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After some chatter from me and the music mods as well as about two months since i said there'd be stuff 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!
- Do not nominate more than three songs per nomination post. Likewise, do not make more than one nomination post at a time.

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. With all this said, though, the ball is now in your court. Nominate away!

Note: This table reflects feature nominations and their status made within this thread, and not featured songs as a whole.

Final Fantasy II - Main Overworld Theme Maxodex None Featured!
Prince of Moonlight Moose None Featured!
Super Mario 64 - Bob-omb Battlefield Pinci Many Featured!
Kirby Super Star Ultra - Masked Dedede Barrels O' Fun Many Declined.
Metroid Fusion - Sector 4 (AQA) Underwater Area Sayuri None Declined.
3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night - Track 28 musicalman Many Featured!
Mario Kart DS - Bowser's Castle Wakana None Declined.
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Hot-Head Bop HaruMKT None Featured!
Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis) - Volcano Valley Zone Act 1 Gamma V None Declined.
MegaMari - Cirno Ultima Many Declined.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Final Hours (No Bells) nyanpasu64 Many Featured!
Columns III - Revenge of Columns: Column Dive Ultima Many Declined.
Our Mosts Histories Yuzu Many Declined.
Secret of Evermore - Lonely Halls musicalman Many Featured!
Earthworm Jim 2 - The Flyin' King ggamer77 Many Declined.
Tempest 2000 - Mind's Eye Sinc-X Many Featured!
Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - The Ground's Color is Yellow worldpeace None Declined.
Earthbound - Pokey Means Business! ggamer77 Many Featured!
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone Dippy Many Declined.
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbush Symphony LadiesMan217 Many Featured!
Marco Pereira - Lis NaroGugul Many Declined.
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - Beanbean Fields Masterlink Many Featured!
Ardy Lightfoot - Island of Ruins DanTheVP Many Declined.
Jurassic Park - Raptor Rap LadiesMan217 Many Featured!
Jurassic Park 2 - Dark Jungle ggamer77 Many Featured!
Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Septette for the Dead Princess Wakana Many Declined.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Star Light Zone Wakana None Featured!
Little Big Planet - Main Menu EDIT3333 None Declined.
Deltarune - Rude Buster Giftshaven, Ultima Many Declined.
Thunder Force IV - Space Walk Ultima Many Featured!
Super Monkey Ball 2 - Clock Tower Sinc-X Many Featured!
Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace Fyord None Featured!
Super Mario RPG - Welcome to Booster Tower KevinM Many Featured!
Guilty Gear X - Holy Orders Wakana None Declined.
Mega Man 6 - Mr. X's Castle tcdw None Declined.
Mega Man X3 - Gravity Beetle Pinci None Featured!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - Underwater com_poser Many Featured!
Streets of Rage 2 - Wave 131 com_poser Many Featured!
The Flintstones - Unused Song 2 RednGreen Many Featured!
Bomberman Hero - Redial Pinci Many Featured!
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Ripple Star Map Pinci Many Featured!
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Overworld ggamer77 Many Featured!
Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone Dark Mario Bros None Featured!
Mega Man 9 - We're the Robots (Wily Stage 2) Lui Many Featured!
WarioWare D.I.Y. - D.I.Y. Shop Lazy Many Featured!
Ribbit King - Lavatron 3 musicalman Many Featured!
Crispy - Not Really Crispy, Lazy Many Featured!
VLDC11 - Crystarp Hollow S.N.N. Many Featured!
Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland - She's in a Temper!! Samantha None Declined.
Touhou Reiiden ~ The Highly Responsive To Prayers - Now, Until The Moment You Die Wakana None Declined.
Mario Kart 64 - Rainbow Road ggamer77 Many Featured!
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Scorch 'n' Torch musicalman Many Featured!
Tetrisphere - Phony dansalvato Many Featured!
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars Wakana None Declined.
Loonie - Contemplated Sinc-X Light Featured!
Etrian Odyssey - The Capital of Shinjuku Rilla Roo None Declined.
Super Mario World - Athletic (Hills & Mountains Remix) Giftshaven None Featured!
Romancing Saga - The Conflict KevinM Many Featured!
Mother 3 - Mind Of A Thief Pinci Many Featured!
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story - I Must Not Lose The Battle! Sinc-X None Featured!
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Puzzle Plank Galaxy Giftshaven Many Featured!
DuckTales - The Moon imamelia None Declined.
Cave Story - Moonsong 6646 Many Featured!
Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad (Part 5) Tamaki Many Featured!
Kingdom Hearts 2 - The 13th Struggle Aikku Many Featured!
One Must Fall 2097 - Arena 3 Sinc-X Many Featured!
Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver - Viridian City Lumy Light Featured!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red/Blue Rescue Team - Frosty Grotto Lumy Many Featured!
