Wario Land Reused sounds from Metroid 2?

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Anyone else know about this? From Mario Wiki:

This game borrows some sound effects used in Metroid II: Return of Samus, another Nintendo game, also for the Game Boy. One example is when a boss is hit; the noise is the same one made when a Metroid gets hit. Other borrowed sound effects are when the player pauses the game and the sound of triggering mines which is the same as Samus going into morph ball. Both games were developed by Nintendo R&D1.
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Have to say, I didn't. Interesting to know that the Wario Land/Metroid connection predates the one between Wario Land 4 and Metroid Fusion!
 
Yeah, I've known about this since I was a kid. R&D1 used the same sound engine for both games. I posted this earlier in the year....

The Game Boy had four channels of sound, and the fourth channel was always used for percussion instruments, explosions, crashes etc.
Wario Land 1 has a quirk where if you pause/unpause the game just as you're ramming into a wall, pounding the ground etc. channel 4 will be disabled, and the percussion instruments in the music will disappear until another channel 4 sound is made (like walking, flying, shattering blocks etc.)

Metroid II and Wario Land share the same sound engine, so the exact same thing applies. Lay a bomb on the ground with Samus, pause the game when it explodes, and the percussion will disappear in the music until you trigger another sound that uses channel 4 (although only a couple of songs in Metroid II actually use percussion, like the main tunnel theme or the final area).
 
CM30 said:
Anyone else know about this? From Mario Wiki:



Have to say, I didn't. Interesting to know that the Wario Land/Metroid connection predates the one between Wario Land 4 and Metroid Fusion!
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There's a much bigger connection than that. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of Wario Land and original designer of Wario, is also the man who designed Samus Aran and directed both Metroid and Metroid II.
 
Juan Schwartz said:
There's a much bigger connection than that. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of Wario Land and original designer of Wario, is also the man who designed Samus Aran and directed both Metroid and Metroid II.
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Yeah, Hiroji Kiyotake always directed/made my favourite titles at R&D1. Metroid II, Mario Land 2, Wario Land 1, VB Wario Land etc.
 
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