Why do Chain Chomps sound different in Japan? (MORE Music Secrets!) 

Because the chain chomps speak different languages

I'm very impressed you actually reached out to Soyo Oka, and that she actually responded AND was interested in helping. It's always nice when creators are willing to interact with fans like that, particularly given the language barrier and Nintendo's usual secrecy. And I'm glad you bring light to their work like this!

17:19 This so funny to me. The original Japanese name basically means 'woof woof', but as a child, I never knew what the Chain Chomps were actually called. The closest I got to an answer was in Links Awakening for the Gameboy, where there is an NPC character who owns a Chain Chomp as a pet. The Chain Chomps name is "Bow-wow", which is another way of expressing what a dog sounds like. So all my child hood I thought Chain Chomps were actually called 'bow-wow's, akin to how their Japanese name which happens to be very similar.

17:45 So, about the american chain chomp sound! The sound effects wiki has it explained, its from a library called "The General Series 6000 Sound Effects Library", it's a 43 seconds long clip of a rottweiler barking, and one snippet of it was used for the chain chomp!

The fact that Soyo Oka responded was so cool!

Wait a little longer to hear a slowed down version of the motif on the Mario Kart Super Circuit title screen. BE PATIENT, it IS there.

Feels weird that chain-chomp has a different sound effect in the west, given the sound used is a Japanese onomatopoeia for "barking"; "wan-wan". Edit: could just be me, but the western sound effect sounds more like "wan-wan" than the original which sounds like "on-on" to me

2:36 I would like to mention that the first 2D mario game with an interconnected overworld was actually Super Mario World. Although it did have some zones that were separate maps, most of it was the same overworld. Also, those other maps are just like "loads" within the overworld, and they also have multiple entrances from different places.

There have been studies that show how cats have different meows based on their owners' accents, so maybe it's similar for dogs in Japan.

"the music in the bathroom is like 10 minutes long" thomas how do you know this.

Piranha plant’s lullaby is just so fitting in a music box

The reference to Mario Kart 64 star road music is "a subtle reference" with "only 5 notes in common" ? What ?? The very first chord that plays instantly has 5 common notes already, and every following chords all have many common notes to the original song, I recognized instantly what song it was from that alone. Thats way more than common notes, its literally the entire same song structure with a slightly adjusted melody on top lol

Thomas should totally make a compilation of her playing songs on the piano, She’s very talented at it! 👏👏🎶🎵🎶🎵

Letter was surprisingly good Japanese. I’m very impressed! Few improvement points (hope you see it as me trying to help a fellow learner) -textbooks teach ときどき、but I almost never hear natives use it. Consider たまに or excluding the “sometimes” qualifier altogether -なずを解く❌　謎(なぞ)を解く⭕️ -メイル is not common spelling, recommend メール instead. You can check on your phone how common spellings are using clues like suggested emojis while typing 😉 -natives are also bad at this, but is better to choose casual ある　ない format or です　ます format and stick to one throughout a body of text. (I’m not saying you must be formal every time, just suggesting consistency)

16:16: The weird bit is that the synth you're looking for sounds *really close if not is an exact match* to one of the microphone instruments in Starbound. It may be worth asking around the Chucklefish forums?

I really don't understand how you don't have a million subscribers yet! I love these videos so much, I watch them on rainy days. Glad to see your channel is still here despite the warning from RU-vid. 💖

11:01 that's not exactly correct. Mario Kart: Super Circuit _does_ include it. It's just arranged so much that it's harder to recognize. In other words, a "strong similarity, but not an exact match".

US chain chomp: Woof woof! JP chain chomp: HEALP HEALP

u r underrated big time i feel so bad about that youtube warning

The interesting thing about the Mario Kart title theme is that-- in the trailer for Home Circuit, they had an arrangement of the classic theme to end off the trailer, which doesn't exist in the in-game version... probably so they can loop it for as long as you listen to it! With Mario Kart Tour, there isn't really a title screen song. Just loading/menu music. But in some of the trailers for the game, there's a new song that mixes part of the classic theme into it. It also takes elements from Mario Kart Wii's intro cinematic. If you'd like to hear it, look up the original Mario Kart Tour trailer. It's about 45 seconds into it. I remember it most from playing in the trailers that showcased the teams of Team Rallies, but they'd usually cut off right as the music would get to the reference.

yes shes still on youtube !!

