"Hold Green for Me!!" (TTFaF Intro made easy)

**imgod22222** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

Not aware if anyone else already did this, but...

Well, lets see. Today I was like "dammit! I cant do the friggin intro to TTFaF! I can play the rest of the entire song except for that!" So I call my sister in to hold green for me. By wonder, i pass the intro and i fail at like 87% (tired fingers) About 10 min later she told me she was busy and i got tired of waiting, So I did the following:

PRE NOTE: If you pass TTFaF with this mod, do NOT post your score on scorehero. You're only allowed to post scores you can do yourself. I've passed TTFaF, but with my friend holding green for me before I did this mod. By myself, nope.

Get one toggle switch (that moves to one of two sides, with two electrical points)
And that's about it. And your soldering tools I guess. Oh yeah, and a drill so you can put the switch in.

Steps: 1) Drill a hole for your switch. I put it above the green button.
2) put the switch in and tighten it
3) prep your wires and solder them to the switch
4) now take off the fret PCB, and the rubber thingy over where the green button corresponds to on the PCB
5) You will see a gold thing that sorta looks like O:O if turned sideways (not a good ASCII drawing, i know)
6) take a good look at the tiny bulbs next to each other. yep, that's wut you're soldering to
7) put back together and enjoy

Notes: Take apart the guitar first, dummy!
-How and what which wires are connected where on the switch doesn't matter.
- I have the Wireless RO guitar for PS2, it may differ for you.

And Here are four pictures:
1) It's done, look at how pretty the wires are. Yes the thing on the bottom is the rubber thing i was talking about before

2) Look familiar? i should hope so. Its a picture taken at the same time at the same stage. Just a better look. maybe. (The flash is a major factor in these stupid pix)

3) Ahh, the fretboard PCB is screwed back on.

4) The finished product, the 5 fret buttons (i personally covered mine with tape 'cause my fingers slide easier) and the toggle switch (for those of you who dunno wut a toggle switch it) or for those of you who wanted to know the placement / how it looks.

To show you guys what the switch does (in case saying it holds green isn't enough) Here's a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17k6qFDVkqU
When i start the song, i have the green switch on, and during the

(woah)

(woah) you can hear a really loud click (loud compared to everything else) that's me turning off the switch.

**lukecantplay** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 835 Location: Salad, Saxet

Rubber bands weren't good enough?

That's awesome. And hilarious.
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**RLKDragon** · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 2253 Location: Chicago, IL

Hell, that's something worth trying now. Thanks for the step by step, dude.

**matthewfahrbach** · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 146

nice dude i give you props on that. Im gonna have to say this one isn't cheating. rofl... i use a real guitar capo but still cant beat it.
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**imgod22222** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

well, you're probably not aware of this, but the RO wireless for PS2 fret buttons need to be pressed further in than in any of the other guitars (pressed flush instead of like 1-2mm more) so the rubber band needs to be like uber-tight and taking off that stupid rubber band surprisingly uses enough strength to like really hurt my fingers.

Proof enough for the fret button complaining for me: http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=11819

uhhh... and yeah, never thought about using a capo. Does Herman Li use a capo for this part? LOL. Using a capo is probably a much better idea than doing this, because honestly, i messed up while doing the soldering (a huge blob of solder got all over the bottom circle and i needed to use desoldering braid on it; the proof is that the bottom circle is silver instead of a gold color)
but as long as you know how to correct mistakes, and you know the risks, then go ahead)

BTW the wire i used came from inside an extra USB cable, if anyone's wondering how its so small.

**lukecantplay** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 835 Location: Salad, Saxet

That's an open string he's playing, I believe.
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**mrdarkgun** · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

HAY ANDREW!
=D
DO YOU GUSY LIEK TEH DURIDS?!

**imgod22222** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

**vivabam69** · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Cincinnati, OH

**imgod22222** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

i checked like 4 youtube videos and during the intro they just show the guitarists doing sustains. And the crowd.

**BrianSpud33** · Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 486

**Midean** · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 92

During videos and show, neither Sam or Herman will play it, and the keyboardist will cover, since they cannot switch guitars fast enough to start with the

(8-11) part. Apparently they need them both to play that. I actually asked this question to Herman Li, back in March when I saw him running out of a sub shop I had just walked into. This may sound odd, but the Club they were playing was across the street. I got a picture of myself with their bassist somewhere.

**imgod22222** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 68

**nickeroo2413** · Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Uncle Tom's Cabin

lol sweet, a little bit extreme but definitely a cool finished product
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**Eyce** · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject:

You got tired of waiting for your sister...

...so you put a hole in your Controller and solder a Switch to the PCB?