After some chatter from me and the music mods as well as about two months since i said there'd be shit done about the featured music stuff oh dear i'm bad at being punctual, it's about time we get this ball rolling.

Music will now be featured in two ways. Firstly, an easy way to get on there is by being featured on the SMWC's YouTube Channel's Greatest Hits section. After that post acknowledging this earlier, I went ahead and featured everything from this year. However, the second way songs will be featured will be through you. Yes, YOU.

This thread is dedicated to nominating music you'd like to see featured, kind of like the hacks section but with a bigger pool of stuff to recommend! Of course, similar restrictions will apply. Once your nomination is in, one of our prestigious music mods will take a look (well, listen to it, technically) and if it's accepted, it'll be Featured!!

Please adhere to these four simple rules when nominating music!
- You may not nominate your own submissions.
- You may only nominate submissions listed as "Song" in the section (that means no Soundtracks, SFX or Misc. entries!)
- You may not nominate anything already featured (duh) or declined (double duh).
- Your nomination must be accepted into the SMW Music section for it to qualify. Please don't nominate songs still in waiting!

Like the featured hacks, it's a good idea to give a brief reason why you think your choice should be featured. Encouraged, but not necessarily required. It'd also be appreciated if you didn't nominate a billion songs at once, but 1-2 in a post should be fine, maybe 3 but that's a hard maximum. With all this said, though, the ball is now in your court. Nominate away!

Songs	Status
Final Fantasy II - Main Overworld Theme	Featured!
Prince of Moonlight	Featured!
Super Mario 64 - Bob-Omb Battlefield	Featured!
Kirby Super Star Ultra - Masked Dedede	Declined.
Metroid Fusion - Sector 4 (AQA) Underwater Area	Declined.
3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night - Track 28	Featured!
Mario Kart DS - Bowser's Castle	Declined.
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Hot-Head Bop	Featured!
Sonic 3D Blast - Volcano Valley Act 1	Declined.
Megamari - Cirno Stage	Declined.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Final Hours (No Bells)	Featured!
Columns III - Revenge of Columns: Column Dive	Declined.
Our Mosts Histories	Declined.
Secret of Evermore - Lonely Halls	Featured!
Earthworm Jim 2 - The Flyin' King	Declined.
Tempest 2000 - Mind's Eye	Featured!
Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - The Ground's Color is Yellow	Declined.
Earthbound - Pokey Means Business!	Featured!
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone	Declined.
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbush Symphony	Featured!
Marco Pereira - Lis	Declined.
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - Beanbean Fields	Declined.
Ardy Lightfoot - Island of Ruins	Declined.
Jurassic Park - Raptor Rap	Featured!
Jurassic Park 2 - Dark Jungle	Featured!
Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Septette for the Dead Queen	Declined.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Star Light Zone	Featured!
Little Big Planet - Main Menu	Declined.
Deltarune - Rude Buster	Declined.
Thunder Force IV - Space Walk	Featured!
Super Monkey Ball 2 - Clock Tower	Featured!
Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace	Featured!
Super Mario RPG - Welcome to Booster Tower	Featured!
Guilty Gear X - Holy Orders	Declined.
Mega Man 6 - Mr. X's Castle	Declined.
Mega Man X3 - Gravity Beetle's Stage	Featured!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - Underwater	Featured!
Streets of Rage 2 - Wave 131	Featured!
The Flintstones - Unused Song 2	Featured!
Bomberman Hero - Redial	Featured!
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Ripple Star Map	Featured!
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Overworld	Featured!
Sonic The Hedgehog (Genesis) - Green Hill Zone	Featured!
Mega Man 9 - We're Robots (Dr. Wily Stage 2) (MM7 remix)	Featured!
WarioWare DIY - DIY Shop	Featured!
Ribbit King - Lavatron 3	Featured!
Crispy - Not Really	Featured!
VLDC11 - Crystarp Hollow	Featured!
Touhou 2: Story of Eastern Wonderland - She's in a Temper!!	Declined.
Touhou 1: Highly Responsive To Prayers - Now Until The Moment you Die (Remixed)	Declined.
Mario Kart 64 - Rainbow Road	Featured!
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Scorch 'n' Torch	Featured!
Tetrisphere - Phony	Featured!
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars	Declined.
Loonie - Contemplated	Featured!
Etrian Odyssey - The Capital of Shinjuku	Declined.
Super Mario World - Athletic (Hills & Mountains Remix)	Featured!
Romancing Saga - The Conflict	Featured!
Mother 3 - Mind Of A Thief	Featured!
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story - I Must Not Lose The Battle!	Featured!
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Puzzle Plank Galaxy	Featured!
DuckTales - The Moon	Declined.
Cave Story - Moonsong	Featured!
Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad (Part 5)	Featured!
Kingdom Hearts 2 - The 13th Struggle	Featured!
One Must Fall 2097 - Arena 3	Featured!
Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver - Viridian City	Featured!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red/Blue Rescue Team - Frosty Grotto	Featured!
Waterworld - Diving	Featured!
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Factory Inspection	Featured!
Celeste - Mirror Magic (B-Side Mix)	Featured!
Touhou 5: Mystic Square - Dimension of Reverie	Declined.
Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Beloved Tomboyish Daughter	Featured!
Mega Man 3 - Snake Man's Stage	Featured!
Radix - Linda's World	Featured!
Thunder Force IV - Sand Hell	Featured!
The Final Phase - Total Rocked Out Edition	Declined.
Il Maniero Spettrale - Danger	Featured!
Il Maniero Spettrale - Main Theme	Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Ice Cap Zone Act 1	Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Hydrocity Zone Act 1	Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Lava Reef Zone Act 1	Featured!
Batman: The Video Game (NES) - Gotham City Cathedral	Featured!
Hercules (Super Game Boy) - Trapped	Declined.
Yume Nikki - Snow World	Declined.
Bugdom - Night	Featured!
Etrian Odyssey II - Cherry Tree Bridge	Featured!
Mario Kart 64 - Frappe Snowland	Featured!
Shiny Crystals	Featured!
Kero Blaster - Time Table	Featured!
Yume Nikki - FC Field Area	Declined.
Batman: Return of the Joker - Gotham in Danger	Declined.
Pictionary - Title Screen	Featured!
CUSTOM - Funky Forest	Featured!
Mega Man 7 - Wily Stage 1	Declined.
Mega Man 7 - Wily Stage 1 (X2 Style)	Declined.
Super Mario RPG - Fight Against a Stronger Monster	Featured!
Silver Surfer - Stage 1	Featured!
Undertale - MEGALOVANIA	Featured!
Cyber Rainforce - Are You Ready	Declined.
The Lawnmower Man - Main Theme	Featured!
The Lost Vikings (Amiga) - Factory	Featured!
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge - Gambit	Featured!
VLDCX - Abnormal Asylum	Declined.
Xenoblade Chronicles - You Will Know Our Names	Featured!
Trials of Mana - Black Soup	Featured!
Trials of Mana - Nuclear Fusion	Featured!
Fortress 2 Blue - Be Higher	Featured!
Terra Diver - Ota City Sky	Featured!
Sky Shark - Stage 1	Featured!
Plok - Main Theme	Featured!
Plok - Beach	Featured!
Plok - Akryllic	Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Chrome Gadget	Featured!
Kirby Triple Deluxe - Sullied Grace	Featured!
Knuckles Chaotix - Door Into Summer	Featured!
Knuckles Chaotix - Evening Star	Featured!
Shatterhand - Area B (Refinery)	Featured!
CUSTOM - Cursed Cathedral	Featured!
Batman (NES) - Stage 2 (Chemistry For Beginners)	Declined.
Mega Man: The Wily Wars - Mega Water S	Declined.
Super Nazo Puyo 2 - Village & Lakeside	Under Review...
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Shiver Star	Under Review...
OutRun - Splash Wave	Under Review...

