User:EleCyon/List of conjectural music titles in the Kirby series: Difference between revisions

Throughout the ''[[Kirby (series)|Kirby]]'' series, there are several musical compositions which are integral to the series' gameplay, boss battles, and cutscenes. However, most of these songs go unnamed, and is especially the case in older games where [[Sound Test]] menus do not show much information about the game's audio beyond its internal IDs. In most cases, uploaders of the game's soundtrack will often create conjectural titles to give identity to each song, and will attempt to translate from Japanese soundtrack releases where applicable.

|"Spring In Your Step" is the title used by Zophar's Domain to refer to the unused arrangement of Welcome to Dream Land in ''[[Kirby's Adventure]]''.

|Title Screen / Demo

|Naming convention is shared with the conjectural title of Grand Opening from ''[[Kirby Super Star]]''.

|Drawing Song

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|While this conjectural title is used to describe [[Yogurt Yard]], Mountain Stage is a more accurate description.

|The original title given in the official ''Kirby's Adventure'' soundtrack is longer.

|Butter Building

|The official title for this song was revealed in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''.

|Incorrect because [[Meta Knight]]'s battle in this game still uses "[[Boss (theme from Kirby's Adventure)|Boss]]", and this title may have somehow overlapped with the Meta Knight battle in ''[[Kirby: Squeak Squad]]'', which does use that theme.

An unusual case of a conjectural title becoming official can be first seen here, with the song title [[Iceberg Ocean]] also being used to name the same song in the ''[[Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition Compilation Soundtrack]]''. The reason for this being the case is very unclear.

|Staff Roll

|Introduction

|Kirby's Dream Course

|High Scores

|Space Valley

|Over Water

|The Tricky Stuff

|Castles of Cake

|Green Fields

|[[Course 7 theme]]

|The First Hole

|Iceberg Ocean

|Cloudy Mountain Peaks

|Jigsaw Plains

|Victory!

|Continue or Give Up_{{sic}}

|Lose Life

|Fall!/Out of Bounds!

|Ride to the Sky

|Duel on the Dream Course

|Before You Start...

|Star Card

|Dream Land

|Scorecard

|Fanfare

|Hole In One!

|Learn the Rules

|Showdown with Dedede

|Dedede is Getting Closer!

|Dedede is Getting Closer! (Opening Sounds)

|Game Over

|Recent revisions of the ''[[Nintendo Switch|Game Boy - Nintendo Switch Online]]'' description for ''[[Kirby's Dream Land 2]]'' state that Rick, Kine and Coo "look like a hamster, fish, and owl respectively", no longer outright confirming they are of those species. This is more in line with how they are described in the Japanese version.

|See above

|See above

|Refers to the [[Goal Game]], which takes place in several clouds. Note that this song's upload on santiagoff compiles all variations of the Kirby Dance theme that play in the Goal Game.

|Boss*

|Theme for the cutscene where Dark Matter emerges out of King Dedede.

|Used in the battle against Dark Matter Phase 1, which does take place in a dark sky.  

|Unused, but would be later remixed partially into [[The Cave in the Sky]].

In ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'', there are several songs that go unnamed, outside of more iconic themes like [[Gourmet Race (theme)|Gourmet Race]]. Most of them would eventually get names via the ''[[Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track]]'' official release for ''[[Kirby Super Star Ultra]]'', in Japanese, and some would also get official names in other games' named Jukebox songs whenever applicable.

Prior to most of these tracks being named officially, the entire soundtrack of ''Kirby Super Star'' was given a variety of descriptive conjectural titles by Zophar's Domain, with some being based on rough translations of the Japanese names of various places where those tracks appear (although those tracks didn't have official Japanese names either at the time of the game's release). When downloading the raw music files from Zophar's Domain (in their .spc format), these files have a modified date of December 11, 2007, fully confirming the site as being the initial source of those titles

|Grand Opening

|Refers to the first half of the intro for Spring Breeze taking place at night.

