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VGM Guessing Contest Spring 2025: USB-C Adaptor Edition - RESULTS!!

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Well, it's been enough wait of wracking your brain trying to figure out where you've heard that one song before. Let's dive into results!


In 3rd place, we have:
yoshiatom, with 33 points!


Coming in 2nd is:
SomeGuy712x, with 35 points!


And in 1st place:
Fullcannon, with 51 points!


Here are the full results, prefaced by the relevant notation:

xx - full guess (2 points)
xx^ - series guess (1 point)
xx+I - impostor guess (1 points)
xx+I* - impostor and source guess (3 points)
xx+C - compostor guess (3 points)
xx - unique full/compostor guess (+2 points)
xx^ - unique series guess (+1 point)
Exx - extreme guess (+2 points)

1. Fullcannon, 51 points (1, 5, 9, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34^, 41, 42, 44, 50)
2. SomeGuy712x, 35 points (3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 17, 19^, 21, 22, 23, 28, 30, 32, 34^, 36+I*, 42, 49)
3. yoshiatom, 33 points (1, 4, 5, 8, 15, 17, 19^, 21, 22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 37, 39, 49)
4. Maniek, 30 points (1, 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19^, 21, 22, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34^, 49)
5.  Fyre150, 26 points (1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 19, 23, 28, 29)
6. Blue Leaf, 24 points (4, 9, 12, 15, 16+C, 19, 29, 36+I*, 49)
7. TruffledToad, 22 points (1^, 5, 15, 17, 19, 21, 32, 36^, 42, 44, 47, 49)
8.  Segment1Zone2, 19 points (3, 5, 15, 17, 19^, 24^, 31, 32, 34^, 36^)
9. Fostelif, 17 points (1, 15, 19, 22, 36^, 43, 46)
10. Cardioid, 12 points (1, 5, 8, 15, 19, 35+I, 36^)
11. 15Tails, 10 points (15, 19^, 36^, 38, 47)
11. brickblock369, 10 points (15, 17, 19, 30, 37)
13. Green, 9 points (1, 15, 19^, 30, 37)
14. Dispace, 7 points (1, 15, 19^, 37)
14.  KungFuFurby, 7 points (1^, 15, 19, 42)
14. TL1882_2, 7 points (15, 19^, 30, 47)
17. Chuycraft, 6 points (1, 19^, 30, 37^)
18. 7 up, 4 points (19^, 21, 34^)
18. TheOrangeToad, 4 points (1, 8)
20. BeancityMakes, 3 points (1, 19^)
21. wye, 2 points (19^, 35+I)
22. KlonoA13Phill, 1 point (34^)


There's also a Google Sheet, if you prefer.

Thank you to everyone who participated, and a big thank you to my co-hosts ( AmperSam, Exodust,  icrawfish, and  JupiHornet) for their involvement and help behind the scenes. It may not look like it, but organizing something like this is a decent amount of work!

If you notice an error or discrepancy in the scores, feel free to reach out of course.

Trophies for the top 3 will be handed out shortly. Hope you enjoyed the songs, and 'til next time!

fucking cursed lineup. that schrodinger's bakaneko fakeout got me, i completely forgot that violet detector had a cover of it. evil, evil game, very icky, no good.
Are you telling me nobody else recognized that WarioWare song??? That one really stuck with me when I was clearing the Play-o-Pedia just 'cause it was nice! But hey, that means I get the unique guess bonus twice!

Oh, and #34 was really evil. God damn it, bebn!
Kinda in hibernation for a while. I hope to be back in full swing soon.
somehow i beat
wye
so that's cool
also turns out i cannot distinguish versions of the
good egg galaxy
theme
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Yoshiatom's Post
I did a majority of my guesses on my first instinct, thought to myself "I'll get around to guessing the rest later, I've only done like 1/5th", forgot to do that and then won bronze anyway. Wack.

Anyway this was a fun contest! Pretty brutal with some of the selections (not helped by the fact I apparently can't tell most orchestral VGM apart from one another) but I did enjoy digging through soundtracks to try and narrow down the source based on how the songs sounded. Defo partaking in the next one of these.


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<DeputyBS> I knew it
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Originally posted by yoshiatom
28: I was expecting less people here to guess this one; some of Riven's music is burned into my brain from childhood, especially the temple music.

