Aaaand... it's over! :3

Thank you for participating, I hope you had as much fun as we did during preparing the event for you!

As some people asked, here you can find 7z archive which contains all chiptunes that were used during the event, as well as some that didn't make it to the event, yet we had them ready (total of 369 songs). Feel free to use them however you wish.

We hope that you join us in our future events! :3

Single puzzles answers were:

Darude - Sandstorm
Game of Thrones
Tetris
Back To The Future
Batman
Little Shop of Horrors
Life Of Brian
Mission Impossible
Pulp Fiction
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Lion King
To Sir With Love
Top Gun
Flash Gordon
I Get Around
Saturday Night Fever

Zombies on your lawn; Plants vs Zombies; Plants vs Zombies - Zombies on your lawn
Minecraft
Mutter
Reservoir Dogs
Anchorman
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Galaxy Quest
Grease
Highlander
Footloose
Arthur
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Beautiful Life
Japanese Boy
Walk Like an Egyptian
Gone With The Wind
Warcraft 2

Karakuri Pierrot
Noein; Yuu's Theme
F-Zero: Climax; F-Zero Climax
A Goofy Movie
Rocky 4
The Wizard Of Oz
The Sting
RWBY - Divide; RWBY Divide
Song Of The South
Groundhog Day
My Fair Lady


We made it tradition in Touhou Giveaways to organize public SG events from time to time, rewarding everybody with decent giveaways as a "giveback" to the community. Every event is unique, carefully prepared by Touhou Staff, with contributions from various Touhou Giveaways members. This way we want to show that giveaway groups are not only about giveaways, and it's the community that plays important part in creating a successful group of lovely people.


This time we'll put you to the test. Your every ability and skill will come useful. In cooperation with other SG members, you'll be working hard on solving the biggest mysteries we prepared for you, which will require versatility, especially games, movies, music, anime and memes knowledge, and that's only the beginning.


Rules

  • There are over 289+ giveaways, from which at least 245+ can be obtained through teamwork of whole SG community. We have prepared many different bundled and unbundled giveaways, including No Man's Sky, so everybody should find something worthy :3.
  • Event will last until 20th August 00:00 CEST (my birthday)
  • Your objective will be to find out the origin of over 300 audio samples, from various games, movies, bands, TV serials and likewise.
  • In order to avoid cheating, every sample has been converted into awesome chiptune-like 8-bit arrange done by our beloved ArchiBoT. We made sure that every song sounds properly and can be solved. We included extra info about format we expect for each question, therefore you can use that as a hint.
  • The task is divided into two categories: Group puzzles and Single puzzles
  • If given song was used in more than one place, original origin matters (where it was used for the first time), unless format specifies otherwise.

Group puzzles

Group puzzles are supposed to be solved by the SG community. You can (and should) work together on solving these ones. I strongly encourage you to use the thread for sharing hints, thoughts, possible clues and other useful information regarding questions being asked. You can ask anybody for help, apart from Touhou Giveaways members (who are also excluded from participation).

Every group puzzle features mini-train after solving all questions, and they're further categorized into matching themes, so solving RPG puzzle consisting of RPG-like questions will reward you with many awesome RPG games!

Adventure / Strategy Games [SOLVED]
Touhou [SOLVED]
Fighting [SOLVED]
jRPG [SOLVED]
RPG [SOLVED]
Visual Novels [SOLVED]
Anime [SOLVED]
Platformers [SOLVED]
Arcade [SOLVED]
Action/Shooters [SOLVED]
Horror Games [SOLVED]
Puzzle / Simulation Games [SOLVED]


Single puzzles

Single puzzles are supposed to be solved solo, so I'd appreciate if you did not share hints, thoughts or otherwise useful information regarding them. Those puzzles are divided into three categories, and I'm sure that everybody can solve at least one of those solo, so why not give it a try?

Easy

Those are puzzles which are considered easy to solve for majority of people.

Easy #1
Easy #2
Easy #3
Easy #4
Easy #5
Easy #6
Easy #7
Easy #8
Easy #9
Easy #10
Easy #11
Easy #12
Easy #13
Easy #14
Easy #15
Easy #16

Medium

Solving those might require prior knowledge of particular game/movie, but that knowledge is considered quite common in this case.