|Japanese name for [[Spring Breeze]]. (はるかぜとともに)<br>Unlike other songs with a similar naming convention, this is used to name the credits to this specific game mode as the title screen of Spring Breeze in the original ''Kirby Super Star'' is silent (it uses [[Welcome to Dream Land]] in ''[[Kirby Super Star Ultra]]'' however)

|Japanese name of Mallow Castle is '''Marshmallow Castle''' (マシュマロ城)

|Japanese title for [[Gourmet Race]] ({{furi|激突|げきとつ}}！グルメレース)

|[[Gourmet Race (theme)|Gourmet Race]]

|

|Japanese title for [[Sub-Tree]], the area this song plays in. (ちていの{{furi|木々|きぎ}})<br>The title can be translated as either Subterranean Forest or Trees in the Depths of the Earth.

|Mine Cart Area*

|[[Vs. Marx]] or [[Meddlesome Marx]]

|Listing this as a very special case because this predated the same official title used for the cutscene of the same name.

|This song used to be played in the Game Over screen for all games besides Milky Way Wishes, but is instead moved as a title theme for aforementioned game in [[Kirby Super Star Ultra]].

|May be used to describe how Kirby battles within a mid-boss arena in some battles. Colosseum Battle is another Japanese translation of Arena Showdown, first seen in the ''[[Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track]]''.

Next up are the titles featured in the ''[[Kirby Super Star Ultra]]'' OST, given by Zophar's Domain. This does not account for all the music reused from the original ''Super Star''.

|[[Masked Dedede's Theme]] (or The Masked King)

|The King and the Sun*

|Name taken from the cutscene, using the same naming principle as [[My Friend and the Sunset]], which is derived from the cutscene "Friends and Sun".

|The Megaton Punch theme is reused for the character select screen in [[Helper to Hero]].

|The Japanese name for Arena Showdown can be literally translated as Colosseum Battle.

|Alternate Corkboard

|[[Stage: Comical]]

|Mid-Boss*

|Note that [[Mid-Boss]]es are usually not referred to as "minibosses" in any official material.

|Boss*

Zophar's Domain also uploaded the songs with the Japanese titles, following closely on the translations from VGMdb. Despite this, several translation mistakes are present, including misspelling [[Adeleine]] in one instance as "Adeline" instead, and further worsening the translations of certain cutscene music ("Beach's Backyard" being actually "Idiot of the Sea"/"All Washed Up", and "Here We Go" being misinterpreted as "Overnight Detective"). For some reason, various reuploads of the ''Kirby 64'' soundtrack on YouTube use these titles despite accurate translations existing for most of the songs on VGMdb.

Note that the following titles are considered official to some capacity unless if they are mistranslated, in which case they will be classified as conjectural with an asterisk symbol (*). This symbol will also be used to mark any titles listed under the "Actual title" column that remain conjectural.

|[[Bumper Crop Bump]]*

|Rough translation of the Japanese title of Bumper Crop Bump, "Catch Catch Battle" (とるとるバトル). The word "Toru" (とる) can be translated as either "catch" or "take", hence the conjectural translation used.<br>This translation was first used by Laizorb in an upload of the song to YouTube on April 27, 2008, but is translated more literally instead as "Take-Take Battle" on VGMdb.

|[[Checkerboard Chase]]

|Rough translation of the Japanese title of Checkerboard Chase, "Fall Fall Fight". (おちおちファイト). Properly named in ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]''.

|[[100-Yard Hop]]*

|First title is a mistranslation of the Japanese title of 100-Yard Hop, "Hop Hop Race" (けんけんレース). It is not known how "けんけん" was mistranslated as "Noisy".<br>Race Game is a more generic term used by Laizorb in an upload of the song on February 11, 2010.

|(No official title. It is based on [[Entrance]].)

|Rough translation of its Japanese title of the song, "Factory Tour" (こうじょうけんがく). The word "うけんがく" means "tour" in English, but can be also translated as "inspection" or "study". The title appears to be translated first as "Factory Inspection" by Laizorb in an upload of the ''Kirby 64'' soundtrack dated February 11, 2010.<br>''[[Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition Compilation Soundtrack]]'' gave the official title, which was also translated correctly on VGMdb.