I can hear the temple music in both my dreams and my nightmares from time to time. I love Robyn Miller for that.

Originally posted by yoshiatom
39: How the hell was I the only person to guess this?? Sure it took me a bit of time to remember where I recognised the song, but I thought Run was considered one of those all-time-classic Flash games that everyone had at least seen during Flash's glory days.

One theory of mine is that it's really just the gameplay itself that has stuck with people, as I remember it being very demanding of the reflexes at times; combine that with the music being remarkably good at being background music — engaging, yet not distracting in the slightest — et voilà. So good all the same.
Oh. My. God. I even WATCHED the video on how Micro Mages was made and somehow completely forgot about the game in that moment! Ughhh... It's fine, another one to add to my growing list.

That aside, incredibly cursed roster of songs. A lot of these required multiple passes through until I got them (some up to 4!) but I'm still happy with my results. It just shows I need to listen to more modern VGM, lol.

Congrats to everyone who participated, hosted and helped with this contest, it was really fun and I'm looking forward to the next one! #smrpg{y}
Some commentary for my own guesses...

1 - Oh, I got the wrong game entirely, though I had the right idea. Oops. Thought it was more recent than that.
4 - Now this is an interesting one. I mistook it for a TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine game. Instead it turned out to be more modern.
14 - I thought this was a compostor, not realizing that the Wonderswan Color would blow that theory out of the water. Ah well, nice to learn about a new sound chip here and there.
46 - I think I've played the Mac version before, but my memory had long since failed, so I definitely didn't remember the music for this one.
51 - Do you speak of this particular game? Just curious, because now I understand what's going on, since I guessed an impostor since I thought it was an Atari 2600 or an Atari 8-bit song, but didn't think it was for a game at the time. Now I know it was for a game... a non-Atari game at that.
So, these people VGM Full of traps music,Very good game Now there is only a pile of rubble in the real world...
Ooh, 2nd place. Not bad. Now, let's see which songs I really should've known that I didn't figure out...

01 - Maybe if I'd played Mario Party 8 a lot more in the past...
02 - Yeah, I totally had no idea.
04 - I never thought to check UFO 50.
07 - I had no clue there.
10 - I've seen gameplay of Micro Mages, but never considered it at all for this contest.
11 - Darn. I had guessed Fire Emblem on a different song, but not this one.
12 - If only I'd ever played Pokémon Battle Revolution...
13 - Had no clue.
14 - I really thought this one sounded familiar to me, but I guess my brain was wrong. I didn't know it at all.
16 - Welp, I was totally wrong on my compostor guess.
18 - I thought this one might've been menu music for some sports game.
19 - Oh, you little sneak... Yeah, I immediately figured it was Super Mario Galaxy's Good Egg Galaxy, then never came back to it at all, because my mind had marked it as completely solved, with no reason to ever check it again.
20 - Had no clue.
24 - I've never played any Harvest Moon games, so...
25 - Had no clue.
26 - Had no clue.
27 - I thought this one sounded familiar, but I didn't check any DK games for it, so it eluded me.
29 - Had no clue.
31 - Had no clue.
33 - Had no clue.
34 - I searched SOOO many Touhou songs in official games and fan games, but failed to find this one, so I had made this my compostor guess, since I had no other clue. At least I got the series guess point for mentioning it sounded like Touhou.
35 - Had no clue. Funny that both impostors were placed right next to each other. At least I successfully figured out 36 was an impostor.
37 - Never played the "Newer" one.
38 - I've played Bejeweled 3 and Bejeweled Twist, but not Bejeweled 2.
39 - Had no clue.
40 - Yeah, this is the one I guessed Fire Emblem on. Professor Oak: "You were close!"
41 - Had no clue.
43 - Unfortunately, I never played that WarioWare.
44 - I thought this one sounded familiar, but I couldn't figure out it was Doraemon.
45 - The only Luigi's Mansion I've played was the first one.
46 - Had no clue.
47 - Man, I really thought that was one of the Celeste "Beat Block" screens, but couldn't find a match when I checked those. Turned out I was way off.
48 - Had no clue.
50 - I really thought I'd heard this song before, but could not figure out where it was from. Oh, well.
51 - Had no clue. I had made this one my second impostor guess, just to have that guess in there somewhere.

