“kcartkcaB tsaL ehT” : pt - 2 .lov skcartkcaB [F .hC]

Part 2 of a 2 part series.

 

Okay, pt 1 turned out to be a backwards episode after all, didn’t it (who could’ve predicted?!) But that doesn’t mean that pt 2 has to be that too, right? Maybe pt 2 will be about VGM which uses the fibonacci sequence to reinforce fourier operations in Fortnite. Or maybe a sob story about how a chip shortage on the YM2612 is resulting in poachers hunting and killing Sega Genesis…es… to harvest their YM2612 chips for boutique jewelry. Or heck, maybe it’s just the Excitebike soundtrack. I guess you’ll just have to find out, won’t you?

Tracklist (all tracks are playing in reverse)

 

Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - From “best-of-year-in-review” episode# (year(s)) - Timestamp

 

A1) Intro - 00:00:00

 

01) Trouble Town Tunnels - Lovely Planet Remix - PC - Satsuma Audio - C1R6a (2023) - 00:02:50

 

02) Main Theme - Mr. Run and Jump - Multiplatform - Fat Bard and/or Andrew P. Masson - C1R8 (2025) - 00:04:56

 

03) Green Hill Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Masato Nakamura - C1R7 (2024) - 00:06:58

 

04) The Power of GT - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Yudai Saitoh - C1R7 (2024) - 00:08:38

 

05) Ending - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1R8 (2025) - 00:12:41

 

06) Evil Bug Judgment Squad - N/A (Battle of the Bits Community Original Chiptune) - N/A (Wildchip) - Diagamblic - C1E55b (2019) - 00:13:57

 

07) Dice Dance Days - Gunstar Heroes - Genesis - Norio Hanzawa - C1R7 (2024) - 00:16:50

 

08) The Entrance to Hell - Snatcher - PC Engine - The Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E55b (2019) - 00:19:00

 

09) Level 1 - Bloody Wolf - TG16 - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Tatsuta Kiuchi, Hitomi Komatsu, Shuuji Segawa, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama - C1E55b (2019) - 00:20:48

 

10) Main Theme - Youkai Douchuuki - PC Engine - Hiroyuki Kawada - C1E55b (2019) - 00:22:47

 

11) Velvet Fog - N/A (Battle of the Bits Community Original Chiptune) - Genesis - Warlord - C1E55b (2019) - 00:25:30

 

12) Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1E70a (2022) - 00:26:48

 

13) Neo Kobe Steel Factory - Contra III: The Alien Wars - SNES - Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi, Tappi Iwase, and/or Aki Hata - C1E70a (2022) - 00:30:50

 

14) The Demons from Adrian’s Pen - DOOM - PC - Bobby Prince - C1R7 (2024) - 00:34:34

 

15) Metroid Prime Battle - Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma - C1E70a (2022) - 00:37:10

 

16) Hurry! - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu - C1E70a (2022) - 00:39:55

 

17) Cabin - Friday the 13th - NES - Hirohiko Takayama - C1E70a (2022) - 00:42:22

 

18) Marseille City - Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy - PC Engine - Kouhei Tanaka, and/or Kazuhio Sawada - C1E55b (2019) - 00:43:54

 

19) Sirena Beach - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka - C1E70a (2022) - 00:46:17

 

20) Dry Desert Sky - Two Dots - iOS / Android - Upright T-Rex - C1E70a (2022) - 00:48:33

 

21) Ghost Valley - N/A (Super Mario Kart Album / originally Super Mario Kart) - N/A (originally SNES) - c: Soya Oka / a: [VGM Cover Band] “The OneUps” - C1E70a (2022) - 00:50:29

 

22) Nocturne - 3D Museum - LaserActive - Goh Hotoda - C1E70a (2022) - 00:53:40

 

23) This is your Story - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu - C1E70a (2022) - 00:55:52

 

24) White Summit Probe Naberius - Phantasy Star Online 2 - Multiplatform - Hideaki Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Kenichi Tokoi, Tadashi Kinukawa, and/or Chihiro Aoki - C1R7 (2024) - 00:58:00

 

25) Anxious Heart - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:05:24

 

26) Everything’s Going to be Okay - Prey - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:09:18

 

27) Home - n++ - Multiplatform - Marcel Dettman - C1R7 (2024) - 01:11:53

 

