My Music: All we hoped for or a hollow dream?

[The Director]

I was listening to SMYN last night, and something that Youko and Panda said startled me. When talking about the My Music feature, they brought to my attention something I didn't think of: we might not be able to put any music we want on any stage!

Although I think this is unlikely, take a look at these screenshots from the Dojo:

Notice anything about the above screenshots? This could only be for the simple fact of demonstration, but the only songs available to place on the select stages are from their corresponding franchises. Could it be possible that we're only limited to this? When you take a closer look at these screenshots, you notice that there are no options to choose what songs you put in there, they're already loaded in.

Take a look at Pictochat, too:

This stage features various Nintendo music, but notice the scroll on the right-hand side. I guess you could scroll through all your music?

It would be a major bummer and a dent in the My Music feature to limit us to said franchises. Although I don't think this is the case, this is only speculation and we'll probably have all the freedom we want. After all, Sakurai said this:

With the "My Music" feature, you can enjoy the music of our many musicians any way you like. Choose freely from our diverse selection of famous songs!

I could've solved this mystery with the above quote, but since we're still in a drought of news it's good to discuss something new and keep worrying.

 

[iMichael]

Good find right there.....Maybe we are only limited to songs of their franchise.

 

[blayde_axel]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

 

[Superninjabreadman]

Well... Sakurai has -evereything- unlocked... so he obviously has all the music selections.. IDK how many music selections we're getting per franchise. but my guess is you can use any music from any franchise, on any of that franchise's stages. Being able to choose anything for any stage is cooler though...


My guess is we're starting out with 1 or 2 for each franchise/stage.

 

[Tobi-]

I thought everyone already knew about that.

 

[Http]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

Yeah, that's what went through my head too.

 

[blayde_axel]

Yeah, that's what went through my head too.

Oh wow. lol. Yeah, that wouldn't make sense at all.

Of course, you can put any song on your built stages, but not already-made stages of certain franchises.

 

[Darkurai]

You probably will be able to put any song you want on any stage, but you probably have to unlock it, and it's probably the last thing you unlock. Like Sound Test in Melee.

 

[silver777]

Of course you couldn't put any song on any stage.

a pokemon music on a Metroid stage......see how awkward that's really is????

 

[psyniac_123]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

QFT. Makes sense this way.

 

[ecuadorian smasher]

i thought people already knew that...

 

[gigasteve]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

YOU DERS! Why would you want to do that anyways?
And to confirm this isn't happening, the Pokemon stage has no scrollers on the right.

 

[WarMachine]

While it's certainly possible, I have to wonder how this is explained then:

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music16.html

It's clearly been stated that there will be songs in the game from series that have NO stages.

Where then does music like this get played?

 

[blayde_axel]

While it's certainly possible, I have to wonder how this is explained then:

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music16.html

It's clearly been stated that there will be songs in the game from series that have NO stages.

Where then does music like this get played?

You remember Icicle Mountain? Yeah. Probably exactly like that.

 

[gigasteve]

While it's certainly possible, I have to wonder how this is explained then:

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music16.html

It's clearly been stated that there will be songs in the game from series that have NO stages.

Where then does music like this get played?

Icicle Mountain had Balloon Fighter music b/c it fit good on that stage. So the same probably applies to Brawl.

Sorry Blayde, posted right after you.

 

[schlepboogie]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

apparently... i for one do not want to hear delfino plaza theme on the halberd, that is ********.... i hope its limited to franchises..... party

 

[omiz144]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

QFT. It only makes sense for corresponding Music to be on certain stages.

 

[Darkpaladin of Chaos]

I thought that was already kind of obvious... It's still an amazing feature.

 

[Rubydragon]

The Pokemon stage probably doesn't have a scroll bar because those aren't all the songs you could unlock from a CD...?

I thought that was as much common sense as being only able to play that same franchise's music...

 

[A New England Winter]

Are you serious? I...A...uh...This is just ********. Pants on head ********.

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

QFT. Seriously.

 

[Rhubarbo]

Well, I think we're going to be limited to a list of pre-designated songs for a stage. For example, the X Song might be present on more than just one stage as it's not from any particular series.

But how stupid would it be to fight on Delfino Plaza with the Pokemon Theme, or playing Mario Circuit with Ashley's Theme? That's what I thought.

 

[Rash]

Yeah, limiting the stages to their respective franchises makes the most sense. But, you never know.

Speaking of which, I wonder where the X music will be played.

