And there goes my whammy bar..

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

I was just playing CotC on Hard in the middle of severe thunderstorms and lightning hit something close and surged my house. Didn't seem like a big deal, I felt nothing and the lights flickered a tiny bit. I continued playing the song and everything seemed normal, then the next held SP note i tried to whammy and.. no response.

Luckily I recently bought a 2nd controller to take to my sister's party a few weeks ago and it came with a 30-day warranty. So even though it was my old controller that got fried, I'll claim it was the new one and end up with 2 new ones (hopefully).

But I'm still pretty pissed right now since I want to play.. but I'm afraid to use the new controller and blow that one out also.. so I'll just sit here and map out SP paths I guess until it passes.
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**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:08 am Post subject:

Well, at least the rest of the controller works, and you have another one. When my controller broke completely, and I couldn't play at all, that was a week of pure hell.

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

But.. the storms aren't supposed to stop until noon on Sunday.. I need to play now.

I just realized the complete fool I am for reconnecting my PS2 after bringing it back from the party last week by plugging it direct into the wall rather than my surge protector sitting right next to the thing..

Hmm, I may just have to risk the new controller using the surge protector now.
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

hope you get it replaced ok mate

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

Well ever since my last post I've been playing CotC Hard on my new controller trying to get 100%. This is by far the most frustrating night I've had since I got GH. The 2nd solo thing is by far the hardest part and in the course of the last 8 hours I've managed to combo that part 9 times and yet every single time I make some dumb ass mistake afterwards, it's just unbelievable..

I'm going insane so I need to sleep now, but this battle with myself will continue when I get up.. and I will win.
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

good luck mate, hope you get it

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**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

I feel ya, JCirri. Everybody always has those nights where you work at a GH song for even a few hours trying to get something...then you eventually get it (maybe even not knowing how you got it) and then you make some dumbass mistake afterwards. Or maybe you even figure out the part you were trying to get, but then the next time you play the song, you can't even get to that part because something weird has gone wrong with another part that you always used to get....i KNOW everyone knows what I'm talking about.
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**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: