Please Enjoy This Delightful Rendition Of Toto's 'Africa' Created On Mario Paint

  • Please Enjoy This Delightful Rendition Of Toto's 'Africa' Created On Mario Paint
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    Some people have so much talent, it starts to spill out in odd, surprising - and in this case, delightful - ways. 

    The internet has dug up a video from 8 years ago by YouTuber Alec Britt, in which he expertly recreates the classic sounds of Toto's Africa on a Mario Paint video game, first created in 1992 on the SNES console. 

    The game allows you to use different Mario characters as different instruments, so this video's got Boo, Super Mushroom, Yoshi, Shy Guy and more all rocking out to Africa.

    And if you're surprised how closely it resembles the original in terms of harmonies and layers, Britt explains how he did it.

    "The tempo was set to 2944, which puts the tempo so high that notes will sound like they are played at the same time when placed on adjacent lines. This is why most "beats" have clusters of up to 4 or even 5 lines of notes. This bypasses the 5 note limit of the program, as well as give me more options for volume control of each line," he says.

    "Each note was still individually placed, and each volume bar still manually adjusted. I did not import any MIDI file or cheat in any other way, I just changed the sound files each symbol played because I liked the way it sounded."

    Britt's taken on a bunch of other classics on his YouTube page as well, including The Killers' Mr Brightside and Europe's The Final Countdown.

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Mario Paint

Some people have so much talent, it starts to spill out in odd, surprising - and in this case, delightful - ways. 

The internet has dug up a video from 8 years ago by YouTuber Alec Britt, in which he expertly recreates the classic sounds of Toto's Africa on a Mario Paint video game, first created in 1992 on the SNES console. 

The game allows you to use different Mario characters as different instruments, so this video's got Boo, Super Mushroom, Yoshi, Shy Guy and more all rocking out to Africa.

And if you're surprised how closely it resembles the original in terms of harmonies and layers, Britt explains how he did it.

"The tempo was set to 2944, which puts the tempo so high that notes will sound like they are played at the same time when placed on adjacent lines. This is why most "beats" have clusters of up to 4 or even 5 lines of notes. This bypasses the 5 note limit of the program, as well as give me more options for volume control of each line," he says.

"Each note was still individually placed, and each volume bar still manually adjusted. I did not import any MIDI file or cheat in any other way, I just changed the sound files each symbol played because I liked the way it sounded."

Britt's taken on a bunch of other classics on his YouTube page as well, including The Killers' Mr Brightside and Europe's The Final Countdown.

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