The 'Super Mario World' theme song played on floppy drives is just bananas

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Chelsea Stark
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The 'Super Mario World' theme song played on floppy drives is just bananas
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Move over, chiptunes. There is an even geekier way to capture the 8-bit tunes of gaming yesteryear.

YouTuber MrSolidSnake745 played one of the most iconic songs from Super Nintendo's Super Mario World -- "Athlete's Rag" -- on eight floppy drives, using software to get the drives' motors to output a certain frequency in a series of mechanical hums.

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