Video Game Music Quiz

http://vgmq.garoux.net/

For people not familiar with VGMQ from the pre-crash GFF, here's the capsule summary:

Originally Posted by VGMQ FAQ

VGMQ stands for Video Game Music Quiz. It is a project that I am undertaking to make the internet's biggest quiz on video game music. I've seen several sites offer a quiz as side content, but this site will be on the world's video game music. No specific port, no specific region, and no specific time period.

View up-to-the-minute GFF member scores and join the Gamingforce group here.

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Big update today (finally), 24 new tracks by my count. Ordinarily I'd post after I'd listened to the tracks, but I'm currently in the middle of listening to a radio show. Besides, it's been forever since the last update so we gotta get the word out as soon as possible and so forth.

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Hmm, did pretty well in this batch. Got #161, #163, #164, #170, #172, #178, and #183.

The only one that sounds familiar that I didn't get is #179; I know I've heard that riff before, but the rest of the track is unfamiliar.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Toma

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I'm submitting a lot of votes for songs I don't know, just to get the names of the soundtracks.

I've considered doing that, but there's always the chance that I'll listen to a soundtrack later on and remember one of the tracks from VGMQ; that's happened a couple of times. But not for the tracks that I really DO want full versions of.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

What's the hardest (based on points) song you've gotten correct? My high score is 6 on 3 songs (92, 103, 139).

I've gotten four 7-pointers: #12, #50, #81, and #86. I could've sworn that one of those was worth 8, but I guess not.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

I wonder if they're picking any recent music (last 5 or so years)...the most recent music I've gotten right was from the mid-90s.

Yes. I'm more familiar with the older stuff, so I don't have many examples to point to, but #111 and #140 are both 2001 games.

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Originally Posted by JumboMaverick

I suck at this quiz (only 42 points)... I guess that's what I get for never owning a sega system, except for Saturn.

I've only actually played two of the... seven maybe Sega games that I've gotten points for. There's definitely a major Nintendo bias in my answers, and I've got 153 points. From what I understand, the guy isn't trying to favor one system over another.

Originally Posted by cubed

still waiting for the activation email.... what's taking so long ?!?!

Send the guy an e-mail.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Most of my points come from older tracks. ;_;

And proving that right, the only ones I got were #190 and #198. I swear I listened to #196 in the past few days, and good Lord is #194 familiar.

Anyone who doesn't get #190 needs to be shot, by the way. CLASSIC

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Mo0

I just got 197 in record time. 2 notes. :P

I got #60 in one melody note, assuming you don't count the bassline. Although you probably should.

Originally Posted by Mo0

198 I got CLOSE, but probably won't get the points for. I got one word right. ;_;

Assuming the word you got right was the second one and not the first, you won't get any points, since the track didn't appear in the game I think you guessed.

Double Post:
Got #194 finally; knew I'd heard it before. Still working on #196.

FELIPE NO

I just listened to a remix of #179 right now, so I went back and answered that one. Knew it was familiar~

Also, according to Mo0 and Kaleb, apparently I doubly fail at life. But we all knew this already.

How ya doing, buddy?

There was a three-track mini-update, including a dreaded 9-pointer. The news post gives a cryptic warning, "Be careful with #0199."

I didn't get any of them, so I don't know what he meant by that.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Drakken

Didn't get any of them yet again. :-/

Good, I'm not the only one!

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HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT GET #196 UNTIL NOW

I KNEW I knew that stupid track. Goddammit.

Also, the guy running it had a hard drive crash, so there won't be any updates for a while.

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#213, #215, and #217 coming up for a small amount of points. For me, getting 30% of an update is pretty good.

#212 sounds sort of familiar; I'm probably thinking of a remix if I've heard it before.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Update of five tracks.

They were neat, but I didn't get any.

