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References to other franchises in Melee's music

Iko MattOrr

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There is something that always made me thinking about melee.
Some familiar tunes in the opening and menu themes of the game.
I have the suspect that those soundtracks are full of references to other Nintendo franchises, but I'm unable to find all of them.
I just found 3 references, and I'll post all of them here:

The first one
This is Melee's opening theme.
At 0:49 there is a part of the song that's similar to a classic soundtrack of the Kirby franchise: butter building
Listen at 0:34 of the video below:

The second and third ones
This is the default menu theme of Melee.
The first 6 seconds of this track are probably a reference to 2 famous Nintendo franchises, more precisely, Metroid and Mario (Super Mario 64).
Metroid reference (from 0:00)
Mario 64 reference (from 0:17)

Can anyone find more references?

EDIT: Sorry if it's not the right place, I posted it here because of the "other media" in the title but maybe I'm wrong.
 
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Vorde

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I've never noticed this before, that's really awesome. I like the use of another HAL Labs game as a reference
 
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