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Mario Teaches Typing
Mario Teaches Typing (1992)
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The voice script for Mario Teaches Typing contained multiple negative remarks towards the player such as "That wasn't very good" and "That was a failure". Voice actor Charles Martinet objected to these remarks, and was given permission to write his own, more supportive lines such as "That was great, but you can do even better!" and "Great try!"
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Text, Voice Acting
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment Starting with Super Mario 64, the Koopa Troopa's voice is an incredibly short snippet of "HUMAN, YELL - YELL: FEMALE", a sound effect of a woman gleefully screaming from the Best Service Voice Spectral Volume 1 sound pack, modified into different pitches and speeds. In some games, a different snippet from the sound effect is used to represent Koopa Troopas screaming or being frustrated.
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Credits, General, Sound Effect, Voice Acting
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Best Service Voice Spectral Volume 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCEgbkTJTY#t=89

Koopa Troopa voice clips from different games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbecF6Kn4U4?t=56
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 7 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker mentions that Banjo's stuffed head was bought by the owner of the tavern from "some witch". Not only does this reference Gruntilda from the Banjo-Kazooie series, but it also could be referencing the fact that Chris Seavor, the voice of Conker, is also the voice of Gruntilda.
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Backstory/Lore, Cameo, Easter Egg, Reference, Similarities, Suggested, Voice Acting
person NintendOtaku calendar_month September 11, 2023
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Mad Dash Racing
Mad Dash Racing (2001)
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An uncredited Charles Martinet voices a few of the characters in this game, including Gex. Fans believe the likely reasons for being uncredited was the game's crude humor and the similarities of some characters' voices to Luigi, as Nintendo likely wouldn't appreciate hearing crass dialogue coming from Charles' Luigi voice in a non family-friendly Xbox game.
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General, Suggested, Theory, Voice Acting
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Ryan Drummond (voice of Sonic the Hedgehog from 1999 to 2004) revealed that during Sega's recasting of the Sonic the Hedgehog cast in 2010, he had auditioned for the role and had actually won. However, Sega requested Drummond to leave his union, so Drummond ultimately declined the offer.
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Corporate Affairs, Voice Acting
person SOGESNAKE calendar_month September 15, 2023
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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The audio used for Bob-ombs, Monty Moles and Goombas in various games starting with Super Mario 64 is actually pieces of Mario's voice saying "Here We Go" after being pitch-shifted.
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General, Secret, Voice Acting
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Mario - Here We Go Reused Voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e4PUW0CQag

Evolution of Bob-omb voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNA_6ooWGo

Evolution of Monty Mole voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grRBgQGYUqA

Mario Kart Tour - Monty Mole voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF2j5afew_w

Evolution of Goomba voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vI4eYGUlo
Franchise: Mario
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Attachment Ever since Samantha Kelly became the voice of Peach, Toad and Toadette starting in 2007, she would always record her voice lines for Peach first whenever recording new dialogue. This is because her voice is unable to go high enough after doing the more extreme sort of voice that Toad has.
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Development, Real Life, Voice Acting
person CuriousUserX90 calendar_month September 18, 2023
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Garten of Banban 4
Garten of Banban 4 (2023)
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Sheriff Toadster is the first male English-speaking character in the Garten of Banban series to not be voiced by one of the Euphoric Brothers (Faris and Ghepo), instead being voiced by Paul Hikari.
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Credits, Voice Acting
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 21, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl contains multiple unused announcer lines including:

• Several character names (including characters from Rocko's Modern Life and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which were not represented in the base game)
• Item announcement calls which did not end up being used (despite the narrator having used voice clips relating to the items)
• All of the stage names (notably including alternate names for the Slime Time stage in the form of "Double Dare", "Double Dare Stage", and "Double Dare Extreme")
• Perhaps most interestingly, lines relating to a shop feature where the player could buy outfits, characters, moves, and stages. The reveal press release for All-Star Brawl references the ability to "unlock advanced moves", which may be referring to this scrapped feature.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Bonus Content, Customization, Development, Removed Feature, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 23, 2023
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WarioWare: Touched!
WarioWare: Touched! (2004)
subdirectory_arrow_right WarioWare (Collection)
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Nintendo Treehouse did not expect the WarioWare series to receive more installments after WarioWare: Touched!. They also did not believe that the character Ashley would not make any further appearances in the Wario franchise as a whole, so they cast a random localization employee named Christine Peyser to play Ashley in the English version of the game instead of a professional voice actress. This would become problematic as the WarioWare series proved its longevity, with Peyser being forced to abandon projects to record Ashley's lines. Ashley, alongside the entire WarioWare cast sans Wario, would eventually be recast in WarioWare Gold.
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Credits, Development, Real Life, Regional Difference, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 26, 2023
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Part-Time Gamers - Episode 76 (from 46:30):
https://web.archive.org/web/20151021014958/http://www.chaingangmedia.com/ptg76/

