BobDole's Guitar (Decontrol FC 45/47)

**BobDole** · Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 2150 Location: Troy, New York

Well, I would have had a really hard time giving up this game without at least getting this one...it's just too much easier than the others. It's also easily the most bullshit-y and the least fun of the 3 I had left, so I'm glad I got it for those reasons as well.

To be clear, I'm not giving up yet...I can get the last 2 (Get Ready 2 Rokk and Bark at the Moon), and I intend to put more effort towards them in the coming days and weeks. But if I get too frustrated with them and nothing is happening, I will eventually move on to GH2 without feeling too bad about it. With GH2 I will surely be going hard at The Light That Blinds and Trogdor. Hangar 18 will get some attention too of course, but I'll probably mostly ignore Jordan. I just don't think that one's feasible for me yet.

Should I go for Trippolette? According to the FC breakdown, it should be within my reach at this point (it's ranked between Decontrol and Get Ready 2 Rokk, though I think it looks harder than the latter). I'm not sure if I've ever played it in GH1, though I'm familiar with the chart to some extent.

Decontrol FC

Oh yeah, and I got really close on Bark at the Moon recently. Proof positive that I can FC it right there...I'm not sure if it will actually happen though.

**voidedalive2x** · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:03 am Post subject:

Great job on Decontrol!

Whenever I've played BatM (or played along with a vid), it seems easy enough to do either the strumming speed or the fretting, but almost impossible for me to both at the same time. I really salute anyone who can do both, especially with GH1's engine.
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**UltraHeroABC5** · Joined: 25 Sep 2011 Posts: 1382 Location: Canada

Great job with Decontrol! I think you could get Trippolette at this point. Also, nice job with Bark At The Moon. GR2R is just a pain to get, but I also think you can get that at the point you are at, since your last update for that song was really close. Good job and good luck

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**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA

Looks like the GH1 God is tearing it up yet again! I'm not too surprised, anyone who can get FIU can FGFC imo. Especially seeing that BatM video, that's crazy impressive. Am I crazy or were you using hopos there? I've never seriously gone for an FC of the song but I feel like that might be a good avenue to consider if I did...

Good luck on the FGFC!
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2:59 alexhaz64: I'm like 6th place on that song
2:59 alexhaz64: pretty neat
2:59 alexhaz64: :p
2:59 JohnnyGrey: No Alex, I don't care how good your score is
2:59 JohnnyGrey: DAMMIT
2:59 alexhaz64: XD
alexhaz64 flexes
2:59 psxfreak101: too slow on the trigger there, boyo
2:59 alexhaz64: that seems to be the case all night
2:59 JohnnyGrey: I've been too slow a few times tonight
2:59 JohnnyGrey: GDSAKj hfask
2:59 psxfreak101: XD
2:59 alexhaz64: LMAO
2:59 alexhaz64: OMG
psxfreak101 actua-loling

**BobDole** · Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 2150 Location: Troy, New York

Thank you everybody! I've been mostly working on Trippolette recently; I made a GH1 custom disc last week that swaps in Trippolette for Sail Your Ship By (and also adds Graveyard Shift in place of Story of My Love). IMO those are the two most useless songs in the game, so I won't miss them (though I was lazy and didn't change the song title/artist text in the game, so I'll probably remake the custom disc soon to address that). For those who don't know, this is not cheating; it's basically just a much more convenient version of what the Gameshark/AR code would do. The songs are already on the disc, but not normally accessible; all I did was swap them into the places of accessible songs.

Anyway, I have claimed a Graveyard Shift FC for a long time, but technically I did that in GH2...now I have a real Graveyard Shift FC that I can (and did) enter a score for. Trippolette is going ok...I'm up to 210k and 99% and I'm gradually getting better at the solo. I'm not really that close to the FC now but I think I'll get there. Right now I'm semi-consistently making it past the first 3 measures (the descending triplets) and getting decent combos throughout (although I hate those damn pinky trills). And I now see how it is indeed easier than Get Ready 2 Rokk. At least technically speaking; I'm still far more likely to FC GR2R or even BatM right at this moment because I know them so much better, but somehow I feel like Trippolette is going to end up being my next FC.

