Nintendo gigaleak helps fans restore the Super Mario World soundtrack

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Fans have used the great Nintendo "gigaleak" to restore Super Mario World's soundtrack.

Nintendo's 2020 gigaleak, which revealed eye-opening prototypes for Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, Star Fox 2 and more, also contained the source code for Super Mario Advance - a game that reuses samples from 1990 SNES classic Super Mario World.

Twitter user The Brickster found proper names for many instruments in Super Mario World, which helped other tinkerers find the source for those samples.

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