Tattooed Love Boys

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

**tpalkki** · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 68 Location: Finland

This is one of those paths that made me want to puke while making it up... it's absurd how hard FC'ing a simple song and nailing three 8,5 beat (not even so short!) whammies can become. But here it is:

1. 1, after hitting the next blue hold
2. 2, right away
3. 2, right away
4. 1, right away
5. 2, don't whammy the first yellow hold in the second SP phrase, activate right away
6. 2, right away
7. 1, on the continuous stream of green and red notes

**malictus** · Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 994 Location: Bloomington, IN

If there were a class in optimizing your scores on seemingly simple songs, this song would be the final exam! Changing time signatures, held notes, and early activations (before the 4x kicks in) all make the optimum path hard to find, and the very difficult squeezes and whammies make it hard to execute. It's fun though Mr. Green

Here's my path:
malictus TLB strat
It's good for at least 150,677, which for the moment is easily #1. That's with most if not all of the squeezes.

Interestingly, I was all set to claim that as the best path, when I came here and saw tpalkki's path above. I'm doing basically a

1-2-2-1-3-1-1
and his is basically
1-2-2-1-2-2-1

If I calculated things correctly, by adjusting my path slightly right there to resemble his, I could squeeze out an extra 200 points! Essentially this would mean getting all the notes between SP's 8 & 9, and activating immediately after SP 10 rather than waiting.

Too tired to try right now though...
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RB3 Pro Keys Expert Progress:
FC's: 39/63 on-disc + 38 DLC

**2sucky4u** · Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 30

I know I'm an ultra noob. I can't wammy enough for the single sp phrases, so I had to use 3-2-2-2-2.

**debr5836** · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 1159 Location: Fort Collins, CO

spopt.pl optimized path for tattooedloveboys.mid (medium)

File: tattooedloveboys.mid
Solution Path: 1-2-2-1-2-2-1
Estimated Base score 30931
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 119358
Estimated SP Score 33256
Estimated Total Score 152614
Activations:
From meas 12.0000 (G note) to meas 16.5000 (B note) Score: 3759 ((12.8 + 6.0) * 200 )
From meas 26.0000 (R note) to meas 32.5000 (G note) Score: 5400 ((27.0 + 0.0) * 200 )
From meas 46.0000 (G note) to meas 52.3957 (Y sust) Score: 5581 ((19.0 + 8.9) * 200 )
From meas 57.4990 (R note) to meas 62.0000 (G note) Score: 3800 ((19.0 + 0.0) * 200 )
From meas 90.0000 (G note) to meas 95.5000 (R note) Score: 4000 ((17.0 + 3.0) * 200 ) (do not fully whammy)
From meas 124.0000 (Y note) to meas 131.7500 (Y note) Score: 6588 ((24.0 + 8.9) * 200 )
From meas 134.7500 (Y note) to meas 139.2500 (Y note) Score: 4128 ((14.0 + 6.6) * 200 )

**debr5836** · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 1159 Location: Fort Collins, CO

spopt2.pl results for "Tattooed Love Boys" (gh2-ps2/medium) generated on 07/20/2007

lazy-whammy (148785) PNG TXT
no-squeeze (151269) PNG TXT
big-squeeze (151635) PNG TXT
nearly-ideal (152841) PNG TXT
upper-bound (153635) PNG TXT

KEY
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Lazy Whammy ---- No squeezing, all whammys start 0.5 beats late
No Squeeze ---- No squeezing, no early whammying
Big Squeeze ---- 80% of the max possible squeeze, no early whammying
Nearly Ideal ---- 80% of the max possible squeeze, 80% of the max possible early whammying
Upper Bound ---- 100% of the max possible squeeze, 100% of the max possible early whammying

