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Name the fallen human.

Naming screen narration

Start Menu ("Menu" in the Undertale Demo OST) is the 2nd track in the UNDERTALE Soundtrack and the Undertale Demo OST. It plays while the player is naming the fallen human or viewing a new SAVE file.

This track plays at x0.1 speed after the True Pacifist ending credits.[1]

Variations

There are seven variations of this track. Only two of these variations are included in the UNDERTALE Soundtrack: Start Menu, and Menu (Full). The latter plays at the end of the True Pacifist Route before the credits.

Every subsequent iteration of the track adds instrumentation directly related to how many characters the protagonist befriends.

Image Audio Description
Initial state of the start menu. mus_menu0 Default, contains only square wave melody, and a noise channel imitating a snare drum.
Start menu after meeting Flowey. mus_menu1 Met Flowey, adds syncopated bassline from the source material, Once Upon a Time.
Start menu after sparing Toriel. mus_menu2 Spared Toriel, adds a piano harmonizing the melody, and doubles the bassline.
Start menu after befriending Papyrus. mus_menu3 Befriended Papyrus, adds more square waves to the harmony, and adds bongos.
Start menu after befriending Undyne. mus_menu4 Befriended Undyne, adds strings doubling the piano's part, and adds claves.
Start menu after befriending Alphys. mus_menu5 Befriended Alphys, adds glockenspiel doubling the melody, and a deeper double of the bassline.
Start menu in the True Pacifist Route epilogue. mus_menu6 Saved Asriel. Adds sustained strings, and counter-melodies from the piano. It also quotes the C section from Once Upon a Time, from 0:21-0:32. mus_menu6 also acts as a separate track in the OST, Menu (Full).

Demo variations

The Undertale Demo uses two older versions of the original and first variation of Start Menu found in the final game, plus two additional variations which lack some instrumentation and are exclusives to the demo. Three of these variations are combined into a single track in the Undertale Demo OST.

Image Audio Description
Initial state of the start menu. menu1 Default, contains only square wave melody, and a noise channel imitating a snare drum, louder than in the final game.
Start menu after saving at least once. menu2 SAVEd at least once, adds syncopated bassline from the source material, Once Upon a Time.
Start menu after killing Toriel. menu3 Killed Toriel (and not previously spared), adds more square waves to the harmony.
Start menu after sparing Toriel.
Start menu after both killing and sparing Toriel.
menu4 Spared Toriel, adds bongos, claves, glockenspiel doubling the melody, sustained strings, and doubles the bassline. If the protagonist has not killed Toriel previously, then menu3 does not play.

Trivia

  • This track is played at 0.95 speed in the Fangamer Demo.[2]

References

  1. Undertale - Main Menu Theme (Post True Pacifist) on YouTube
  2. Undertale Demo Stream by Fangamer (03 May, 2013) - Part 2 on YouTube