10:37 Something I’ve noticed is that MK8 is the only game to recreate that track 1:1 All the others that have this use a sped-up version of MK64’s rendition, not the original SMK theme

I’m just glad your channel survived that strike scare.

As a pikmin fan I’m happy the 3 music boxes are included here. First one I found was the song of storms one and I smiled when I heard it. I just knew they had to include the piranha plant lullaby too and my suspicions became true once I got the music box.

The Mario Kart SNES theme is in Mario Kart Super Circuit. It's in the single pack multiplayer mode as the race theme! Hidden like a true musical Easter Egg.

I was so happy to hear the OG Mario Kart theme being played by 8's band. That whole soundtrack is wonderful!

10:47 it was so obvious what that 2nd silhouette was lol

Glad you were able to resolve those strikes

I'm glad your channel is doing ok! Bummer that it had those copyright strikes

The mariokart theme feels like when you watch a ballet/play/opera and a character gets their own little musical leitmotif to remember them by 😊

The Japanese version Chain Chomp -sound is MOST LIKELY the same sound that some NPCs in the game use, just pitched/warped a bit. It specifically sounds like the first two "notes" of the same sound that King Bob-Omb noise (among other characters).

11:00 Super Circuit does use the Super Mario Kart title theme but if every other Mario Kart can be described as using the first half as it’s motif then Super Circuit can be described as using the second half.

What an interesting concept for a video! I wasn't anticipating the loads of other information included in here either, great work!

I got so confused around the 3min mark cause you went off topic from the chain chomps sound and I wasn’t paying attention so I was like “wait huh? Am I still watching the same video-?”

About the Mario Kart motif, despite Tour not using it for the title screen, it was used in the game's main Trailer, it's uploaded on RU-vid from a year ago, you can hear the motif at 0:42 with an electric guitar. That same music was always used for the biweekly trailers for new waves of mii suits, but it was never played for long enough to get to the motif. What's more, we never got a clean release of that soundtrack so this version with the sound effects over it is the only one out there with it sadly.

Fun fact: In France, Chain Chomps used to be called "Toutou Bombe", which you could translate to "Bomb Doggie", or something of that effect. (Nowadays, they are called Chain Chomps there too, like in most of the world.)

I like how much research you do into the developers, it's like you were there and telling their story somehow.

This video showed me how many iconic music tracks Nintendo developed over the years. I recognized most of them the first two or three seconds and was humming along. It is cool to see how ingrained these mucical numbers are in my brain and to many others!

The opening two chords of the World 9 song at 4:40 also echo the theme song from Rainbow Road Wii, so this is truly a Rainbow Road-themed world!

Good to see you back, sis! glad to have more of these videos on my home feed. Good luck with the transition btw.

14:28 Nice landing lmao

19:07 In Germany The Chain chomp ( Wan Wan ) is called ,,Kettenhund“ which translates to Chain dog so it was clear to me that its supposed to be a dog , but i feel like the Japanese version sounds like a koopa 👀

The pilotwings vocal part almost reminds me of one of Toad's voicelines from MK64. The wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh, though it could as easily just be a common sound effect to make

so happy to see you're still on youtube! love your content

11:12 "Still, that's 7/11 total games, all of which include the Mario Kart motif that Soyo Oka composed way back in 1992," I thought it was 3 games that didn't use the song Soyo Oka composed, 11 - 7 = 4

Before you had even slowed down Peach's final smash, I heard it for the first time and my mind was blown.

I always enjoy learning more about my people and their different languages! 🥰

14:06 It's just me or does this sounds like The Pelones from Sr Pelo? lol

Yay, thanks for the upload! ❤

14:00 It reminds me to Toad's voice from Mario Kart 64

I loved the editing in this one

glad to see your channel still up

i love the current grind you've been on with your content recently! loving your new content

Another Nintendo Music Easter Egg: If you speed up the GameCube BIOS theme 10x you will get the Famicom Disk System BIOS theme

Man, there are a ton of peach’s castle remixes in these videos.

5:00 its also worth noting that both songs are composed by the same person!

5:17 the same 5 notes remind me the file selector in sm64

I'm glad you got them strikes resolved. Happy to see new content from you.

YEAH, WHY DO THEY SOUND DIFFERENT!?!?!?

In the end I mistakenly understood "myster'eggs" and honestly I think it should be more common. Great work!

This video was awesome! That’s so cool you got an email reply! Also its so nice hearing your piano at the end!

