Totaka's Song

Kazumi Totaka was born on August 23, 1967. He is a Japanese composer who has worked on many Nintendo games, like Animal Crossing and Pikmin 2. Totakeke, a dog in Animal Crossing, was apparently based on Totaka. Totaka has also done the voice of Yoshi on occasions. However, there is one accomplishment many gamers do not know about. That is “Totaka’s Song”, a short tune that is hidden in every game Totaka has ever worked on. The first appearance was found in “X”, which was the first game Totaka composed. In some cases days have been spent searching for this elusive tune, despite being less than 20 notes long.

To date, Totaka has worked on 21 Nintendo games. Five of those games are still being searched for the song. Wave Race 64 has held its secret the longest, Totaka’s song has not been found since the game’s release in 1996. That’s twelve years of checking every possible scenario. This in Wave Race would be something like, “play as Ryota, score 0 points, wait 10 minutes at score board”. That same scenario would have to be tested multiple times using different scores. Three games are only as old as the Wii, one younger. The most popular of these games is Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

8.1 million copies of Brawl have been sold worldwide and no one has found it yet. Some people think that the song is not in brawl and that Totaka is leading people on a wild goose hunt. The more common belief is that the song is hidden so well that the only way to find it is to take the code apart. An important bit to note: these are worldwide sales. In Link’s Awakening, the song is hidden differently in different countries. If the same strategy was used to hide Totaka’s Song in Brawl than that would mean that some attempts to find it might not work here but maybe they would in Germany or Japan.

I think Totaka’s Song is in Brawl’s code with no way to access it except though hacking the game.