Mario vs. Donkey Kong's OG Composers Talk Making The Jump From GBA To Switch

“This was the opportunity of a lifetime”.

Mario vs. Donkey Kong is finally here on Switch. This remake gives the original GBA puzzle platformer a fresh lick of paint and throws in a handful of new features too — including a fully revamped score. The composers for the GBA original, DigiPen Music Department, were brought back on this time around and a new interview from the department's website provides an interesting look into the process of updating a 20-year-old soundtrack.

As it turns out, recreating the GBA music was not a case of downloading it onto a computer and hitting a button that says "modernise". Aside from writing tunes for the remaster's two new worlds, the team also composed and arranged acoustic performances to complement the virtual soundscape of the original soundtrack. As the game's production, engineering and mastering lead Tacket Brown states:

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