Author Topic: For All You Old School Nintendo Fans... (Read 4323 times)

oldskoolcade · « **on:** July 07, 2004, 09:03:14 am »

...whose wives or significant others say that you're a nerd for spending all your time building arcade cabinets and the like...Show them this piece of video, and you'll never be tormented again :-)

http://gprime.net/video/blindfoldedmariopianist2.php

Cheers!
Mike

menace · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2004, 09:35:54 am »

blind folded or not--the fact that he knows all those tunes that well and can play them is amazing in my books!! few too many hours playing mario games me thinks

DaveMMR · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2004, 10:18:47 am »

There's also a video of a man who can play the music from SMB (including the sound effects) on his guitar.

Here's the link:

NoBonus · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2004, 10:49:03 am »

The piano guy is crazy good. The last two minutes are fantastic. It's too bad one cannot get an .mp3 of the piano performance.

NoBonus · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2004, 10:52:03 am »

Does anyone know where to get an .mp3 of that performance? That was great!

abrannan · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2004, 11:22:18 am »

Quote from: menace on July 07, 2004, 09:35:54 am

blind folded or not--the fact that he knows all those tunes that well and can play them is amazing in my books!! few too many hours playing mario games me thinks

Only if he's playing solely by ear. There are plenty of arrangements of the SMB music that he could have read/memorized off of. He's only blindfolded the first two minutes, too. Professional pianists hardly ever look at the keys while they're playing.

It's still a good performance, but not ungodly. I give it 2.5 "meh"s.

DaveMMR · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2004, 12:02:00 pm »

Quote from: abrannan on July 07, 2004, 11:22:18 am

Only if he's playing solely by ear. There are plenty of arrangements of the SMB music that he could have read/memorized off of. He's only blindfolded the first two minutes, too. Professional pianists hardly ever look at the keys while they're playing.

I'll give you two good examples: Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles.

GameDork · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2004, 12:16:45 pm »

I am amazed by anyone that can play the piano!! I think this guy was amazing , no matter what anybody says

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2004, 01:32:08 pm »

who cares if hes blindfolded or not, i dont think any of you guys can do that =P

NoBonus · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2004, 01:38:20 pm »

Indeed. Now, how can I convert that MPEG into a mp3?

menace · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2004, 02:12:09 pm »

Quote

Indeed. Now, how can I convert that MPEG into a mp3?

multiplex it through tmpgenc and get the wav file, discard the rest...

abrannan · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2004, 02:48:59 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on July 07, 2004, 01:32:08 pm

who cares if hes blindfolded or not, i dont think any of you guys can do that =P

Not today, no. Since I haven't played piano in over 16 years. Gimme a year to practice?

DaveMMR · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2004, 03:20:07 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on July 07, 2004, 01:32:08 pm

who cares if hes blindfolded or not, i dont think any of you guys can do that =P

yeah, but can he build an arcade cabinet?

gnateye · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2004, 03:50:03 pm »

http://www.gprime.net/mariopiano/

the sheet music is available on that site

crashwg · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2004, 04:22:00 pm »

Although impressed by this obvious talent... I'm a little bit more impressed by "balloon swallow" also located in the video section.

GameDork · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2004, 04:26:25 pm »

Quote from: crashwg on July 07, 2004, 04:22:00 pm

Although impressed by this obvious talent... I'm a little bit more impressed by "balloon swallow" also located in the video section.

Yeah, I saw that too, and I'm a bit confused.... What happened next? She poop it out? Cough it back up? What?

Mr. Dude · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2004, 04:32:46 pm »

That guy is awesome!!

SirPeale · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2004, 08:21:36 pm »

Quote from: crashwg on July 07, 2004, 04:22:00 pm

Although impressed by this obvious talent... I'm a little bit more impressed by "balloon swallow" also located in the video section.

I've seen that before. Still impressive. Who are these lovely ladies?

NoBonus · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:06:16 am »

Quote from: crashwg on July 07, 2004, 04:22:00 pm

Although impressed by this obvious talent... I'm a little bit more impressed by "balloon swallow" also located in the video section.

Do you honestly think she swallowed that balloon? It appeared to me to that it may have deflated in her mouth.

