Pilotwings SNES, N64 And 3DS Albums Soar Onto 'Nintendo Music' In New Update

i dont think ANYONE predicted this in the forum. i bet miyamoto laughs at us mercilessly. glad for those pilotwing fans though!

If they do another multi game release like this for future franchises, my hopes are on Punch Out or Pushmo.

As for Pilotwings, the Light Plane song is relaxing, haven’t tried the other soundtracks yet.

A triple helping of Pilotwings? Don't mind if I do.

Also, I really like the "distributing multiple games with smaller tracklists all at once" method here. Same with the NES tracks last week. Hope that becomes standard.

Something to listen to while we soar like a bird, man.

…I’m gonna just play Birdman on extended loop nonstop… XD

I know the Pilotwings franchise is a glorified tech demo, but it's a damn shame we never got one in HD.

SNES Pilotwings has a very relaxing and soothing soundtrack!

@robotreptile I hear that! Such relaxing, nostalgic music ☺️

What a coincidence! I was just looking for the Pilotwings Resort soundtrack last night. Such chill background music

The amazing Hang Glider music is just too sweeeeeeet! 🤘🏻

YAAS

Go listen to Plane Mission 1 and Glider Mission 1 from Resort right now. This is a demand.

Awesome! I know what I’ll be chillin with this week 😎

Might as well download some Pilotwings songs while I wait for my flight.

Please make the next random drop be the Wii's Art Style series. 🙏

A series I never really got into but it’s cool that it’s a multi release. And hey, I like the Light Plane theme on SNES.

Wish we could get another entry ….

It appears this thumbnail is an ai upscale of a photograph of the magazine print.

@nintendolife you can find a better thumbnail image here!

It's lower resolution, but it doesn't have any upscaling artifacts, such as the light halo around the characters, the distortion in the second woman on the right's hand, and the subtle waves in the irises of every character.

This thumbnail looks like it was upscaled by a GAN, an early model meant purely for upscaling an entire image rather than the diffusion models we have today that try and determine the concept an area of an image is trying to convey. The halo of light around shaded areas, the distortions and how stuff melts together like the strong man's moustache, or the blonde woman's eyes(though to be fair in the original both are really difficult areas), the lines aren't straight anywhere. I learned about GAN models through the youtuber caryhk.

Diffusion models often repeat things in odd places because the image is made in parallel to speed up the process. If you were to generate text this way, you'd get repeated words or syllables in the wrong places more often too. Text usually seems more coherent because it's generated linearly.

Either way, these processes take massive amounts of energy to train and run, which: uses clean energy that would be spent elsewhere and warms our planet through fossil fuels. Because of the pace of output and reliably shady training it causes many stresses for everyday artists through numerous avenues. In other words it's similar to fossil fuels, drugs, and cars. It has negative consequences, provides benefits that mask those consequences at a rate that's "good enough" for people to want it.

A sustainable solution for intelligence already exists in the form of humanity, so please take care of it and be kind to everyone.

Please keep our planet a nice and cool place to live.

@Ade117 I've always found this stereotype about the Pilotwings series to be completely unfair.
The WarioWare series has always featured games demonstrating new technologies and has never been portrayed as a "glorified tech demo."

"New Pilotwings for Switch 2 announcement at next Direct confirmed!" 🤣

Jokes aside, I'll definitely give these a listen like usual.

At long last. Thank you Nintendo

Pilotwings always mystified me, being at once a calm, casual game with lovely waiting room Muzak, while being incredibly difficult after the first few courses.

Another great update. Really miss Pilotwings and I still don't understand why the original wasn't in the SNES Classic Edition.

for a moment i thought the literal 3DS's Album music was added and i got excited. the 3ds ost, now THOSE are soundtracks id wanna see, the NNID settings music will always be a secret bop

Nintendo Music App: Here is another update. 😊

NSO: Whoa! Slow down!

@Ade117 Yes please! Wave Race and 1080 in HD would be glorious too!

@TheSaneInsanity
The upper picture, which you posted looks so much nicer. Thanks, for telling us a little bit about AI upscaling.

Oh we are treated like kings today!

If you haven't listened to these yet, have you're relax/study playlist ready! Some absolute classics in here, usually it's the hangglider for some reason! 😂🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@boxyguy Don't forget the eShop songs from that era for Wiiu and 3DS. All bangers! 😄🤎

OMG, Pilotwings acknowledged by Nintendo! I'm a big fan and the "waaaah wah wah wah" song from the SNES game (if you've played it you know the one) used to crack me up as a child.

