Carry Me Home

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

spopt2.pl results for "Carry Me Home" (gh2-ps2/hard) generated on 07/20/2007

lazy-whammy (351536) PNG TXT
no-squeeze (358284) PNG TXT
big-squeeze (359372) PNG TXT
nearly-ideal (360836) PNG TXT
upper-bound (361476) 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: carrymehome.mid
Solution Path: 2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-S1
Estimated Base score 65636
Estimated 4* cutoff 131272
Estimated 5* cutoff 183780
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 259964
Estimated SP Score 99408
Estimated Total Score 359372
Activations:
#1 From meas 9.0000 (Y note) to meas 13.5000 (Y note) ( 9.0001- 13.4646) Score: 10560 (51.0+ 1.8)*200
#2 From meas 20.2500 (B note) to meas 24.5000 (R note) ( 20.2653- 24.4620) Score: 11288 (55.0+ 1.4)*200
#3 From meas 33.6875 (GY note) to meas 37.6250 (Y note) ( 33.6260- 37.6260) Score: 11088 (54.0+ 1.4)*200
#4 From meas 42.8750 (B note) to meas 48.8750 (O note) ( 42.9019- 48.8719) Score: 16088 (79.0+ 1.4)*200
#5 From meas 62.8125 (G note) to meas 66.8750 (RY note) ( 62.8370- 66.8370) Score: 10888 (53.0+ 1.4)*200
#6 From meas 71.0000 (GYB note) to meas 76.5000 (B note) ( 70.9799- 76.5010) Score: 18020 (81.0+ 9.1)*200
#7 From meas 82.0000 (Y note) to meas 86.1636 (YB sust) ( 82.0375- 86.1636) Score: 8876 (42.0+ 2.4)*200
#8 From meas 103.7500 (Y note) to meas 108.3125 (R note) (103.7525-108.2792) Score: 12600 (59.0+ 4.0)*200

nearly-ideal path details
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File: carrymehome.mid
Solution Path: 2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-S1
Estimated Base score 65636
Estimated 4* cutoff 131272
Estimated 5* cutoff 183780
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 259964
Estimated SP Score 100872
Estimated Total Score 360836
Activations:
#1 From meas 9.1250 (R note) to meas 13.7037 (GY sust) ( 9.1609- 13.7037) Score: 10572 (51.0+ 1.9)*200
#2 From meas 20.2500 (B note) to meas 24.5000 (R note) ( 20.2490- 24.4845) Score: 11288 (55.0+ 1.4)*200
#3 From meas 33.6875 (GY note) to meas 37.6250 (Y note) ( 33.6260- 37.6260) Score: 11088 (54.0+ 1.4)*200
#4 From meas 43.0000 (YBO note) to meas 49.1875 (YB note) ( 42.9990- 49.1512) Score: 16688 (82.0+ 1.4)*200
#5 From meas 62.8125 (G note) to meas 66.8750 (RY note) ( 62.8370- 66.8370) Score: 10888 (53.0+ 1.4)*200
#6 From meas 71.0000 (GYB note) to meas 76.7500 (R note) ( 71.0275- 76.7120) Score: 18620 (84.0+ 9.1)*200
#7 From meas 82.0000 (Y note) to meas 86.2092 (YB sust) ( 82.0375- 86.2092) Score: 8912 (42.0+ 2.6)*200
#8 From meas 104.0000 (YB note) to meas 108.6453 (GR sust) (104.0370-108.6453) Score: 12816 (60.0+ 4.1)*200

upper-bound path details
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File: carrymehome.mid
Solution Path: 2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-S1
Estimated Base score 65636
Estimated 4* cutoff 131272
Estimated 5* cutoff 183780
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 259964
Estimated SP Score 101512
Estimated Total Score 361476
Activations:
#1 From meas 9.0625 (G note) to meas 13.6875 (GY note) ( 9.0805- 13.6427) Score: 10760 (52.0+ 1.8)*200
#2 From meas 20.2500 (B note) to meas 24.5000 (R note) ( 20.2490- 24.4945) Score: 11288 (55.0+ 1.4)*200
#3 From meas 33.6875 (GY note) to meas 37.6250 (Y note) ( 33.6260- 37.6260) Score: 11088 (54.0+ 1.4)*200
#4 From meas 43.0000 (YBO note) to meas 49.2391 (YB sust) ( 43.0464- 49.2391) Score: 16728 (82.0+ 1.6)*200
#5 From meas 62.8125 (G note) to meas 66.8750 (RY note) ( 62.8271- 66.8271) Score: 10888 (53.0+ 1.4)*200
#6 From meas 71.0000 (GYB note) to meas 76.8125 (B note) ( 71.0390- 76.7646) Score: 18820 (85.0+ 9.1)*200
#7 From meas 82.7500 (RY note) to meas 87.0000 (GR note) ( 82.7714- 86.9536) Score: 9104 (42.0+ 3.5)*200
#8 From meas 104.0000 (YB note) to meas 108.6747 (GR sust) (104.0464-108.6747) Score: 12836 (60.0+ 4.2)*200

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**oogabooga4ever** · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 148 Location: Arcata, CA

So now TWICE in a row I've been less than 500 points from that damn 5*. I'm going to have to come back to it later. Though its the only one left to get the 5* Hard guitar.