|Laizorb uploaded this song to YouTube on February 11, 2010. This specific upload of the song is the first to name it as Ripple Star Catacombs due to it lacking an official title. It is described as being like a catacomb due to the word also being used to define a labyrinthine area, which is accurate to what [[Ripple Star - Stage 2|the stage it plays in]] looks like in layout.

|Rough translation of the Japanese title: OK, On to the Next (よっしゃつぎいこ).

|First title is a mistranslation of the Japanese title "Idiot of the Sea" (うみのバカヤロー), where the word "idiot" (バカヤロー ) was mistakenly translated as "backyard" (バックヤード)'

|Swing remix of [[Forest Stage]].

|Direct port of "Forest/Nature Area" from ''[[Kirby & The Amazing Mirror]]'', although pitched up by 1 semitone.

|[[Vegetable Valley (theme)|Vegetable Valley]]<br>Stage: Plains (''Nintendo Mobile'' ringtone service)

|[[Forest Stage|Cave/Rocky Area]]<br>Stage: Cave (''Nintendo Mobile'' ringtone service)

|Direct port of the "Cave/Rocky Area" theme from ''Kirby & The Amazing Mirror''.

|Direct port of the "Space Area" theme from ''Kirby & The Amazing Mirror''.

|Direct port of the "Ruins Area" theme from ''Kirby & The Amazing Mirror''.

|[[Butter Building (theme)|Butter Building]]<br>Stage: Castle Dedede, Etc. (''Nintendo Mobile'' ringtone service)

For a very long time, the soundtrack of ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' relied on a combination of rough Japanese translations from ''[[Kirby Wii Music Selection]]'', assumed titles based on internal names and stage themes, and so much more. I've theorized that the rest of the conjectural titles were done by uploaders like GiIvaSunner and BrawlBRSTMs3 X when they uploaded the OST to YouTube.

GiIvaSunner was the first uploader of those songs to use these conjectural titles, especially those which are based on internal data names for most stage music. It should be noted that more obscure uploads of the songs that are way before GiIvaSunner may have used different song titles and often include beta tracks accidentally mixed into them.

Some song titles were translated from ''Kirby Wii Music Selection'' by WiKirby administrator [[User:FalcoLau|FalcoLau]] on [https://vgmdb.net/album/33773 VGMDb]. This introduced the first instance of [[Welcome Your New Overlord]] being initially referred to as "Under My Control", and this conjectural translation even still persists at present.

As of February 24, 2023, all songs in the game soundtrack have received official titles in English and Japanese (and other languages) thanks to the inclusion of song titles in the [[Jukebox]] for ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]''. There are no conjectural titles for the new songs in the latter, as they have been already given official names.

|(No official title) Wii Channel Jingle / Hidden Magolor Found (''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]'' title)

|'''Title Theme'''

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|'''File Select''' / '''Lor Starcutter'''

|The song is used in the file select screen prior to completing Story Mode, which replaces it with "Once Cleared, the Fun Begins".

|'''File Select 2'''

|Once Cleared, the Fun Begins

|'''Lor Starcutter'''

|Green Greens (Return to Dream Land)

|'''Ability Room'''

|Taking a Break

|'''Pop Star'''

|Planet Popstar

|'''Looming Darkness'''

|Refers to the walls of darkness that draw in closer as the player progresses through the interdimensional segments in a stage.

|'''Forest Area'''

|The internal name of this song is st_mori. "Mori" (森) means "forest" in Japanese.

|'''Rocky Area''' / '''Cave Area'''

|The internal filename used is st_iwa, and "iwa" (岩) means "rock" in Japanese.

|'''Peaceful Place'''

|

|'''Over the Hills'''

|Rough translation of the title given in ''[[Kirby Wii Music Selection]]''.