Waterworld - Diving KevinM Many Featured!
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Factory Inspection Lumy Many Featured!
Celeste - Mirror Magic (B-Side Mix) Maxodex Many Featured!
Touhou Kaikidan ~ Mystic Square - Dimension of Reverie K M S None Declined.
Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Tomboyish Girl in Love Wakana None Featured!
Mega Man 3 - Snake Man tcdw None Featured!
Radix - Linda's World Dippy Many Featured!
Thunder Force IV - Sand Hell Ultima Many Featured!
The Final Phase - Total Rocked Out Edition Masashi27 Many Declined.
Il Maniero Spettrale - Danger RednGreen None Featured!
Il Maniero Spettrale - Main Theme RednGreen None Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Ice Cap Zone Act 1 bebn legg None Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Hydrocity Zone Act 1 Giftshaven None Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Lava Reef Zone Act 1 Nameless None Featured!
Batman: The Video Game (NES) - Gotham City Cathedral Yuzu Light Featured!
Hercules (SGB) - Trapped Duraner Hawkeye Many Declined.
Yume Nikki - Snow World Tob None Declined.
Bugdom - Night musicalman Many Featured!
Etrian Odyssey II - Cherry Tree Bridge Maxodex None Featured!
Mario Kart 64 - Frappe Snowland Isikoro None Featured!
Shiny Crystals Maxodex Many Featured!
Kero Blaster - Time Table Pinci None Featured!
Yume Nikki - FC Field Area Tob None Declined.
Batman: Return of the Joker - Gotham in Danger HaruMKT Many Declined.
Pictionary - Title Screen Torchkas Many Featured!
Funky Forest RednGreen None Featured!
Mega Man 7 - Wily Stage 1 Ultima None Declined.
Mega Man 7 - Wily Stage 1 (X2 Style) Ultima Many Declined.
Super Mario RPG - Fight Against a Stronger Monster KevinM Many Featured!
Silver Surfer - Stage 1 Lui Light Featured!
Undertale - MEGALOVANIA Lui Many Featured!
Cyber Rainforce - Are You Ready juniorsword Many Declined.
The Lawnmower Man - Main Theme Samantha Many Featured!
The Lost Vikings (Amiga) - Factory Sinc-X Many Featured!
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge - Gambit KevinM Many Featured!
VLDCX - Abnormal Asylum Daizo Dee Von Many Declined.
Xenoblade Chronicles - You Will Know Our Names Coolmario None Featured!
Trials of Mana - Black Soup KevinM Many Featured!
Trials of Mana - Nuclear Fusion Tamaki Many Featured!
Fortress 2 Blue - Be Higher worldpeace Light Featured!
Terra Diver - Ota City Sky worldpeace Many Featured!
Sky Shark - Stage 1 KevinM None Featured!
Plok - Main Theme KevinM Many Featured!
Plok - Beach Torchkas Many Featured!
Plok - Beach Torchkas Many Featured!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Chrome Gadget KevinM, tssf Many Featured!
Kirby Triple Deluxe - Sullied Grace Pinci Many Featured!
Knuckles' Chaotix - Door Into Summer Pinci Many Featured!
Knuckles' Chaotix - Evening Star Pinci Many Featured!
Shatterhand - Area B (Refinery) Dippy Many Featured!
Cursed Cathedral RednGreen Many Featured!
Batman (NES) - Stage 2 (Chemistry For Beginners) Dippy None Declined.
Mega Man: The Wily Wars - Mega Water S Dippy Many Declined.
Super Nazo Puyo 2 - Village & Lakeside tcdw None Declined.
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Shiver Star Wyatt None Declined.
OutRun - Splash Wave Ultima Many Declined.
Fortress 2 Blue - Culture Shock worldpeace Many Featured!
Waterworld - Map Sinc-X Many Featured!
Plok - Rocket Launcher KevinM Many Featured!
Earthbound - Franky Maxodex Many Declined.
Earthbound - Franky Maxodex None Declined.
Olivier Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium Exodustx0 Many Featured!
Live-A-Live - Under the Fake EDIT3333 Many Featured!
Live-A-Live - Captain Square Vaelstraza Many Declined.
Live-A-Live - Sound of Shinobi KevinM Many Featured!
Live-A-Live - Megalomania Tamaki Many Featured!
Der Langrisser - Die Legende Des Schwertes Counterfeit None Declined.
Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace KevinM Many Featured!
Radix - Fire and Ice 2 Samantha Many Featured!
Mario Party - SSENMODNAR! (Anime Edition) ~ Play A Mini-Game! (SNES SiIva-Remix) Hooded Edge Many Declined.
Epic Sax Guy (Arrangement) Airbourne Bubblun None Declined.
Touhou Jaseishou ~ The Last Comer - Mankind Salvation Plan ~ The Greatest Salvation Wakana Many Declined.
Super Mario 64 - File Select Teows Many Featured!
Trials of Mana - The Sacrifice, Part 3 KevinM Many Featured!
Mega Man 9 - Thunder Tornado (Tornado Man's Stage) Slash Man Many Featured!
Mega Man 8 - Frost Man Maxodex Many Featured!
Star Fox - Boss (Corneria) Teows None Declined.
Star Fox - Boss (Corneria) Teows Many Declined.
Star Fox - Corneria Giftshaven None Declined.
Il Maniero Spettrale - Mansion RednGreen Light Featured!
Smoggy Smokestacks HaruMKT Many Featured!
Mario Kart 64 - Koopa Troopa Beach Milon Luxy Many Declined.
Tempest 2000 - Digital Terror Samantha Many Featured!
Waterworld - Mission Theme 2 KevinM Many Featured!
Waterworld - Shop KevinM Many Featured!
Equinox - Tori RednGreen Many Featured!
Cold RednGreen None Featured!
Dance with a boo ThinkOneMoreTime None Featured!
Metroid Fusion - Crisis Mission ggamer77 Many Featured!
