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Posted: 2/25/2009 7:40 PM
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Post subject: Video Game Music Quiz (Noise edition)
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Arne_the_great
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Earlier today I was playing around in FL Studio, creating noisy/ambient remixes for some video game music. I decided to do a small VGM Quiz for Tompa so I did 4 tracks and thought: "Why not do a VGM Quiz Competition for TASvideos?". So I did 15 tracks and here it is. The rules will be simple, you send me a PM (or some other way but don't spoil it for others by posting in the thread!) before the 4th of March (21:00) (Next week) with your answers. I will then count your score and declare a winner and start up another Quiz. 1 point for the right game and 3 points for the right track. Helping each other is not allowed (Of course I can't stop you from that but please don't cheat) There are 15 tracks, all from Super Nintendo. They are all from quite well known games. But I warn you, they are quite noisy and hard to recognize. There are only one track from each game so same game won't come twice! After this one is done, I'll make another with music from NES instead. Of course if there will be any interest. Download Links: Track by track download Zipped archive And yes, it is supposed to be very hard. Some tracks more difficult than the other but keep in mind that is quite wellknown tracks. Remember, Deadline = March the 4th. After that it's open for discussion (Of which tracks is from which game)! Clarification; You will get one point by guessing the correct game and three points by guessing the correct Game AND Track. Tell me if you think it sucks, I can probably change it by popular demand. :) Game Series - 0 Game Title - 1 point Game Title and track name - 3 points Tip: Sometimes you'll have to listen quite loudely as some melodies might be quite hidden. Helps of course to have a good ear :) Good luck (You'll need it!) :) Edit: SNES quiz is over. Tompala is the winner with his 30 points. (Good job :)) 
Track01 = Super Mario World - Forest of Illusion
Track02 = SMW2: Yoshi's Island - Make Eggs, Throw Eggs
Track03 = Mega Man 7 - Intro Stage
Track04 = Zelda: A link to the past - Dark World
Track05 = Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience
Track06 = Chrono Trigger - Schala's Theme
Track07 = Super Smash T.V. Main Theme / Stage 1
Track08 = Street-Fighter 2: Guile
Track09 = Super Mario RPG: Geno's Forest
Track10 = F-zero - Big Blue
Track11 = Super Metroid - Brinstar
Track12 = Final Fantasy III - Figaro (Edgar & Sabin)
Track13 = Secret of Mana - Forest - "Into the Thick of It"
Track14 = Castlevania IV - Vampire Killer
Track15 = Donkey Kong Country 2 - Rigging - "Jib Jig"
NES Quiz - Part 1 30 tracks. Same game may appear more than once. Still pretty wellknown games and songs. Send in you answers before 10/3 or 3/10 or whatever system you're used to. The 10th of march ;) In five days. Grab it here. (ZIP) Deadline: 10th of March
Posted: 2/25/2009 9:45 PM
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ShinyDoofy
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That's just noise to me.
Posted: 2/25/2009 9:54 PM
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Xkeeper
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Edit: This quiz sucks. Don't bother, most of the tracks are just random, clipping noise.
Arne_the_great wrote:
And yes they are noisy but that's the point. So it's not impossible. Listen closely and try to hear the melody.
The noise completely destroies the underlying song, so it might as well be white noise run though a few filters with "Guess the song" attached. Maybe mix in a few ms of actual songs too. :)
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Posted: 2/25/2009 9:59 PM
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Xkeeper, you know that the purpose of this Quiz competition was to not spoil it for other and instead trying to get as many correct answers as possible and send it in and later declare a winner? Maybe I wasn't really clear enough on that subject in the first post. :/ And yes they are noisy but that's the point. Tompala has gotten quite many (even though he can't compete as we have discussed some stuff before) more than half. So it's not impossible. Listen closely and try to hear the melody.
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The noise completely destroies the underlying song, so it might as well be white noise run though a few filters with "Guess the song" attached. Maybe mix in a few ms of actual songs too.
Well, that is pretty much what this quiz is about. And yes there are some white noise (mostly from pretty hard distortion) but mostly are just the original notes processed in diffrent ways. But the purpose is to destroy them to a hard-to-recognize state. I understand you think this quiz sucks and it's ok. I just wanted to do a bit diffrent stuff. Cheers! :)
Posted: 2/25/2009 10:10 PM
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I found 1, 7 and 11 for sure, maybe 12... but other than that, I have no clue...
Posted: 2/25/2009 11:39 PM
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If a guy like me, who can hear somebody playing a game complete across the house and down a floor can identify which game is playing finds 14/15 songs in a completely unrecognizable state and spends time cringing because of how horrifically awful the sound is, then something is obviously wrong with this quiz. #11 is the closest thing to being not crap.
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Posted: 2/26/2009 5:55 AM
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Posted: 2/26/2009 8:58 AM
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I know 6 and have identified 3. Still yeah this is horrible, it's like a music quiz except afterwards I want to strangle things.
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Posted: 2/26/2009 10:10 AM
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This quiz concept sounds absolutely horrible.I'm not even going to download the songs because I don't want to subject myself to clipping. In fact, the only reason I looked in this thread is that I thought that maybe when you said "noise" you meant "sound effect". Like there would be a bunch of sound effects and we would guess what games they were from... That would have been cool.
