Nintendo Music's Next Batch Of Tracks Will Arrive Next Week

Stay Tuned!!! …should’ve been the tagline 😝

I may not be using this much but I'm glad my nso subscription is supporting this sort of thing. It's a slick little app and it's pretty cool to see it at the top of the play store chart.

Never realised how similar Lylat Wars and OoT tunes were until I am actually listening to them without playing the games.
Also just noticed after the player icons there is an "Extend To.." button so you can extend the tune between 15,30 and 60 mins.

With Mario Wonder added yesterday, it made me think there'd be a daily release.

‘From time to time’ worries me a bit. Hopefully they at the very least stick to the weekly approach

Fingers crossed for Fire Emblem Engaged…

Both versions of Links Awakening.

That's all I ask.

WarioWare and Rhythm [insert regional name here] would be most appreciated.

I could definitely get behind weekly or bi-weekly music drops. As long as it's not the 3+ month drip feed that the retro NSO apps get.

As someone who doesn't have much experience with Nintendo games before the 3DS era, I really hope they add a big variety to the catalog. For example, I'd love to hear the music from some of the older Fire Emblem games.

I sure hopes this means they're gonna do a weekly release schedule for this app. The more I've used this app the more I like it, and I love how they seem to know which OSTs people want. Like having the Metroid Prime OST at launch is honestly pretty based.

"added from time to time"

Which actually means , drip drip drip.

When I searched for Nintendo Music in Play Store , it's nowhere to be seen. I had to click on Nintendo, to open all their apps and scroll along a bit. I'm in Thailand though, which probably explains that. But why was I even able to download it, if it's not officially available here yet.

Again, a weekly update would be good, but “from time to time” sounds like words of caution to me. I’m not worried for now though.

Mario & Luigi OSTs to celebrate and promote Brothership, please! There’s a clever, subtle marketing ploy for you, Nintendo. Fans get to enjoy Mario & Luigi music on the new app AND spread awareness and hype for the new game. A win-win!

Nintendo Music appears 27 times on the front page today. 😂

Let's hope they actually keep the updates weekly, that would be plenty for me. Even if it's weekly for like a year and then eventually slows down to biweekly.
If it's as sporadic as NSO updates, I'm not gonna like it. But either way I'll probably have to wait a while for Xenoblade...

If it is weekly, I hope they do multiple games a week rather than just one (like with Mario)

But I would rather have one weekly track than multiple drip fed tracks so we’ll see how it goes

Huh, they're actually learning how to keep people invested in a service, assuming they keep the updates coming anyway. It'd be nice to have everything right from the start, but having something new every week or so means a continuous string of articles and social media posts to attract more people to it and keep them coming back. I kind of like having that drip feed of new content anyway, so I don't mind waiting as long as the updates are paced better than those of their retro game libraries.

I'll be okay with weekly releases. It's slow but not quite dripfeed slow.

Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga or Bowser’s Inside story to celebrate Mario & Luigi Brothership’s release?

There are so many games missing, I hope it's not just one a week. I wonder if there's any chance of Pokémon?

@Paddle1 The Scarlet/Violet soundtrack was available at launch (including even all the DLC exclusives tracks), so the rest of the series is very much possible.

Eh, I probably would have preferred that they would have done batches of games with weekly releases rather than I assume one a week. There’s so many Nintendo games out there and it would be years until we get all the titles if this is kept up. But I mean, weekly releases are better than one game once every month or something like that, so I’m not that upset.

@BrazillianCara Ah that's true, I had forgotten.

I bet there are more rights issues than one might expect with stuff like this. I think even if Nintendo wanted to dump music from all their games at once, they probably wouldn't be able to.

There's also setting up a screenshot for each individual track (unnecessary, but a nice touch I guess) and the custom playlists for each game which also takes up time.

Still, I am hoping for weekly releases here, or a drop of 5 or 6 each month.

@SplatRay001 The promo images on Google Play Store also say "New tracks are added frequently" so who knows at this point

I certainly wouldn’t be worried about just one game a week, but this is still so new that only time will tell how this goes down.

I wonder if games like Super Mario RPG or even Super Smash Bros. will make it. Nintendo would need Square-Enix’s permission with the former and MANY companies with the latter.

@Dom_31 No, they're doing entire OSTs at a time.

