Super Mario World Music Gets Restored

One SNES soundtrack everyone is familiar with is Super Mario World. Koji Kondo, genius that he is, managed to come up with soundtrack that is catchy and oh-so Mario. And he did this by rearranging a single theme over and over. Sure, Super Mario World's music is an arrangement of the same theme again and again, but when it reinvents the theme on such spectacular levels, you really can't complain. 

And yet, for as grand as Super Mario World's music is, like the bulk of SNES soundtracks, the audio we heard from the game was not how it originally sounded. You see, the majority of music on SNES games was compressed to fit onto a SNES cartridge. Dataminers uncovered the samples used for Super Mario World's music. They reconstructed the soundtrack using the uncompressed audio. 

After hearing Super Mario World' music countless times, it is refreshing to hear it an it's uncompressed glory. Much as I adore the SNES music of Super Mario World, some of my favorite themes sound even better uncompressed, like Forest of Illusion, Athletic, Fortress, and of course, Vanilla Dome.  

Super Mario World Restored OST is still a work in progress as of this writing but what's available (22 tracks) will have you yearning for more. I cannot wait to hear the ending and Staff Roll Theme uncompressed as well as the fight with Bowser. Thanks to The Brickster for being the fellow to host this uncompressed music on YouTube.