruments #8, #2 and #3 (Totaka's birthday) using glitches to sequence break but with no success. However there are still waaaaay more combinations to check and if anyone is willing to check all of them using cheats or a save editor, I'd be interested in seeing the result, even if nothing happens.

SatoPika

4y↑7

Glad you are collabing with LSSQ. Two of my favorite channels;

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chuggaaconroy

4y↑504

From the title, I thought this was a search for a lost version of Totaka's song that Shesez sang in. Anyway, good work! I love this mystery and have followed it for 15 years.

Gemerl

“Does it have to do with my wood?”
-Chuggaaconroy, 2014

Tenzil_Kem2967

4y↑2

chuggaaconroy hi Emile

Poraliumポラリウム

4y↑4

Mr. Conroy, it's an honor.

Shesez

4y↑15

I wish i had that sort of pull!

P-Plum

4y↑8

Emile!! You are my childhood <3

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SonicFanChris 4

4y↑173

Totaka's song IS in Wii Music. You just have to perform the song yourself.

SuperMarioBrosPlushAdventures

2y↑2

totakas song is the friends we made along the way

Cinnamon Toothpaste

2y↑2

Genius!

ArthurTRead

2y↑8

the whole time they were discussing wii music I was thinking "has anyone tried that yet?"

Dr. No

3y↑17

I had a feeling it would be that

Tracy the Tasmanian Tiger

4y↑300

It would’ve been cool if he hid the song in the forecast channel by zooming in on the globe to like Totaka’s hometown or something.

Codefi

2y↑1

yes

Zack Woodring

4y↑16

good idea

Korporal K. Reep

4y↑321

I remember when I heard of totaka's song not being found in Wii sports a couple years ago so I spent an entire day trying to find it.

mariotaz

4y↑1

@Glenn Rugar so good yeah

Glenn Rugar

4y↑1

On pop fiction right? Man I miss that series

mariotaz

4y↑1

Same

emptyspotlight

4y↑1

Somebody said that it was heard when you play tennis... Or so the rumor says

Sean Gonzalez

4y↑9

Well, I've ripped the brsar file and brstm files from Wii sports and totaka's song does not exist at all in Wii Sports.

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Ryan Leatigaga

4y↑189

Imagine if Totaka hears this all the time when he does basic tasks, like cutting vegetables.

Stellina M

3y↑1

Literally, this is the first sound Totaka ever made ever I know since he told me (Joke)

Dr. No

Imagine if he heard the wii sports version

the plap gaming

This reminds me of sone guy that said: "white people doing anything for 2 seconds without lofi hip hop" and a woman having a stroke.

Connor Darvall

4y↑41

@Boco Corwin But only after he doesn't answer for 5 minutes.

Boco Corwin

4y↑35

I like to think it's his doorbell chime or ringtone.

tymime

4y↑126

I'm surprised that nobody's datamined these games. Audio is always kept somewhere in a game.

beardalaxy

2y↑9

@øƜƝ Ʌ that's what i came here to say. since it's only a few notes it could be played with the midi controller of the console rather than being an audio file.

MegAmi

3y↑2

If people haven't found it by now then it isn't there

pdog64

3y↑11

Data mining won’t help because it is stored as code and not audio.

SPACE DELTA 18 personal for artist project

3y↑8

@øƜƝ Ʌ almost always is.

øƜƝ Ʌ

3y↑35

The song is a really low bitrate, so it might be stored as code and not audio.

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Airsh Bornely

4y↑92

I remember accidentally coming across Totaka's song in Luigi's Mansion, Link's Awakening and Super Mario Land 2. I had no knowledge it was an Easter Egg till I finally looked into it and was blown away.

PaperDerp

4y↑151

I imagine it has but has the Shindou Edition of Wave Race 64 been thoroughly checked? The Japanese-only rumble pak version if you don't know what that is. I never played the game myself but it supposedly even has some new music mixes and sound effect changes so it could be in there.

LSuperSonicQ

4y↑48

According to FryGuy64 the most common music rip in circulation is from the Shindou version so I'm guessing its been looked through just as much as the normal version. Always worth another look though!

Zebster aka Zebia

4y↑18

One thing that makes this especially tough is the precedent set by Mario Kart 64. In that game during a Grand Prix, if you wait in the results screen between races for the song to loop 64 times, a special mix of the song plays. It could very well be that Wave Race 64 has a similar method of finding Totaka's song.