28) Surrender - n++ - Multiplatform - Sam KDC - C1E70a (2022) - 01:16:58

 

29) Moth and Cortisone - 3D Museum - LaserActive - Tasuaki Shimizu - C1E70a (2022) - 01:22:52

 

30) All About the Girl - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Lenny Ibizarre - C1E55b (2019) - 01:27:08

 

31) Shower Curtain - n++ - Multiplatform - Planet Boelex - C1E55b (2019) - 01:31:08

 

32) Love and Peace - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Kemmei Adachi - C1R7 (2024) - 01:37:39

 

33) Swampy’s Course 1 - Where’s my Water - iOS / Android - Unknown - C1R6a (2023) - 01:41:53

 

34) Velocity Regression - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - C1R6a (2023) - 01:44:05

 

35) Industrius - Jazz Jackrabbit - PC - Robert A. Allen and/or Joshua Jensen - C1R6a (2023) - 01:46:26

 

36) Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 - Sonic 3D Blast - Saturn - Richard Jacques - C1R6a (2023) - 01:50:11

 

37) Starshell - Futuri no Fantavision - PS2 - Soichi Terada - C1R7 (2024) - 01:53:33

 

38) Splash Down - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1R8 (2025) - 01:55:26

 

39) Busy Flare - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1R6a (2023) - 01:58:12

 

40) Starmine - Fantavision (JP) - PS2 - Soichi Terada - C1R7 (2024) - 02:00:48

 

41) Flirty Write 1 [Fixy Text] - Jackbox Party Pack 10 - Multiplatform - Kelly Shuda - C1R8 (2025) - 02:04:55

 

42) Fascination Io Stage - Zero Divide - PS1 / PC - Hideyuki Shimono, and/or Akihito Okawa - C1R8 (2025) - 02:05:55

 

43) Mission 5 - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Setsumaru - C1E55b (2019) - 02:08:58

 

44) Knight’s Guild - Wizards and Warriors 3 - NES - David Wise - C1E55b (2019) - 02:10:38

 

45) Results Theme (aka Record of Samus) - Metroid Prime - GameCube - c: Hirakazu (“Hip”) Tanaka / a: Kenji Yamamoto - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:12:23

 

46) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Sega CD - Tsukasa Tawada - C1E70a (2022) - 02:15:19

 

47) Intro - Fantavision (NA) - PS2 - Soichi Terada - C1E55b (2019) - 02:19:43

 

48) Vote 2 [Drawful Animate] - Jackbox Party Pack 8 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1R8 (2025) - 02:20:13

 

49) Sudden Beautiful Lie - Danganronpa V3 - PC / PS4 / Vita - Masafumi Takada - C1R7 (2024) - 02:22:17

 

50) Tear-Stained Eyes - Snatcher - Sega CD / PC Engine - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:26:10

 

B1) Outro - 02:31:00

 

Mixtape Runtime: 02:28:18 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:43:33

 

And with that, we hope you have enjoyed Nerd Noise Radio’s final foray into the April Fool’s series. Special outro music is First time Setup from the Switch 2 - composed by Kazumi Totaka (and might I add, one of the biggest teases in the history of video games for Switch 2 adopters like myself who still missed the music-filled Wii and WiiU system suites and were given a little jolt of false hope by it for the new system).

 

Here is a link to a document which contains details (and links) on every previous NNR April Fools outing:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2I0F04kBy4vEAKLAfY3QrIEHVvr9uOIuTJBepoI39c/edit?usp=sharing

As well as this link to the spreadsheet I used to plan out these two episodes (apologies for the partially corrupted data. I’m not even sure how that happened). :-D

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sVAx-IQdvs1gXuB0nA7bJX1yepXAx47fTb5Y5GsPNlQ/edit?usp=sharing

NOTE: I had intended to pull from not just “St. John” episodes, but from every best-of episode 2019-2025, but ran into my 100 before even getting to the non-St. John episodes. I’ll include reversed copies of each mixtape (both used and unused) on this spreadsheet as SUPER BONUSES over on Archive as well as “Backtracks UNBACKED” and “Backtracks - Back-to-Front”. So you can hear everything I heard in the process of putting this together.

 

Intro and outro recorded on Shure SM7B dynamic microphone running through a Cloudlifter Preamp through the Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface into a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux. 

 

Pt 1 released simultaneously to Pt 2.