|'''Boss Prelude''' (GiIvaSunner) / '''Signs of Battle''' (VGMdb)

|'''Boss Battle''' (GiIvaSunner) / '''White-Heat! Boss Battle''' (VGMdb)

|'''Desert Area''' (GiIvaSunner) / '''Desert''' (VGMdb)

|The internal name of this song is ST_KBYW_DESERT1. It is translated more generically as "Desert" on VGMdb.

|'''Oasis Area'''

|'''Cacti Area'''

|The internal name of this song is ST_KBYW_CACTUS1, suggesting the song was originally meant to play in a desert area, hence the prominent usage of banjos in an earlier revision of the song.

|'''Eerie Area'''

|The internal filename is st_bukimi, and "bukimi" (不気味) means "eerie" in Japanese.

|'''Mine Area'''

|[[Vestiges of the Ancients]]

|Internal name of this song is KbyW_MINE1, contrasting it from the final usage of the song being in a pyramid interior.

|'''Aqua Area'''

|[[Summer Sands and Cool Waves]]

|Assumed based on the level theming.

|'''Cave Area'''

|The internal name of this song is KbyW_CAVE1.

|'''Rainy Area''' (GiIvaSunner) / '''Walking in the Sea''' (VGMdb)

|The internal name of this song is ST_KBYW_RAIN1.

|'''Underwater Area'''

|The internal name of this song is st_water.

|'''Cold Area''' / '''Snowball Fight''' (VGMdb)

|The internal name of this song is KbyW_COLD2. Snowball Scuffle can also be translated more generically as Snowball Fight.

|'''Chilly Area'''

|'''Key Challenge'''

|Plays in bonus areas in various [[White Wafers]] stages, which especially focus on puzzles with [[Key]]s.

|'''Icy Cavern'''

|

|'''Aurora Area'''

|'''Super Copy Boss'''

|Internal name is SuperCopyBoss01.

|'''Castle Area'''

|Internal name is st_castle.

|'''Grape Garden'''

|Dreaming of Clouds is a rearrangement of Grape Garden from ''[[Kirby's Adventure]]''.

|'''King Dedede's Theme'''

|[[Crash! Mid-Boss Tower]]

|Banger alert.

|'''Super Ability vs. Grand Doomer'''

|Unused variant of [[Ultra-Super Boss Battle]] where it's in F# Minor and is faster.

|'''Lor Starcutter (Halcandra)'''

|'''Steel Station''' (GiIvaSunner) / '''Steel Hometown''' (VGMdb)

|The Japanese title of The Birthplace of Steel (鋼鉄ノコキョウ) can be translated in either way.

|'''Apparatus Area'''

|'''Mid-Boss 2'''

|'''Funky Area'''

|The internal name is KbyW_FUNK1.

|'''Waterworks Area'''

|[[The Last Iceberg|Into the Underground Waterway]]

|'''Volcano Area'''

|The internal filename is st_kazan, and "kazan" (火山) means "volcano" in Japanese.

|'''Infinite Power'''

|'''Landia'''

|'''Another Dimension'''

|'''Under My Control''' (VGMdb) / '''VS Magolor''' (GiIvaSunner)

|'''Under My Control''' is a rough translation of Magolor's last dialogue in the Japanese version of the Let Me Explain Everything cutscene. It can be translated as "Fall Under my Rule", but many ''Kirby'' fans use "Under My Control" more until the release of ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]''. It was first given as a title by [[User:FalcoLau|FalcoLau]], from his translations of the song titles for ''[[Kirby Wii Music Selection]]'' on [https://vgmdb.net/album/33773 VGMDb].

|[[Climactic Clash! Robo Dedede]]

|The song "Climactic Clash! Robo Dedede" is a remix of Heavy Lobster's theme.

|'''True Arena'''

|The title is technically correct as it plays in the True Arena, but only on the ability selection room. Road to Victory is still used for regular boss battles in The True Arena, and Dangerous Dinner ("A Dangerous, High-Flying Finale" in ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]'') is still used for the title screen theme.

|How Many Did We Hit?

|Title refers to this song being used as tutorial music in Challenge Stages.

|Explanations

|Pressure Panic

|'''Challenge Stage'''

|

|'''Challenge Stage (Allegro)'''

|Rush to the Goal!

|

|Kirby Master!

|While the title is correct, the "Chef Kawasaki" here in [[Scope Shot]] is actually Mecha Kawasaki, a giant, robotic version of him.

