A Method to Reliably Obtain Exact Scores (v1.0)

**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

thats awesome!

2-play proofs are really satisfying.
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**fcphantom** · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 875 Location: Menasha, WI

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

Holy cow Barfo... that was a lot to figure out and type.. lol. I haven't even read the whole thing yet.. but nice work

**pata70** · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 426 Location: Canada

**Crazed** · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 248 Location: NY

Wow, I swear I use most of those techniques when finding a cut-off. Not all but some; that was written perfectly and I give you credit because I probably would never be able to put everything that clearly. Nice job!

As for Hangar 18 X, I changed my hold part to the second section of:

etc... part. If you have a 4x multiplier going into it, Using the modulo 50 (as you called it), I noticed the hold notes would go down by 2 (56, 04, 52, 00) etc... (if I remember correctly). The only thing that sucks about this is that you have to hit the rest of the song pretty well w/o hitting hold notes. And that orange streak screwed me a few times.

**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

yeah i used something like that for hard, but i couldnt get near high enough going with a hold section that early in X.

EDIT: and it took me a long time to write it all up. Its very tough to explain it in a way that makes some sort of sense.
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Watching her, these things she said / "Time," she cried "failed to wait, this time"
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Hush now / Let it go now / I know it's time to go / Time to let this fall / From my hands

**pata70** · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 426 Location: Canada

Thanks Barfo for finishing up this great guide!

A few thoughts on pointswhoring (since that finger is obviously pointed at me):

I don't think any narrowing contribution is pointswhoring unless you're purposely not trying to get as close to the target as your skill can get you.

If you spend your precious game time trying to get cutoff proofs, then a contribution point that costs nothing (except to photobucket for their hard disk space and to the mods for their time approving the pic...) is a good token of appreciation for the effort you put in.

So I don't see the honour of not submitting it for proof if I took the time to play the song... I could be working on improving my Hard scores instead, I haven't even ever tried Expert yet, but the motivation of helping out has kept me playing Easy for the last few weeks!

That, and I'm saving up for a super-duper Store upgrade that costs 500 points

Cheers,
The Proof Journeyman

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**BizCasFri** · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 1833 Location: Winnipeg, MB

Sweet, I'll have to read through this sometime.

You might want to turn off smilies, though.
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**de1337ed** · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 1066 Location: JMU, VA

First off, this deserves a bump....

Secondly, and more on topic, I've been trying to get into the proofing business but I'm finding it hard starting out

I was wondering if there are any songs that are reasonable to "practice" on. Or at least some other songs that have charts that may help me make judgements on what score to aim for before the miss, star power, and holds sections; as well as where to place those sections themselves.

(P.S. I did read it all and I understand the order and purposes of the sections. I've done some work [namely Strutter and Thunderhorse Medium(PS2)] but I'm still having trouble identifying exact sections)
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**de1337ed** · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 1066 Location: JMU, VA

**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

**de1337ed** · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 1066 Location: JMU, VA

I've been looking at Parasite-Hard for a bit.

I don't do anything too exact chartwise but I recognize there are 3200 points of easily accessible notes at 2x(star) at the end and I plan to use between 700 and 2500 of the points.

I hope to use the area from 70-81 give or take as my hold area. This will yield approx. 2200-3300

The miss section that follows will yield 2500-3500

112,378 and 112,377 are the goals so before the hold section I expect to have 104-106k points.

Granted I haven't done a run on this song yet, and I usually glance at the chart, count the end star notes then do a couple calibration runs.

Another song I've glanced at is TIGRYT-Hard but I don't know how I'd survive to the end of the song with the massive sustain explosion there. I assume the best way to go at such a song is to play the notes early and get 0 sustain points but I'm not quite even close at all to that level yet.

Thanks for your patience, your guide has inspired me.
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**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

**de1337ed** · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 1066 Location: JMU, VA

All advice taken into account, 101k was the sweet spot, got both sides in 4 total runs. Thanks very much.

Regarding TIGRYT, I think I'll focus on the easier ones (i.e. Soy Bomb and Radium Eyes) until I get more confident with my star timing and the like.

Thanks again.
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