'Nintendo Music' Adds Classic N64 Soundtrack, Here's Every Song Included

F zero x has been added

And thus F-Zero fans were once again filled with delusional hope that a new installment was just around the corner.

I'm just disappointed at the lack of Expansion Kit music.

Nice to see they’re updating the app so often. I will cheer the day we get Majorta’s mask and Mario world

Yet still no Super Mario 64? That should've been the 1st 64 game XD

I think we should be getting 1 early week and then when later in the week.

That being said 1 a week isn't terrible, but 2 a week would be nice.

Never played this game, but this is cool for the F-Zero fans out there! Also, this is kinda irrelevant, but has anyone noticed that the side order songs aren’t on the splatoon 3 album?

@PikminMarioKirby they said it was coming and they probably want to space out the Mario and Mario-adjacent games, as half of them are those already

Another week another 20 songs that 5 people will listen to. Why is this so painfully slow?

@YunoboCo
Nintendo gonna Nintendo.

Still holding out hope for Star Fox: Assault.

Honestly, my least favorite soundtrack in series, despite still being good.

That being said, I can't wait to put Long Distance of Murder next to Fear Factory and Phantom of the Moon Spirit in the playlist.

Love love love F-Zero X. Great intense tracks to this for my workouts.

I love how cheesy this game's soundtrack was, it's perfect.

Great addition. We have been needing some F-Zero music on the service!

I wish it was more but I can deal with weekly updates. It's a nice surprise on a Monday.

Nintendo being Nintendo I didn't even think we'd get that.

So, it is safe to say that, unless holiday surprises count (like Thanksgiving within next week, as well on Halloween with Super Mario Bros. Wonder); every Monday at 8:00 (20:00) PM. Also, I do not mean to complain; yet today would actually have been perfect for DKC3's soundtrack, given how approximately 28 years ago, the game itself originally released on Nov. 18th (1996). I'm not complaining, though.

Also, mathematically, that counts for at least 52 new albums (game soundtracks) for each of the next bunch of years.

Edit: I've never paid much attention to the F-Zero series, not enough to prefer it as my type; BUT after giving all 20 tracks a listen; the soundtrack... has many absolute bangers that most definitely belong in a workout playlist to get oneself amped up. Give it a listen whenever a chance.

Nice that X got added. It would of been really cool if they added the CD Remix versions of the ost, since they're super good as well and would be great to have additional versions and releases of the tracks on the app

Haven't played enough F-Zero X in my lifetime to know if this is a good soundtrack or not but I will listen to it all the same as I have the others.

Hell yeah! This one is a good one! The things I would do for a true HD 60 fps FZero on switch 1/2. It’s incredible how good X feels in 2024.

Edit while listening: crazy how much thrash metal bliss A Devil’s Call In Your Heart is. Incredible

I'm starting to get a little concerned about the weekly update just adding one game at a time now. Not every time but too often.

It'd be fine if Splatoon 2 gets a week to itself (and HOPEFULLY with Octo Expansion included) but we should've gotten Super Mario 64 as well as F-Zero X since they're both N64 games. Zelda Wind Waker and Skyward Sword could both be added.

One OST a week just won't cut it!

@Dev1024 I concur, especially for these three primary reasons:

1. Nintendo has both developed and published 700+ games, and given how it is just one a week, as well with potential holiday surprises; simply converting 700+ games into 700+ weeks, that is at least a very long thirteen years from releasing every single soundtrack they have to offer.

2. Many here can agree or disagree / agree-to-disagree, yet it is pretty evident that the "extend to" feature is not inserted remotely, like per AI; rather yet manually adjusted, and this, I believe, is a very significant factor to holding off multiple releases at once, yet I have to ask; exactly what is the point of the feature to begin with? It is practically the exact same as the repeat feature that has a more-so similar purpose than it does different. A tempo feature that works on literally any / every track would make more sense, which would also be a first for even a music platform, if I'm not mistaken.

