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Mashups and mixes I've made on Rave.DJ with Super Mario Bros. music:

Track	Mashups involving this track	Mixes involving this track
Overworld	Super Mario Bros. - Underground Super Mario Bros. - Invincible Wild Child	Mario Party 4 - Try Hard, Folks Mario Party - Luigi's Engine Room Mario Party - Mario's Rainbow Castle Super Smash Bros. Melee - Mother Super Smash Bros. Melee - Icicle Mountain Super Smash Bros. Melee - Great Bay Pikmin - Forest of Hope Super Mario Galaxy - Comet Observatory A How to Train Your Dragon - This is Berk How to Train Your Dragon - Test Drive
Underground	Super Mario Bros. - Overworld	(none)
Invincible	Super Mario Bros. - Overworld	(none)

Characters in this game who have C.AI chat index entries: Mario, Luigi, Goomba, Toad, Bowser, Peach

Previously on matt1993...

Here's some random things I've been meaning to show you:

https://jukebox.openai.com/ - AI-generated music in the style of various artists, or even combinations of two artists' styles! Sadly there are no examples with either video game music or Enya - the two I most wanted to combine. But there's several examples with Céline Dion, and a Moya Brennan one and a Sarah McLachlan one, so I'm happy about that :)

Guess what??? There's FINALLY an online interface for an API similar to this except it actually lets you generate your own music instead of just listening to pre-generated songs! This means I can finally hear Mario music in Enya's style!! I'm so ecstatic that the insanely specific mashup that only I have ever wanted to hear is finally possible with AI. :P



Guess what??? It was only possible eight months ago. When I discovered this eight months ago I immediately tried it out using the Super Mario Bros. main theme and selected Enya for the genre (and thankfully I saved my results so I can at least still listen to that), then intended to later try it out for the SMB underground theme, SMW overworld theme, etc. - basically every theme from every Mario game I've played so long as I could find a MIDI of it. Then, like everything else, I procrastinated on that until just now... and the site no longer works for me as far as generating anything (the site's a custom front end for MuseNet so maybe it's a problem with MuseNet itself?) It does say the Enya style is experimental, but it worked just fine in May and now it can't even generate anything in the default style (Chopin) with the default settings anymore. :(

Is anyone else able to use MuseTree and have it generate anything? Does anyone know of some other AI music generating program that's like this that can fill this Enya-composing-Mario-music-shaped void by allowing any MIDI to be used as input and has either Mario themes or Enya as an option for the style?

So even though I've had access to the NES and SNES apps on Nintendo Switch Online for a while now, I hadn't played them yet. There were a few games on there I'd been meaning to try out, but I hadn't yet. But last month I finally decided on a whim to try out every single game on those apps and the N64 and Sega Genesis ones for at least a little bit each, in order of release year! Even games that I'd tried out before and didn't like that much! Even games that I didn't think I'd be interested in such as sports games, RPGs, or games I thought might be RPGs but weren't! That's what I've been doing over the past month. And as of now I've finally tried out them all!

I need some more "normal" entries in my journal, so how about a list of all the games in the apps sorted by how much time I've spent playing them on the app so far? (Not necessarily sorted by how much I like them. Some of them had long opening cutscenes or tutorials, and in sports games I opted to let the game play out until the end even when I would obviously lose by 2 to 40-something. Conversely, there's some games I enjoyed but only played for a bit for now because I was eager to get through the whole selection.)

Red: NES
Green: SNES
Yellow: N64
Blue: Sega Genesis

Bold: I've played the game before because I owned it.
**: I've played the game before, but at a friend's house or in a hotel room.
*: I've only played demos of the game before (the Masterpieces in Smash Bros., amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits, etc.) or played it in NES Remix.
Italics: Enough things about this game seem oddly familiar enough that it's possible I've played it at some point years ago - but in most cases I think it's still safe to assume I hadn't.

Super Mario All-Stars** - 2 hr 51 min (Of the games included, the only one I'd played the All-Stars version of prior to the app is Lost Levels. Now I've played all of them.)
Panel de Pon - 2 hr 37 min (Although I hadn't played this before, or even played its international equivalent Tetris Attack, I have played Pokémon Puzzle League for the N64.)
ToeJam & Earl - 2 hr 13 min
Super Mario 64 - 2 hr 10 min
Super Mario World - 1 hr 43 min
Mario's Super Picross - 1 hr 22 min
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - 1 hr 20 min (I've known about this game since approximately 2002 or 2003 but never played it until now! I think that's the longest time span between my knowing about a Mario game and playing it, unless Donkey Kong Country counts.)
Baseball* - 1 hr 12 min (This is an example of a game that has a high play time only because I let the game play out until the end despite knowing I'd lose by a lot...)
Shining Force - 1 hr 4 min
Yoshi's Story - 1 hr
( the rest are cut for length )

Here's a better post than my earlier friends-only entry... (EDIT: The earlier entry is public now because turns out the last time I posted about something like that, it was also public, so...)

