Getting Started and what you'll need - How to Music Makermatic

Hello everyone and welcome to the first step/category in my "how to" series. Today's post will just be a quick rundown on what exactly you will need to make songs in Warioware DIY and what you would need if you wanted to effectively share your creations with others. So let's get started.

Things you'll need

A copy of Warioware DIY for the Nintendo DS 
Yeah seems obvious, but i've had people ask online if the music creation was a feature in games such as Touched or Gold. Nope, it is a feature in its own game.

You can find the game pretty cheap on websites such as Amazon and Ebay. You might also be able to find it secondhand in your local game store. Most copies I have found of the game were between £8-£15 (aound $10-$18). You could also emulate it but I heard doing that can be a little laggy and laggy music isn't great, so I recommend buying an actual copy

A Nintendo DS system of soe sort
The good thing about Warioware DIY being for the DS and not the 3DS is that it can be played on any system in the DS family. Those include;

• DS
• DS Lite
• DSi
• DSi XL 
• 3DS and its newer counterpart
• 3DS XL and its newer counterpart
• 2DS
• New 2DS XL

If its portable, made by Nintendo and has two screens, you're good to go!

Since the game can be played on all these devices, buy whatever suits you. If you only plan on playing Warioware DIY, then you'll be fine with getting a secondhand DS since you won't be missing out on anything.

If you have everything that is shown in the picture below, you're ready to make some music!

Yes my circle pad is broke...

Optional Stuff
These are things that will either make song creation easier, or will allow you to effectively share them online.

Warioware DIY Showcase for the Nintendo Wii
If you were one of those lucky souls who bought this game before the Wii Shop died, congrats on not having a guilty conscious because the only way others can get this now is through not really ethical means. I won't go into much detail as I'm honestly clueless about that stuff, but you are free to ask about it in the Warioware DIY Discord server. There are people there who know what they're doing and would be happy to help.

IDI Files and/or sheet music
I will go into more detail in another post about these, but these can be extremely useful of you struggle to listen to a song by ear or need to check a part of a song you're having trouble with.

A way to record DS audio/video
This is mainly for those who wish to share their Warioware content on social media sites like Youtube or Soundcloud. I will go over the pros and cons of every method and what I would recommend for beginners in another post.

A laptop with Audacity and a video editing software
If you're going to do anything with your songs online, Audacity is the best! It's free, has a lot of tools and is easy to use after fiddling around a bit. For video editing, the one automatically on Windows 10 does the job (or Windows Movie Maker if you don't use Windows 10). Again, I'll go in more detail later.

So that is everything you'll need I can think of. I'll see you back here tomorrow for some basic Music Theory. Feel free to ask any questions!