Switch On!

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This article is about the musical theme from New Super Mario Bros. For the theme from Super Mario Bros. 3, see P Switch BGM / Toad's House. For the theme from Super Mario World, see P Switch BGM.
"Switch On!"
"Switch On!" in New Super Mario Bros.
Thumbnail for "Switch On!" from New Super Mario Bros. used for Nintendo Music
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Composed by:
Unknown (either Asuka Hayazaki, Hajime Wakai, or Koji Kondo)
First appearance New Super Mario Bros. (2006)
Latest appearance The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

"Switch On!"[1] is a recurring musical theme that appears in the New Super Mario Bros. series when a P Switch or ? Switch is hit. The theme is composed of two parts; the second part of the theme repeats if the P Switch timer is extended in some way.

Reuses[edit]

Game Description
Taiko no Tatsujin The arrangement from New Super Mario Bros. Wii is included in the "New Super Mario Bros. Wii Medley" track, available in various games starting from Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Minna de Party Sandaime!

Arrangements[edit]

New Super Mario Bros. Wii / Super Mario Maker[edit]

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An updated version of "Switch On!" composed by Kenta Nagata[2] appears in New Super Mario Bros. Wii with slightly different instrumentation. This version would be reused in New Super Mario Bros. 2 (with an additional tick-tock sound added), New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U, New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe as well as in the New Super Mario Bros. U style of Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, and Super Mario Maker 2. The Super Mario 3D World style of the latter game also uses this theme, as Super Mario 3D World does not have its own P Switch music.

On the Golden Plains stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, hitting a P Switch plays this arrangement of the theme as well as the corresponding sound effects from New Super Mario Bros. 2.

Icon of an audio speaker. Switch On! - The arrangement heard in New Super Mario Bros. Wii
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Icon of an audio speaker. Switch On! - The arrangement heard in the New Super Mario Bros. U style of Super Mario Maker
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie[edit]

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, an arrangement of "Switch On!" can be heard in "Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom" as Mario struggles to locate the correct Warp Pipe while traveling to Peach's Castle.

Gallery[edit]

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo DS 2006 Original "Switch On!"[1]
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii 2009 Remix Kenta Nagata
New Super Mario Bros. 2 Nintendo 3DS 2012 Past remix (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) Kenta Nagata
New Super Mario Bros. U Wii U 2012 Past remix (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) "Switch On!"[1] Kenta Nagata
New Super Luigi U Wii U 2013 Past remix (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) "Switch On!"[1] Kenta Nagata
New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U Wii U 2013 Past remix (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) "Switch On!"[1] Kenta Nagata
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS 2014 Arrangement
Super Mario Maker Wii U 2015 Remix Kenta Nagata
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS 2016 Past remix (Super Mario Maker) Kenta Nagata
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch 2018 Past arrangement (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS)
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2019 Past remix (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) "Switch On!"[1] Kenta Nagata
Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo Switch 2019 Past remix (Super Mario Maker) Kenta Nagata

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023 Arrangement "Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom" Brian Tyler

Internal names[edit]

Game File Name Meaning

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Sound/stream/switch_lr.n.32.brstm Switch N Switch Kenta Nagata