!colspan=4|This is based on conjectural names given by GiIvaSunner (via GiIvaSunner: Archive due to the original channel being taken down).

|(No official title. It is a remix of the "Helper's Rest" version of [[Ripple Star: Stage Select]])

|A unique arrangement of The World to Win with a new intro.

|A unique remix of [[Peanut Plains (theme)|Peanut Plains]] and [[Green Greens (theme)|Green Greens]] for the staff credits (not to be confused with the Story Mode credits).

Prior to the release of ''[[Kirby: Planet Robobot Original Soundtrack]]'' in 2017 (and in 2018 worldwide on various streaming services), the soundtrack was first given conjectural titles by the YouTube soundtrack channel "GiIvaSunner", who uploaded the soundtrack right after the game's initial release in Japan on April 28, 2016. On the channel, some more generic track names originated from there, including "P-R-O-G-R-A-M" ([[Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection]]), "Casino Area" ([[Gorgeous-Go-Round]]), and Train Area ([[Steel Beat]]). These tracks were eventually given translations of the official Japanese titles in 2017. The soundtrack was then taken down on January 15, 2018<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220207175412/https://twitter.com/GilvaSunner/status/952913544303005697 Archived Twitter post] by @GiIvaSunner on January 15, 2018</ref> after several videos of the songs were copyright claimed and removed by [[HAL Laboratory]].

Besides GiIvaSunner, most of the more commonly used conjectural titles like "City of Sound" and "Lively Street" were found to originate from YouTube video game soundtrack channel "Vector Harbor"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170716154916/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McudYg2SqJI Archived page] of a video upload of "[[Pink Ball Activate!]]" from Vector Harbor, named as "Heart of Steel" at the time</ref>, also known as "Vector Hunter". These conjectural titles were used in uploads of the soundtrack dated April 26, 2016, two days prior to the Japanese release date of ''[[Kirby: Planet Robobot]]''. These titles would also be used in converted uploads of the soundtrack for use in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' modding, which were initially hosted on [https://web.archive.org/web/20160529150151/http://www.smashcustommusic.com:80 Brawl Custom Music] (now [https://smashcustommusic.net Smash Custom Music]) since April 27, 2016. This furthers support of the titles' origins being from the Vector Harbor channel. A [https://www.reddit.com/r/Kirby/comments/4s3c0p/what_are_your_favourite_planet_robobot_themes/ discussion] on the fan subreddit "r/kirby" details a lot of conjectural titles for the music, with links that point back to fan uploads on the Vector Harbor channel.

|Conjectural title meant to parallel the naming scheme behind [[Floral Fields]] from ''[[Kirby: Triple Deluxe]]''.

|Rhythm Code

|Program Rhythm is the Japanese name for the song.<br>Puzzle Room is more used by fans prior to the song getting an official title, especially on the present-day SiIvaGunner channel which regards it as one of the channel's more popular memes.

|

|Conjectural title based on Green Greens since this is a rearrangement of the song.

|Likely refers to all the gooey specimen in the background (colored green), however they also appear in other laboratory stages in different colors.<br>Sand Canyon 3 refers to the song being a remix of such.

|Theme of various boss battles. Haltmann Works Elite Management is a title used by other extension channels like Ferahnaz Durmaz.

|Describes the various levels in [[Resolution Road]].<br>"Lovely Yellow Va-Va-Vrooms" is a rough translation of the Japanese title, previously used by GiIvaSunner and SiIvaGunner.

