Surprise! Mr. Dark's lair is secretly in Band Land and not Candy Chateau!Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:21 pmI was so confused because of that the first time I played this version, but after all I understand why they did this as they had roughly 17 tracks available for this port and they couldn't afford to use Harmony in every single Band Land level and when it already became the GBA game's main theme!RayGamer99 wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:44 pm When I was playing Rayman Advance (for the first three worlds, then I lost interest) I was surprised by how many times they were playing Mr Dark's theme in random areas. For a quick second, when I was going through Bongo Hills and I heard that, I was wondering if I'd have a random encounter with him right there.
In fact, so many players of this GBA adaptation remember this problem so vividly that someone saying "Ah yes, Mr Dark's Dare the track that played in like half of the levels!" became one of the top comments under my video dedicated to the evolution of Mr Dark's themes!
Specifically, it plays in most Band Land levels (but no other worlds, aside maybe from a few contexts with usually the suspense music I may have forgotten) and in every boss encounter (excluding the mosquitoes and Mr Stone)... Yes, even including Space Mama's battle in her space suit, despite the fact they already had an Advance version of Space Mama's Finale at hand, so you hear Space Mama's music as a Picture City level theme instead of a boss one!(Meanwhile, the chad Jaguar version had THREE Space Mama themes, so you'd hear variations of her theme both as a level and boss song!
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And it's surprisingly decent despite the GBA's godawful compression in this port!
(So I did use it in the Redemption mod for Space Mama and -currently- for the Menace due to its alien-like appearance, as anyway, Mr Dark's Dare was gonna be heard in even more contexts to replace some of the new tracks by Ryemanni!)
But yeah, I had the opposite experience, I knew no other tracks other than the title theme and Mr. Dark's theme before playing a real version of R1 that wasn't advance.
Here, an example of one of these tracks.
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