The internet has always loved a good cover song or two, but it's not every day that you stumble across a brand new Zelda arrangement inside a ten-year-old Nintendo DS game, is it?
As it happens, that's exactly what we have here. YouTube user Squishy Pixelz has recreated the 'Champions Unite' main theme from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity in WarioWare D.I.Y., a mini-game compilation that launched on DS back in 2009-2010.
If you picked up a copy back in the day, you might remember that it allowed you to create your very own mini-games and music tracks – a feature which has been put into fantastic use here a whole ten years later. We're not sure what impresses us more – the arrangement of the song, or the fact that the game's still being enjoyed like this to this day.
If you need a reminder of what the actual song sounds like, listen to this from around 50 seconds in:
Nice job, Squishy Pixelz. We love it.
Thanks to CM30 for the tip!
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Remixing of more recent songs into older soundfonts is always quite fun, whether or not if it's done as a joke.
You can find this sort of thing all over YouTube if you look in the right places.
Relevant example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJMZRai8Ajk
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All the microgames are motion control based.
@RupeeClock thank you for sharing. I'm always looking for those and there are a lot of talented people around
Man, WarioWare: D.I.Y. was/is such a cool piece of software. Such a criminally underrated gem. It must have been a catastrophic flop because I paid AU$60 for it at launch. Two weeks later, I found a store that was already flogging them off for AU$20. The only time I have ever seen such knee-jerk pricing was with Ubisoft games.
Now that I'm older, I've lost my appetite for making my own custom levels and the like for the most part, but I would love a sequel to WarioWare D.I.Y. Just imagine the possibilities.
I had a lot of fun trying to make the most complex games I could muster with the thing. My finest work was an activity where you need to respond to a situation occurring before you with the most appropriate finger for the job, and I managed to squeeze in seven possible variables.
If a vehicle is approaching, extend your thumb to hail a ride (but if you leave it too long, you'll lose).
If the screen before you counts down from 5, 4, 3, 2, use your index finger to indicate "one". This one was pretty uninspired, but I was also starved of assets as each microgame is only allowed a limited number of "memory", and I was committed to producing an event for each finger.
If a punk performs an obscene gesture your way, retaliate with your middle finger.
If the screen before you features a proposition of marriage, respond with your ring finger.
If a hand appears next to yours, tap it, and it will extend its pinky. Now tap on your pinky. You have successfully performed a pinky swear.
The other two events were variations of the index/ring finger events, but with the punk interrupting them to perform an obscene gesture.
And I tried and tried to make a Tic-Tac-Toe game, but I failed miserably.
Loved DIY, such a cool idea for a game
Let's take this moment to appreciate how good the Age Of Calamity theme song is.
Like it starts of all slow and chill like the moments before war, and than it ramps up the tempo to sound ominous and scary, like Gannon.
Than it sounds triumphant like they won a battle, but they still snuck in the beginning piano medley but way faster and so the song still feels connected even after changing mood 2 times.
(Please note I am not a music professional, but this is a very good song so yeah)
Of course wario will take over this..
That's actually quite interesting. Good ol' Warioware DIY
man i miss warioware so bad.... can we please get a new one?
Ugh....I want DIY 2...with more features and all that. I enjoyed that game, but it did feel like it was limited somewhat. I also didn't like the music creator all that much, I dunno. It felt like....bootleg WarioWare or something. xD
I was also surprised that WarioWare DIY flopped. Bought it full price at launch and several months later I bought a 2nd copy for €5 in a bargain bin just for the sake of it.
Most complex thing I made with it was a tiny bullet hell shmup with semi-random patterns and tappable movement keys.
I didn't really use the music editor too much other than for tiny arrangements for microgames. But it's amazing what people made with it, just like with Mario Paint.
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