Blox

4y↑184

Could someone not just simply check the games files to see if the song is in them, confirm whether or not the song actually is in the game or not?

Hb1290 Logos

I think there was an extra version of the song found that way in Link's Awakening on Gameboy with no known in-game method of invoking it

theMoporter

3y↑1

Depending on the game, extracting assets from machine code isn't necessarily easy.

LittleA_

@beebs there’s that water monster thing from watch dogs too also that wierd thing in a sponge bob game

beebs

4y↑2

i don’t know much about technical game stuff, but now that even the wii’s source code has been leaked it seems like it should be a lot easier to break these games open. it’s not so say this is an “illegitimate” method, either. there’s been tons of easter eggs that wouldn’t have been discovered for years if people hadn’t been combing through files (the golden peyote from GTA and the literal easter egg in futurama spring to mind.)

Meester Tweester

4y↑7

I remember the song in X was actually datamined before it was found to be accessible in the game

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leonardomapache

4y↑9

There's licencing issues to be considered. As long as Nintendo doesn't own the song, there could've been royalty fees involved. Even if Totaka himself doesn't want to profit for the song, the legal team at Nintendo could have still adviced him against putting it in future games. (?)

Fryguy64

4y↑14

Thanks for the shout out! It's been a while since I did much digging, but I really hope someone can find it in any of these games. Another possibility is that it WAS hidden in WR64 during development, but the game was completely transformed between its reveal in 1995 and release in 1996. It's entirely possible that its hiding place was cut from the game. Great video, and happy hunting everyone!

Arc Ray

4y↑21

with everybody hitting dead ends, im suddenly reminded of that thing from Mario Kart 64 where the music track loops 64 times and then the song changes. but as said in the DYKG video it not yet known if its intentional or a glitch. would be cool if someone could figure that out then maybe something similar could be checked for the other games. or maybe not.

Festeria Nyaa

4y↑61

That 'Wii Sports' thing was nuts. Thanks so much for making this! I thought I already knew everything about Totakeke.

LSuperSonicQ

4y↑18

Thanks! It's so fun unearthing new content from old topics.

Phil I

4y↑57

I would have to disagree about it not being in Wii Music cause he wasn't the composer. Totaka didn't compose Mario Kart 8 but the song appears there.

Phil I

4y↑1

@The Good Mudkip No problem bruv 😁

The Good Mudkip

4y↑2

@Phil I thx

The Good Mudkip

4y↑4

It's in mario kart 8? WHERE!?

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MrDrokkul

4y↑29

Honestly I could see Nintendo saying no more hiding the song and keeping it in at the same time. They are known for their fun quirks, but at the same time being very strict and stuffy.

Ipad McGee

4y↑38

Totaka’s song is hidden from the player. There’s no reason to think it was ever hidden from the game’s developers, or that Nintendo would “find out” and get mad. The thing is, it’s inclusion requires collaboration of a programmer, since it requires logic beyond a soundtracks files... playTotaka() if songLoopCount = 8, or whatever. It’s possible that for certain games, his desire to include the song was just politely rejected, for stylistic reasons. All the games mentioned are some of the least quirky, kinda mercenary games. Whereas the development team of Link’s Awakening or Animal Crossing would have the kind of lead programmer who would say “hell yeah, throw it in”, those games already overflow with ideas and quirkiness.

Ken m

2y↑1

Video game composers back then actually had to write their music in hex code, they have technical knowledge of what they are doing, and totaka was no exception, I'm sure it's different today but back then they really had to know how to put the music in the games themselves. As the famous David Wise explained it: "sound was created by typing HEX numbers into a text editor, assembling the code and waiting until it had executed until I could hear it," Those days must have been horrible, it would take hours just to make one little tune and actually hear what it sounds like.

beardalaxy

2y↑2

actually, ESPECIALLY with older games, the composers are programmers themselves. nowadays a lot of it comes down to the composers just making tracks and giving them to the devs, but before the CD era and even after that for quite a bit of games, the console would run code that played music from its internal library of sounds (or the cartridge's). it was a way to save space when it was super limited. the composers didn't just make the songs and then hand them off to some programmer to transcribe into code, they actually did it themselves. so someone like totaka could have DEFINITELY caused a part of a song to only be played after a certain amount of loops.

Knucklesfan Videos

4y↑63

LSSQ and Shesez is a match made in heaven! I was lucky enough to actually get to see Shesez live last year at a gaming convention, and I've basically been around both of these channels since the very start lol this combo was great!

