The eleven-minute Automatic Mario masterpiece

67 Comments by Griffin McElroy May 26th 2008 1:30PM
Filed under: Culture

It's been months since the e-fad of creating automated levels in Super Mario World to the tune of popular Anime soundtracks surfaced -- normally, that's much longer than the lifespan of most internet memes. However, this post-mortem contribution to the Mario-on-rails movement caught our attention (as well as the collective attention of Digg-dwellers) largely due to the fact that "months" is the amount of time the architect of the above masterwork needed to really hone his craft.

The above eleven-minute long video, set to a remixed hodge-podge of Anime songs (feel free to flaunt your knowledge of Anime theme music in the comments), is absolutely incredible. Not only do Mario's predetermined movements match up perfectly to the music, the sound effects are often pitch perfect to the background track. It's difficult to explain -- we suggest you watch it to fully comprehend, then spend the rest of the day wondering if all those Journey covers you made on Mario Paint are still as breathtaking as you once thought.

Tags: anime, automatic, automaticmario, nintendo, snes, super-mario-world, supermarioworld, supernintendo

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Fernando Rocker: May 26th 2008; 1:35PM

Truly amazing. Really.

=p

Phi Nguyen: May 26th 2008; 1:55PM

Crazy.

Jack Spicer: May 27th 2008; 10:28AM

This is kind of incredible.

Its really too bad that the music they used completely sucks.

Fox318: May 26th 2008; 1:36PM

Who has this much time on their hands?

Fernando Rocker: May 26th 2008; 1:37PM

Us?

Peter Panaguiton: May 26th 2008; 1:39PM

Wow, that video is GOLD.

Aero: May 26th 2008; 1:43PM

Older then the Sun.

Tyler Jones: May 26th 2008; 2:40PM

"Older than the internet"
"Older than the sun"

It's 2.5 weeks old so its older than something that was here most probably before the creation of this entire planet? @_@
I dont get the joke....

Laggy: May 27th 2008; 5:39AM

"older than something that was here most probably before the creation of this entire planet?"

Wow. "Most probably"? of course we can't prove it exactly, I'd say the sun's been there quite a bit before the earth was giving the fact that we're stuck in its orbit and all.

gaymerxbox360: May 26th 2008; 1:45PM

nice

B3astofthe3ast: May 26th 2008; 1:48PM

Win.

Yourself: May 26th 2008; 1:58PM

If I could sit through 11 minutes of this abominable music, I'm sure I'd be impressed.

Haggard: May 26th 2008; 2:05PM

I demand someone makes a Megadeth version :P

tc: May 26th 2008; 5:06PM

FREEBIRD!

bluesilo: May 26th 2008; 1:59PM

Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Air Tv
Lucky Star
Mega Man
Mario
Bocanno!

Mr.ESC: May 26th 2008; 2:55PM

Rockman are you sre? When?

RookieJr: May 26th 2008; 5:31PM

I noticed a piece from Wily's castle, Megaman 2, around the middle or so, and I could swear there was some original Final fantasy going near the end.

Zertoss: May 26th 2008; 6:34PM

Yeah, there was some Mega Man 2, some Final Fantasy, and a little from Super Mario World (makes sense to include that).

mmxzero: May 27th 2008; 12:49AM

I thoroughly enjoyed the MegaMan 2 wily part, it is my ring tone after all.

