GH1 Star power help

**KennedyKills** · Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 640

Ok I'm not sure if this has been discussed a lot but I have problems doing instant activations on GH1, it seems like the star power doesn't react right away when you do a 2 phrase instant activation.. if I do a 3 phrase or already have seen the Star power ready message, it goes off fine.. help plox?

I use select and tilt depending on the activation, so don't just say use select lol
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**Dynasty99** · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 911

in general, you have to wait until you actually have star power to tilt in GH1 I find, unlike in any of the others where you can tilt ahead of time. Select always works in any circumstance though if you want more reliability

**KennedyKills** · Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 640

**zsjostrom35** · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 2130 Location: Columbus, Ohio

In GH1, there is actually a slight delay between when you first gain an activation and when you can use the star power. The generated paths on bradleyzoo don't take this into account, so there may be some activations that are actually impossible to execute. The CfH ones aren't, though; check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7aOABkmqnI. Compare the activations he does at 2:40 and 2:56 (C2 activations with slight delay) with the one he does at 3:15 (C3 activation immediately). You should probably try to hit the last note of the star power phrases early (so you can activate sooner) and try to hit the first note of the next star power phrase late (so you don't overrun it).

By the way, I got that information on the delay from Absolutely Everything You Need to Know about Squeezing. It's a great resource for SP questions.
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**tornintwo** · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 1524 Location: Vancouver, B.C.

I noticed this happens a few times. It happened on those CfH activations, as well as the ILR&R immediate activation, and also sometimes on the 2nd last FotW activation where you activate directly after you hit the chord. I use select on those and I don't know how to explain why it happens. I think its just a delay in the game, so I just reduce my amount of whammy that I get on CfH and it fixes the problem. That's probably the simplest, but worst way to do it though.
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**Kubuh** · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 1765 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

The thing with this is that you can't activate until you actually have a half bar filled up. And since it doesn't fill it up instantly like in the other games (I have no idea how long the delay actually is) you have to wait for a short ´time. The was I do it is that I look at the SP bar and hit select as soon as I get half a bar..

Also. The close to a half bar you are (Whammy etc) the shorter the delay will be.

Hope this clears it up a bit

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