Add the Super Metroid, Wave Race 64, Tetris Attack/Panel De Pon and original F-Zero soundtracks or get out...

I love this app. This is every video game music fan’s dream. Hope the content continues to roll and super hoping they get non-Nintendo developed game music soon.

...Okay so the updates will be frequent, then, good. lol

Here's the thing: the most logical thing from a consumer point of view is to find on the app the music of the library of games you can play on switch on your already active subscription.
Is this the first formal hint of Wii and GameCube NSO library for switch 2?

PLEASE ADD SOME WII U GAMES!!!!!

Side Order pretty please 🥺

If they gave everyone everything at once people would be in the comments saying "Is that it????!!!???!!!! Have you nothing left Nintendo???!!!??!?!?!?" As if you're actually talking to Nintendo in here...

I can't wait for little Timmy to boot up the app after the arrival of Fzero X and find such song titles as Long Distance of Murder and Devil's Call In Your Heart.

I am really hoping for NES Zelda 1 & 2. Those are the two games I played the most and I love the music.

Has Nintendo said anything about adding music from 3rd party games? Some Mega Man and Castlevania would be great!

DKC2 please, the best game soundtrack of all time

It really is significant to see Pokemon Scarlet/Violet on Nintendo Music. As we saw with Alarmo, as well as every Nintendo Store, Pokemon is usually excluded from the "Nintendo-only" first-party library of IP.

Yes, we already have spinoff entries on NSO. But them taking so long to put the main entries on NSO started to make me wonder if there was some sort of disagreement between GF/TPC and Nintendo over the main games. Nintendo Music is the first time we've seen a mainline entry appear in an official capacity for any Nintendo-Only ecosystem.

After Nintendo Music I can breathe a small sigh of relief that it's more a matter of optimal timing for the main games' rollout on NSO.

Give me some 3rd party.
I want Crush 40!

Xenoblade please

I hope that, at some point in the future, we will get the soundtrack for Star Fox: Assault. I loved the music in that game, such as the music from the first half of the first level (what is titled "Space Battleground" in Super Smash Bros.), as well as the music that played when Peppy rammed the Great Fox into the energy shield on the Aparoid homeworld, seemingly sacrificing himself in the process.

What would also be nice is if Nintendo released a browser version of the app, like just Apple Music, Pandora, and Spotify. Since I'm not allowed to have my phone on me at work, there's no way for me to listen to the app. But having a browser version available for when I am on a work computer (they do allow us to use Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music using the computers) would enable me to listen to my favorite game soundtracks.

@Mando44646 Especially Xenoblade Chronicles X. I got the Special Edition of the Wii U version so I could get the music tracks off of that USB drive that came with it, only to learn that it was DRM'ed, thus preventing me from being able to listen to it, much less import it to iTunes or Apple Music. I would love to listen to "The Key We've Lost" (which was in the gameplay trailer for the game) any time I want.

I still like being able to actually own the music - I've got all the Club Nintendo 'Sound Selection' albums which are tremendous!

The only thing I hate about this is that it may dissuade them from issuing CD releases for recent/upcoming games. 😭😭😭

@mr_benn : I still want all of the ones I'm missing. 😭 I love love love my Club Nintendo CDs.

@Rainz You my friend are a genius.

The optimistic part of me is any delays for adding more music is from going back to screenshot every track appropriately and vet each track if they are spoiler or not.

The audio quality is lacking. Sounds like 128 mbit mp3. Sometimes tracks just stop.
It's better to play cd's. Like that Smash Bros for 3ds/ WiiU one.

Still not getting it when I have Sitting On Clouds to get my mp3 OSTs, which is free and easy to download.

@JJsNeighborhood

Kindest of thanks!!

So if we get a lot of tracks, key phrase lot of tracks, weekly, then I can live with that. One or two tracks weekly is a huge No-No. And then who knows? Maybe it's multiple times a week music drops? There's so many questions at this point that it's going to at least take a month for us to really know the frequency of music drops. For now I'm enjoying it.

Please Nintendo just give us the Princess Peach Showtime soundtrack! I finished this game months ago but I keep thinking of the Dashing Thief theme all the time. I need those upbeat tracks to clean my house!

@OctoCallie20 And also very sketchy and illegal and impractical!

Keen for TotK to be honest

@AstroTheGamosian I see mentions of Star Fox Assault & I get excited. I hope we could get the music from the cutscenes without the voices & sound effects, I seriously love the bit of music where Pigma shows up to cause chaos.