Glad to see you still exist, keep up the good work!

Amazing content as always !

Keep up the great work! Love your content

The Japanese Chain Chomp sound sounds like a slowed down version of one of the "heho-heho" type sounds used for Koopas and Goombas from SM64 on. It doesn't sound like "wan wan" to me. I think they just had these voice-synth samples lying around and decided to reuse them, much like how the same laugh is used for Bowser and the Boos. As a matter of fact, in this video of various Koopa sounds, at about 11 seconds in, you can hear a slowed down "hroo hroo" VERY similar to the Japanese Chain Chomp bark: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Xub5nJoNOY.html

fun fact : the patron 'Cyprien Iov' at 20:13 is the 3rd biggest french youtuber, who's been around the platform since like 15 years

If I'm not mistaken, isn't the Japanese chain chomp sound sampled from the same audio CD as other vocal sounds in SM64? (The "Bah" instrument, Koopa Troopa's voice, boss sound effects) Since the international version has a few minor changes and seems to be something of a revision, the assumption I made was that they were being as resourceful as possible, but someone down the line thought an actual bark would sound better. They still use the newer bark to this day, too, so I'd think they just find it more ideal.

I just stumbled on your channel and im loving it already! I gotta watch more lol i found a new binge watch n popcorn channel ^_^

I always thought the kart driving sound was synthesized in Super Mario kart _BUT ITS REAL!!!???!!!_

I'll definitely keep an _ear_ out for those Pikmin 4 music boxes while I'm playing! I'm also _amazed_ that you were able to contact someone at Nintendo! Next-level 🤩🤩🤩

I’m always so excited to watch your videos, they never miss

You are my favourite Nintendo youtuber thank you for making so many amazing videos

Love it once again, I look forward for a third entry in this series.

8:38 I knew that song sounded familiar

LETS GO YOU'RE STILL HERE

HI THOMAS *does a little dance*

That was a great video! Surely a lot of research was made, but it was worth it, for sure!

Hah, I was just thinking as you showed the world 9 song “why does it sound like Martin kart music” and then oh wait, as I realized you showed rainbow road, so cool

I had a visceral reaction to that Japanese chainchomp sound at the start of the video!

The Super Mario kart title theme motif plays is actually present in Siper Circuit, and it plays during races in the multiplayer mode when using a single pack

I'm kinda happy that the explanation was put at the end of the video... I learned more than I thought I wanted to 😂

I even have the Song of Storms music box, what a cool coincidence

"sound familiar?" Me who plays 0 Mario games and just enjoys the videos:

I love all of your vids!

Hi Thomas! Very nice video!

absolutely loved this video!!!!!!!! thanks TGD

It's great to see you have your channel

13:20 - Foley Vs. Field Recording

glad to see thomas uploading to this day :)

I must admit that as a 19 year-old that grew up during the wii, 3DS and Wii U era, this entire video made me extremely nostalgic. Thank you for reminding me of my childhood.

So, wait...Peach's Castle has an evil version of the SM64 theme when Bowser takes it over. But in SM64 Bowser has taken it over. That's the plot of the game! Why isn't, then, the default Peach's Castle theme already the evil version! :/

As someone who does become obsess with tiny details on sounds and music, this videos feels like a gift to my heart🥺

You're awesome! thank you for making awesome content.

Fun Fact for you to talk about:In Pikmin 4,each enemy has a looping section that adds to the musoc when approached.But the Breadbug’s theme actually contains the Boss theme of the big breadbug

Not gonna mention WHY the song of storms was chosen? Lol. Because the guy who teaches it to you is literally cranking a music box with that melody!

Having just thought about it, the only Mario games I’ve ever purchased were Mario 64 and Sunshine, of course there were Karts and Smash bros but we were a Sega and PC family in the late 80s/early 90s and then after the N64 and GameCube I moved to PC !

6:46 well that is true but the song vame from the original super mario bros game on the nes.

I might be wrong, but there's a very similar "LA" used on the Fairlight CMI. I recognized it from a sample pack I use.

The chain chomp noise seems to me to be the same sample of a dog bark, just pitch bent and perhaps modified slightly. My guess as to why they are different is because dogs in Japan are typically smaller. (Take the shiba inu for example.) Meanwhile, in the US where more people seem to be addicted to power and larger things, a bark of a larger dog seems more fitting.

you should make a LOT more videos on this topic. your videos are ba-DASS!