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Originally Posted by fliptout

I got 173 right IMO, but it was marked wrong. Sent the guy feedback, if he posts here and sees this send me a PM here if you wanna discuss, because its the only one I've gotten "wrong" so far, but it should be right

I don't think he posts here (if he has posted in any version of this thread, he hasn't identified himself), but he seems to be pretty good with that sort of thing; I know someone who's e-mailed him a couple of times about tracks and gotten things sorted out.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Sweet zombie Jesus, I absolutely, positively know #228.

Damn. I'm going to sleep in ten minutes, but this is going to keep me awake in bed all night.

Double Post:
Got it while I was brushing my teeth. Had to boot my computer back up.

How ya doing, buddy?

And we've got ten new tracks. Got #231 (surprised it's a 4 pointer), might know #233 (sounds vaguely familiar, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm confusing it with another track), owned #235 hard, should probably know #237, and got #239 immediately since I totally just listened to a remix of it twenty minutes ago (but I just wiped my Last.fm last played list so NO CHEATS >=O).

11 points comin' up, which'll finally put me over 200. Seeing the people with more than 300 makes me cry.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Ten new tracks, FINALLY.

#241 eludes me.

I thought #246 was from Alfred Chicken, initially, but I got it in the end.

#249 is not worth three points.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ah ha, finally. Been getting antsy.

Too bad I didn't get any of them.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by KyleDunamis

#251 has a MAJOR hint as its fading out.

See, this is absolutely,

positively,

WITHOUT A DOUBT,

why I have to listen to the whole song before moving on.

Luckily it's one of the soundtracks in the series I haven't heard, so I only feel 95% ashamed.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Update! There's a new grading system.

Originally Posted by the front page

Now if you make a guess and the string you enter is already in the database it will assign it either correct or incorrect depending on if the previous answers have been correct or not. This prevents me from having to grade the same correct and incorrect answers over and over again. Of course if you enter something that is not in the database, it still passes before me. In this state it is said to be pending.

Also, 10 new tracks:

#261 seems a bit familiar, although the series my gut is telling me it's from seems too well-known for six points.

#262 and #269 are songs I should get. This quiz has taught me that I'm really rusty on my NES and GB music.

#264 is from a fucking awesome soundtrack.

#266 seems oddly familiar, although, if anything, it sounds more like repeated variations on the intro of a song I've heard before.

And how is #268 possibly worth three points. Dead serious.

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Originally Posted by Drakken

Man, I can't remember that one either! Of all the ones that sound familiar to me, that's the one I'm most sure I've heard before. :-/

It's from my favorite soundtrack for the system. I've actually considered nominating an extended version of track #60 for SotW, but never too strongly.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well, that explains the disgusting scores some people had.

Originally Posted by Darkcomet72

Perhaps we can have a master list for ourselves?

Why not!

I scanned the member list and pulled names of people I recognized and looked like they've been participating at least somewhat recently. If you want your name included, let me know, and give me your VGMQ name in case it's different from your GFF name.

Removals from the list will cost $5 or a polite request.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, I wish there were new tracks too, but the new sorting methods are kinda cool. I used them briefly to snag two tracks I passed by earlier (like #142... how could I POSSIBLY have not known that right away ;__;). I really need to go back through all the tracks again some time soon.

And I'm proud to say that I have guessed all four 1-pointers correctly!

The 2's and above are another story.

Regarding groups, I think they'd be a great idea; it'd be less maintenance than updating the first post, and the scores'd presumably be instantly updated. I filled out the feedback form saying that they're something I'd like to see, providing that he doesn't spend so much time implementing them that we go updateless for a long while.

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Like there's any doubt on #271.

I think we at GFF have an unfair advantage as far as knowing the source of #272, even though it's one of the tracks from the game that HASN'T been spread around yet.

#273 I know from a lol remix.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by TheKnightOfNee

Yeah, my hunch resulted in nothing for me on 272. I wish I knew what this unfair advantage we had was.

Well, it's probably not an advantage to people who've only been here a month. :\

Jam it back in, in the dark.