big-squeeze path details
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File: tattooedloveboys.mid
Solution Path: 1-2-2-1-C2-2-1
Estimated Base score 30882
Estimated 4* cutoff 61764
Estimated 5* cutoff 86469
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 119358
Estimated SP Score 32277
Estimated Total Score 151635
Activations:
#1 From meas 12.1429 (R note) to meas 16.5000 (B note) ( 12.1423- 16.4089) Score: 3609 (12.0+ 6.0)*200
#2 From meas 26.0000 (R note) to meas 32.2500 (G note) ( 25.9844- 32.2510) Score: 5200 (26.0+ 0.0)*200
#3 From meas 46.0000 (G note) to meas 52.3241 (Y sust) ( 46.0574- 52.3241) Score: 5528 (19.0+ 8.6)*200
#4 From meas 57.4110 (B sust) to meas 61.7500 (R note) ( 57.4110- 61.6505) Score: 3608 (18.0+ 0.0)*200
#5 From meas 90.0000 (G note) to meas 95.5000 (R note) ( 89.8484- 95.6516) Score: 4000 (17.0+ 3.0)*200
#6 From meas 124.0000 (Y note) to meas 131.5000 (R note) (124.0375-131.4375) Score: 6404 (23.0+ 9.0)*200
#7 From meas 134.7500 (Y note) to meas 139.0000 (R note) (134.7344-139.0010) Score: 3928 (13.0+ 6.6)*200

nearly-ideal path details
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File: tattooedloveboys.mid
Solution Path: 1-2-2-1-C2-2-1
Estimated Base score 30882
Estimated 4* cutoff 61764
Estimated 5* cutoff 86469
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 119358
Estimated SP Score 33483
Estimated Total Score 152841
Activations:
#1 From meas 12.0000 (G note) to meas 16.5422 (B sust) ( 12.0577- 16.5422) Score: 3775 (12.8+ 6.1)*200
#2 From meas 26.0000 (R note) to meas 32.5000 (G note) ( 25.9990- 32.4823) Score: 5400 (27.0+ 0.0)*200
#3 From meas 45.7500 (Y note) to meas 52.3333 (Y sust) ( 45.8505- 52.3333) Score: 5736 (20.0+ 8.7)*200
#4 From meas 58.0000 (G note) to meas 62.5000 (G note) ( 57.9990- 62.4834) Score: 3800 (19.0+ 0.0)*200
#5 From meas 90.0000 (G note) to meas 95.5000 (R note) ( 89.8484- 95.6516) Score: 4000 (17.0+ 3.0)*200
#6 From meas 122.2500 (G note) to meas 130.2500 (Y note) (122.2684-130.1490) Score: 6628 (26.0+ 7.1)*200
#7 From meas 135.0000 (G note) to meas 139.5400 (B sust) (135.0583-139.5400) Score: 4144 (14.0+ 6.7)*200

upper-bound path details
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File: tattooedloveboys.mid
Solution Path: 1-2-2-1-C2-2-1
Estimated Base score 30882
Estimated 4* cutoff 61764
Estimated 5* cutoff 86469
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 119358
Estimated SP Score 34277
Estimated Total Score 153635
Activations:
#1 From meas 11.7500 (Y note) to meas 16.5000 (B note) ( 11.8766- 16.4155) Score: 3909 (13.5+ 6.0)*200
#2 From meas 28.0000 (G note) to meas 34.7500 (R note) ( 28.1234- 34.6612) Score: 5600 (28.0+ 0.0)*200
#3 From meas 45.7500 (Y note) to meas 52.4133 (Y sust) ( 45.8760- 52.4133) Score: 5792 (20.0+ 9.0)*200
#4 From meas 59.5000 (G note) to meas 64.2500 (R note) ( 59.6266- 64.1655) Score: 4000 (20.0+ 0.0)*200
#5 From meas 90.0000 (G note) to meas 95.5000 (R note) ( 89.8734- 95.6266) Score: 4000 (17.0+ 3.0)*200
#6 From meas 122.5000 (G note) to meas 130.5584 (B sust) (122.6240-130.5584) Score: 6648 (26.0+ 7.2)*200
#7 From meas 134.5000 (R note) to meas 139.2500 (Y note) (134.5884-139.1240) Score: 4328 (15.0+ 6.6)*200

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