» 84 days ago by georgeM
What I thought would take me a few hours turned out taking me about 10 times that length. I was truly impressed by the original Automatic Kumikyoku Mario video from about a year back, however the quality of the video was ultra poor for such a wonderful feat.
For those who have no idea about this infamous phenomenon, Nico Nico Douga is a show/network in Japan that had a song which many people interpreted via their own remixes/workings. One fellow edited Super Mario World with Lunar Magic to synchronize all of the Mario sound effects to the melody of Kumikyoku. It came out absolutely mindblowing, and apparently it took him about 6 months to complete.
I took it upon myself to patch SMW (Japanese version) for the SNES, record the output to uncompressed AVI, edited and synchronized the music, then compiled everything into a sweet, super crisp 1080p x264 video file. I have provided links below to the video itself, plus the kumikyoku.ips patch that you can apply to your own ROM (not provided here so please do not ask). Of course you won’t have the synchronized Kumikyoku melody playing along side, but hey, that’s why I spent all of that time encoding it for you!
Note that Mario DOES NOT MOVE at all, no one is controlling him, as only the level’s elements push him around. Proof is found after patching your own SMW Japanese ROM with ‘kumikyoku.ips’!
Please leave any comments and Like/Dislike the video on YouTube as you may. I spent a lot of time doing this and really wanted to share it with everyone. HUGE respects go to the original creator of the kumikyoku.ips patch that makes this all possible. I am 100% ‘round-eye’ and I really have trouble delving into the Japanese world to find out who really made the first hack, but he is clever.
Hope you enjoy, and save this gem forever!



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