Medium #1
Medium #2
Medium #3
Medium #4
Medium #5
Medium #6
Medium #7
Medium #8
Medium #9
Medium #10
Medium #11
Medium #12
Medium #13
Medium #14
Medium #15
Medium #16
Medium #17

Hard

Solving those usually requires expert knowledge of particular game/movie, very often obscure and otherwise unknown or rare titles. Maybe reward will be worth it?

Hard #1
Hard #2
Hard #3
Hard #4
Hard #5
Hard #6
Hard #7
Hard #8
Hard #9
Hard #10
Hard #11


Hints

We made our best to focus on community aspect of our event, therefore majority of giveaways (245 out of 289 total) are behind group puzzles. We expect that you'll solve them quite easily. If it becomes too difficult, we will give you some hints, but we'll also reduce amount of giveaways for that gate, so hard-work will be much more rewarding :3.

Regarding single ones - giveaway creator's rules apply. We have prepared two hint phases: at 15th August and 18th August, offering every giveaway creator to decide if (s)he wants to disclose any hints (or not).


All clear?

Then go solve those mysteries! We wish you all good luck!


AND NOW FOR THE FIGHT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR...


Updates

passing by to inform that Hard #8 and Hard #9 both have a new hint added by the giveaway creator ¦3
All remaining group questions now have hints added
passing by to inform that Medium #1 and Hard #2, 3, 4, 8, 9 all have a new hint provided by the puzzle makers ¦3
passing by to inform that Medium #1 has news answers added by the gib creator ¦3
passing by to inform that Hard #5 has a new answer added by the gib creator ¦3
format for Hard #8 was fixed ¦3
passing by to inform that Hard #2 has new answers added by the gib creator ¦3
Easy #16, Hard #10 and Hard #11 were fixed, sorry for the trouble!


Previous events:
Anniversary
Christmas
Cirno de Mayo
Baka Cirno
Cat Giveaways V3
Cat Giveaways V2
Cat Giveaways V1

8 years ago*

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I'm too lazy to do puzzles, so I'll just try to keep warm while weather is terrible here

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8 years ago
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Bump and tyvm for the event ^_^

8 years ago
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Amazing event! Bump! :)

8 years ago
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Lol loved the fight great stuff as always from Touhou Giveaways.

8 years ago
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Touhou [SOLVED]
Anime [SOLVED]

I'm done here :(
I can't do other than those two

Web server is down

:(

Hard #1

I've heard this so many time, but can't remember anything :(

8 years ago*
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Still have JRPG :3

8 years ago
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And Visual Novels!

8 years ago
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I've not done that many VN to become a god like Katsuragi Keima sadly :(

8 years ago
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I can try to fail
Because I'm too focused in most JRPG games that I don't really remember the song, I just remembered they're always beautiful :3

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8 years ago
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Very cool event - even though I cant guess most of them :)

8 years ago
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Question, how did you convert music to 8-bit chiptunes?

8 years ago
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Obsolete code I wrote 5 years ago that was untouched since then and totally forgotten.

8 years ago
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Can I have a copy? I've always wanted to see how it's done

8 years ago
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Not without the rest of ArchiBoT, and that code probably won't even work in your case as it's too machine-specific, for instance it requires old SoundBlaster to work. It was written when I didn't have any decent programming knowledge, and I don't want to spread this mess around.

Basically, it reads MIDI file, then tries to smartly use audio soundbanks that match notes. Soundbanks come from various ancient 8-bit-like devices, such as GameBoy, NES, Spectrum, Amiga and more. The algorithm is actually awful and could be done much better, but I don't have time to rewrite everything - I'd do that in totally different way today. That's one of the reasons why some songs sound much better than other ones.

You can do the same and much better today, by finding MIDI of the song you like, and simply putting instruments in any decent audio creator, e.g. FL Studio. Perhaps eventually I'll rewrite that code and put on my GitHub, but it's too machine-specific to do that anytime soon. TBH I found it by accident and thought that it'd be cool for creating an event :3. I remember it was for some kind of local programming contest, but I'm not even sure if I participated in it eventually.

