this song is barely possible to FC on this game (solution: adapt or lose)

[@Helvian]

invalidated for use of third party peripherals

[@acai28]

LOL

[@Vooman]

heck off helvian

[@Skaterboi4110]

Lmaoooo

[@TheDrummingPC]

Getting an FC is impressive. Overcoming technical limitations of an aging game is just nuts!!

[@acai28]

much love dude ❤️ thank you

[@JustinY.]

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

[@0_0Borealis]

Justin Y. Did you like your own comment? There’s only one like. I’ll fix that.

[@agushernandez6083]

I finally found one of your comments before it blows up.

[@jacobwheeler7402]

Preach

[@CraazynBR]

Acaipt**

[@CraazynBR]

@@potatoisgood2483 Overacai***

[@roanmang]

You haven’t really fc’d something until you do it in the gh2 engine

[@forehead_]

S4 lmao

[@DJ7777BPM]

I'm pretty proud of my GH2 Free Bird FC XD

[@LeBASTURDReviews]

Alex Tarasov I cant even fc tripping on a hole in a paper heart.

[@chambeet]

Alex Tarasov That’s an amazing FC! GH2 is my absolute favorite in the series, and I have a long ways to go to get to a “Free Bird” FC. “Message in a Bottle” is my best GH2 FC.

[@kelecat7094]

PERFECT PERFORMANCE FROM *AAAAAAAAAA* AT ROCK CITY THEATER

[@TheBcoolGuy]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@anthonyverde1522]

AYE WE PLAYING SIX OUT HERE BOYS

[@chambeet]

Anthony Verde It’s a hell of a song to do well on. I still haven’t 5-starred it.

[@Neilyfolf]

Thank you Brad, very cool.

[@BradTheAmerican]

You're welcome

[@SJNaka101]

Thank you Brad Yeah the old cover up half the screen trick, remember we used to do that for gh1 to simulate hyper speed? It's not a placebo. Hyperspeed makes the game easier not because the notes are coming at you faster, but because there are less notes on the screen for your brain to process. So yeah, covering up part of the screen does the part of hyperspeed that actually helps your brain without speeding up the fretboard

[@kalebdaniels6784]

-God- -Jeesus- -shaggy- *_Acai_*

[@kingston3616]

*shaggy*

[@kalebdaniels6784]

@@kingston3616 good idea wink wink

[@Matthew-Wheeler]

*_Jeesus_*

[@GoldenCorralFan]

Matt

[@jacobwheeler7402]

@@Matthew-Wheeler well howdy there partner

[@m00teronyoutube]

the beginning made my really sad. then the rest of the vid made me happy. god damn, dude, it's so crazy to me how you can fc songs on this engine. it kinda makes me want to go back and play gh2 again haha

[@Destroyah5000]

Really? The jacket strats? That's a really old school tactic. Reminds me of old footage of people playing the game with big paper cutouts around the highway. Looked really silly back then, but when you're playing like that it really makes the difference.

[@rockbandftmfw9]

Why do they do that i never saw it? To remove distractions or make it so your timing can only be instant and not relatively anticipated when you can see further down the highway?

[@rockbandftmfw9]

@Zim Babwe thank you

[@SlamminZero]

5:23 Well, IIDX players have been doing this way back before SUD+ was a thing. It's not a placebo, it's how much information you can process at a time, and in times with limited and/or really small selection of scrolling speeds, helped a lot to focus.

[@memes_gbc674]

late reply but +1 for sudden+, its for when you dont want fast note speed but can't handle so much info

[@WallpeSH]

Bruh you braver than the marines for doing this on 360. Whens misirlou on garbage engine

[@droyal1994]

DO SMASH HITS TTFAF ALEC!

[@acai28]

Ima try

[@edwardd3014]

Thank you Brad

[@sheriffpenguin5666]

Brown man has breakdown while streaming *BUT RETURNS*

[@nebel358]

The towel over the screen is actually a common technique in other rhythm games as it narrows your line of sight and allows you to process notes on an average that you're more used to. It compensates for more limited speeds.

[@TheGuy735]

Thank u Brad!

[@NunoVH]

Are you using hopos in the strumming? Wtf man...

[@RaventhortheWarrior]

I was wondering the same thing. I saw him not consistent strumming, and I was like, why are there little gaps in his strumming? Then I noticed he was ACTUALLY just HOPO'ing, and it blew my mind that he had that much faith in his timing instead of just going in a rhythm. What a straight madman.