3. Logically, you are accurate, yet in spite of the manually adjusted "extend to" feature; if they have time to insert at least 100+ tracks in one album (like they are set to do with both of the other currently listed L.O.Z games), they easily would make time for even three retro soundtracks (like F-Zero X; SM64; & DKC3) in one sitting. I get that the older soundtracks most definitely also need readjusted mastering compared to the more modern and lengthier in track quantity soundtracks, yet someone had to say it. Speaking of, depending on how long it took them to install the first 23 (+1) albums that contained approximately 2,299 tunes, if they did all of that in at best per-se two-or-so months; they can easily do a few albums with up to a song quantity of 200 or so songs in one mere week. It is much appreciated that this idea is (finally) happening; yet marketing-strategy wise, if they want more customers to get engaged, they likely will not even wait at least 13 long years. My biggest recommendation to them is to remove the "extend to" feature, not just given its similarity; yet also for the marketing-strategy logic. Edit: Or, if they are going to simply keep that feature within the service, then they can just add at best that lengthy number of tunes in one week without inserting the feature into any of them, and as the week progresses, they can simply insert them in the most fitting tunes, whichever works.

Great addition, F-Zero X has so many great tracks.

Disappointing they don't have the EXpansion Kit music, that's probably my favorite version of the Rainbow Road theme.

"They don't have my favorite (insert game) soundtrack?"

I'm happy we're getting one a week guys! Seriously what I've been saying, drip feeding everything on a whenever we want basis.. That's Nintendo!

Problem here is there's not enough soundtracks to start with. So my "playlists' exist of like 8 songs max.

Some soundtracks go for the leidmotief, very cool when playing, not so cool when listening to a soundtrack!

But I'm happy with what we got so far, let the speculation begin for next week...a Wii gamecube game because we've been going snes-n64...?

I just installed the app yesterday and was looking this! Awesome!!

@milonorth GC GX and AX still looks so amazing on WiiU (jailbreaked/ usb loader, even supports arcqade version)...

the basic f-zero rhytm is so i coninc, i think lots of people are going to play this while driving... (lots of freeways turning into racetracks this week)

Wow, never played this game but man is the soundtrack awesome!! 🎸🎸🎸
Something to make Yngwie jealous ... and it's just MIDI 😍 Such talent is so impressive ...

@garfreek I know I just made a lengthy comment about logics, yet keeping this one short(er) and sweet; I do concur with this, as well. It does not exactly matter which route is taken, the best-case scenario, fundamentally; is that this is happening. At least my big concern with this service is hoping it does not all willfully go to waste. Nintendo is not always Nintendo; yet it is still Nintendo.

Nice. Keep em coming Nintendo!

Oh hot dog diggity do dog!

1 soundtrack a week feels kinda slow at the moment since we're so close to launch. But I reckon Nintendo is thinking of the long game here. If they plan to run this service for the next 5 years at least, that's another 260 games to be added if they stick to a weekly schedule. Even a developer as storied as Nintendo I think will begin to run out of worthwhile OSTs to add. I hope by then we start getting some third party soundtracks.

The other benefit to weekly releases is the inevitable blogspam news articles (sorry Nlife) that keep them present in the news cycle.

@SwitchplayerJohn That, and the weekly headline is probably why they do it like this! And it's working for me too, I would have never listened to the Wii sports soundtrack otherwise! 😂 (Weirdly enough, some absolute bangers I never paid attention too while playing! )

@LuigiBlood One of my favorite EK tracks: https://youtu.be/y3NvLHbtvtM?si=jts6l9u12Xf_kjmR

Always reminds me of this incredible TAS: https://youtu.be/SFNGoAP02eQ?si=Bc24KfzwL1erlrkf

@N00BiSH Thing is, Nintendo doesn't need to make a new F-Zero. Just remastering X and GX would go a long way for old fans and new players to (re-)discover the franchise. But as long as they're all about sales, F-Zero will not get the recognition it deserves. It's an incredible series that deserves to be known and played and invested in based on its merits alone.