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Nintendo Music
  2. ^ See § Internal names
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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Round 1 BGM"
Donkey Kong (NES) "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. (NES) "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" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Theme" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Funky the Main Monkey (Funky's Theme)" • "K. Rool Returns (Title Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Snakey Chantey (Rattle Battle)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)" • "Token Tango (Bonus Level)"
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! "Big Boss Blues"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Island" • "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Jungle Hijinxs" • "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. (NES) "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "Castle BGM" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" • "Invincibility BGM" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels "Ending"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ending" • "Final Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Title BGM" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Throne Room" • "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 "Birabuto Kingdom BGM" • "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Easton Kingdom BGM"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Rescuing Princess Peach" • "Special World (Map Screen)" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Valley of Bowser (Map Screen)" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins "Main Theme"
Super Mario 64 "Big Boo's Haunt" • "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "The Final Battle" • "Hazy Maze Cave" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Opening" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Stage Boss" • "Title Theme"
Super Mario Sunshine "Boss Battle" • "Isle Delfino" ("Bianco Hills" · "Ricco Harbor" · "Staff Credits") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Castle Theme" • "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Hurry Up!" • "Mario Vs. Luigi - Final Results" • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!" • "Tower Theme" • "Volcano Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy "A-wa-wa-wa!" • "Aquatic Race" • "Attack of the Airships" • "Battlerock Galaxy" • "Beach Bowl Galaxy" • "Bowser Appears" • "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Catastrophe" • "Cosmic Comet" • "Deep Dark Galaxy" • "Dino Piranha" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Enter the Galaxy" • "Final Battle with Bowser" • "The Galaxy Reactor" • "Gateway Galaxy" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Help!" • "The Honeyhive" • "Ice Mario" • "Ice Mountain" • "King Bowser" • "King Kaliente" • "Kingfin" • "Luma" • "Major Burrows" • "Megaleg" • "Melty Molten Galaxy" • "Overture" • "Peach's Castle Stolen" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" ("Family") • "Space Athletic" • "Space Junk Road" • "Speedy Comet" • "Star Ball" • "The Star Festival" • "Super Mario 2007" • "Super Mario Galaxy" • "A Tense Moment" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Airship Theme" • "Bonus Area" • "Bowser Jr. Battle" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Koopaling Battle" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Super Star" • "Title Theme" • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underground Theme" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla" • "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Cloudy Court Galaxy" • "Digga-Leg" • "Fated Battle" • "Melty Monster Galaxy" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Slimy Spring Galaxy" • "Starship Mario" • "The Starship's Journey" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" ("Sky Station Galaxy" · "Wild Glide Galaxy") • "Teleporter Melody" • "Yoshi Star Galaxy"
Super Mario 3D Land "Beach Theme" • Castle Theme[conjectural] • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Toad House" • "Victory Parade" • World 2-3's theme[conjectural]
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme")
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Beep Block Skyway" • "The Bullet Bill Express" • "Captain Toad Goes Forth" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Double Cherry Pass" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Sprawling Savanna" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Flying Battleship Theme" • "Title"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!" • "New Donk City" • "Peronza Plaza" • "Steam Gardens" • "Tostarena Ruins"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen" • "Vs. Game Over"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Battle Mode" • "Bowser Castle" • "Donut Plains" • "Ghost Valley" • "Koopa Beach" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Banshee Boardwalk" • "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Mario Kart 64 Title Screen" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st – 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Bowser Castle" • "Peach Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "Baby Park" • "Bowser's Castle" • "GCN DK Mountain" • "Dry Dry Desert" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "Cheep Cheep Beach" • "Figure-8 Circuit" • "Luigi's Mansion" • "Peach Gardens" • "Tick-Tock Clock" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Daisy Circuit" • "Grumble Volcano" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Rainbow Road" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "DK Jungle" • "Music Park" • "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Bowser's Castle" • "Cloudtop Cruise" • "Mario Circuit" ("Mario Kart Stadium") • "Mario Kart 8 Title Screen" • "Rainbow Road" • "Twisted Mansion"