[@TextureOfCouch]

Wait, most people don’t use the HOPO’s? I used them on everything in GH2 except for Trogdor and that strumming bit in Jordan Solo C.

[@moshimic5628]

NunoVH Sorry for asking, but what’s hopos?

[@RaventhortheWarrior]

@@moshimic5628 Hammer-On, Pull-Off's. The official name for the method in guitar, but in GH, it's just the white notes that you can just tap without strumming, as long as you haven't missed a note. Once you miss, you have to restrum again. But, you CAN just strum the HOPO anyway. The reason we're surprised, is that you could easily just get into an 'easier' rhythm during that section by having consistent strumming, but he's specifically segmenting himself into "1-HOPO-3-Strums" My guess is the timing window of GH2 makes it too risky to strum everything if it automatically reads him as hitting the HOPO

[@NunoVH]

HOPO = acronym for hammer-ons and pull-offs If you look at the fast strumming at 1:38, you'll notice each group of four notes starts with a hopo. It used to be (and still is) common practice to strum through all of them in strumming streaks like that to keep your strum speed consistent. Putting gaps in your strumming (which Alec is doing) is much more difficult because of the timing window/strum limit. If he strums even slightly too fast while doing that, he'll miss.

[@vugolol]

Now FC Trogdor in the same version of the game (360 NTSC) :)

[@serraramayfield9230]

Hasn't that literally never been done before in either that or PAL?

[@supermarble94]

There's one reported 360 PAL FC of it, last I checked.

[@DACARBOSS.]

come up to 2+ years ago

[@shaneyy__]

Brown Man forced to use more than 10% of his power

[@martenwulf]

You could say that he used more "brain power".

[@shaneyy__]

martenwulf bra-brain po-power

[@martenwulf]

@@shaneyy__ ok. I'm going into maximum Over-overdrive now.

[@headphonesz6527]

Star power

[@Subscriberswithtwovideos-gr6tk]

Odd way of flexing the bicep muscle, but understandable

[@shaneyy__]

Ah yes, verbose “weird flex but okay”

[@TTParadigm]

In the words of Origen in EU LCS: "motivation. work. improvement. team."

[@madhya]

polyphia, i see you're a man of taste as well

[@obnoxious2909]

0:42 Nasty by Polyphia is in the background!

[@johnvipe]

You’re so incredibly talented and play so smoothly. Subscribed.

[@ARFPheonix]

Thank you brad

[@DefensiveNeo]

Improvise. Adapt. But most importantly Jacket

[@DefensiveNeo]

yay ig heated EX DE

[@KnightSlasher]

Shaggy would of made it the most possible

[@Jireninyourrecommendations]

he would have done it one finger

[@Spoden]

@@Jireninyourrecommendations No fingers*

[@Jireninyourrecommendations]

@@Spoden oh shit, ur right.

[@RiffRepeater]

Hyperspeed with Hyperspeed towel 200iq

[@user-vv7gt2hu7p]

How does PS2 version of GH2 differ from the 360 one?

[@AbigailAutumn]

Wondering this too

[@acai28]

You really have to play it for yourself. Like I said, I don’t know a lot of the technical stuff around it, but the PS2 version’s strumming is much easier than the Xbox 360 version

[@supermarble94]

@@acai28 I personally didn't find any difference between the Xbox 360 and the PS2 NTSC versions, but on the PS2 you could use SwapMagic to force it to output in PAL 50 Hz, which due to some stupid way of how the game handles the different frequencies, ups the strum limit by a good 1.5 NPS, making gallops easier to do without dropping a strum, and most importantly makes Trogdor actually possible to FC.

[@Kettchup090885]

Before they added Sudden+ to Beatmania IIDX, my friends and I used to drape a towel over the TV when playing to cut out some of the sensory overload of all the notes. The jacket makes 100% sense.

[@Past_Worlds]

Yo where did you get that salmon pink sweater from? I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SO LONG AND CAN'T FIND ONE!!! I have salmon pink Vans and I NEED this sweater.

[@acai28]

Nathan Burton H&M

[@Past_Worlds]

@@acai28 Thank you!!!

[@T_Crushed]

This is some really good shit with the editing. Really nice you timed the song and subtitled what you were saying

[@ultraviolet7434]

What bothers me the most is that in GH2 activating SP looked like you missed a note or an overstrum. It was god awful

[@Xilegamer1]

Polyphia in the background while you explain the strumming, nice.