To keep myself playing GH1 as long as possible, I have been working on improving my scores on the side/as warm-up...I'm basically just going down the community breakdown list and re-FCing everything with the no-squeeze path (because I can't squeeze). I'm about halfway through the game at this point and I've been able to improve the vast majority of my old scores, which were done either with no path or with a very poor application of the upper-bound path.

One funny fact about my scores...my lowest rank by far is on Fire It Up (991st) because I FCed it with no star power. I also have a non-6 star score for Get Ready 2 Rokk (which is a 100% overstrum) for the same reason; that's ranked 501st (my second lowest rank; I'm also 496th on Spanish Castle Magic with an FC). I'm reluctant to enter higher scores for them because I don't really like seeing the green 99%.

**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA

**BobDole** · Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 2150 Location: Troy, New York

Thank you very much for the breakdown; I'm definitely going to be using that as I go through all the games trying to pick up FCs. It is going to be a slow process; it will probably be months before I even get to the new-school games at all. This is because I intend to grind each individual game intensely, in the belief that immersion in just one engine at a time will increase my chances of getting new FCs. I think this is especially true for GH1 since it's so wonky, but I will attempt to apply the theory to the other games as well. Based on your numbers for 600, here's where I stand:

+5/+4/+2/0/+1/-5/-7/0/0/-1/-2

This makes my relative old-school strength (on the Harmonix games in particular) clear and reveals my biggest weak spots by far to be GHWT (-5) and GHM (-7). That didn't surprise me. What did is that I'm not as far behind on GHWoR as I thought I would be; I've never been all that satisfied with my 78/93 there.

Even after I get 600 (hopefully within the old-school games...I imagine I'll at least pick up The Light That Blinds and Round and Round, which would be 599 minimum), I'm still going to make it a goal to get to 0 or better on all of those numbers; beyond that I guess I'll be looking towards the 634 numbers. Those specific FCs you mention all sound hard, but not impossible...they're all within my skill level I think. And I already have Little Guitars. Just for fun, my (mostly) deficits from the 634 numbers:

+1/0/-2/0/0/-9/-11/-2/-3/-4/-7

So I'm kinda far away on that, but I do have the numbers on a few of the games (and even a +1 on GH1 because of Fire It Up) so maybe I'll get there someday. Not soon though. I must say, I'm a little surprised that Raining Blood on GH3 still isn't expected at that level when you're supposed to have "FGFC minus one" on several of the new-school games; it just seems like it would be.

By the way, I think I'm going to make a thread in the guitar forum on this topic (i.e. the expected FCs in each game to reach 200/211 and 600/660)...I think it should make for a fascinating and helpful discussion, particularly for those like me who are approaching these goals.
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**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA

I'll admit I just suck especially hard at RaBl in GH3. I have Hangar 18 instead for 200/211, and I'm also missing 21CSM for the GH5 FGFC. I would say then that 635 might be a good round number to separate "possible" from "impossible" :p

Of course, then you have some intermediary FCs, like BiM, BatH/H18, GR2R, Eruption/Spanish Fly, and WoR songs that aren't the top 4, lol. Perhaps the curve is a lot more gradual than one might think. Personally though all of those songs are quite clearly a cut above anything I have...
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2:59 alexhaz64: I'm like 6th place on that song
2:59 alexhaz64: pretty neat
2:59 alexhaz64: :p
2:59 JohnnyGrey: No Alex, I don't care how good your score is
2:59 JohnnyGrey: DAMMIT
2:59 alexhaz64: XD
alexhaz64 flexes
2:59 psxfreak101: too slow on the trigger there, boyo
2:59 alexhaz64: that seems to be the case all night
2:59 JohnnyGrey: I've been too slow a few times tonight
2:59 JohnnyGrey: GDSAKj hfask
2:59 psxfreak101: XD
2:59 alexhaz64: LMAO
2:59 alexhaz64: OMG
psxfreak101 actua-loling

**suhdude024** · Joined: 11 Jul 2016 Posts: 289

Great work on Decontrol, that motherfucker gave me so much trouble back in the day. So many 100% overstrums. Keep up the FC's!

All this GH1 talk is motivating me to break out the old sg for some squeezing

**Ambrgarden** · Joined: 16 Jan 2021 Posts: 90

where are u bro