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Posted: 2/26/2009 10:11 AM
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Ah, a rousing game of Maim that Tune.
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Posted: 2/26/2009 12:16 PM
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In Arne's defense I'll say that I like a difficult vg quiz. Please make more after this one is over, but make it more pleasant :) I've identified 2 of them so far.
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Posted: 2/26/2009 1:37 PM
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Well, thank you Foda :) I meant to make the next one a lot more pleasant and a tad easier. I realized now that they were a bit too noisy and unpleasant and as I'm pretty used to noisy stuff by now I can have a hard time realizing that. Also the songs are not completely unrecognizable, I can clearly hear which game is which track and Tompala has guessed right on most of them. So it's not impossible. But I'll probably spend more time on the next quiz.
Posted: 2/26/2009 1:47 PM
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None of them sounded anything like white noise to me.. I've listened to each of them once and only been able to identify a single one. Because that track is not so well known, I've decided that I shouldn't try for the rest because I simply might not know them well enough. Track 6 sounds like it would be the hardest.
Posted: 2/26/2009 1:54 PM
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Kuwaga wrote:
None of them sounded anything like white noise to me.. I've listened to each of them once and only been able to identify a single one. Because that track is not so well known, I've decided that I shouldn't try for the rest because I simply might not know them well enough. Track 6 sounds like it would be the hardest.
Actually, most songs are from very wellknown games and often wellknown tracks. They are all taken from midifiles from VGmusic.com and often the tracks with most versions. Track 6 shouldn't really be the hardest, track 10 is probably hardest. My tip would be to make a quick listen the music from wellknown games. 1, 3, 8, 9, 11 and 15 should be the easiest ones. And maybe 4.
Posted: 2/26/2009 2:01 PM
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My problem with track 6 that it sounds like it was only noise to me, I can identify the melody in every other track. There are some notes that sound like they'd be part of the melody, but they're too far apart for me. xD I'll listen to the easy ones once more. The track I've identified is not among those. ^^ Edit: No, I just don't get it. I have no problem with the level of noise though.
Posted: 2/26/2009 2:30 PM
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Wow, this quiz is awesome. I recognized some of the tunes but didn't manage to identify most of them. Too hard for me overall. Tracks like #4 and #8 are pretty cool by themselves, btw.
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Posted: 2/26/2009 7:17 PM
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upthorn wrote:
In fact, the only reason I looked in this thread is that I thought that maybe when you said "noise" you meant "sound effect". Like there would be a bunch of sound effects and we would guess what games they were from... That would have been cool.
I was thinking it would be NES games sound channels, requiring you to try to figure out what song went with what beat :P
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Posted: 2/26/2009 8:26 PM
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Well, I haven't a clue what any of them are, but I did enjoy listening to them. Maybe I would have better luck with NES tunes...
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Posted: 2/26/2009 10:55 PM
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So far I've only been able to guess 3, 4, 5, 11, and 12 (the easiest one imo). Some of the tracks actually sound pretty good, but some of them are practically unlistenable (15 being the most egregious offender).
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Posted: 2/26/2009 11:16 PM
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I actually like 15, it's funny and kind of catchy. ^^
Posted: 2/27/2009 12:11 AM
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Hey guys, stop hating on this quiz. I think it's pretty awesome. I have identified 6 of those for sure, and a lot of the other ones sound very familiar, especially #1 So far, I have identified: #3 ( I'll be surprised if almost everyone didn't get it in 2 seconds) #5 #7 #8 (actually, I just listened to it again and now it sounds less like what I thought it was... ) #11 I'm probably just crazy, but for some reason I like track #2 the way it is distorted. I have no idea from what game it is, but it sounds like a pleasant childhood memory. #9 would be similar if there weren't these KNIVES (sharp sounds that sound like someone is stabbing you in the ear) in it.
Posted: 2/27/2009 12:43 AM
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Pretty fun, and the music doesn't make make my ears bleed as it seems to do for many. So far I'm pretty confident in knowing what number 1, 9, 11 and 12 are supposed to be. There where some others that had small parts that made me think I knew what it was, but the rest of it didn't sound anything like it was supposed to.
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Posted: 2/27/2009 4:38 AM
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Xkeeper wrote:
Edit: This quiz sucks. Don't bother, most of the tracks are just random, clipping noise.
Arne_the_great wrote:
And yes they are noisy but that's the point. So it's not impossible. Listen closely and try to hear the melody.
The noise completely destroies the underlying song, so it might as well be white noise run though a few filters with "Guess the song" attached. Maybe mix in a few ms of actual songs too. :)
You must have a poorly trained ear if these are just "random, clipping noise" to you. I can easily identify the melody in almost all of these and even if I don't know the actual song, I'd imagine that I could identify it if you told me it.
Posted: 2/27/2009 5:11 AM
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I think I found 1 and 2, and I'm not even going to bother finding the rest, because 1 and 2 come from the only two snes roms that I keep on my computer permanently. Therefore the rest will be unknown to me.
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Posted: 2/27/2009 2:00 PM
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I still have 6 and 12-14 left. This is awesome :D. Edit: Arne helped me, pretty much said the answer, to 3. But I got: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15 at least *proud*.
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