[@Tommuniqo123]

thank u brad

[@idydproductions7356]

Thank you heavenly jacket we couldn't have fc'ed without you

[@ScorchedEclipse]

I remember playing gh2 again after sometime and it felt like I had to let the notes pass after to hit them as opposed to gh3 and onwards, it felt so weird.

[@scarefish6689]

Btw, pretty sure all Harmonix rhythm games are programmed so the timing windows shrink depending on how close the next note is to it. This is especially apparent in Rock Band games as slow sections have massive timing windows and speed picking sections have more standard-sized windows.

[@sudeh5979]

thank you dad

[@eggv-old]

I sincerely appreciate your efforts, Bradley.

[@BizerkPixel]

A jacket? What is this Beatmania IIDX?

[@Cursed_Jono]

holy shit the jacket I remember back when the tech was Sticking a piece of PAPER to your screen GH2 Hyperspeed was nothing Good work dude, because I could barely even pass this back in the day

[@Josephbentley]

all that remains is nutty tbh

[@AxeofdeathXP]

Was*

[@koloseta]

I'm not a even a huge fan of Guitar Hero, but your videos always interest me

[@PostApocolyptica]

Is Trogdor still impossible, though?

[@suchakreelaokom9494]

PostApocolyptica idk aboutb360 since it was done on simulator

[@sacrilegepresentations9573]

No, ShunSuperstar FC'd it in 2009 on 360 and no one has since.

[@steelbase7803]

@@sacrilegepresentations9573 well, look at the New vid today

[@barrybbenson9151]

Did anyone else notice the glitch at 3:06?

[@kingston3616]

Top ten anime battles Matt vs Shaggy

[@YourPalJamieEllis]

Seeing you struggle with and ultimately trounce the stuff we were all scrapping over on ScoreHero is so pleasing to my inner basement dwelling teenager. Thank you Brad, Misirlou next

[@smoov22_sonic]

Nothing is impossible with God

[@Spoden]

shaggy*

[@FlergerBergitydersh]

The engine differences in this game between versions are really interesting. I believe that PS2 version has tighter HOPOs and the 360 version has tighter strumming? With both the 360 and NTSC PS2 having something like a 17nps strum limit and the PAL PS2 version having a slightly higher strum limit, making Trogdor actually FCable. The strum limit and the tighter strum window of the 360 version of GH2 certainly creates the perfect storm for the faster strumming songs being a real pain in the ass.

[@DACARBOSS.]

oh you think trogdor isn't fcable on ntsc? c o m e t o t h e f u t u r e

[@FlergerBergitydersh]

@@DACARBOSS. The future is here, and it's *D E L U X E*

[@DACARBOSS.]

@@FlergerBergitydersh i know deluxe is out... I'm not fucking dumb

[@FlergerBergitydersh]

@@DACARBOSS.??? I assumed you did know, because of your message.

[@diegojimenez466]

Acai> wii sports Matt

[@TextureOfCouch]

How many more for FGFC? This is actually pretty exciting! Also do you have a way to get PAL version of the game for Trogdor?

[@jaywikie]

thank you brad

[@TylerG13]

Brown man overcomes obstacle using jacket.

[@camden353]

Thank u brad

[@froston4]

5 starring every song in this game is still something i’m rather proud of

[@kingston3616]

50 views and 84 likes *Noice*

[@SJNaka101]

Noice

[@GamerDude322]

Okay, now this was epic. Great job, man!

[@cheesykingxxx9694]

Here before 1k views Edit: I mean 100k views Edit2: I mean 200k views ;)

[@monument-cafe]

_8 months later_ thank you, brad

[@andrewjirak3784]

50th view 92nd like, oh yeah!

[@clutterderp_8161]

Guitar hero 2: *this song* Brown man: impressive, you made me use 10% of my power.

[@clutterderp_8161]

thank you brAd, very cool

[@DreKade]

4:22 he thought he broke but didn't

[@timothymoore2197]

Now you know the pain we all endured so long ago, the frontiers of GH FC’s

[@MLGWizzle]

Being an old-head and having this FC, I'm dumbfounded that you would struggle with this at all considering the crazy shit you do.

[@TheChikkinMan]

You deserved this fc. Nice job. Aight now back to clone hero.

[@brandonjc6695]

God damn I forgot how much I love this song man.

