Kazumi Totaka

Kazumi Totaka (戸高 一生) is a Japanese video game composer, active since 1991 who worked as a composer for the soundtrack of various Nintendo games such as Mario Paint and Animal Crossing. He also voices Yoshi from the Super Mario series and was the director for Wii Music. Asuka Ohta was an assistant of Kazumi Totaka.

Kazumi Totaka's song

Totaka's Song, more commonly referred to as the "Mario Paint" song prior to the discovery of the K.K. song in Animal Crossing and the song's first appearance in X is a short tune of a few notes hidden within various Nintendo games. It first appeared in X, the first game worked on by Kazumi Totaka.

In X (1992)

• Waiting on a fake Dr. Yamano scientist scene in Mission 4 for a few moments causes the music to change to Kazumi Totaka's song.

In Mario Paint (1992)

• Clicking on the 'O' on the title screen causes the letter to turn into a bomb and explode, stopping the music and causing Kazumi Totaka's song to play a few seconds later.

In For the Frog the Bell Tolls (1992)

• After the gold rush quest, and using the Mammoth to donate gold to the port town, the player will be escorted back to the second village. However, if the player decides to later return to the port town a mansion will have appeared there. If the player waits in this building for a few minutes the music will temporarily stop and Kazumi Totaka's song will play there before looping again. The player must not have completed the fourth castle visit and rescued Princess Tiramisu otherwise the building will be blocked off and a new file must be started.

In Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992)

• If Mario loses all of his lives and the player waits on the Game Over screen for a few minutes, the music will eventually stop and Totaka's song will play before looping again.

In The Legend of Zelda:Link's Awakening/DX (1993)

• If Link waits in Prince Richard's villa for a moment, then the music will temporarily stop and Kazumi Totaka's song will play there before looping again. This is may be a reference to For the Frog the Bell Tolls' version of Totaka's Song, as Prince Richard originally appeared as the player character's rival in that game.
  • In the DX version, this can also be triggered when Link has his photo taken outside of Kanalet Castle, because Richard's Theme also plays here.
• In the Japanese version of the game, entering "TOTAKEKE" will change the music to a remix of Totaka's Song.
• In the German version of the game, entering "MOYSE" (the name of the German language localiser) will change the music to a remix of Totaka's Song.
• Another version of Totaka's Song has been found in the game code, but is seemingly unused. It is reminiscent of sounds from the Ocarina or Song of the Sirens.

In Virtual Boy Wario Land (1995)

• After watching the credits, waiting on the 'END' screen for 1 minute and 15 seconds will trigger Kasumi Totaka's song.

In Yoshi's Story (1997)

• Waiting on the Trial Mode stage select screen for a while will trigger Kasumi Totaka's song.

In Mario Artist (1999-2000)

• Totaka's song is one of the tracks which can be played over the player's creations.
• Totaka's song is heard in an in-game video of a speeding driver moving towards an old man in scenes for the old man.

In the Animal Crossing series (2001-2008)

• Totaka's song can be heard when the player requests to hear 'K.K. Song' in all current games of the series.
  • In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, the song can be requested from K.K. Slider at Brewster's Roost between 8pm and midnight on a Saturday.
• Totaka's song can be found when scanning Animal Crossing e-Reader cards P13 and P15.
• In Animal Crossing: City Folk, Kapp'n will sometimes whistle Kasumi Totaka's song on the bus between the player's town and the city.

In Luigi's Mansion (2001)

• Near the beginning of the game, if the player waits at the controller configuration screen for 3 minutes and 25 seconds, Totaka's song will play .

In Pikmin 2 (2004)

• If the player completes an uncompleted cave and collected all the treasures confetti will appear. If the player waits on the 'cave complete!' screen for several minutes Totaka's song will play.

In Yoshi's Touch & Go (2005)

• In the mountainous areas where wind is blowing if the player waits for several minutes Totaka's Song will play. This can be achieved by leaving the game paused.

In X-Scape (2010)

• After the player saves the fake doctor from the planet Mapate and brings him to the base on Mordarl, the player's support robot VIX-529 will talk with the player. When VIX-529 asks 'What's that?' if the player leaves the game on this scene for several minutes Totaka's Song will eventually play.

Known games assisted by Kazumi Totaka

• Animal Forest
• Animal Crossing
• Animal Crossing: City Folk
• Animal Crossing: Wild World
• F-1 Race
• For the Frog the Bell Tolls
• Healthy Recipe Assistant 1000: DS Menu Anthology
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening/DX
• Luigi's Mansion
• Mario Artist: Talent Studio
• Mario Paint
• Nintendo 3DS hardware/ built-in software
• Pikmin 2
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
• Tetris & Dr. Mario
• Virtual Boy Wario Land
• Wave Race 64
• Wii (menus)
• Wii Music
• Wii Sports
• X
• X-Scape
• Yoshi's Story
• Yoshi Touch & Go

External links

• Kasumi Totaka's Song at NinDB