Anyway, congratulations to Fullcannon!
51 points.. I wasn't expecting to go this far with my curiosities since I've become more familiar with some of the existing sources and platform releases within the last few years.

03 - I couldn't differenciate the wavetable channel from a classic duty pulse wave in this example, initially thinking of another source instead.
04 - This was a very convincing example as it reminds me a lot of the old PC98/Engine soundtracks that would've been played in a specific emulator.
05 - The entire full song is wonderfully chipped and has been one of my favorite discoveries of the contest, only around a week away from the original deadline.
06 - That's so funny as a coincidence indeed.. there should be a list of similarities to document somewhere, thinking of some of the examples that influenced/inspired the music found in T&E Soft games.
10 - This is a sound driver I've been very unfamiliar with as it's so late in the lifespan, although there was a similar tune covered to SMW for a very long time.
12 - So close.. was listening to Pokémon Colosseum the other day which didn't quite had the same track as present in the video.
15 - One of the few songs on the list to have been covered multiple times throughout it's history and lifespan.
16 - Imagine if there was a contest where one had to guess the original game a sound effect was coming from, which does get even more complicated as sizable earlier examples originated from sample CDs shared across multiple titles with minimal changes in-between.
21 - Incidentally, I had a MIDI file and a port installed for this tune a couple months ago.. good to have such an example getting identified in a VGM Contest of all places.
38 - I've played a mobile port of Bejeweled eons ago, can't remember any of it's in-game music or whether there were any at this age.
39 - Now that the source is known.. I did played this game a looong time ago on my very first computer back and was also one of the early exposures to custom level designs prior to Mario Flash so that's one living example of a time capsule at last.
50 - This tune was also featured in the Summer 2020 VGM Guessing Contest, effectively seeing a return after 5 years of absence.


Have a great day! Congrats to SomeGuy712x for returning with a vast knowledge of VGM sources as heard in the previous iteration.
not last place #tb{O_O}

I only entered for the heck of it because quite obviously I'm not an avid VGM listener - there were only two songs that even remotely rang a bell.

#19: I was sure I'd know this was if nothing else, but I had no clue it was apparently a cover? Wonder why I still got the series point.

#35: other people might have said "this has to be an impostor because I didn't know it", and I picked it as an impostor because it was the only one I did know! I'd completely forgotten about both the song and the whole TV series, and I couldn't even have told you unprompted that I ever knew it, but somehow hearing the song unlocked some distant memory about a funny animal cartoon.


 
Hmmm, I beat 3 people and also tied with one person. 4 points - turns out it's really poor, especially when you see others' scores. Man, this time, it was really hard as shit. Probably if I'd known about the contest earlier (i.e. right after it popped out) and given myself more time to participate in it, I could've done slightly better, but not to the extent that I'd get as far as the top 9 did. Probably wouldn't become a binge VGM knower in a short time by doing nigh-24/7 research. Anyway, I got some points here despite a few traps here.

1 - Damn, if only I knew newer Mario games' (aside from mainline platformers) music better. Need more research on Party games' music since only a few songs from that series are ported to SMW
8 - Another oof one. Not so sad, though, since relatively many others didn't guess that one, either.
17 - This one had a Mega Man vibe so I was thinking about a feature in a Mega Man fan game as its original track. Wasn't sure if that was a composter, either. And no, it isn't. Must've been a really cryptic game.
19 - Turns out I can't recognize variations of Good Egg Galaxy, either. Also, I forgot Fortune Street existed.
21 - My only right guess. Didn't know this was in Mega Man X8 as well. But it was worth listening to some more Mega Man OST I hadn't known before. I'm a Classic fan, BTW.
32 -  JupiHornet, you evil swine! Also fell for this one thinking it was from Mega Man. Genuinely sounded like a MM4 track, but it wasn't. So I thought that was another original song from a Mega Man fan game. It turns out a cover was featured in one.
I had also heard that SMW cover before, but I forgor somehow.
Need to catch up with some more Street Fighter OST as well!
34 - Another vile pick. I'll never forgive you,  bebn legg! Sounded so much like Touhou, I thought it can't have been from anything but Touhou Project.
47 - 🤦‍♂️ Stated it was a composter with a question mark here. Probably not one of the most popular Sonic games out here. Had no clue about that game either way.
50 - Didn't take part in 2020, I think. So I didn't know this song was featured back then.
51 - Also tried to guess this one, but I have nothing to add about this one since nobody participating had a clue.
Originally posted by sad Princess Zelda meme template
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The rest - had no clue about these, either.

