this game really has official songs with 1000+ notes and caps the combo counter at 999

We really have to appreciate the title of the song

broken chart for a song called "I'm Broken" from a bad rhythm game ...screw it, I'm down.

7:48 It's almost comical how you can hear the panic/pressure escalate as they get further past the notes.

My favourite broken chart in history was when General Relativity first came out on IIDX, if you played it as the first song upon starting the machine, all of the notes were unhittable because it used the timing windows of the song selected prior. Playing it as the first song meant it didn't have timing windows at all.

this is one of those cool fun facts that needs about eighteen minutes of set up before you can even tell it due to all the background information you need to know to be able to understand it

Imagine a note that leaves the note station every 21 frames.

Konami could have just brought gitadora properly to the western market..

Etienne talking about how the game registers notes differently in practice and quickplay: Me: HOW DID THIS GAME EVEN FUNCTION?

Just title this video "The most broken rhythm game"

Wait, so there is a decade old rhythm game that has never been completely finished? Send the internet after it. It will be done!

Oh boy good memories! I was the second person ever to FC Next to You on Expert vocals and it was the peak of my RB1 expert vocals experience back then.

Me before the video: Look whatever chart you will show there's no way it's worse than 1949 d28 Me a few minutes into the video: Guess I was wrong after all...

the fact that the combo counter in game caps out at 999 makes this even more interesting

I still find it very funny how Konami published a shitty Guitar Hero ripoff, which itself was a ripoff of one of their own creations: Guitar Freaks.

When a Rock Band clone has 0-framers you know there's many issues

The fact that Konami made a crappy rhythm game when they’ve made some of my absolute favorite rhythm arcade games is fascinating to me

I’m surprised it took so long for people to find a solution, because when the game was new, CRT TVs were still pretty common. I didn’t have an HD TV yet when I was playing Guitar Hero.

StepMania had very interesting ones, especially the older version like 3.9. One of them is called a negative note, and this is where the note is technically not registered within the chart, it still appears on it, but if you miss it then the entire game crashes. Or how nibbling with the files will allow you to swap mines with actual notes, and notes with mines at times to deceive the player. When you make a song chart within StepMania, those options are not available, and requires to directly change it in a file.

Woah I made it into an Etienne video (Llama Full Pro) I can die happy now :) Also can’t talk about broken notes on RB3 without mentioning the broken one frame apart note in Standing In Your Stuff on drums.

this is a really informative and interesting video, there’s a lot of bizarre bugs and glitches with all the off brand guitar hero/rock band games that saturated the market back then and it’s cool to see someone taking a look at how hilariously broken they were, amazing video I really love your style of content creation

damn when they made that song title I didn't think they're that literal

Excellent video as always, Etienne. I love the fringe, obscure topics like this. Thank you Nuno for your relentless dedicated to this silly ass game lol

This explains so many of my 1 misses...

Probably my favorite video of yours. There's something oddly wholesome how you see one guy persevere for so long and finally achieving it. Hopefully we can see a follow-up video with the game being fully fc'd soon

I had no idea this song was so infamous in Rock Revolution. Cheers to all the people trying to crack it. Now if only something could be figured out for I Can’t Drive 55 on rhythm guitar in Guitar Hero On Tour Decades.

God I remember Rock Revolution, I bought it on clearance for like 5 bucks and still felt ripped off. I expected a bad clone of GH, but it was worse than I ever imagined. Much credit to these guys for sticking with this hot pile of garbage for over a decade just to go full completionist on it but......count me out LOL.

this is such a weirdly specific issue like if i hadn’t been suggested this video i never would’ve known about it lmaooo congrats to Nuno for doing it though! that’s some serious dedication holy smokes

Seeing some of these names and screenshots of the scorehero forum was a serious nostalgia high, great video.

Everything aside, the chart for Im Broken doesnt look all that bad. Actually, some of the stretches on the solo is very similar to playing it irl, so that's nice lol. Great video, buddy

RIP to Laser Cannon Death Sentence. Your X+ chart will have a special place in my heart for being the most broken.

Loved this video!! Really informative and well put together. Such a perfect song name too haha

A) Different levels of info in memory later into songs. B) The animations behind the notes while you do a full run are probably inconsistent fucking your offset as the bad (likely unoptimized game) is probably lagging at different levels based on what animations are playing. Edit: Holy shit this game has 2 timing windows

people lost this FC due to either RNG or a global timer, whether intentional or not that's gotta feel like the worst thing ever on a rhythm game

Love the video, and the tunes during explanation parts were great ! The only thing I'd love to have is a track list for these songs you used when you edited the video. Cause dude, I crave synthwave.

I and EVERYONE I KNEW when this game came out instantly panned it, and we started with the name of the game, while looking at the gameplay second. This was the easiest game to pan the quickest because it BEGGED us to do so.

I said "oh no" out loud when you first mentioned Rock Revolution

I'll be honest, when you said “broken”, I was thinking “overpowered”, but I enjoyed this video. :D Also, I think Rock Revolution's drums look neat; they kinda remind me of DrumMania's. (Bring GFDM to the west pls)

Is the fc community analogous to the speed running community🤔🤔🤔? Cause this vid radiates speedrun documentary energy lol. No shade tho! I watch speedrunning content yet I don't speedrun so rhythm game content is a lot more personal and greatly appreciated~

We love Nuno, glad i pushed him to attempt this again, truly underrated fc I still remember waking up to his message about this happening and the feeling of absolute disbelief

I love this channel. More specifically I love that my boy Nuno is getting his recognition!