 

[blayde_axel]

Yeah, limiting the stages to their respective franchises makes sense.

Still, what about songs from games like X?

Probably will just go to the stage that fits the most. Like "X" sounds like a Lylat Cruise song.

 

[C.Olimar788]

I thought the general assumption from the beginning was that each stage has its own however many songs. I doubt that you can put any song on any stage, as that would just be a hassle with so many songs.

 

[NDUDE]

Doesn't it clearly say on the site that you listen to songs FROM THAT SERIES?

 

[Mambo]

What? People thought that you could put any song on any stage?

That's what I always expected it to be. I personaly like having unique music selected for each stage, though they could just have each song they want preselected and all other songs set a 0% for that stage but you can scroll through and select what you want. That might be kind of fun though. Like having the Ashley's theme on The Bridge or Snake's stage.
At first I always though it'd be 4-6 songs per stage you choose from, but now that you make me think about it, I'd want the unique 4-6 songs preselected (and as you get them) and slecectable for each stage from all your songs.

 

[Xanderous]

Yeah, I was thinking about this, and then I remembered I didn't really care. Wouldn't make sense to have Pokemon music on a Zelda stage anyway.

 

[bballstar23]

About the X song, I agree that it would most likely be on a Star Fox stage, since the games were similar, or maybe there could be songs just for Stage Builder. I think the only stages that could use any music you want are the ones you build yourself.

 

[Hejiru]

Ever since the My Music update, I knew it was just the franchise. No surprise.

I thought eveybody knew this.

 

[blayde_axel]

Ever since the My Music update, I knew it was just the franchise. No surprise.

I thought eveybody knew this.

Me too... *sigh*

I think people are just looking into these updates WAY too much...

 

[WingedKnight]

I got the impression that you can put any song on a built stage, but franchise songs on specific stages. Thats the only thing that makes sense! What if you put Yoshi's Island music for the Shadow Moses Island stage? I admit, it would be hilarious, but it isn't a feature that makes a lot of sense. I guess its franchise-specific music for the made stages.

 

[Luigi player]

I think that every stage will have about 5 songs, and that the Pokemon Stadium stage can get more too that you can unlock by collection the CDs.

It's obvious that you can't just put any music on any stage (except your own ones).

The idea of haveing any song of a franchise on any of it's levels is very nice (I never thought of this). I hope it'll be like that, because there are already some songs that could have their own stages...

 

[SWORDMASTER X7]

Basically, there is only one song that plays on each stage. But even among the myriad songs of the Mario universe, people probably have different favorites.

The bolded part implies that you can put songs on any stage even though they are from different franchises.

Sakurai might just like having songs from the same franchise on his stages.

 

[Rhubarbo]

The bolded part implies that you can put songs on any stage even though they are from different franchises.

Sakurai might just like having songs from the same franchise on his stages.

**sigh** No, all that means is that their are a lot of Mario songs.

 

[SWORDMASTER X7]

Of course, if you want to, you can limit a stage to only one song, or make every song in the game equally likely to appear.

I win, no point in arguing with me.

 

[Luigi player]

I win, no point in arguing with me.

I'm pretty sure he didn't mean it like you think.

Also, it may not mean anything, but in german he says it without the "every song in the game".


Here's another quote:

This is "My Music" for Delfino Plaza.

Would he say that if you have every song for every stage? I'm not sure...
Also it makes no sense at all to have every song available for every stage.

He also says that there is e.g. a Mario stage and there are countless of Mario songs in all of his games, but which of all the great Mario songs favours everyone?

^This also makes no mension of that you could have a other games music on a Mario stage...

Plus, while there may be people who stepped into the Mario universe in the original Nintendo Entertainment System days, surely there are some who first experienced Mario on the Nintendo DS.
With that in mind, I think it’s a bit of a waste to limit that whole universe to just one song.

You wouldn't want to have a Zelda music on a Mario stage, right?

 

[Zombieoficer]

...People actually thought you could play any song on any stage? You mean, they didn't see a pattern?

Wow.

 

[burrito]

I've always thought each stage had it's own list of pre-designated music. I like it better that way, the stages keep their unique personalities.

I win, no point in arguing with me.

He's saying that you can make every song as likely to appear for its respective stage.

 

[smashbro29]

i think very strongly that music will be by icon like mario music can play on any mario stage for example

 

[Eaode]

I'm okay with songs on stages being franchise specific. What I'm not okay with is limiting the placement of non-smash franchises to certain stages. I want to put the X music wherever I want to **** it!