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entropymaxer
Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 664
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: star power activator |
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I have dropped my guitar on several occasions and the star power activator, the one that activates it by tilting the guitar, is very sluggish. I gotta throw the guitar up with extreme force to get it to activate. Has anyone looked at this part of the guitar? Would it be an easy and most of all safe thing to open the guitar up and look at it, see if i can see whats wrong? I do not want to break my guitar at all, so i guess i am looking for an opinion on how easy it is to screw up the internals of the guitar if you take it apart? |
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Squirrel
Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 4828 Location: Wyano, PA (Come visit! My gameroom is always open.)
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Its super easy to open, you just need to unscrew the body, don't worry about the neck.
Its pretty good quality parts in there, so its hard to screw up. Open away! _________________
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entropymaxer
Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 664
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: |
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so i opened the body of the guitar up, and liek you said its all good and finely together, no problems there. Buuut i dont know where the star power activator is, i guess i just assumed it would be in the body. Mayb eits in the neck? or is it some small electronic device that can't partially break or be fixed. is this all in my head? anyone know where and what activates the star power when you tilt the guitar verticle? |
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Clovic
Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 567
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:15 am Post subject: |
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My advice would be to examine the cords coming out of the select button and see where they go. |
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HylianHero
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:46 am Post subject: |
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The SP activator is in the body. It's near the Start/Select chip. If your guitar is fairly new (i.e.: You got it at around the time they began selling individual guitars), it should be attached to the body. If you got the game when it came out (old skool, rock on.), it's simply a chip held in between two pieces of plastic. _________________
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entropymaxer
Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 664
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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took out hte start select chip, nothing there but a couple buttons. Don't know which kind o fguitar i have but my model number is pslgh.
also my select button works its the thing htat activates star power when you tilt the guitar verticle. Anyone know if this is some sort of physical trigger or just some electronic componant, if its an electronic componant it seems that it could not get stuck, or be caught up. |
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HylianHero
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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entropymaxer wrote: | took out hte start select chip, nothing there but a couple buttons. Don't know which kind o fguitar i have but my model number is pslgh.
also my select button works its the thing htat activates star power when you tilt the guitar verticle. Anyone know if this is some sort of physical trigger or just some electronic componant, if its an electronic componant it seems that it could not get stuck, or be caught up. |
...I should've said that better.
Ok, look at where the Start/Select chip's at. To one side of it should be the whammying device (which is this giant white piece of plastic), and to the other should be the SP tilt activator. _________________
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nnymo
Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 22
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:38 am Post subject: |
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i moded my guitar to a distortion pedal. now thats the star power |
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Ensiferous3
Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: |
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How? I want to know how! I need that foot pedal! _________________
How dare you compromise, the balance of our lives? |
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nnymo
Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 22
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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i guess i could write out a step by step on doing in. |
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Ensiferous3
Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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nnymo wrote: | i guess i could write out a step by step on doing in. |
Please please please? _________________
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websurfertai
Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 242
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, a foot pedal SP activator would help me so much. I mess up alt strumming sometimes when I tilt and pushing Select doesn't work either. |
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Ensiferous3
Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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websurfertai wrote: | Yeah, a foot pedal SP activator would help me so much. I mess up alt strumming sometimes when I tilt and pushing Select doesn't work either. |
Precisely, I can't alt. strum sideways! _________________
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IEatGlue
Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 769 Location: Waterford, Michigan
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Ensiferous3 wrote: | websurfertai wrote: | Yeah, a foot pedal SP activator would help me so much. I mess up alt strumming sometimes when I tilt and pushing Select doesn't work either. |
Precisely, I can't alt. strum sideways! |
wtf, that's how i do it... sideways _________________
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Ensiferous3
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