Maybe I'll have better luck next time... This edition, I only placed my guesses last-minute since I focused on OLDC.
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Originally posted by Fullcannon
50 - This tune was also featured in the Summer 2020 VGM Guessing Contest, effectively seeing a return after 5 years of absence.

Oh, so that's why my mind felt this one sounded familiar. It's too bad I didn't think about whether any songs were repeated from past contests, even though that has happened before.
Top 50%, better than I expected for only being sure on like 2 of them!

Thanks for being lenient on my guess for #19, as I didn't know whether we were allowed to look things up or not.

Originally posted by yoshiatom
49: Now, I want a show of hands: How many people guessed this was an imposter just because it had lyrics? Be honest!

I considered that, but figured it would be too obvious of an impostor. It reminded me of Mega Ran, so I guessed the new TMNT game he was in. My only familiarity with MadWorld is that it was on the front page of a Nintendo magazine I read a few issues of back in the day; I never saw or heard anything from the game itself.
Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten most of these in a hundred years. I could contribute some music to the next one, though.

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Originally posted by imamelia
Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten most of these in a hundred years. I could contribute some music to the next one, though.

I'd be interested in contributing some music too.

In fact, after the previous contest a couple years ago, I did mention I'd be interested in selecting some songs myself. I eventually received a PM from icrawfish asking me if I was still interested, and I replied that I was, but... then I got no further reply back regarding that.
Damn I really did only knew Look Pimpin...
Originally posted by TruffledToad
i completely forgot that violet detector had a cover of it

Originally posted by 7 up
Sounded so much like Touhou, I thought it can't have been from anything but Touhou Project.

To be clear, entry 34 is a (subtle) arrangement of a song by ZUN which is from one of his music CDs (Schrödinger's Bakeneko from 燕石博物誌　～ Dr. Latency's Freak Report). The original song is not from a video game, but the arrangement is specific to a Touhou fangame, so a Touhou series guess is correct. The arrangement was done by Spectral Nexus for a fangame called 偽秘封ナイトメアダイアリー　〜 Comatose Chaos: Violet Detector EX, which is not the official 16.5th Touhou game 秘封ナイトメアダイアリー　〜 Violet Detector (and on that note, "Old Adam" Bar and The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia featured in Violet Detector (not EX) would not count as VGM since they are originally from ZUN's music CDs and completely untouched, similar to how the Sitting Ducks theme is an impostor despite later being featured in a video game). It sounds complex but all of these nuances are covered in the rules if you read them closely. #tb{;)}

Originally posted by KungFuFurby
Do you speak of this particular game?

Indeed, that's the one!

Originally posted by Fullcannon
50 - This tune was also featured in the Summer 2020 VGM Guessing Contest, effectively seeing a return after 5 years of absence.

Oops. I looked through the songs picked for some of the previous contests since I tend to follow the exact same thought process each time (like with the Fortune Street song lol), but I didn't think to check the one I didn't host.

Originally posted by wye
Wonder why I still got the series point.

Both Mario and Dragon Quest are valid series guesses for Fortune Street since it's effectively a crossover spinoff of the two. Guessing Super Mario Galaxy is a correct Mario series guess in this case.

Originally posted by Cardioid
Thanks for being lenient on my guess for #19, as I didn't know whether we were allowed to look things up or not.

Maybe the "guessing" in the contest title is a little misleading. :) You are allowed to look things up and go through a game's OST if something sounds familiar! The only thing you can't do is ask others for answers, really.

Originally posted by imamelia
I could contribute some music to the next one, though.

Originally posted by SomeGuy712x
I eventually received a PM from icrawfish asking me if I was still interested, and I replied that I was, but... then I got no further reply back regarding that.

I believe things got lost in the shuffle @ SomeGuy712x. I'll check with icrawfish. We'll keep you in mind for the next one!

Originally posted by bebn legg
I believe things got lost in the shuffle @ SomeGuy712x. I'll check with icrawfish. We'll keep you in mind for the next one!

Alright, thanks!
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