SIIIIIGH.
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**Diggity** · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 3

I'm looking to 5* this and was wondering if anyone had a video displaying the optimal times to use star power?

**Govitz** · Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 35

**Tomd90** · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 83

Optimal times to use star power also depends on how good you are at certain things, the best place for one use is obviously right before the section of about 20 RY chords in close misirlou style, if you can up and down strum well and nail all those with a 4X multiplier thats a boost of about 10-15k from those notes with an 8X multiplier. I finally 5 starred this today along with Pshycobilly Freakout, im happy now = ).

**Shadowboi** · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 17

I've almost five starred every song on hard (3 left) and this one is sorta kicking my butt. Without practice though i got like 183, 600 (around) on my second try, and then found out that if i had hit a few more notes i woulda had my 5*

I was pissed...

**seetherfan** · Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Adelaide, Australia

ok, im very confused:

after a few days of practice - i managed to get a top score of 197,596 on this song

according to scorehero, 183,781 should be enough for a 5 star, and my score works out to be about 5.2 stars

however when i got my score, my GH2 game still gave me 4 stars!!! im very frustrated, as it was a bit of a one off fluke that i got that much and i really want to try to 5 star all the songs on hard

any suggestions to what could have gone wrong?

EDIT: never mind, i just turned on the ps2 again and i was looking at the wrong bloody score

haha oh man its been a lonngggg day.

**STX** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 40

So yeah, I cruised through Hard until I hit this song. It's gonna take me awhile to get through it..

Beat it the other day

**gogol** · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 4

another "guitarhero" here stucking on this damned song!
I can hit 90% - 92% of the notes without big problems but this also means that I really miss about one note out of ten *regularly*, killing the multiplier all the time...
Missed the 5star score for 400 points ONE WEEK AGO... and been playing for hours since then without getting close to my high score... tough stuff!!!

Practicing the whole first part in slow-motion must be the only way to keep those multipliers up a tiny little bit longer....

**studdleys** · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

Hi there.

I was pulling my hair out with this song too - i managed to 5 star it yesterday after 6 constant hours of playing!, Just got hanger 18 to 5 star left. Wooo

Anyway, i will try my best to describe how i 'just' scraped through with 186430 - i found it was all down to star power usuage in the end.

The trick i found to do it was to make sure you have full(ish) starpower and a 4x multiplyer at the start of section 71 (see note chart) - the section before is fairly easy so a 4x multiplyer should be no trouble. Use the star power when 71 starts and make sure to keep you multiplyer going until the end of section 75.

Its a very small section, but it boosted my points greatly everytime - enough that i could play the rest of the song terribly and still 5 star it.

Hope this helps!

**gogol** · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 4

Thanks Studdleys!

I did a 5* run with some more than 188'000 points yesterday, with 92% of correct notes! FINALLY!!

The key was to avoid the mulitplier being reset all the time in the first and second phrase. Practicing this part helped a lot! There are still a lot of missed notes, but some longer streaks without errors did the job....

This was by far the hardest song until now!
3 songs left that are only 4 starred: Psychobilly, Hangar and Freebird...

Cheers!

**studdleys** · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

Cool,

Enjoy psychobilly - thats a pain in the platic guitar! - still hanger 18 left for me, 10,000 away every time. Strange how i can do the 4 or 5 hardest songs in the game, yet get stuck on hanger 18.

Anyway, sorry Mods for posting useless junk in the star power section, please feel free to delete my nonsense (although doing so may invoke a 'rock-off' to the death)

**Yewb** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 3020 Location: Plymouth, UK

Wow.

After about a week of being stuck on this song (the usual: sailed through Easy, Medium and most of Hard, got stuck on this), I figured out the only way I was ever going to get more than 8% was to simply play the G, R and Y in the first intro, ignoring the Bs and Os.

After a trial run, I found I could do it consistently and get to the easier part, albeit with a "blinking red" meter, and without picking up any SP on the way. Took me about twenty minutes after that, before I finished the song.

As a point of interest, is 8% a familiar percentage? It's what you get for failing right at the end of the first intro. Would be good to see whether anyone else consistently failed there.

**zombihero** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 88

This Fun song is Fun. It's gonna be my 5th ever hard FC across all games

if there's anybody still out there who's stuck with this song, the best advice i can give is LEARN TO ALT STRUM. it'll work wonders!
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