Dire, Dire Docks (theme)

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"Dire, Dire Docks"
"Dire, Dire Docks" in Super Mario 64
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by: Koji Kondo
Key	G major
BPM	68
Time signature(s)	² ₂
First appearance	Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance	Mario Kart World (2025)

"Dire, Dire Docks"^[1]^[2] is a recurring theme composed for Super Mario 64 by Koji Kondo that plays in Dire, Dire Docks; Jolly Roger Bay; and The Secret Aquarium.

The theme has two additional versions that fade in depending on the player's location in the level, one with added synths and another with added percussions. In soundtrack versions, the themes are played sequentially.

Dire, Dire Docks (Synths) - The arrangement heard in Super Mario 64	File info 0:30

Dire, Dire Docks (Percussion) - The arrangement heard in Super Mario 64	File info 0:30

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The locations in which these versions play in each level are as follows:

Course	Base version	Version with added synths	Version with added percussion
Dire, Dire Docks	In the first area	Starting at the entrance of the tunnel in the Nintendo 64 version Starting halfway through the tunnel in the Nintendo DS version	On land in the second area
Jolly Roger Bay	Above land Inside the sunken ship	While swimming	Inside the ship, after the water is drained (N64 only) On land in the cavern area
The Secret Aquarium	In the Nintendo 64 version	N/A	In the Nintendo DS version

ArrangementsEdit

Super Mario 64 DSEdit

In Super Mario 64 DS, a slower version of "Dire, Dire Docks" plays in the Psyche Out! minigame.

Psyche Out! - The arrangement heard in Super Mario 64 DS	File info 0:30

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Mario Kart WorldEdit

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In Mario Kart World, a saxophone arrangement of "Dire, Dire Docks" can play in Free Roam.

List of Super Mario appearancesEdit

GamesEdit

Work	System	Year	Type	Title	Credits
Super Mario 64	Nintendo 64	1996	Original	"Dire, Dire Docks"^[2]	Koji Kondo
Super Mario 64 DS	Nintendo DS	2004	Original	"Dire, Dire Docks"^[2]	Koji Kondo
Super Mario 64 DS	Nintendo DS	2004	Arrangement
Super Mario 3D All-Stars	Nintendo Switch	2020	Original	"Dire, Dire Docks"^[2]	Koji Kondo
Mario Kart World	Nintendo Switch 2	2025	Arrangement

AlbumsEdit

Work	Year	Type	Title	Credits
Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack	1996	Original	"Dire, Dire Docks"	Koji Kondo
Nintendo 64 Original Soundtrack Greatest Hits	1996	Original	"Dire, Dire Docks"	Koji Kondo
Nintendo Sound Selection Vol.1: Healing Music	2003	Original	「ウォーターランド」 (Wōtā Rando)	Koji Kondo
Happy! Mario 20th - Super Mario Sound Collection	2005	Original	「ウォーターランド」 (Wōtā Rando)	Koji Kondo
The 30th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Music	2015	Original	「ウォーターランド」 (Wōtā Rando)	Koji Kondo

NotesEdit

On the Nintendo Music app, "Dire, Dire Docks" is labeled as "Selects", classifying it as one "of the very best tracks from the Nintendo Music library", originating from Super Mario 64. "Dire, Dire Docks" shares this title with "Main Theme" and "Slider".

ReferencesEdit

^ Nintendo Music
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack

[Edit] Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise	Donkey Kong	"Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM" • "Title BGM"
	Donkey Kong Jr.	"Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
	Donkey Kong Country	"Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
	Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest	"Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
	Donkey Kong 64	"DK Isle" • "DK Rap"
	Donkey Kong Country Returns	"Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series	Mario Bros.	"Game Start" • "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series	Wrecking Crew	"Bonus Phase" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series	Super Mario Bros.	"1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Pipe Travel / Power-Down" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
	VS. Super Mario Bros.	"Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
	Super Mario Bros. 2	"Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
	Super Mario Bros. 3	"Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
	Super Mario Land	"Main Theme" • "Underground Theme"
	Super Mario World	"Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
	Super Mario 64	"Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll"
	Super Mario Sunshine	"Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
	New Super Mario Bros.	"Course Clear" • "Fortress Theme" • "Main Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!"
	Super Mario Galaxy	"Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	"Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
	Super Mario Galaxy 2	"Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme"
	Super Mario 3D Land	"Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Underwater Theme"
	New Super Mario Bros. U	"Ground Theme"
	Super Mario 3D World	"A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
	Super Mario Maker	"Title Theme"
	Super Mario Odyssey	"Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series	Dr. Mario	"Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series	Super Mario Kart	"Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Donut Plains" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
	Mario Kart 64	"Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
	Mario Kart: Super Circuit	"Koopa Castle Course" • "GBA Mario Circuit"
	Mario Kart: Double Dash!!	"GCN Baby Park" • "GCN Daisy Cruiser" • "GCN Yoshi Circuit"
	Mario Kart DS	"Waluigi Pinball"
	Mario Kart Wii	"Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
	Mario Kart 7	"Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Toad Circuit"
	Mario Kart 8	"Cloudtop Cruise"
Yoshi franchise	Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island	"Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi franchise	Yoshi's Story	"Yoshi's Song" • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series	Luigi's Mansion	"Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise	WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!	"Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "WarioWare, Inc." ("Dr. Crygor")
	WarioWare: Twisted!	"Mona Pizza"
	WarioWare: Touched!	"Ashley's Theme"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series	Mario vs. Donkey Kong	"Mini Mario Stage"
Other	The Legend of Zelda	"Important Item Acquired" • "Overworld Theme"
	Mario Paint	"Save & Load"
	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars	"Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
	Miscellaneous	"Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" • "Totaka's Song"

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	Basement and courtyard	Big Boo's Haunt • Hazy Maze Cave • Lethal Lava Land • Shifting Sand Land • Dire, Dire Docks • Bowser in the Fire Sea • Cavern of the Metal Cap/Behind the Waterfall • Vanish Cap Under the Moat/The Secret Under the Moat • Big Boo Battle^c • Battle Fort^c
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