In this Friday feature, I take several pieces of music from different video games and mess them up somehow (like playing in reverse). Your job is to figure out what songs they are and what games they're from. The stakes are slightly higher this, week, as you'll see.



1. odber: 13
2. Batthink : 11
3. EnoSachran: 4
AlphaDeus: 4
Blorp: 4
4. Bulkmailer: 3
vApathyv: 3
Changston: 3
5. Anonymouse: 1
Cataract: 1
etirflita: 1
SteezyXL: 1
Wryguy: 1
Sentry: 1
Xyzliac: 1



Here's the answers to last week's puzzle, and who got each right first.

#1) Light Mountain Ruin Cruise:
Mega Man 2 - Flash Man (Sentry)
Final Fantasy VI - Mt. Koltz (Batthink)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Aquatic Ruin Zone (Xzyliac)
Super Smash Bros Melee - Rainbow Cruise (Batthink)

#2) Andy's Dark Burner Battle:
Star Fox Assault - Oikonny (No one)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Dark World (Blorp)
After Burner - Theme (Batthink)
Ogre Battle 64 - Regular Battle (No one)

#3) F.0.D.K.:
Fullmetal Alchemist - 1st Opening (odber)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (Batthink)
Dragonball Z - Opening 1 (No one)
K-On! - 1st Opening (odber)



As I hinted at last week, this week I'm going to be offering some actual prizes for the first time! Due to laziness and to not pay shipping in case I'm giving something to someone from outside Canada (which is likely), the prizes are going to be...some Steam games! To follow the music theme, the prizes will be:

1st Place: Beat Hazard
2nd Place: Audiosurf

(If the winners already have those games, I'll gift a Steam game of equal value)
Yeah, I know it's not that special, but someday I'll be able to give some actual cool prizes...

So, to add some challenge, there's going to be 10 tracks to answer this week, and it's a sampler of all the puzzle formats I've used. There's the regular reversed tracks, the "cutback" SNES tracks with instrumentation removed, some randomly messed up tracks, and a bizarre bonus track. I tried to make things relatively difficult, but you guys have gotten experienced at doing these.

To make things fair for people who don't see this post soon enough:
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE MADE AS A PM TO ME, NOT IN THE COMMENTS!
The winners will be whoever gets the most tracks right; in the case of ties, the quickest to enter will win.



The tracks run about 30 seconds each (except for the last one). Here are the clues:

#1) Reversed: Get your magic from this guy.
#2) Reversed: A golden track from a great game. Should I have made it #6?
#3) Reversed: Race through the sand!
#4) Cutback: Despite the name, this guy's stage has nothing to do with Australia
#5) Cutback: Wah! Wah! Wah! Wah!
#6) Cutback: Stop playing in your underwear!
#7) Messed Up: ROYAL RAVE!
#8) Messed Up: A memorable boss battle, indeed.
#9) Messed Up: Sorry for shocking you with this.
#10) WTF?: SATAN COMMANDS YOU TO BUY GENERAL ELECTRIC!

Good Luck! (Remember: Send your answers as a PM, not in the comments, please)