Knucklesfan Videos

4y↑1

Wow kekcroc squad

Kekcroc God

4y↑1

Pamka excuse me?

Pamka

4y↑1

Kekcroc man

Stathio

4y↑25

I swear I found a bunch of the now discovered Totaka's Songs waaaay before they were officially documented as being discovered back when I was a kid- I used to leave games on screens that didn't require my action a bunch, since I got distracted a lot/liked taking breaks without actually stopping the game. I'm pretty damn sure I at least stumbled onto the Luigi's Mansion one on a second or third playthrough of the game, back at the controls screen before the tutorial starts properly way before it was documented- I just didn't know about it as being a thing back then!
I remember it really freaking me out too- the Luigi's Mansion one was extra spooky sounding, and for it to appear suddenly out of nowhere like that when I wasn't paying attention was actually surprisingly scary! There's a good chance I might not have even had the internet at that point, or at least wasn't clued up enough to hang around the places where it was being discussed yet.

SPACE DELTA 18 personal for artist project

3y↑1

I found the ones in gameboy wario side scroller games that way!

Money Dog Animation

4y↑34

I remember playing yoshis story, one time when totakas song came up I thought it was a glitch and I literally called Nintendo support.

Stellina M

3y↑1

@Superrrswagg You're the one watching a four-month video.

Superrrswagg

3y↑2

@Nugget Time Gaming your the one replying to a 4 month old comment

Nugget Time Gaming

3y↑6

This Should Be On r/KidsArestupid

bradye21 plays...

4y↑24

Ha that wii sports is quite the stretch. Composers reuse similar harmonics and rhythms, like how any danny elfman or John williams soundtrack is recognizable

Sage Derby

4y↑5

"nearly impossible tasks like bowling a perfect game" damn i had no idea 10 year old pulled off something nearly impossible...

Kyle Satwon

4y↑8

Also, just so you guys know, you can find a remixed version of Totaka's Song in the Link's Awakening remake on Switch! I bet you guys know that but I just thought it was worth mentioning.

Kazumi Totaka

4y↑40

Jaxcheese, while I admire your extensive theory behind the whereabouts of my song in Wii Sports, I'm afraid everyone is overcomplicating this. Just sit on the menu of boxing for five minutes and you'll hear it.

westwestwest

4y↑2

I'm his long lost cousin and I can confirm Totaka is a music composer

I live inside your house

4y↑4

@mariotaz
I'm kazumi totaka's wife and I confirm that's the song is not in the game.

mariotaz

4y↑5

@bluemoneyalmighty My mum works in New Look. This is unrelated but she did tell me Totakas song is not in the game

bluemoneyalmighty

4y↑17

Chasnah i am totakas father, i am proud of my son

Chasnah

4y↑18

@CGG CGG my wife's boyfriend is Kazumi Totaka and she can confirm as well.

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Ami

4y↑44

That theory that they told him to stop including it in the games would explain why Totaka's Song was removed from the Wii re-release of Pikmin 2.

J C

@Sacha Vaillancourt it's still in animal crossing games because he directs and composes the music for the game, mostly. He has a big history with the dev team of AC so...I doubt they'd personally want to remove his work from their games, Nintendo or not.

punkuke

@MAGICANT Interesting!

MAGICANT

2y↑3

@punkuke if you have especially shitty internet, kapp'n would start whistling the tune after a while of waiting on the boat traveling screen

punkuke

@Sacha Vaillancourt Where does it appear in New Leaf aside from the K.K. song?

Just a small kitten

@Ami mother of three tamas

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Tiger Smith

4y↑5

Didn't Totaka's song get hidden in an Animal Crossing song that KK Slider plays, and then that song is in Wii Music? I remember that Wii Music seems to have pre-set notes for when you play out of sync, so maybe in that Animal crossing song you have to play Totaka's song yourself by finding where in the song the notes are hidden?

Waluigi WAH

Someone go try this

Glenn Rugar

4y↑4

Wouldn't it be so cool if totaka came out with a list of which games the song are in? Not like how to find them just where to look

oak

4y↑1

hey man, you’ve been one of my favorite youtube channels for a while now, and seeing your channel grow this much is amazing! just wanna say i’m proud of you brother

Matty Cipov

4y↑4

Phenomenal video!!! So worth the wait. Thank you for always being on the hunt for such cool stuff.