Wishful thinking maybe but I wonder if suddenly adding the whole Pilotwings series like this might mean they're planning to reveal a new one for Switch 2 and want to bring it back into the limelight. I note that they randomly added 3 Nobunaga's Ambition SNES games to the eShop before a Nobunaga's Ambition game was revealed to be a Switch 2 launch game.

@Ade117 They're not tech demos at all. They're full games with missions and progression apart from the Birdman mode on the N64 game. What a strange comment.

As a Pilotwings fan, I'm very happy with these news!

plays N64 hang glider in repeat

@Jhena It's not terrible to look at, before I spotted the upscaling errors, It was a message praising PilotWing's use of 3D primitives and simple materials to create an early 3D style... but people would have seen me praising and detracting from the same image, in the same comment. I think that the color grading in the replacement I posted is too warm, and the vigenette is annoying, but the film grain, and background not looking like a bunch of creepy white lights stuck in mud + the halos, makes me prefer the original photo.

Those halos, sometimes an AI tries to reward hack by storing low contrast data in there, I remember a paper about generating a google maps topdown image where the AI cheated like that. I don't think it's the case for this one since it's a GAN, it's more likely doesn't know what to do when there's a sharp border between two colors, but I don't know that. GAN's aren't good for generating images because the whole image tends to come out like those halos, while only having a chance of vaguely resembling the image. I don't remember at what stage of research upscaling became common. so take my claim that its pure GAN with a grain of salt.

They could easily have spread these out over time but it's nice to see them adding multiple game soundtracks on occasion.

HAng Glider theme is one of my fave video game tunes ever. It's so chill!

I’m a huge fan of the “Birdman“ song and modality of Pilotwings 64 ❤️

@Rodolfo6493 I think he may have been referring to the 3DS version which was more like a tech demo compared to the previous entries which had more than one area to fly around.

Anyway I’d love a proper new release with the original characters… Wave race and pushmo too!

Man, Nintendo sure are making me wait for those Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza soundtracks, huh? I feel like a Hollow Knight fan.

@datamonkey The 3DS version was quite disappointing. Got to say the SNES version holds up remarkably well IMO and feels a lot less dated than the other "3D" SNES games like Super Mario Kart, Star Fox and Stunt Race FX which I found harder to go back to.

@TheSaneInsanity
To me it just feels like the AI drained the soul of the image.

Ranges from good to excellent! Great additions.

Oh neat! I love the original Pilotwings OST; Soyo Oka's compositions from this era are all excellent. And then of course the N64 OST has the Birdman theme.

I didn't like the Resort OST quite as much, but it does have that Wii-era sheen to it, so it's charming in its own way even if the individual compositions aren't quite as strong as the other two soundtracks.

So many fun characters Nintendo just left behind!

The 3DS one with Miis was fun, but I'd love to see this cast return in a new entry. It really doesn't need to be anything groundbreaking or huge, I'd take a smaller download title that was basically the same as before but HD. I mean let's be honest it won't sell amazingly well, but I think it could sell enough if made on a sensible budget.

Amazing news to wake up to this morning. I went to bed last night in tears thinking we might never get Pilotwings OST and so you can imagine my delight on seeing the notification this morning.

I'm currently listening to it on YouTube to celebrate.

Birdman is greatest Nintendo music ever. Fact. Also check out 8-bit Big Band version too which is great!

Listening now but dear god, those N64 character models have got to be the ugliest designs for 1st party Nintendo characters ever no?

All great songs overall, but the best has to be "Glider" of Pilotwings Resort. So soothing and relaxing (my favorite Glider level in the game was a flight back to Wuhu Island in the sunset, beautiful!). Pilotwings is challenging in later levels and themes such as this make It all better.

Very glad to see them do more multi-game additions. I hope they continue this trend

@Suketoudara yes true I was very disappointed with the 3DS version.

It can be hard to go back to some of those games. I have to retrain my brain all over again to be any good at them!

Was thinking of these the other day - so glad to see them added. It did make me realize that I've never got the end of the SNES entry. Must try harder!

Love all of Soyo Oka's soundtracks, and SNES Pilotwings is no exception.

@datamonkey I really enjoyed the Resort, I finished it with 100% completion (all missions with a perfect score and I collected all the collectibles).
I also had Pilotwings 64, but my N64 controller didn't have a good analog stick (the game requires incredible precision, especially with the analog stick). But the game was great.
I plan to try the first game in the series soon on Switch Online.

OMG YES! PW64 is one of my all-time favorite soundtracks! Dan Hess did an amazing job, and it's a shame only the original Pilotwings and Resort got musical representation in Smash!