lightdrago
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Huh, cool. Thanks for the info.There is no evidence of Monster Hunter having a cut character in the list of music tracks, so let's dispel with this rumor right here.
There is a blank spot in the fighter theme list.
z90 shizue
z91 gaogaen
z93 inkling
z94 ridley
z95 krool
z96 simon
Right away we can rule Monster Hunter out as z92, because third parties are listed last. They have been since Brawl, and are still listed this way now. Snake and Sonic are last in the Brawl section, Pac Man and Mega Man are last in the Smash 4 section, and now Simon is last in the Ultimate section. Echoes do not have unique themes, hence the lack of Richter and Ken. Monster Hunter could conceivably be z97, but we'd have no way of knowing that. But he is not z92.
Now for the stage music.
Monster Hunter's two tracks are listed in between Metal Gear and Animal Crossing. This is the hoopla that's being spread around of it being in the "fighter section."
But there's a reason it's located there, and that's because the list is in alphabetical order.
All franchises are named with the same naming scheme. All songs from the same franchise are labeled first with a unique letter so that they're all grouped together. Mario is the first franchise, and is labeled with "a," like so:
a07_wld_title_ending.lopus
Donkey Kong is "b", Zelda is "c" and so on and so on. Animal Crossing is "n."
Third party franchises, meanwhile, are labeled differently. They're labeled based on their title. Castlevania, or Akumajou Dracula, is "AD." Bayonetta is "BY." Metal Gear is "MG."
And thus, Monster Hunter is "MH."
So in the ordered list, it goes MG, MH, N, or Metal Gear, Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing.
But where did z92 go?