Mega Man 8 - Stage Select Teows Many Featured!
Super Mario World - Castle (Bowser Arrangement) 6646 Many Declined.
Grasslands RednGreen None Featured!
The Vagrant - Secret Workshop Wakana None Declined.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Rogueport Sewers Giftshaven None Featured!
Jazz Jackrabbit - Medivo Samantha Many Featured!
Secret of Mana - The Second Truth From the Left KevinM Many Featured!
Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom - Pandemonic Planet Wakana None Featured!
Golden Sun - The Elemental Stars Masterlink Many Featured!
Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambiance Samantha None Featured!
Final Fantasy VII - Under the Rotting Pizza Dippy Many Featured!
Tempest 2000 - Constructive Demolition Samantha Many Declined.
Jazz Jackrabbit - Medivo worldpeace Many Featured!
Plok - Boss SiameseTwins Many Featured!
Cloudy Beach Maxodex None Featured!
Mega Man & Bass - Tengu Man Maxodex None Featured!
Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Felix Battle Theme Masterlink Many Featured!
Tales of Phantasia (PS1) - Desolate Road Teows Many Featured!
Rudra no Hihou - Sword of the Valiant Maxodex None Declined.
Eschatos - Point of No Return musicalman Many Featured!
Super Mario 64 - Bowser's Domain Wakana Many Declined.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair - Ryu Kokki 6646 Many Declined.
Winter Gold FX - Menus KevinM Many Featured!
Waterworld - Mission Theme 3 KevinM Many Featured!
Siren (Alexander Brandon) - Repression worldpeace Many Declined.
Rudra no Hihou - The Spirit Chaser SiameseTwins Many Declined.
Shovel Knight - A Thousand Leagues Below (KMT Styled) Ultima Many Declined.
Final Fantasy VI - The Phantom Forest Nameless None Declined.
Sutte Hakkun - Stage 1 Tamaki None Featured!
Sutte Hakkun - Stage 10 Tamaki None Featured!
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - Last Castle KevinM Many Declined.
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - "hyper-realistic" Bloody Tears (Remix) Lui None Featured!
Celestial Fight RednGreen None Featured!
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - Beanbean Fields Masterlink Many Featured!
Crypt of the Necrodancer - Deep Sea Bass Wakana Many Declined.
Touhou Gensoukyou - Gensokyo ~ Lotus Land Story (Remix) Hooded Edge Many Featured!
Chrono Trigger - Boss Battle 1 Infinity None Declined.
Hydlide 3: The Space Memories - Out of Freedom Dispace None Declined.
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - Praying Hands Wavee None Featured!
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Lost Woods Teows Many Featured!
Wario's Woods - Versus Sinc-X Many Declined.
Fearofdark - Flame Repellent Sinc-X None Featured!

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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.
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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.
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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YES! I can choose what should be featured.

Here's one for now: 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night - Track 28 The sample quality is incredible, and it's a pretty dramatic sounding song.
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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.

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Originally posted by Wakana
Super Mario 64 - Bob-Omb Battlefield - Easy feature imo, it's a nailed 1:1 port; this alone would justify a feature.


+1 to this. The port is really well made, practically no differences from the original.

Also, I'm nominating Our Mosts Histories, a really nice remix. Really fitting to a dark/spooky vibe.
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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 feel like having a short explanation on why some nominations were declined would be better than just silently declining them.

Anyway I'm pretty sure this one was featured on Greatest Hits but for some reason isn't featured.

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


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Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - The Ground's Color is Yellow
I know, I know, it doesn't use uber epic ADSR or samples, but it has a special charm to it.
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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.
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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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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone by Yung Gotenks.

This is a really impressive and accurate port of this MEGA DRIVE song. Sure, there's some minor differences here and there, but to not only hear this playing on the SNES, but be ported to AddMusicK, makes this a high feature for me. Especially since ARAM can be a total jerk sometimes.
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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

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