infernus: May 27th 2008; 1:52AM

とかちラーメン大盛り～望みの限りに～/iDOLM@STER
晴レハレユカイ/涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 - Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
患部で止まってすぐ溶ける　～狂気の優曇華院/IOSYS - Touhou series
Help me, ERINNNNNN!! / ビートまりお - ^
nowhere / FictionJunction YUUKA - Madlax
クリティウスの牙 / 光宗信吉 - Yu-Gi-Oh
GONG / JAM Project - Super Robot Wars
森のキノコにご用心 / 下村陽子 - Super Mario RPG
Butter-Fly / 和田光司 - Digimon
真赤な誓い / 福山芳樹 - Busou Renkin
エアーマンが倒せない / せら - Rockman
勇気VS意地 / 佐橋俊彦 - Prince of Tennis musical
アンインストール / 石川智晶 - Bokurano
鳥の詩 / Lia - AIR
you / dai - Higurashi
魔理沙は大変なものを盗んでいきました / IOSYS - Touhou
思い出は億千万 / 蒼い牙 - Rockman
God knows... / 涼宮ハルヒ(平野綾) - Haruhi
もってけ！セーラーふく / 泉こなた(平野綾)、柊かがみ(加藤英美里)、柊つかさ(福原香織)、高良みゆき(遠藤綾) - Lucky Star
ガチャガチャへるつ・ふぃぎゅ＠ラジオ / MOSAIC.WAV(みーこ) - Figu@Carnival
創聖のアクエリオン / AKINO - Sousei no Aquarion
ふたりのもじぴったん / 神前暁 - Moji Pittan
つるぺったん / Silver Forest (Kana) - Touhou
Here we go! / 近藤浩治 - Mario
true my heart / ave;new feat. 佐倉紗織 - Nursery Rhyme
kiss my lips / ave;new feat. 佐倉沙織 - c/w single above
RODEO MACHINE / HALFBY
序曲(DRAGON QUEST) / すぎやまこういち
FINAL FANTASY / 植松伸夫
ガチャガチャきゅ～と・ふぃぎゅ＠メイト / MOSAIC.WAV(みーこ) - Figu@Mate
あいつこそがテニスの王子様 / 佐橋俊彦 - Prince of Tennis
レッツゴー！陰陽師 / 矢部野彦麿(でんちゅう)&琴姫(MOMOEIKA) - Shin Gouketsuji Ichizoku Kaihou Bonnou (PS2 game)
さくら / 山田耕筰 feat. Fooさん - folk song

Anything I didn't comment is obvious from the name.

infernus: May 27th 2008; 2:10AM

Just realized I should've numbered it for easier reading, sorry.

Work cited: http://konakonakona.blogspot.com/2007/07/lyric-notes.html

EdZ: May 27th 2008; 11:54AM

Not only that, but a few of those are Volcaloid versions to boot.
Personally, the only ones I caught were Hare Hare Yukai, Gong, Makka na Chikai, Uninstall, and God Knows, and Motteke! Sailorfuku. And that damn Tsurupettan song, and of course the leekspin soundtrack whose actual name I can never recall.

Ah, Nicovideo. How many hours of my life have you wasted?

Yourself: May 26th 2008; 2:01PM

What is that music like 3 minutes in that sounds exactly like the forest from SMRPG?

GatorSax2010: May 26th 2008; 2:30PM

Pretty sure that's exactly what it is.

zkey14: May 26th 2008; 2:04PM

I don't know whether to feel impressed or saddened by this.

gaymerxbox360: May 26th 2008; 2:06PM

nice

Mr Khan: May 26th 2008; 2:07PM

A masterwork of machinima craft

Although the artist could've scored more points by having a goal at the end, and rigging it so that he got the 3-up and 100 stars.

aristokrat: May 26th 2008; 2:10PM

With 1:27 left or so, there are definitely some tits made of rails in the background. Nice.

Klepto: May 26th 2008; 5:10PM

That's a cat face dude. :3

ajf: May 26th 2008; 2:14PM

Ha. And they said Sonic was faster than Mario. :)

Not only did he go fast, he made great music. ^_^

Misfit Toy: May 26th 2008; 2:39PM

WoW.

As Darth Vadar would say, "Impressive. Most impressive".

Misfit Toy: May 26th 2008; 2:48PM

WoW.

As Darth Vadar would say, "Impressive. Most impressive".

Mr.ESC: May 26th 2008; 2:52PM

Wow those are some serious l33t programming skills. Too bad I don’t watch anime yet I recognize the Haruki theme because is one of the most viewed videos in youtube and is a very catchy song as well too bad the cartoon itself is lame.