LSuperSonicQ

4y↑1

Glad you enjoyed! I was particularly proud of this one too

Mity Fresh

4y↑7

While I get some of these maybe more complex like wii sports I do not understand how some of these are not found. I feel like a lot of people looking for them a least know how to look into a game's data. Sure maybe there isn't a audio file called Totaka's Song but it doesnt mean it isnt there, maybe in aonther name.

Also nintendo telling him to stop is werid, these easter egg stuff is a huge part of nintendo. Also they are ref in future nintendo games.

Karla Pinkie

4y↑1

When I was little I remember hearing the song on Yoshi's Story and finding it creepy haha
Now that I know the context I find it really amazing and intriguing

Ora Wisteria

4y↑1

I love Totaka's song so much I can listen to it for hours on repeat

MetroAndroid

4y↑5

Wow, crazy that you were talking about Shesez when you said a huge channel collab. I first subbed to him when he had a fraction of your current subs. Totaka's song is one of those mysteries that can still inspire a sense of child-like wonder in my gamer heart which has been hardened by years of researching technical gaming topics, speedruns, wikis and thinkpiece videos, poring through extracted files. Kenkou Ouen, Wave Race 64 (Shindou & Standard versions), Wii Sports, and Wii Music have all had their audio files ripped online (not mp3s, the original sound files, where they can be looped forever). I listened through a few of the menu tracks and didn't immediately notice anything outside of what you said, but I didn't check too thoroughly. It's still possible the song isn't one continuous audio file but a series of pitched sound effects altered in real time, which would be much more difficult to find.

That GameTrailers video about Totaka's Song was so ridiculous back in the day, especially to musicians; unpitched percussive noises can be strung together to match any melody. That's the reason why drums can match any rock song. There's even a term used to describe this phenomenon, but I haven't been able to find it since around the time the GT video was uploaded.

Ty Bishop

I just found my Wii and I have been speedrunning Wii sports. This was a fun vid to watch. Keep up the good work!

Luna

The theory of having Totaka be asked to take out his song from the games he makes the music for seems plausible but even in Mario Kart 8 (both versions) you can hear the Yoshi audience hum the song in the tracks where they're featured in so who knows (he also voices Yoshi so it's no coincidence)

Puncake

4y↑4

I'm pretty sure we can find where all of this is located or if it even exists in a game by just data mining said game.

Green146

4y↑25

lssq: starts speaking music
me, with no idea what he's on about: very true 👌

Chibby's Adventures

4y↑9

Man idk why but 15:14 gave me chills. The thought that the theme may have been built on a motif from Totaka’s song? Incredible

LSuperSonicQ

Yeah jaxcheese spent a lot of time figuring out that theory and it holds up really well!

It's me, Az!

4y↑2

I had a dream that Totaka's song was found in Wii Sports. I remember it was found by speeding up background noise in bowling...

Guillermo Fuentes

Great video! Would be good if you made an investigative video on the third Totaka's song in Link's Awakening that very few people know about and there's no evidence of anyone finding how to trigger it.

Witty

4y↑6

“Here now is to the secrets found,
Hearing the beats, oh so sweet.”

Gojiro7

I watched the pulp fiction episode about Totaka's song and I think theres an element of the theory that wasn't explored. the pitch of the ball hitting the racket changes and they do change, if one were to get a consistent sample and prove that the pitch changes are set and not randomized by the code, then you can prove that the sounds of the ball hitting the racket arn't the listener trying to hear what they want if the pitch changes the same way each time.

Skylar

4y↑34

he's still alive, why can't we just ask him? obviously he would be hard to reach though

Dr. No

3y↑11

@LSuperSonicQ Rumor has it that if you stand in his office for five minutes, the song plays

j_0anna

4y↑16

@josie i travelled to tokyo to find out where totaka's song is hidden in wii sports

josie

4y↑19

get nick robinson on da case

LSuperSonicQ

4y↑65

I believe he's had a track record of purposely not making comments about the song, to keep the mystery alive

j_0anna

two of my favourite channels collaborating? yes please!

Ken m

I knew the song from animal crossing and luigi's mansion, that was enough for me, never really got what the big deal was. I feel like they eventually told him to stop doing it which is why it's missing from a lot of the games he worked on.

half a breadstick

4y↑2

I love your content <3

BrainImpediment

Yknow, a question of mine that iv'e had for a long time as someone who isn't very intelligent when it comes to coding and datamining is- Why don't you just dig through the files and see if it's there? I have this same question with hunting for super obscure secrets in games. If the song is in the game, it should be in the files, yes? I'm sure i'm totally wrong, though, because if this was the case then we'd have all this figured out and there wouldn't be a video on this in the first place.

cinnamars

I just watched a ton of your videos...I've got LSSQ fever and I love it

Fail Master

3y↑2

tveye363

4y↑3

Cool, NinDB. I made a shitload of posts on that forum back in the day. It was a really tight-knit community. I remember how we'd always discuss every Smash Dojo post in the Brawl days.

