In a <a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music08.html">pretty neat update to the Dojo</a> that could have been oh-so-much more, Sakurai has revealed the ability to choose your own soundtrack to Brawl’s stages… sort of. The option is called “My Music,” and it gives you the ability to change the frequency of different soundtracks on different stages. It’s an interesting idea, but take note: you can’t use whatever music you want—the music is all already on the disc. No jammin’ out to U2 on Pokémon Stadium 2, I’m afraid. It’s a shame, though—the place probably has a killer sound system.
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The music selection, for what it’s worth, appears to be pretty solid, at least given the fact that stages never had more than two tracks attached to them in Melee. Sakurai says that some music will be straight from their games of origin, but implies that there will indeed be additional arrangements beyond the stock theme for each stage—I guess this explains the abundance of musical talent contributing to the game?
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A couple interesting observations: since it appears you can preview the themes on this screen, it seems to me that perhaps Sound Test won’t have much of a role to play anymore. Perhaps there will be some other way to hear character and other miscellaneous sounds, but My Music seems to have the music angle covered pretty solidly. Another thing to note is that stages for the first time appear to be linked directly to games rather than just to franchises—I guess Castle Siege will declare itself neutral anyway, but you’ll notice Delfino Plaza and Bridge of Eldin feature the logos of Super Mario Sunshine and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, respectively.
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Finally, Sakurai advises us that new tunes will be easy to come by—as long as we stop whatever we’re doing to pick it up in game. It can happen in any mode, he says, put picking up a CD will give us more to listen to.
My take is that this is a pretty neat addition: more music is cool. I do have to wonder, though, how much it would’ve taken to allow for some non-gaming related soundtracks to be thrown into the mix. Certainly that would have appeased a number of fans, but if we’re going to get extra arrangements out of the deal, then maybe it’s worth it. What do you think?
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/music08_070907a-l.jpg" /></p>
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The music selection, for what it’s worth, appears to be pretty solid, at least given the fact that stages never had more than two tracks attached to them in Melee. Sakurai says that some music will be straight from their games of origin, but implies that there will indeed be additional arrangements beyond the stock theme for each stage—I guess this explains the abundance of musical talent contributing to the game?
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/music08_070907b-l.jpg" /></p>
A couple interesting observations: since it appears you can preview the themes on this screen, it seems to me that perhaps Sound Test won’t have much of a role to play anymore. Perhaps there will be some other way to hear character and other miscellaneous sounds, but My Music seems to have the music angle covered pretty solidly. Another thing to note is that stages for the first time appear to be linked directly to games rather than just to franchises—I guess Castle Siege will declare itself neutral anyway, but you’ll notice Delfino Plaza and Bridge of Eldin feature the logos of Super Mario Sunshine and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, respectively.
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/music08_070907c-l.jpg" /></p>
Finally, Sakurai advises us that new tunes will be easy to come by—as long as we stop whatever we’re doing to pick it up in game. It can happen in any mode, he says, put picking up a CD will give us more to listen to.
My take is that this is a pretty neat addition: more music is cool. I do have to wonder, though, how much it would’ve taken to allow for some non-gaming related soundtracks to be thrown into the mix. Certainly that would have appeased a number of fans, but if we’re going to get extra arrangements out of the deal, then maybe it’s worth it. What do you think?
I think this is a really nice idea ^^. And if you want your own music just turn the music off and put your stereo/PC on 