Just add sharpness, increased draw distance and the expansion kit for X, some online functionality for both, make 'em available on modern hardware, and watch a new generation of Fzero players take hold. As it stands, Nintendo does bare minimum emulation and can't even get control sensitivity right. A sad state of affairs.

The artwork and soundtrack of F-Zero X goes so hard

Good choice Nintendo although please speed up your rollout!
It is wild there is nothing from the 3ds yet.
Wii U technically covered by Mario Kart 8 and BotW despite not appearing in the sort by platform list.

I‘d love to have the „F-Zero X Guitar Arrange Edition“ in Nintendo Music.

Wiki: https://fzero.fandom.com/wiki/F-Zero_X_Guitar_Arrange_Edition

YouTube: https://youtu.be/cMnp2c4wl7Y?si=lKlVMk8PBOEeDjKd

I need to spend time trying to work out how best to browse this app and add specific tracks to a ‘favourites’ list or something. When I first downloaded it and had a quick look, it wasn’t that intuitive. I hope it’s better. It didn’t help that most soundtracks were from newer games, which let’s face it, have far inferior soundtracks to the classics. I mean, the Mario Odyssey soundtrack is fine, but it has nothing on the 80s and 90s Mario games.

@SwitchplayerJohn That’s my feeling as well. There’s more than enough games on there that I’m not gonna run out of tracks to listen to anytime soon.

@GravyThief I’m not a fan of the UI myself. It’s not unusable. But I do think there’s room for improvement and hope they continue refining it as time goes on.

@YunoboCo Because money/precious Wario Coins. The service is tied to NSO memberships, so in order to maximize incentive for people to stay subscribed… they will continue to do drip feed release frequency to slowly extend the service smh.

As for this drop… X is not my favourite F-Zero OST, but cool that it’s here now. Would’ve preferred the original, GX or even 99 first.

Still waiting for Fire Emblem Engage, Zelda TOTK & Xenoblade Chronicles DE OST’s to be added since they were all fairly recent Switch releases. Should be good to go.

@UmbreonsPapa I just had another go, and I managed to trawl through all the games and favourite the tracks I want. So at least I can use it now. The pre-Switch offering is really meagre though. I can’t believe there are only 3 games each for N64 and SNES. These have the best soundtracks. I really hope Starfox/Starwing on the SNES makes an appearance. That game has some belters.

I like the consistency with the rate the OSTs are being added, and F-Zero X is a welcome addition. I didn't play as much of F-Zero X compared to GX, which also has a fantastic soundtrack.

Personally I'm still waiting for the SNES Star Fox OST and Majora's Mask.

I don't much care for the art that accompanies the tracks. They appear to be screenshots, but I think they're poorly done. It makes it look like someone's library of ripped, illegal tracks. Sometimes the art seems barely related, and some look like they were haphazardly captured with no real rhyme or reason for the shot.

And couldn't we get art that takes up the whole screen or at least more of it? They're rather small.

Laughing at the people that unironically think this is a “slow” pace of more music. Bet those same people will complain if it was updated every other day anyway because they needed something to complain about.

The track names are destroying my brain, for years it had different names now Nintendo changes most of them. I'd rather Scream over Stream but I'm thankful we got F-Zero X for music.

Now add Star Fox Assault & Super Mario World, sometime, Nintendo.

Nintendo needs to add ambience effects! Would love to add rain / etc ambience to my favorite songs. Make it a case-by-case basis, so they can add the actual ambience SFX from each area in BOTW as well as ACNH.

They also need to go ahead and add any Xenoblade soundtrack soon, just to have proper representation on the app. It'd be fun if they added the original Wii version first!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, these are 'tracks' not 'songs', pretty sure that barely any of them have any words in them so how are you meant to sing along?

Good news anyway.

@Edd-O is there really that much of a difference?

@N00BiSH Well a song should have words if you ask me.

Would someone say for instance that they loved Beethoven's songs?!

@Edd-O yeah. Probably. Music doesn't need lyrics to be a song imo.