LSuperSonicQ

4y↑2

I first found out about the site from this search but man it felt like I had been there for years. Would have been so cool to be apart of it back in the day.

Meester Tweester

4y↑1

I think the song might just simply not exist in some of his games. Has he ever said he's put it in all of his games? While the song is in most of his games, it might simply not exist in Wii Sports, Waverace 64, etc.

Trisepta

4y↑1

Awesome! I was hoping it would be about this.

garlandstrife

4y↑5

Maybe some Giga Leaks in the future will tell us where the track is hidden

phi latio17

4y↑1

What a crossover, you definitely are expanding your boundaries

Creative Username

4y↑1

Anyone else think Totaka's song sounds like the Tintin theme with a bunch of notes missing?

notoriouswhitemoth

Frankly, I think totaka's fans are probably a lot more fixated on his weird little motif than he is

BarryCR

In Wii Music you can play different variations of the songs, for example the wii music theme, You can play the menu version of it, so i think MAYBE its in one of the nintendo tracks

Rho-star MKL

Sounds like Tokata’s Song went under the same criticism as the Wilhelm Scream. Producers were getting sick of the scream being used so the sound mixing teams had be sneakier with it.

HoodieNinja_7

4y↑1

I would hesitate to take Dylan Cuthbert's word at face value. He's got a nasty habit of saying whatever he things fans want to hear, as well as saying things he half remembers, or just plain assumes, as fact. Dude's been yanking the Star Fox community around for years at this point, he's kind of a dick once you've seen enough of him, tbh. Basically, if he's your only source for a fact, don't rely on him. He's usually not entirely wrong about things, but he also tends to just plain make stuff up if he doesn't totally remember it.

Deadweight

Worth noting that Totaka's Song was sadly removed in the Pikmin 2 rereleases. It only appears in the GameCube original

EDIT: Oh hey, lovely remix of Pavane for a Dead Princess at the end there

Athena Kuld

4y↑2

I played Wii Music alot and for some reason I remember first hearing Totaka's song there.

Athena Kuld

4y↑1

@westwestwest I was like 7 or so when I used to play it alot so I have no idea how I would've found it and if I did.

westwestwest

@Athena Kuld Interesting...thanks!

Athena Kuld

4y↑1

@westwestwest If I'm not having a weird non-existent memory it was a song you played, I remember the place I think I played was an apartment and I had NES flute thingy.

westwestwest

Do you remember in which part of the game? thanks

superzigzagoon

Does anyone know how Totaka's song is stored in the games?

Cherry The Clown

This is an odd theory.
But maybe they actually aren’t in there at all
Maybe Nintendo didn’t tell him to stop.
But when it came time to test the game, they found the tune and told him to remove it and that’s why it’s not in there anymore.

Sonic the Hedgehog

HOLY SHIT, THAT WAS TOTAKA'S SONG IN THE MAIN THEME IF WII SPORTS!

Prower's Edits

The theory that Nintendo asked him to stop doing it is extremely likely considering the fact that it’s Nintendo. I say this as a smash player

Otaking Mikohani

4y↑1

Hasn't anyone tried combing through the files of these games to see if the song is actually in there?

Loser Monkey

4y↑5

Have you guys looked through Wii Music’s files? I physically have the game and know how to mod and hack it. I could probably dump every possible sound and music to see if it’s in there if it hasn’t been hacked already.

westwestwest

4y↑1

@Loser Monkey Did you do it?

Loser Monkey

I will probably extract every possible playable sfx and then upload it with their internal file names and time stamps.

Loser Monkey

CAT1554 mkay, but if SM 3D All Stars gets leaked then I will be modding that before anyone does. (I modded it before and need to restore some (more?) unused content in better quality.)

Yosuke Hanamura

Do it please.

cat1554

please do

autumn corns

You should look in the files of these games. Many be they have the totaka songs in them

chocolattemocha

4y↑1

I wasn’t sure where to put this but I guess it involves lost media? Or I guess they’re not really lost anymore??