8 years ago
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alright i think i get some of it, so thanks for the explanation!

8 years ago
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Someone must really like (or hate) the number 8, 5 of the 10 still-unsolved puzzles lack answers on Q8, and 3 are stuck on it.

8 years ago
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Is it bad I can't remember the name of Easy #15? like, how stupid am I.

8 years ago
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I've got so many songs I'm listening to over and over cause I know them and just can't put my finger on it. Happens when you haven't heard stuff in ages.

8 years ago
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Yeah, and it's a feeling of dread and pain until you get it. But that song is so damn familiar.

8 years ago
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Dread indeed... Well #15 just came to me.

8 years ago*
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Thanks, it didn't help me out too much at first but I finally found it in a list songs. Unfortunately I already had the game, but oh well!

8 years ago
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please remember, enjoy the event~ ¦3

8 years ago
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Edited. Was a big post, so it just sunk in my head as a group thing, my bad.

8 years ago
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is fine is fine, thank you for editing :3
side question, is your avatar from a video game? it looks badass :v

8 years ago
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Yup, it's an F2P game on Steam called Brawlhalla. Sort of a Smash Bros style fighting game. The pic is a skin that can be purchased for one of the characters with irl cash.

8 years ago
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Gonna do fast server reboot, don't panic, max 5 minutes :3.

8 years ago
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You heard him guys.

PANIC

8 years ago
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MORE PANIC :3

8 years ago
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End of panic ;_;

8 years ago
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STILL PANIC

8 years ago
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ArchiBoT is gonna hijack the server and start SkyNet ArchiNet!

8 years ago
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That will happen in 10-20 years, when I dump my brain and load it in ArchiBoT in order to live forever.

8 years ago
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You'll complete that with a robotic body, I guess?
Just... how old are you, if I can ask?

8 years ago
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23 in 7 days, I'm old ;_;

8 years ago
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You're in your early twenties, you're still a young lad!

8 years ago
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8 years ago
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Disney is then going to steal the technology and use it to ensure eternal copyright.

8 years ago
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Aww, too bad I'm late for the Touhou soundtracks puzzle :(

8 years ago
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Not late, just caught it during maintenance.

8 years ago
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You can still listen to the music in their glorious remastered PC-98 mix

8 years ago*
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Done all the easys stuck on 6 and 12 of them tho i'll be back after sleep to try more thanks its been fun sofar =p

8 years ago
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Thank you for the event! And happy birthday to be.

I'm pretty sure I'm tone deaf and I'm terrible at pin pointing music and sounds to what they are even if they sound terribly familiar.
I did a few of the easy ones, but then frustration and depression set in T_T

8 years ago
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I can't really participate right now because I'm tethering to my phone and get crap connection, but bump.

And bump for So Ra No Wo To theme. :3

8 years ago
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Woo, I solved an answer for a group puzzle!

EDIT: AUGH I SWEAR I'VE HEARD SOME OF THESE BEFORE AAAUU~

8 years ago*
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Bump

8 years ago
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Awesome puzzles! Thanks and bump!

8 years ago
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The songs are so goood! Especially Adventure/Strategy # 20!

8 years ago
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GREAT EVENT AS ALWAYS

Would it be better to add a colon to the answer of Easy#8? Took me a while to figure out the right format

8 years ago*
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this is fun...also I really suck at it xD

8 years ago
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17 Done so far... These are really testing my memory. Should be a cautionary warning (May Lead To Insanity). Need to take a break.

8 years ago
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...... BRILLIANT!

8 years ago
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For when the music is too much for you

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8 years ago
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w, wait..... are those- FROGU NO :d

8 years ago
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The reactions I get from you and Archi...

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frog lives matter

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8 years ago
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Figured the last one out for Visual Novel No.8(euphoria)

8 years ago
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And thanks to you people can now join more animu gibs :3.

8 years ago
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Awesome puzzle :)

8 years ago
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Closed 7 years ago by JustArchi.