Guess the Video Game Music

[Smacktard]

FR gets the answer so why:

I have even pulled out the piano app on my phone and tried to ear-ball the notes, in hopes I could search that against some MIDI database or something, but that ain't worked either.

I probably know even less about music theory than I do video game music, but this is what I hear for that one instrument at least;
E - B D E - B D E - B D E - B D / D - A C D - A C D - A C D - A C / C - G B C - G B C - G B C - G B

I recorded a .mid while playing it. First bar was a played a touch slow but I think it's in the right key.
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Audacity note map of that MID.
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None of this puts me any closer to working out what the hell it is.

My YouTube watch history is buggered from trying to brute force this.

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I'm running out of Western-vibe games to check.

 

[Smacktard]

TBF, I know it more from Smash Bros. It's one of my more favorite themes used in the game. I've never heard it in a Kirby game as I've never bothered to beat any, even if they're super easy.

Kirby Superstar is fantastic (Great Cave Offensive FTW), and Kirby's Adventure for the NES is an excellent game. Dreamland for the Gameboy is really good too and can be finished within an hour

 

[Ben]

FR gets the answer so why:

Because when I listened to the compilation that FR posted, I didn't hear the higher melody part at all. Then when TD and others continued guessing I assumed it wasn't likely FR was right.

Going back to King Dedede's theme and being able to play it louder, I do totally hear the part I managed to play as the "bass line". Still don't hear the other tune but I guess that's another instrument that Rachel didn't give us yet.

Still sounds western as fuck in that midi format.

 

[Smacktard]

It's funny a new version of the song can make it sound completely different. From the first two seconds of this version, I knew the song, too. I'm sure the next version will make it click and sink in if you still can't quite hear it yet.

 

[Ben]

It's funny a new version of the song can make it sound completely different. From the first two seconds of this version, I knew the song, too. I'm sure the next version will make it click and sink in if you still can't quite hear it yet.

It's way more obvious when I skipped forward to the Super Smash Bros Brawl version. The Game Boy ones seem kinda obvious now, but I'd been trying to listen quietly so my family didn't grill me on why I've been meticulously crawling through the 'Gun.Smoke' or 'Tin Star' OSTs. At some point I just went down a rabbit hole of finding all the western/cowboy themed games that ever existed... Wild Arms, Wild Guns, Sunset Riders, Lethal Enforcers II, gun.smoke, Tin Star, Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption, Gun...

But hey, I guess I taught myself how to play part of King Dedede's theme on piano, so I'll take it.

(Video linked to the Super Smash Bros Brawl one, where it's obvious. If Rachel only sees this post and not Fool's earlier one, Fool's was the one who got it.)



((Still don't really hear that higher "Eb-Eb-Eb-Eb-Eb-Eb-Eb-Eb-Db-Db-Db-Db-Db-Db-Db-Db-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B' bit but I guess it's hidden behind the louder part in the song.))

 

[Rachel]

okay what

what is happening here

what

where's that fire pizza meme

 

[Smacktard]

Dang man, that is dedication. I get it though: I did the same thing with the first few songs, but I realized that it's mostly a fool's errand (my phone now autocapitalizes "Fool's" apparently).

For starters, the midi format often changes the sound of the song so that it's fairly unrecognizable. And then, how often do we really pay attention to the percussion or the bass lines in a song? Not that often I reckon, and many songs have the same/similar percussion and bass lines. The first couple of rounds are usually not worth guessing or searching for. Like you guys said, the song sounds very western in the first few versions, but the most recent version is anything but.

There's also this weird phenomenon that, when you listen to the version Rachel posts a few times, you think "oh, I know this song! I've heard it before!" In my case, it was true, but I was NOT thinking Kirby at all, and I probably never would've until the most recent version -- even if the actual song were put right after it.

 

[Smacktard]

okay what

what is happening here

what

where's that fire pizza meme

Gotchu fam:

 

[Ben]

okay what

what is happening here

what

where's that fire pizza meme

 

[Rachel]

I hadn't posted in a few hours because I was looking up the differences between Swedish and Finnish and I didn't want to come back and look silly

 

[Rachel]

That sounds awfully like King Dedede's theme from Kirby's Dreamland.

So yeah this is the correct answer

 

[Ben]

differences between Swedish and Finnish

I think it's the Swed/Finn part.

and look silly

The only one's looking silly here are myself and TD.