Anyways a few weeks or so ago, the complete, full version of Look-a-like from the Sonic OVA was discovered and as of today Scott Pilgrim vs the World: The Game resurfaced and going to be sold on the Nintendo Switch. Again, not sure if this qualifies as lost (or found I guess) media but I thought it was neat.

Rose Child

If we had the rom for some of these games someone could write a script that exstracts all Audio,music, or midi type files and just look through those instead of just blindly trying to look for something you don’t even know if it exists

JohnOfOnett

4y↑6

Two words: HELL YEAH!!!

mystman12

The theory that Totaka was told to stop hiding the song in his games is completely basless and makes no sense. The song can be found in New Leaf, Mario Kart 8, Link's Awakening on Switch, and New Horizons.

shrugs memes

4y↑4

tatoka's song is the 7 grand dad of nintendo

Flamelion9878

3y↑1

ITS IN ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS. I heard it while I was running over to my shop. It played instead of my town tune when the hour was changing. I don’t know what triggered it tho

RedStoneMatt

uh, people could just reverse-engineer the games to see where it is, right ? Sure that's not something anyone can do but i'm sure there is people who can
and in any case, we should be able to see if the song even exist without knowing how to trigger it just by looking at the game's files

IXI Warlock IXI

I wonder if rumble vibrations could hide it?

Dr. No

I had to watch 15:11 multiple times just because I couldn't believe it

MDS

I think we should just ask to the man himself for these last games

Zer0 Coisas pra Fazer

Unfortunately, I think the most we're going to get from "Totaka's" in the Wii Bios is this:

https://youtu.be/XXzrVaqRiMg

Angus

I already know this one's gonna be a banger.

Tront Foxes

KK Slider's actual name in Japanese is "Totakeke"

Emma Is Epic

Lol i remember when i first got into animal crossing and when i first heard the new leaf town hall theme i thought it was totaka's song

RogueDarkJedi

So why not just reverse engineer the game, dump the string table to see if his name appears anywhere (or the value of things like 4 minutes in seconds/milliseconds) and try to work backwards? Sure, attempting to decompile the game can be hard, but like it's way more definitive then everyone trying to poke at the game and wasting a bunch of time.

Just seems quicker.

Colin

maybe they added the totake song to the shindou version of wave race, that version is mostly the same unlike mario 64 but its possible.

Klebby36

4y↑3

I remember the 1st time I found it I was playing pikmen 2 I completed a cave and went to go get a class of water when I came back the song was playing

Gremlin Gaming

I think Nintendo told him to stop putting it in games, and then once they realized how much people cared about it they let him add it to games again.

Tempest

Maybe try exiting the 4th place screen as fast as possible instead of waiting on it? Just a shot in the dark

MemeMan9076

4y↑3

So all my life I been listening to totaka song and not the Wii sports theme

Connor Beith

4y↑1

For the defunct Wii channels, people could use Riiconnect24, the fanmade Wii server, to try and search for Totaka's Song.

วมอเตอ

there should be a community dedicated to finding the song--------------maybe a discord server or something

Ed Pineda

TOPIC

In the Battle for Dream Island Wiki, the names of the colors seems mysterious to me. They are found in the "infobox" of the character. I'm not sure who did it. Try checking the pages for Foldy, Basketball, Nickel, Eggy, and Bell. They have a color section with those mysterious names.

This is not lost media nor a TV/film/video game mystery.

Ed Pineda

If you don't know what BFDI is, it is a series made in 2009 by Michael Huang and Cary Huang. There are four seasons of the show. If you want to study BFDI, start with BFDI 1a and 1b, BFDIA 1, IDFB 1 and BFB 1.

Genesis

I wanna find the wave race one

TruelyJohn64

4y↑11

All the audio for the Wii Channels has been dumped IIRC
Don't remember what website has those files though, time to do some looking around

Garrett Clark

He hasn't stopped placing the totaka theme in games, cause it is in mario kart 8

Snorange

3y↑1

great theory at the end, but i think you forgot about the existence of mario kart 8

TARDIS

I’ve heard that the North American Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort disc is rare, but I’m pretty sure I have one at my grandma and grandpa’s house.

neosquid

4y↑2

Hol up, LSSQ is teaching me music theory?

drummerdude476

4y↑8

Bro just pop these games into your PC, then go to Users/Totaka/Music/totaka's_song.mp3. Simple as that.

O K

My grandma still has her original Dr Mario game and the original console

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