Mario Party series Mario Party 9 "Good Job!"
Yoshi franchise Yoshi "Mushroom BGM"
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Goal!" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Wario franchise Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 "Main Theme"
Wario Land 3 "Out of the Woods"[conjectural]
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Pyoro: Stage" • "Sci-Fi (Dribble & Spitz) - Drifting Away" • "Title" ("Reality (Dr. Crygor) - Stage")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)" ("Professor E. Gadd's Lab")
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"[conjectural] • "Title Theme"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Battling Monsters" • "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Bowser's Keep" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom" • "Super Mario House"
Miscellaneous "Galop infernal" • "The Mario Drawing Song" • "Mute City" • "Title BGM" (Excitebike) • "Totakeke's theme"
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New Super Mario Bros.
Playable characters Mario • Luigi
Forms Mario (small) • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Invincible Mario • Mega Mario • Mini Mario • Shell Mario
Non-playable characters Princess Peach • Toads • Toadsworth • Dorrie • Giant Wiggler
Other charactersa Bob-omb Buddy • Bowser Statue (mechanical) • Fly Guy • Headless Snowman • Monty Mole • Wario • Yoshi
Enemies Amp • Balloon Boo • Banzai Bill • Big Whomp • Blockhopper • Blooper • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Broozer • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep-Cheep • Cheep-Chomp • Climbing Koopa • Crowber • Deep-Cheep • Dry Bones • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Flame Chomp • Goomba • Hammer Bro • Kab-omb • Koopa Paratroopa • Lakitu • Mega Cheep-Cheep • Mega Deep-Cheep • Mega Unagi • Mini Goomba • Moneybags • Paragoomba • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Scuttlebug • Skeeter • Sledge Bro • Snailicorn • Snow Spike • Spike Bass • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Splunkin • Squiggler • Super Dry Bones • Super Piranha Plant • Super Thwomp • Sushi • Swoop • Thwomp • Unagi • Venus Fire Trap • Whomp • Wiggler
Obstacles Ball 'n' Chain • Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Burner • Fire Bar • Gelatin • Giant Spiked Ball • Lava • Lava tide • Pit • Poison • Quicksand • Shifting wall • Skewer • Snow bank • Snow-covered tree • Spike Ball • Spikes • Volcanic debris • Volcano • Water tide • Whirlpool
Bosses Bowser Jr. • Bowser • Mummipokey • Cheepskipper • Boss Goomba • Petey Piranha • Monty Tank • Lakithunder • Dry Bowser • Bowser (large)
Items and power-ups 1-Up Mushroom • Big Star • Blue Coin • Blue Shell • Buzzy Shell • Coin • Fire Flower • Hidden Coin • Key • Koopa Shell • Mega Mushroom • Mini Mushroom • Red Coin • Springboard • Star Coin • Starman • Super Mushroom
Objects ! Switch • ? Block • ? Switch • Bell-shaped contraption • Brick • Bridge • Bubble-jet pipe • Cliff • Conveyor Belt • Cork • Crumbling ledge • Donut Block • Door • Dotted-Line Block • Drawbridge • Face block • Fence • Flag (midway point) • Flip panel • Floating barrel • Floating platform • Floor • Flying ? Block • Ghost-coaster • Gray Block • Green platform • Hanging vine • Haunted Stairs • Hinged device • Ice Block • Ice patch • Invisible Flying ? Block • Lift • Manhole • Moving ? Block • Moving Mushroom • Moving pole • Mushroom Platform • Mushroom Trampoline • Obstacle Bubble • One-way panel • P Switch • Paddle wheel • Phantom Hand • Pipe • Pole • Pole (goal) • Pole (secret goal) • Red block • Red Ring • Red-and-yellow block • Rippling Floor • Rolling log • Rope • Rotating platform • Roulette Block • Sand Dune • Scale Lift • Seesaw • Seesaw Shroom • Semisolid Platform • Shiny Block • Sinking and Rising Mushrooms • Skull switch • Small pipe • Snake platform • Spiked ? Block • Spin Block • Stara • Stretch Shroom • Swing • Tilting mushroom • Tilting platform • Tornado • Vine
Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8
Moves Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Ground Pound • Jump • Shell Toss • Slide • Spin Jump • Spinning drill stomp • Stomp • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Gameplay elements Castle • Challenge • Ghost House • Paah • Stored Item • Sub-area • Time Limit • Toad House • Tower • Warp Cannon
Minigames Action Balloon Racing • Danger, Bob-omb! Danger! • Lakitu Launch • Snowball Slalom • Snowball Slamb • Vs. Lakitu Launchb • Whack-a-Monty
Puzzle Coincentration • Hide and Boo Seek • Loves Me...?b • Puzzle Panel • Wanted! • Which Wiggler?
Table Bob-omb Reverseb • Luigi's Thrilling Cardsb • Luigi-Jackb • Memory Match • Pair-a-Gone • Picture Poker • Speedb
Variety Bob-omb Squad • Bounce and Trounce • Mario's Slides • Sort or 'Splode • Trampoline Time
1-on-1b Bob-omb Sudden Death • Bob-omb Trampoline • Jumping Sudden Death • Jumping Brothers • Lakitu Launch • Vs. Mario's Slides • Vs. Pair-a-Gone • Vs. Trampoline Time
Music "Beach Theme" • "Castle Theme" • "Course Clear" • "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mario Vs. Luigi - Final Results" • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!" • "Title Screen" • "Tower Theme" • "Underwater Theme" • "Volcano Theme"
Further info 1-Up Hunt! • Anket • Fire Mario no Ball Game • Gallery • Glitches • Luigi no Block Game • Mario no Coin Game • Mario Vs. Luigi • Multimedia • New Super Mario Bros. (jigsaw puzzle 1) • New Super Mario Bros. (jigsaw puzzle 2) • New Super Mario Bros. Podcast • Nintendo DS Magic Puzzle Case • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Pre-release and unused content • Quick Poll • Staff • Super Mario History 1985-2010
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b Exclusive to Vs. Battle
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