Talk:Nintendo Music

Separate article for track listings

With the DKC2 tracks being listed here now, I think it might be a better idea to have all the Mario tracks in the app listed on their own article. Even with the app's current selection there are nearly 450 Mario series music tracks available. Reese Rivers (talk) 23:43, October 30, 2024 (EDT)

Move Super Mario Bros. music names to the ones used here

Shouldn't the music tracks from Super Mario Bros. be moves to their names used here? This is a more modern source for their names, after all. Kaptain Skurvy 07:21, November 1, 2024 (EDT)

That's what I was thinking too. I agree to that. Overworld BGM could also have the Super Mario Bros. identifier, in case other games release with overworld themes sharing the same name (Super Mario World comes to mind, since that's confirmed to release at some point). Tails777 Talk to me!

Include soundtracks from The Legend of Zelda series?

Seeing as all the Zelda soundtracks on the app so far have an arrangement of "Fairy Fountain", I was wondering if we should include those to the soundtrack list except I wanted to check if we consider "Fairy Fountain" to be inspired by or an actual arrangement of "Water Land" here first. - KinokoBlast (talk) 11:51, January 22, 2025 (EST)

I dunno, seems outside the scope of what could reasonably be considered a Super Mario song in my opinion. If the Fairy Fountain theme was a more faithful arrangement it could make sense, but I think it's different enough to where considering it the same track would feel strange. Polley001 (talk) 12:34, January 22, 2025 (EST)

A very silly request. We're the Super Mario wiki, not The Legend of Zelda wiki. Super Mario RPG (talk) 12:43, January 22, 2025 (EST)

Yeah, I figured that'd be the case. Was just throwing ideas out there. - KinokoBlast (talk) 12:52, January 22, 2025

About Nintendo Music images

As you may know, I have been supplying the source versions of track images via Google Drive, which you can find here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PnkKs6BIhPjOefI0Uvk5zk7TPB2onr58

At the time of writing, all images in this Google Drive folder are being re-uploaded in PNG format (as well as in higher resolution for the relatively few images that are above 5000px in width). This is because I've found that adding "?im=a" to the end of a URL consistently results in a PNG version of the image with either none or less of the JPEG artifacts. File:NM Party Banner.jpg for example was taken from here, and is a 5000x2813 JPEG image. If you check the same URL but with "?im=a" added to it, you'll see that what appears is a 6400x3600 PNG image. It should be noted that "a" is just a random value. Just about any text value should work, but I think using "?im=a" for things such as the listed image source would be ideal to avoid confusion.

As these PNG versions are obviously more ideal than the JPEG versions we currently have, I will work towards replacing them all. This is obviously a huge task so I would appreciate any assistance.

For future uploads, please make sure to use this method when downloading images directly from these URLs and to include "?im=a" when adding image sources. Polley001 (talk) 15:45, February 8, 2025 (EST)

Edit: All images are now up. Interestingly some Switch games have their cover art still in .jpeg format, so those are still using that extension. Polley001 (talk) 17:17, February 8, 2025 (EST)