[@Darkshock25]

I don’t blame you, man. That’s how I feel when I try to 5 star Visions on Expert on Rock Band 2. Pisses me off taking many tries to do it and finally getting it after. Jesus... 😒

[@Fresca64_]

Six is such a fantastic song, damn. And great job!

[@corhellion]

Holy shit...the shirt thing... I haven't heard of people doing that in a loooooooong time. Pretty sure I remember people on Scorehero doing that for FCs Waaaaaaaay back in the day.

[@thedumbta153]

This reminds me back in the scorehero days we used to put a towel over half the screen because hyperspeed wasn't allowed

[@pigfish99]

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. He is, the six million dollar acai. He will adapt. He has the nerves.

[@Hillybolly609]

Rip to oli though he was a great guitarist, nice fc brown man

[@BeanieGoth]

Unrelated but imagine Goofy in the mafia **pulls out gun** “I’m gonna hyuck you up if you don’t skedaddle, pal.”

[@unusualcurious]

thank u brad, you're a legend

[@_Kerron]

Thank u brad, also does this chart seem kinda undercharted at parts?

[@stagger9660]

Oh god the classic fret board is bringing me back.

[@randommetalhead7]

thank u brad RIP Oli.

[@thatboy443yt4]

I have a question what software do you prefer to use when playing guitar hero or clone hero and sorry if this dosent make sense cause I'm not very good with computer relayed stuff I'm just tired of using guitar hero live to play

[@birdbonanza9407]

Whenever the fretboard shakes it makes me think he missed a note

[@imspear9172]

Fleshgod Apocalypse: The Violation on GH2 You want pain? This here is pain.

[@patxs]

brad thank congrats on the fc! also i like that you subtitled what you were saying in the beginning, but how did you know what you said? wouldn't you need the vod audio as reference?

[@acai28]

lip reading and a passable memory lmao

[@kobeis2ndg.o.a.t35]

Thank you so much Brad for all your paychecks over the last year. I luv ya (no homo)

[@posthistoricdino422]

sometimes i wonder how guitar hero ever got popular with the hit window of those first 2 games (assuming gh1 was the same, never played it) thank u brad

[@jackelite8233]

“thank you brad”

[@tuggnuggs]

I know this is an old video but I'm poor and still play this on my brick ps2 so it teally makes me feel a lot better knowing this is troubling to FC by Acai.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

The subtitles in the muted vod remind me of the music video for Everybody Hurts by REM.

[@programaticLearning]

I Fc'ed this shit on a ps2 at the age of 14 good memories.

[@LegendOfLocky]

I remember when McSkinny fc'd this on GH1. Such an overlooked FC at the time

[@frosty9820]

Now that's what I call a level 100 mafia boss

[@mjolnir1208]

the star power shake infuriates me to no end

[@cicabeot1]

Thank you Brad!

[@zak6272]

I have a question acai. Okay so I’m having an issue with clone hero on my good gaming pc. I play with my keyboard Bc I don’t own a guitar hero controller and I’m too cheap to buy one Bc they’re actually really expensive online for some stupid reason, anyway, so I have clone hero on two computers. On my main good gaming pc which is pretty powerful and on my shitty $200 HP Stream laptop. So on the laptop I got bored the other night and opened it up and I FC’D a song right. No issues. I hit every note on time and the streak actually counted and i got a 100% FC. Did the exact same thing on my gaming pc and for some damn reason I still hit every single note, but the streak didn’t even count the entire time. It said I never had a streak but it also said I hit every single note. Kinda pissed here 😂 I also have an issue on the laptop where I can’t press all keys and have it play all notes at the same time. I think it’s like blue yellow and orange at the same time it just refuses to work idk why but I really don’t care about that. Ever had that issue ? I kinda would like to fix it Bc it’s pretty annoying

[@thespencer100]

Is Guitarhero’s window harder than Rockbands? Also will we get anymore Rockband 4 FCs?

[@geraghtyvellante3559]

Would it be easier to strum a little late? I’m not sure if that makes it any easier but, it seems there’s more of a time window a little after the beginning of the when the timing window starts. I have absolutely no idea if that makes it any better, but just curious

[@kingkev6338]

Just curious was tattooed love boys affected by this?? Maybe I just gotta practice more but I can’t keep that shit going at all

[@Fallenemiko]

The ff7 victory fanfare has been my ringtone for 6 years, so when I watched this at 2 am the end of the vid sent me into panic mode for a sec

[@Horeeification]

Would love to see more original GH2 content! So many soft spots for this game