 

[Rachel]

is

is TD the turtle

 

[Rachel]

I'm very excited about this one. I can't wait to see if anyone can get this on Version A. My husband I think got this on version B and I want to see if anyone can beat that

Game Rules
*Remember to bold your guess*

Scoreboard

Smacktard	22
TD	20
BigDaddy	17
dimmerwit	15
Jawneh	14
Alu	13
shortkut	10
The Flame	7
Fool's Requiem	3
VashTheStampede	3
Nae'blis	2
Jon	1
Quagmire	1

Spoiler: Song List

1 - Street Fighter II - Guile's Theme
2 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time - Boss Theme
3 - Super Mario Bros 3 - Fortress Theme
4 - Pokemon Blue/Red/Yellow - Viridian Forest
5 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Underground Theme (Crystal Caves)
6 - Final Fantasy - Town Theme
7 - Super Mario Bros 2 - Overworld Theme
8 - Megaman 3 - Title Theme
9 - Super Mario World - Ending Theme
10 - Ninja Gaiden - Act 4, Part 2
11 - Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past - Dark World
12 - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Beware the Forest's Mushrooms (Forest Maze)
13 - Kirby's Adventure - Forest Stage
14 - Cave Story - Moonsong (Outer Wall)
15 - Super Mario Bros - Overworld Theme
16 - Star Fox - Fortuna
17 - Pictionary - Title Theme
18 - Super Mario Kart - Mario Circuit
19 - The Legend of Zelda - Title Theme
20 - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Title Theme
21 - Megaman X - Opening Stage
22 - Super Mario Bros 3 - Underground Theme
23 - Kirby's Dreamland - King Dedede Theme

Song 24 version A, 10 points, 3 level (challenging) difficulty.

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[Nae'blis]

Nä. Its supposed to be Næ'blis as far as I know.

Don't give me that gross Danish looking letter... åäö supremacy!

 

[Nae'blis]

The song is giving me mad Billie Jean vibes, so Michael Jackson's Moonwalker?

 

[shortkut]

Robo’s theme from Chrono trigger?

 

[Nae'blis]

 

[Quagmire]

No guess but I know I will never get a Kirby song as I don't like the Kirby games. Only one I liked was the DS one that made you use the stylus, that was fun

 

[Fool's Requiem]

No guess but I know I will never get a Kirby song as I don't like the Kirby games. Only one I liked was the DS one that made you use the stylus, that was fun

FYI, they made another one that made heavy use of the stylus on the Wii U, its called Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.

I assume I'm the only person still using a Wii U, though.

 

[A Stud-Finder]

The song is giving me mad Billie Jean vibes, so Michael Jackson's Moonwalker?

If you think it's Michael Jackson the best bet is to throw out Sonic the Hedgehog.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Specifically Sonic 3.

 

[Quagmire]

I'll guess Ice Cap Zone from sonic 3

 

[dimmerwit]

I missed FR's post for the last one completely, though fortunately I did not waste time actually playing the game as opposed to shitposting.

I hadn't posted in a few hours because I was looking up the differences between Swedish and Finnish and I didn't want to come back and look silly

Well it's easy - they are completely unrelated. Finnish is quite an isolated language, and of the more popular languages in Europe it's only really related to Estonian and more loosely Hungarian. As a result those three are considered the hardest European languages to learn for an English speaker.

 

[TD]

The only one's looking silly here are myself and TD.

I had fun. And I still don't hear it in that actual song if I'm being honest.

 

[TD]

So this reminds me of I Got The Power which it obviously isn't so I'll stick to my RPG theme and just guess...

FFVIII - Don't Be Afraid (the battle theme)

 

[Kat]

I'm gonna throw out a blind guess for Mario again.

FYI, they made another one that made heavy use of the stylus on the Wii U, its called Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.

I assume I'm the only person still using a Wii U, though.

I personally liked the Wii U and still have one, although I haven't played it in a while.

I had fun. And I still don't hear it in that actual song if I'm being honest.

That's me with every song!

 

[Ben]

I had fun. And I still don't hear it in that actual song if I'm being honest.

The six "fanfare" notes at the start are the the most recognizable but between the two for me. No idea why it didn't stick out the first time FR posted it.

So this reminds me of I Got The Power

Lol I'm scared how similar we've thought on these... I heard the same thing when it dropped to just the cymbal at the end. Very close to the I Got The Power riff but that of course wouldn't be the drums. Or... A game.

Unless I Got The Nintendo Power...

 

[TD]

Lol I'm scared how similar we've thought on these... I heard the same thing when it dropped to just the cymbal at the end.

Get the 10 points Ben, you can do it. I believe in you.

 

[Rachel]

The six "fanfare" notes at the start are the the most recognizable but between the two for me. No idea why it didn't stick out the first time FR posted it.


Lol I'm scared how similar we've thought on these... I heard the same thing when it dropped to just the cymbal at the end. Very close to the I Got The Power riff but that of course wouldn't be the drums. Or... A game.

Unless I Got The Nintendo Power...

but you shrug for everything I post lmao

Don't give me that gross Danish looking letter... åäö supremacy!

when I started this thread, "the Nordics start fighting" was not on my bingo card

it's so wholesome though, they fight over letters and not trying to buy the other country

@Crystal what happens if we give Nae his One True Username...would that break GW...would that cause everything to explode?

Oh man I had forgotten about this unhinged game.