WarioWare Inc., Mega MicroGame$! end credits:
https://youtu.be/fZTIWgG6IO0?t=175
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)
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In an interview with the game's creative director/artist Tetsuya Nomura published on Dengeki Online on September 21, 2023, he revealed that the late voice actor Keiji Fujiwara would still be the voice of Reno for the Japanese dub of the game. Fujiwara passed away from cancer on April 12, 2020, at the age of 55, just two days after the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake. The news of his death came shortly before the recording sessions for FFVII Rebirth commenced, leaving the developers unable to replace him immediately. Because of this, Nomura asked the scenario team to let him use past recordings of Fujiwara’s voice for Reno in Rebirth, and "they made the necessary adjustments.” As a result of this, Reno's screentime in the game had been reduced to account for his death, and after apologizing to fans both domestic and international, Nomura revealed that the third part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake series will introduce a new Japanese voice actor for the role of Reno and that the character's presence will increase.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Passed Away, Real Life, Regional Difference, Voice Acting
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 28, 2023
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Street Fighter 6
Street Fighter 6 (2023)
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According to Luke's English voice actor Aleks Le, Luke was originally supposed to say "Yes! I won!" for one of his victory poses. However, Le was against this since he found the line to be generic and instead suggested "Woo! Let's go", taking inspiration from the Street Fighter competitive scene, where the phrase "let's go" is often heard. Voice director Jonathan Klein was against it since he didn't understand it, but after hearing Le's performance he accepted the change.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration, Real Life, Voice Acting
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Postal 4: No Regerts
Postal 4: No Regerts (2019)
subdirectory_arrow_right Poostall Royale (Game)
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The character Postal Doe is voiced by the co-creator of the character, Elizabeth Reynolds. She also worked on Postal 4: No Regerts as a 3D artist.
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Development, General, Voice Acting
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Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (2003)
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In the game's English release, Adray Lasbard is voiced by Beau Billingslea, the voice of Jet from Cowboy Bebop. In Japan, he was voiced by Unshou Ishizuka, the voice of Jet in Japan.
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Voice Acting
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Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (1981)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment In 1983, an album was released on vinyl by Kid Stuff Records titled Donkey Kong (alternatively called Donkey Kong Goes Home), retelling the story of the video game of the same name. It is notable for not only potentially being the first time Mario was voiced (having an unknown release date in 1983, which was also the debut year of Saturday Supercade), but also giving Mario a stereotypical Italian accent with an "-a-" verbal tic as opposed to the gruff Italian-American accent that would be used in multimedia projects for the rest of the 80s (including Saturday Supercade), predating Charles Martinet's debut as Mario in Mario Teaches Typing by 8 years. According to Kid Stuff Mario voice actor Pat McBride, the reasoning for this voice direction was

"He was Mario, he had that Italian background, we knew what his occupation was, and we knew he was a really good guy, in my brain, if there were kids in the neighborhood, he’d always pat them on the head and say hi. He’d look out for everyone, so he became the real good guy."

Nintendo never gave the team behind Donkey Kong Goes Home any form of guidance for the project, and did not give any word - positive or negative - about the finished album beyond approving it.
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Coincidence, Merchandise, Multimedia Adaptation, Voice Acting
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Code Name S.T.E.A.M.
Code Name S.T.E.A.M. (2015)
subdirectory_arrow_right Fire Emblem (Franchise)
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Code Name S.T.E.A.M. marks the debut of Yuri Lowenthal as the English voice of Marth from the Fire Emblem series. He would go on to reprise this role for all subsequent English-speaking appearances.
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Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2
Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 (2016)
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TeamFourStar, a YouTube channel that created the Dragon Ball Z Abridged series, said that when they were recording lines for the different voices available for CaC in the game, they "wrote all the attack names" as they were acting. Scott Frerich, better known as KaiserNeko, revealed that one of these attack names, the volleyball technique "Volleyball Fist", was originally going to be called "Dead or Alive Volleyball" named after the series Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. However, the name was dropped, likely due to the franchise not being owned by Bandai Namco.
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged Creator Commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7JwmAXWvQ#t=585

Tweet announcing their roles in the game:
https://twitter.com/teamfourstar/status/790914852084559873
Nicktoons Racing
Nicktoons Racing (2000)
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The character voices in Nicktoons Racing are all existing clips from their shows as opposed to original voice work. However, multiple character voice lines, particularly those of Angelica, Darwin, and Stimpy, have background music or sound effects from the original scenes left intact instead of using the original masters or digitally removing the noise. Additionally, one of Arnold's voice lines is from Harold and one of Tommy's voice lines is from Chuckie.
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Asset Reuse, Music, Sound Effect, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 13, 2023
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Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Game)
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In the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64, instead of the announcer and menu options being voiced by Mario they are instead voiced by the same VA who played the announcer in Wave Race 64: John Hulaton.

According to John in an interview with DidYouKnowGaming?, after recording his lines for Wave Race 64 he was handed a slip of paper and was then told to record the lines on it without being told what it was for. These lines ended up being for Mario Kart 64.

John's agent was reportedly very upset, as John was not paid for these lines and on top of that John's name was misspelled as 'John Huraton' in the credits.

The lines John recorded would then later be used in the Japanese and International versions of Mario Kart: Super Circuit, where John remained uncredited.
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Asset Reuse, Credits, Regional Difference, Voice Acting
person LegacyTag calendar_month October 13, 2023
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first Mario game to feature Kevin Afghani as the voice of both Mario and Luigi, replacing Charles Martinet, who announced his retirement from voice acting and shift to a brand ambassador position earlier in 2023.

While Afghani didn't announce his involvement until October 13, 2023, his presence in the game was leaked two days earlier on 4chan, when an anonymous user datamined a kiosk demo and leaked the game's voice cast, backing this up with images showing parts of the game that hadn't been publicly revealed yet. Because the cast list didn't state the voice actors' roles, users used process of elimination to determine who Mario's voice actor was, incorrectly guessing that it was Mick Wingert after assuming that Afghani was only voicing the Talking Flowers. In a statement sent to IGN, Wingert's agent refuted the claim that he was voicing Mario, and was later revealed to actually be the voice for the Talking Flowers.
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Development, Leak, Real Life, Voice Acting
person VinchVolt calendar_month October 14, 2023
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