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1. Final Fantasy II - Main Overworld Theme
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=14498

One of the best overworld themes. It's also very versatile which is more memorable, even without the required samples.


2. Prince of Moonlight (Custom Song)
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=9522

Sounds well and the instrument variations are great in my opinion.

About time 👌👌👌

Super Mario 64 - Bob-Omb Battlefield - Easy feature imo, it's a nailed 1:1 port; this alone would justify a feature.
Kirby Super Star Ultra - Masked Dedede - Same reason as above, incredibly spot on 1:1 port and well made.

Welp I thought I had more to nominate. These will go for now.

Sunshine Day

Metroid Fusion - Sector 4 (AQA) (Underwater Area). An atmospherically ominous port that conveys the isolation in the depths pretty well, and I like how the samples of SMW were used to convey that. Useful for haunted areas, worthy to be featured.


I second the nomination of the Final Fantasy 2 Main Overworld theme for its use of SMW's samples to create a piece that is depressing in tone as in the original game.

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Mario Kart DS - Bowser's Castle - Really good instrumentation, especially the distortion guitar and cymbal.
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Hot-Head Bop - Same here. The fact that the composer managed to recreate the bubbling lava using vanilla samples is impressive.
Sonic 3D Blast - Volcano Valley Act 1 - This sounds nice. I think I actually like it better than the original track.

Nominating Columns III: Column Dive
I really like the extra warmth given from the SNES hardware. Echo is a nice touch as well.

SM64 Bob-Omb Battlefield, while impressive, is not first choice as it sounds like another [impressive] Pinci Port and the N64 hardware limitations resulted in it being my least favorite console music-wise.

i just didn't write them yet is all ya dingus hehe

In the case of Bob-omb Battlefield, declined on the merit that some note timings feel off, slightly off tuning as well as the insert size being rather massive to be considered a feature.

Masked Dedede had a unanimous agreement that the mixing was off, as well as similar tuning issues.

The rest just didn't really do it for us. Very good songs, though, and worthy for nomination.

e: oops how the heck did i miss our mosts histories im very sorry guys please dont hurt me

e2: it was the unsampled version of lonely halls that got greatest hits'd

What will happen with the now featured songs on this list here?

Our Mosts Histories and The Flyin King have been declined on the grounds that while they are both good songs, they don't quite meet the level we are looking for.

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they... get featured.

Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - The Ground's Color is Yellow has been declined on the merit that, while it is a classic and good (especially for its time), its overly basic sound holds it back from being featured in the present day.

why don't I add a thing anyway

Earthbound - Pokey Means Business!

Listen for at least a minute and a half, everything changes at 0:54 (if you've never played Earthbound you wouldn't know about it)

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I'll just dump alot of songs here.

1 This is such a nice port, and I don't think it only fit bosses but it also could fit some fast-paced levels too.
2 Finally a good port of this song, not to mention that using the envelope samples must have been quite difficult.
3 Such an interesting port, superb work on the guitars and it's a nice melody.
4 Thinking about thos beans
5 Mostly same reasons as 2, but it's also a nice song.
6 Just amazing, the samples are excellent, almost sounds non-snes like.
7 Another accurate port, nominating this one because afaik this game's engine is an absolute beast and it's super hard to port songs from it.
8 Same as 6, just annother ggamer quality port.
9 SMW samples were used pretty neatly here, it's also a funky song and I like it

also fuck the rules