Message in a Bottle

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

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

The note chart has an error on the last note. Its not a YB chord +sustain, its a three note YBO chord + sustain.

**Sully** · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 4570 Location: Tampa, FL

4-2-2-2, perhaps?

The first activation would waste a lot that could be gained from whammying, but it's the only way to have a full bar at the chord heavy "I'll send an SOS to the world" part.

The next activation would be used during the second "I hope that someone gets my..." part to last through the chord heavy part that ends at "...message in a bottle"

The next activation would be used immediately during the third verse.

The last activation would be used at measure 179 during the outro.

edit: This useage just landed me in 6th place. I'm not sure if my last activation was at the best place, though.

**Sully** · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 4570 Location: Tampa, FL

Sully- Message in a Bottle Hard SP

**DaneH** · Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 640 Location: Walkerton, Ontario

lol that works, i was thinking 3-2-3 but ya...yours is better

**angusyoungisgod** · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:

does it matter if you whammy on the 4?

**Tyrgannus** · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 53

My SP path for this is the 4-2-2-2 that Sully mentioned, making sure to whammy as much as possible except for the first Star power activation, and yet I only got around 294K on it. The top score is above 300K. Any thoughts? I honestly can't see a better path than the one I used.

**DaneH** · Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 640 Location: Walkerton, Ontario

**emptyset** · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 3:28 am Post subject:

**sircuddles** · Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 279 Location: London, Ontario

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

spopt.pl optimized path for messageinabottle.mid (hard)

File: messageinabottle.mid
Solution Path: 4-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 63069
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 249134
Estimated SP Score 52554
Estimated Total Score 301688
Activations:
From meas 56.7500 (Y note) to meas 64.7500 (RB note) Score: 19992 ((97.0 + 3.0) * 200 )
From meas 105.8750 (B note) to meas 110.7500 (RB note) Score: 12600 ((63.0 + 0.0) * 200 )
From meas 137.2500 (B note) to meas 143.4098 (R sust) Score: 9114 ((41.0 + 4.6) * 200 )
From meas 179.1875 (B note) to meas 186.5000 (Y note) Score: 10848 ((51.0 + 3.2) * 200 )

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

spopt2.pl results for "Message in a Bottle" (gh2-ps2/hard) generated on 07/20/2007

lazy-whammy (298066) PNG TXT
no-squeeze (300886) PNG TXT
big-squeeze (301466) PNG TXT
nearly-ideal (302674) PNG TXT
upper-bound (302890) PNG TXT

KEY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
File: messageinabottle.mid
Solution Path: 4-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 62920
Estimated 4* cutoff 125840
Estimated 5* cutoff 176176
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 249126
Estimated SP Score 52340
Estimated Total Score 301466
Activations:
#1 From meas 56.7500 (Y note) to meas 64.7500 (RB note) ( 56.7490- 64.7490) Score: 19992 (97.0+ 3.0)*200
#2 From meas 106.0000 (RB note) to meas 110.7500 (RB note) (105.9610-110.7510) Score: 12400 (62.0+ 0.0)*200
#3 From meas 137.2500 (B note) to meas 143.3750 (R note) (137.2810-143.3344) Score: 9100 (41.0+ 4.5)*200
#4 From meas 179.1875 (B note) to meas 186.5000 (Y note) (179.1865-186.4931) Score: 10848 (51.0+ 3.2)*200

nearly-ideal path details
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
File: messageinabottle.mid
Solution Path: 4-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 62920
Estimated 4* cutoff 125840
Estimated 5* cutoff 176176
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 249126
Estimated SP Score 53548
Estimated Total Score 302674
Activations:
#1 From meas 56.7500 (Y note) to meas 64.7500 (RB note) ( 56.7490- 64.7490) Score: 19992 (97.0+ 3.0)*200
#2 From meas 105.7500 (BO note) to meas 110.7500 (RB note) (105.7860-110.7094) Score: 13000 (65.0+ 0.0)*200
#3 From meas 137.1250 (B note) to meas 143.3962 (R sust) (137.1656-143.3962) Score: 9308 (42.0+ 4.5)*200
#4 From meas 179.1875 (B note) to meas 186.8750 (G note) (179.2138-186.8344) Score: 11248 (53.0+ 3.2)*200

upper-bound path details
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
File: messageinabottle.mid
Solution Path: 4-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 62920
Estimated 4* cutoff 125840
Estimated 5* cutoff 176176
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 249126
Estimated SP Score 53764
Estimated Total Score 302890
Activations:
#1 From meas 56.7500 (Y note) to meas 64.7500 (RB note) ( 56.7490- 64.7490) Score: 19992 (97.0+ 3.0)*200
#2 From meas 105.7500 (BO note) to meas 110.7500 (RB note) (105.7490-110.7056) Score: 13000 (65.0+ 0.0)*200
#3 From meas 137.0000 (Y note) to meas 143.3750 (R note) (137.0490-143.3240) Score: 9500 (43.0+ 4.5)*200
#4 From meas 179.1875 (B note) to meas 186.9385 (G sust) (179.2385-186.9385) Score: 11272 (53.0+ 3.4)*200

Please post any bugs/questions about these auto-generated paths HERE.

**bigman652** · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

couple of errors but nice chart

**NilsBland** · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 31

Isn't it better to activate SP on the same spot as first SP cause I looked at Debr's path (you make great paths btw ^^) and i kinda wondered if it would be better just my oppinion.