SirPeale · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2004, 08:43:30 am »

It's just like sword swallowing. I'm sure she did it. The gross thing will be bringing it back up.

Floyd10 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2004, 03:54:02 pm »

Ah... Its music to my ears

hyiu · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2004, 06:23:10 pm »

its nice.....

...

btw... can anyone show me how to save it

thx....

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2004, 10:05:50 pm »

Download the txt file attached and change the extention to html and open it in Internet Explorer or whatever then right click the address and save target as. Good luck.

J_K_M_A_N

P.S.
On my computer, if I just click the file it opens with the link right away. I can then right click and save target as.

Daniel270 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 09, 2004, 03:05:51 am »

Here ya go....

http://gprime.iamhosted.com/([url=http://www.gprime.net_--_kindly_hosted_by_iamhosted.com]www.gprime.net_--_kindly_hosted_by_iamhosted.com)_blindfoldedmariopianist2.wmv[/url]

*edit* - You might have to cut and paste the whole thing to get it to work...

SirPoonga · « **Reply #24 on:** July 09, 2004, 10:16:45 am »

My friend can listen to a song and start playing it by ear, not sure if he could do it blindfolded though.

Floyd10 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 09, 2004, 05:39:00 pm »

loooong performance

lol, Im bored before work

NoBonus · « **Reply #26 on:** July 13, 2004, 12:31:28 am »

QUESTION FOR YA'LL:

I got an e-mail from the Blindfoldedpianist (featured in the video) and he wants to put together a real simple web-page but lacks the technical expertese. Is there anyone out there who would help this guy out. I would but I am simply awful at web-page creation, awful.

PM me with your e-mail if you want to help him and I will send your e-mail or I can just give you his or whatever.

Thanks,

NoBonus

gprime · « **Reply #27 on:** August 24, 2004, 02:39:09 pm »

was searching my name, and noticed you guys mentioned my site. cool. (sorry about the bump)

Jakobud · « **Reply #28 on:** August 24, 2004, 03:05:27 pm »

Quote from: DaveMMR on July 07, 2004, 10:18:47 am

There's also a video of a man who can play the music from SMB (including the sound effects) on his guitar.

Here's the link:

Wow... Flock of Seagulls must just now be getting popular over in Japan.

Floyd10 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 24, 2004, 03:24:59 pm »

Quote from: gprime on August 24, 2004, 02:39:09 pm

was searching my name, and noticed you guys mentioned my site. cool. (sorry about the bump)

No Bonus said he gave my e-mail to you about the site. No reply... did you find someone else?

gprime · « **Reply #30 on:** August 24, 2004, 03:31:47 pm »

Quote from: Floyd10 on August 24, 2004, 03:24:59 pm

Quote from: gprime on August 24, 2004, 02:39:09 pm
was searching my name, and noticed you guys mentioned my site. cool. (sorry about the bump)

No Bonus said he gave my e-mail to you about the site. No reply... did you find someone else?

Ah.. It's just my site, I'm not the piano man . But he made the video just for me .... I feel special

gprime · « **Reply #31 on:** August 24, 2004, 03:35:30 pm »

Oh and apparently he has a site now: http://www.theblindfoldedpianist.com/

The layout isn't so great.. maybe he's still looking for help?

Floyd10 · « **Reply #32 on:** August 24, 2004, 03:43:57 pm »

wow, what a waste of frames... Im gonna go cry now :p

NoBonus · « **Reply #33 on:** August 24, 2004, 04:00:40 pm »

I did give him your e-mail Floyd10, but he never responded...

Floyd10 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 25, 2004, 11:31:12 pm »

its ok, i believed you.


Main	Restorations	Software	Audio/Jukebox/MP3	Everything Else	Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements	Monitor/Video	GroovyMAME	Merit/JVL Touchscreen	Meet Up	Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing	Woodworking	Software Support Forums	Consoles	Project Arcade	Reviews
Automated Projects	Artwork	Frontend Support Forums	Pinball	Forum Discussion	Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board	controls.dat	Linux	Miscellaneous Arcade	Wiki Discussion	Old Archives
Lightguns	Arcade1Up	Try the site in https mode		Site News


Unread posts \| New Replies \| Recent posts \| Rules \| Chatroom \| Wiki \| File Repository \| RSS \| Submit news