Mayor astronomical epic super ultra combo win to anyone that manage to do this with through the fire and the flames, Enter Sandman or Highway to Hell

Sonicandtails: May 26th 2008; 3:09PM

They aren't leet programming skills, it's called a few custom blocks inserted (A velocity increaser, a force jump) and then just alot of time on their hands in Lunar Magic.

Also, I am saddened by this post Joystiq. Not by the fact that it is pretty old now, but only about half of the songs are Anime, the others are japanese internet songs like the one from Touhou and . Did you even watch it? You would have noticed at least Okkusenman (Megaman 2 Wily Fortress mix) or the Beware The Forest's Mushrooms from SMRPG...

Mr.ESC: May 26th 2008; 3:39PM

Actually I kind of stop it after the 2 minute mark and fast forward the video and I just heard the Anime songs. I don't feel like watching the whole video just for a remix of 2 songs.

Again is impressive but I have to ask then if this isn't programming that means there is a SMW level editor like in Megaman Powered up! That someone created or what? I have to say ignore how he or she created this. I thought it created everything from the ground, if he/she used an existent program then the video is not so great.

Also I just trying to show some appreciation for this I mean the poor guy had to sit thought hours to make this and if that wasn't punishment enough he had to hear lots of anime songs. The least we can do is say "Hey that was cool, I’ll putt this in my favorites “and then proceed searching for illegally uploaded videos of family guy in youtube.

Avoli: May 26th 2008; 3:17PM

Bored me then.

Bores me now.

/yawn

Kadamon: May 26th 2008; 3:22PM

the ony ones I recognized were Megaman, Air and the Mario one at second last...

One sounded like Lucky Star to me.

Chris: May 26th 2008; 3:34PM

All these videos make me want to do is play DDR- though I admit that was amazing. Obviously an insane amount of time went into it. Good jorb buddy.

Pharmacy: May 26th 2008; 3:38PM

No amount of training or salary can match the ingenuity of someone talented and bored.

meist3r: May 26th 2008; 3:42PM

This ain't the original video. I saw the same one split into two parts and there was absolutely no singing. This one is horrible compared to the Techno/Anime/Game music original. Some incredible editing work with the crap singing though, even though it sounds horrible someone actually took the time to match the entire thing.

Joeshie: May 26th 2008; 3:58PM

Too bad most of the songs are just terrible JPOP music. I would be more impressed if the Japanese actually used, you know, good music.

Jfk Aok: May 26th 2008; 4:57PM

You think someone that actually spends months doing this crap would have the sense to have good taste in music?
It's a darn shame... waste of talent.

KiraXD: May 27th 2008; 1:20AM

im sure youre the say-all in musical tastes right?

ignorant people are pathetic lol!

Jhongerkong: May 26th 2008; 4:22PM

"set to a remixed hodge-podge of Anime songs"

Whoa, hold it. Theres some video game tunes on there as well; so its okay if I like the song... heh...heh...

Jhongerkong: May 26th 2008; 4:26PM

Off the top of my head I heard:

Megaman 2
Final Fantasy
Dragon Quest
Super Mario World
The Idolm@ster (twice)

Mateopato: May 26th 2008; 4:22PM

Nobody else heard the Final Fantasy II/IV music?

Mr. N: May 26th 2008; 4:58PM

I had more enjoyment watching that than I did watching Indy 4. Yes, i went there.

Dom: May 26th 2008; 6:04PM

. . . Someone seriously needs to get laid.

jmnemonic: May 26th 2008; 6:43PM

I only got half of them, and I could be wrong:

1. "Agent Woru Yo Iku" (Idolm@ster)
2. "Hare hare yukai" (Haruhi OP)
3. ?
4. ?
5. Rawest Forest (SMRPG Forest Maze)
6. Makka na Chikai (Buso Renkin OP)
7. Airman Ga Taosenai
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?
11. Marisa Stole The Precious Thing (Touhou Project)
12. Okkusenman
13. ?
14. Motteke! Sailor Fuku(Lucky Star OP)
15. ?
16. Futari no Mojipittan/Xenopittan
17. Western Show on Super Mario World
18. ?
19. Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy themes
20. ?