Even the music where Peppy sacrifices himself is wonderful... I'm such a sucker for ANYTHING Star Fox Assault-related.

I seriously love this app but my phone (Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra) on the other hand, is saying the app is driving it's storage up the wall.

@AngelSlayer
>Sketchy
Hardly, lmao.
>Illegal
LOL, in what universe would Nintendo's music "app" a better solution?
>Impractical
It's such an easy place to navigate and I don't have to give Nintendo a thing because their "app" is the most anti-consumer thing I'd ever seen.

@AmyTheBrawler Oh, totally. Assault was the first Star Fox game I played, and easily my favorite. I would be so happy if Nintendo remade the game, but making certain changes to it (not making it a straight-up remaster with a fresher coat of paint).

For example, adding new levels to the campaign mode, such as the multiplayer-only maps of the Great Fox, Titania, and Zoness, but also originals like Venom (where you infiltrate the ruins of Andross's base to acquire the schematics for the computer virus weapon that they used to defeat the Aparoids), Papetoon (where we would see Fox's homeworld for the first time in a Star Fox game), Aquas, and Macbeth.

On the multiplayer side, include Leon, Panther, Pigma, Oikonny, and even General Pepper in the multiplayer mode, and have online functionality where you can play with others.

Gameplay-wise, tighten up the controls (as the on-foot and Landmaster controls could be quite touchy; one wrong move sends you tumbling off a ledge), and allow us to play as other members of the Star Fox team during the campaign mode, each with the abilities that they had in multiplayer mode.

And the app is also great. But again, since I can't have my phone on me at work, I'd love a browser version, much like how Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora all have their own browser versions.

Wii U eShop music needs adding! It’s a bop!

@AstroTheGamosian wow, like me, Assault was my first Star Fox game, I'd definitely love for the other Star Wolf members to be playable in some form as well as extra levels.

@BenMCR Wii U Xmas eshop music was better…

@AmyTheBrawler Yeah. I'd also love a remake of Adventures that adds in the cut content (such as rescuing Krystal halfway through the game and being able to play as her, but also fighting General Scales).

But above all, I want a sequel to Assault that ignores the canonicity of Command. The reason being is because I want Fox's and Krystal's relationship to deepen further (instead of them breaking up like they did in Command, which I hated), and the game ends with them getting married.

@AstroTheGamosian I'd also want Nintendo to fix the semi-problematic age gap, because Krystal was reportedly 16 in Adventures while Fox was probably around 22-24 because a few years go by from the Lylat Wars, then only a year passes for the events of Assault where Krystal would be 17. Command was considered non-canon by, I think the development team or Nintendo themselves.

@AmyTheBrawler Actually, from what I heard, she was 16 when Star Fox Adventures was still known as Dinosaur Planet, but when the game was reworked into a Star Fox game, they bumped up her age to 19, making her a legal adult at that point. She'd then be 20 by the time the events of Assault rolled around, and about 22 by the time the events of Command happened.

That being said, there is still a seven-year age gap between the two of them, because Fox was 18 years old in the events of 64; and since eight years passed between the events of 64 and Adventures, he would be 26 in Adventures, 27 in Assault, and 29 in Command.

And according to Dylan Cuthbert, none of the endings are canon, because the game takes place in an alternate timeline. However, the 261st issue of Nintendo Power stated that the default ending, The Anglar Emperor, is the canon ending.

Personally, I hated that that had to be the default ending. I would have preferred the one where she and Fox got married and had Marcus, the one where Krystal rejoined the team along with Amanda, or the one where they all celebrated their victory and Fox and Krystal worked reconciled.

We'll see if Nintendo decides to make another game, though. I don't know if they will, considering Zero was a commercial flop (selling less than half a million copies) and got mixed reviews over its wonky control scheme. Star Fox 2 doesn't count, in my opinion, because it was completed back in 1995 but never released until 2017, and was more or less included as a bonus on the Super NES Classic Edition.

But if they did make something that served as a sequel to Assault, they need to go bigger in terms of the main villain. Maybe something like a dark matter entity that threatens all of existence. Gameplay-wise, maybe do something similar to Starlink: Battle for Atlas, but also include gameplay modes like that in Assault (i.e., on-foot and Landmaster).