Okay I totally missed this stray bullet from earlier lmao...not sure if you mean that in a good or bad way but Tomba is awesome

I'll keep version A up for just a little bit longer, none right so far but everyone can guess again before I update (if you want, I understand this is very hard)

 

[Ben]

but you shrug for everything I post lmao

This game has shaken any misguided faith that I could recognize fuck about shit.

But I also went into the screenshot game too invested in trying to work those out, so I just need to stop caring.

I'll guess Earthworm Jim for the fuck of it.

 

[Ben]

@Crystal what happens if we give Nae his One True Username...would that break GW...would that cause everything to explode?

Also, his username isn't actually anything Swedish. It's from the Wheel of Time series and doesn't need a special letter.

Though I don't think using a foreign character in a username at all would matter, it might be more of a problem in a password but still probably not.

 

[dimmerwit]

Mario

 

[Kat]

Okay I totally missed this stray bullet from earlier lmao...not sure if you mean that in a good or bad way but Tomba is awesome

I meant it in a good way. It is awesome but it's also unhinged.

 

[Rachel]

okay time for another update, none right so far

Game Rules
*Remember to bold your guess*

Scoreboard

Smacktard	22
TD	20
BigDaddy	17
dimmerwit	15
Jawneh	14
Alu	13
shortkut	10
The Flame	7
Fool's Requiem	3
VashTheStampede	3
Nae'blis	2
Jon	1
Quagmire	1

Spoiler: Song List

1 - Street Fighter II - Guile's Theme
2 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time - Boss Theme
3 - Super Mario Bros 3 - Fortress Theme
4 - Pokemon Blue/Red/Yellow - Viridian Forest
5 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Underground Theme (Crystal Caves)
6 - Final Fantasy - Town Theme
7 - Super Mario Bros 2 - Overworld Theme
8 - Megaman 3 - Title Theme
9 - Super Mario World - Ending Theme
10 - Ninja Gaiden - Act 4, Part 2
11 - Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past - Dark World
12 - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Beware the Forest's Mushrooms (Forest Maze)
13 - Kirby's Adventure - Forest Stage
14 - Cave Story - Moonsong (Outer Wall)
15 - Super Mario Bros - Overworld Theme
16 - Star Fox - Fortuna
17 - Pictionary - Title Theme
18 - Super Mario Kart - Mario Circuit
19 - The Legend of Zelda - Title Theme
20 - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Title Theme
21 - Megaman X - Opening Stage
22 - Super Mario Bros 3 - Underground Theme
23 - Kirby's Dreamland - King Dedede Theme

Song 24 version B, 7 points, 3 level (challenging) difficulty.

View attachment 24b.wav

 

[Jawneh]

That last half of that tickles my brain. But I think it tickles an actual song by a person artist and not by a video game artist.

 

[Jawneh]

I'll throw in a cheeky Golden Sun.

 

[Quagmire]

I don't it's this but first thing came to my mind is wacky workbench from sonic 2

 

[Nae'blis]

That last half of that tickles my brain. But I think it tickles an actual song by a person artist and not by a video game artist.

So video game composers aren't people?

 

[Nae'blis]

Also, his username isn't actually anything Swedish. It's from the Wheel of Time series and doesn't need a special letter.

Though I don't think using a foreign character in a username at all would matter, it might be more of a problem in a password but still probably not.

Although the ' fucks it up in my GWF Bot announcement, we all remember Nae'blis.

Tombi is so damn weird, but so damn fun! It was actually translated into Swedish, but it felt weird playing it that way...

As for the song, I no longer believe it's from Moonwalker lol

 

[canadaguy]

Castlevania?

 

[Jawneh]

So video game composers aren't people?

lol no

They're maestros.

 

[Ben]

Although the ' fucks it up in my GWF Bot announcement, we all remember Nae'blis.

True. But an apostrophe is potentially going to fuck with SQL database tables so I'd totally expect that to get stripped out to the raw HTML code.

Seems they do work fine.

 

[dimmerwit]

Gyökeres just scored a delicious goal so they can have as many funny dots as they like as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Crystal]

@Crystal what happens if we give Nae his One True Username...would that break GW...would that cause everything to explode?

Ikea? I mean, we could give him that name, but I think that counts as a hate crime now. Poor Swedes...

(in all seriousness, as Ben said, nah, special characters are fine )

 

[TD]

It sounds familiar which probably means I've never heard it before, but sticking with the general Nintendo theme...

 Pokemon?

 

[Ben]

Ikea?

(in all seriousness, as Ben said, nah, special characters are fine )

I almost tested it on Alu but couldn't find any Swedish words using those that started with the weird A to make it count.

Otherwise I would have tried Öga Läsa Språk.

 

[dimmerwit]

They have two weird As, Å and Ä.

 

[Ben]

They have two weird As, Å and Ä.

Yeah, and I realize now I could have done År Äta Äpple, but... Läzy.

 

[dimmerwit]

Just chuck in a cheeky Ålborg to add confusion.

They're basically the same language right?