Option House Theme - DK64 (Mario Party) Soundfont Arrangement

What if the theme for the Option House from Mario Party played in Donkey Kong 64? It might sound something like this!

Why arrange this song?
"Welcome Kongs and Kremlings!"
It's a really groovy tune! 😎 Also, I wanted to try arranging a short song with some sentence mixing (taking words from a source and rearranging them to create new words). Figuring out what words to "cut" plus all the various laugh SFX was like a scavenger hunt...a very technical scavenger hunt, haha! This song sounds best in the shops in DK64.

How does this work?
Songs in DK64 are in a format called MIDI, and I use a program (FL Studio) to compose music in this format. When converting music, choosing songs form other games on the N64 era seems the easiest as they also used MIDI. However, converting these songs from their games to DK64 is not just a simple swap; songs must be arranged for that game's soundfont, a selection of instruments created for that specific game. Since a game's soundfont can contain different instruments, many elements from the original are not the same when being played through the soundfont from Donkey Kong 64. Thus, alterations during the conversion/arranging process are made in order for the final song to sound more similar to the original. Of course, music can be arranged by ear as well, especially if there is no MIDI to convert! Once I'm finished making the music, I use a few other programs to insert the song into the DK64 Randomizer ROM and I record what plays in-game, which is what you hear in this video!

This arrangement created for the DK64 Randomizer, check it out here: https://dk64randomizer.com.
Note: the song plays at a lower volume in game.

Thanks for listening!

Credits
Song's Original Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda
Song Conversion by SirEnobMort

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