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|Bountiful Star

|[[Overload Ocean]]'s stages where the song plays are set by the harbor.<br>Named due to the song's similarities with [[Aqua Star (theme)|Aqua Star's stage music]].

|"My Happy Sweet Time" is, more-or-less, the Japanese name. It is translated usually as "My Happy ☆ Sweets Time ♪".

|[[Gigabyte Grounds]]

|Conjectural title is technically a misnomer as Gigabyte Grounds is not fully themed around electrical engines.

|Also referred to as simply "Core Kabula" on both GiIvaSunner and SiIvaGunner.<ref>[https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/Core_Kabula_-_Kirby_Planet_Robobot "Core Kabula - Kirby Planet Robobot"] on the SiIvaGunner Wiki</ref><br>Air Battle is used by Vector Harbor and Ferahnaz Durmaz on their uploaded extensions of the ''Planet Robobot'' soundtrack, but is referred to as Core Kabula Battle through an upload by mariofan12fy.

|Refers to the number of [[Dedede Clone]]s piloting the D3.

|Haltmann Works Co. HQ

|Laser Lab refers to the various laser obstacles that appear throughout the pristine lab stages of [[Access Ark]]. The second title is a rough translation of the Japanese title.

|Mecha Knightmare is made as a parallel to the name of the [[Meta Knightmare]] sub-game series. "Battle with the Spirit of Self" is a more literal translation of the Japanese title.

|Final Takeoff

|VS. Star Dream

|Fatal Error

|Refers to the Star Dream combining with the [[Access Ark (ship)|Access Ark]].

|Virtual Space Manipulator is a description based on Star Dream's teleporting attacks.

|P-R-O-G-R-A-M is based on the naming convention for [[C-R-O-W-N-E-D]], but with the names of the levels in ''Kirby: Planet Robobot''. It is still used by SiIvaGunner alongside the official name, "Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection", up to present.<page>Super Nova is used to describe Star Dream's appearance resembling that of [[Galactic Nova]], even more so in the [[Star Dream Soul OS]] fight.

|Pink Ball Revolution

|''[[Kirby's Dream Land 2]]'' x2. It sounds like a cutscene name, but Dark Matter Clone's cutscene name is '''The Dark Rainbow Thief'''.<br>Dark Reproduction is an alternate translation of its Japanese title (暗黒の復刻).

|[[The Greatest Warrior in the Galaxy Ever]]

|[[Galacta Knight]] was brought in from an unspecified dimension, hence the title. This title was also used by GiIvaSunner to name the track in uploads of the ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' soundtrack on YouTube.

|Combat Evaluation Program

|'''Last Fight / Heart of Nova'''

|Soul 0 System

|Once again, Heart of Nova is a conjectural name for the ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'' song [[Milky Way Wishes: Shooting]], first seen on Zophar's Domain. Last Fight could mean anything else.

|Vagrant Keepsake of Oblivion

|The Noble Haltmann: Final Recital

*Any tracks missing in Commander Jersey's ''Star Allies'' uploads

|While Green Gardens is correct, "Green Gears" is the same conjectural title that was made by Vector Harbor for their upload of said song in the ''[[Kirby: Planet Robobot]]'' soundtrack. It is officially titled "Re: Green Greens" in the [[Kirby: Planet Robobot Original Soundtrack|soundtrack release]].

|Not to be confused with Rhythm Code from ''[[Kirby: Planet Robobot]]'', which was also referred to by the conjectural title "Puzzle Room" (and later "Program Rhythm", based on the Japanese title)

|Forest Area is the conjectural title (first given by GiIvaSunner) for '''Woods Wayfarer''' from ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'', arranged for this song. [[Honey Hill]] is spelled in plural as "Honey Hills".

|'''Clash at Castle Dedede''' / '''Heading for the Brave Ones''' (Old translation by [[User:Starpunch|Starpunch]])

|Heading for the Brave Ones is an older translation revision of "For Those Who Are Brave", which is retained on Eternal's upload of the song on YouTube. This initial translation was done by WiKirby administrator Starpunch.

|Swole Dedede is an unofficial term referring to the buff form King Dedede takes on in his boss fight. It is officially named "buff King Dedede" or "macho King Dedede".

|To a Land Where Not Even Weeds Will Grow

|Jambastion Adventure

|Song of Supplication

|"Prayer song to God" is the Japanese title of Song of Supplication, written as such in the soundtrack.