Remember how earlier this year I found those videos about making NES games 3D automatically? I found a different video that takes a different approach to that:



For that matter, I've posted videos by this guy before when he wrote an AI to learn how to play NES games. :)

I remember wondering (since high school, I think) what it'd be like if there was a program that automatically converted 2D graphics (in general, but especially NES and SNES graphics) to 3D, or what corrupted NES/SNES graphics would look like in 3D at all - apparently, the NES half of my question was answered a couple of years ago and I didn't know about it until now!

(And yeah, I know I'm posting a lot of "video game videos" entries all at once but don't worry, this is the last one for now. Probably.)





( More under the cut! )

I found these videos randomly one day at some point after Super Mario Beads 3 was already released (so it has to have been November 2012 or later) and meant to post them here* but never did. Then I rediscovered them this week so I finally got around to posting them five years later! :)






*Well, okay, if you're reading this on DW, that's not entirely true because I wasn't on DW yet :P

Well, today is the day that Miiverse is shut down at 10 PM PST. (which would be midnight in Central where I live, so... I guess for me, it's not actually today? Whatever.)

Out of all the drastic changes this year (so far), I think this is the only one that I'm not all that upset about. Miiverse started out as probably the most positive online community ever, but it didn't stay that way for long - eventually it went so downhill, it's been years since the last time I visited Miiverse itself. I'd still read posts whenever they appeared in game (Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Nintendo Badge Arcade, etc.), but I think the last time I went to Miiverse itself was 2014. Maybe 2015. I didn't even hurriedly try to find a way to save my own posts somewhere. (Though while looking up information about the discontinuation, I did notice that there's a way to request a downloadable archive of my posts, but I doubt I'll have time to figure out where to go to do that in the next few hours.)

...okay, forget what I said about not being all that disappointed. NOW it's making me kind of sad. :( Maybe I'll try and get an archive of my posts after all.

EDIT: Submitted the request! That was easier than expected. So easy, I must've done it twice by accident because it told me I submitted it already. :)

While I'm on Miiverse for the last time, have some random stats about my Miiverse account:

Following 53 users

13 followers

256 posts (hey, a nice nerdy number! And I wasn't even trying to have any of these be interesting numbers!)

1,788 Yeahs

Last post was on November 23, 2016 in Nintendo Badge Arcade. (Though it ALMOST was not the last post; for Valentine's Day 2017, I had every intention of celebrating by putting badges of the lovely Mary O. and a bunch of hearts from Zelda on my HOME menu because I'm the sort of dork who would at least consider doing that and posting that to the Nintendo Badge Arcade community. I did in fact make such a HOME menu, but didn't post it because it wasn't Valentine's Day yet - and for whatever reason, making it again on Valentine's Day and posting it slipped my mind. Probably because that was so soon after work started.)

I only made two Miiverse posts overall in 2016, and none in 2015 - the last one before that was on July 29, 2014 in the NES Remix 2 community. (I'm not surprised that this was so soon after Lucina and Robin were confirmed for Super Smash Bros. 4 - I do remember how the last time I checked Miiverse regularly, it seemed like EVERY SINGLE POST in the SSB community was like "With my Levin Sword, I'll _____".)

Speaking of which, my bio is:

"I'm a sensei; i.e., SNES am I!
(translation: I've been playing video games since the NES and SNES. My all-time favorite classic game: Super Mario World!)

I can't wait to play Super Smash Bros. 4, but I'd be even MORE excited if people would stop whining about the roster being just SLIGHTLY different from what they want. I really hope that there'll be less of that once the game's released..."

...SSB3DS has been out for over three years, and in a couple of weeks, that'll also be true of SSBU. I went THREE YEARS without updating that bio. Why do I have the sudden urge to turn up the hearing aid that I don't have?


Well, whatever. At least now my Miiverse posts will be turned into an ice cube so future generations can thaw them out and marvel at my same-length legs! :)

Happy a-few-minutes-early-in-my-time-zone birthday to me! :)

And also happy birthday to 13catswaltz, who has the same birthday as me! :)


And also also to Luigi - because Mario Bros. was released in Japan on July 14, 1983; my negative tenth birthday. ;)



Hey, there's an idea for a totally nerdy survey...

This page has a table (several paragraphs down from the beginning of that section...) that lists the dates every* Super Smash Bros. character debuted (because in SSB4, the order you fight them in All-Star Mode is based on that).

Use that to figure out your answers to these questions:

1) Which SSB character(s), if any, debuted on your birthday in any year?
Luigi

2) Which SSB character(s) debuted closest to the date you were born?
Meta Knight (debuted March 23, 1993 - the date closest to July 14, 1993 in that list).

3) Which SSB character(s) debuted closest to the date you created your LiveJournal/DreamWidth/some-other-journal-site account? (If you have/had multiple journals, you may answer this separately for all of them, some of them, or just one. Whichever you prefer.)
My LJ was created on August 19, 2007 - the character whose debut was closest to that is Rosalina (November 1, 2007).
My DW was created on May 13, 2017, long after the debut of the newest character (Corrin, on June 25, 2015).

:)



*Except Miis, alternate characters (the Koopalings and Alph), and characters from Melee and Brawl who aren't in SSB4. ( I went ahead and looked up the relevant dates in case you want to include them )