Just by looking at the thumbnail I already knew what chart it was lmao, I had forgotten about who uploaded a video FCing the solo

The only instance I can think of where the same chart has two different variants of broken notes on two different platforms. It'd be interesting for you to do a video showing the history of the return of Rock Band with RB4, and Guitar Hero with Guitar Hero Live and how they both flopped when they returned (though to this day RB4 is still getting new DLC which is surprising, even having a 5th anniversary DLC pack for the 5th anniversary of RB4 being released).

Funny that the song is called “I’m broken”

“mom can we have guitar hero?” “we have guitar hero at home” guitar hero at home:

Assuming that this video only covers official charts made by the game developers themselves, I can see why community made Clone Hero charts aren't included. The song Chaosfonia 4 made by Mediograve along with various other artists is quite possibly the most broken chart I've ever seen. Broken parts can be found in a few different sections of the song, but the song's main solo, which is called Doppelganger, is split up into 21 subsections. In between each and every single one of those subsections are two things that make the chart super broken but not necessarily unFCable, depending on how you look at it. The first thing that can be found between the sections is oddly placed Solo Phrase starts and ends. I'm unsure of how exactly this was accomplished, but because of the way that the Solo Phrase starts and ends have been placed, the solo phrases in-game appear to count the percentage you're getting in a section WAY beyond 100%. IIRC, playing the section right before Offer's section together with Offer's section, the percentage counter counts in steps of 100% and goes up to above 10000% hit. The second thing that can be found between each solo section are invisible notes. The invisible notes are not notes that are so close to each other that they appear as one note. Instead, to my understanding they are notes that are beyond the standard GRYBO + open note span. These notes can only be hit using the game's inbuilt Bot feature (or maybe a custom made one like HelgaBot) and will count toward the total amount of notes hit in the sections but not toward the total amount of notes IN the section. In other words, using the bot will allow you to hit for example 150 notes in a section that only has 100 visible notes, and the percentage hit will ultimately go above 100%. I should also add that if you let the bot play up to the transition between two sections, slowing the song down to 5% allows for more invisible notes to be hit. I suspect that this is because the invisible notes are at the maximum note density for a given tempo, which would be 768th notes. The reason I said it isn't necessarily unFCable is because you can consider an FC of the song to include the invisible notes which of course would render the song completely unFCable without certain tool assistance of course. I have yet to check if you get stupid amounts of bonus solo points from these solos. I certainly would like to get to the bottom of how the "brokenness" of the chart actually works and why it works. The song can be found in CTP8 if anyone is interested in investigating the chart further.

I really like how this video is so similar to Wirtual video and i love it

It makes me wonder why KONAMI didn't just port Guitar Freaks to the West. They already had the formula down.

Can someone explain the Next to you bug? I can't understand what he said was broken and I can't find the documentation online.

Nuno managed to FC 5 minutes alone last week, so all songs have now been FC'd. Please go and give him support! (NunoVH)

Honestly it doesn't feel as bad and broken as Uh La La La's MANIAC chart but broken chart is broken nonetheless and FCing it is really a feat.

Love they named a broken song “I’m broken”

Because just making a US GuitarFreaks game was too hard...

Five Minutes Alone is somehow even worse

Imagine how different the story would be if HB Studios had made Madden '08.

The dedication mans has put into fcing this song is insane

Big Summoning Salt vibes in this video, I like it

I remember FYE selling the bundle for $60... And a $50 rebate. Still didn't get it. I ended up getting the disc when I was in college, had my fun with it but yeah. Rock Band went back in real fast. And to be fair about Abraxis of Filth, it was released on RBN, not through Harmonix's DLC store. On RBN, unofficial charts can be submitted and released. I remember Nuclear Blast Records being super supportive of this and releasing a bunch of their stuff on there.

One thing ive learned is that no FC is impossible, somebody will get it at one point

Loved the video and the song at the end was pretty sweet. I'd love to know what song that is.

Lmfao the preb cameo when he was researching rock Revolution. The original bleep bloop charter fr

god this is my kind of deep cut hyperspecific video. hell yeah

I'm not gonna lie when you started talking about offset theory I was expecting the panenkoek music to play

Rock Revolution sounds like a DDR and Rock Band crossover.

This man is the Summoning Salt of rhythm games.

Just curious, what are all the songs in guitar hero/rock band that have bugs or errors of any kind?

thought this vid would mention dead end groove radar special lmfao

I know this is off topic but what’s the intro songs name

what did u censor at 14:03? the date and time? why?

"until one day, this happened" Mr. Breast AD

I KNEW it seemed like those quick strumming notes in green grass and high tides were impossible. Granted, I can't hit them on clone hero either, but still...

18:02 bro the guitarist just pops in, in clear view. they didn't even try to hide how terrible the game is

im convinced this game was held together with snot and duct tape

Glad to see we came back to the engines of rhythm games fucking people over, especially the Mid-Fight Masses mod for FNF, mainly original, but the disappearing notes in the update count too

1:39 They weren't even the main Madden team, but just the developer of the Wii port.

Interesting video. Would be interesting to hear whether someone has tried to decompile the game and see what it's doing under the hood.

16:40 this is the voice of a broken man

This was really cool!

It's got broken notes, it's called "I'm Broken," and at 4:21, when it shows up on screen, instead of saying "I'm Broken," it says "I’m Broken." At this point I can't tell if the "I’m Broken" is intentional or not.

"Until one day, this happened." *Wow classic ad* fitting

2:21 YO THIS IS LIT

Idk why but this makes me think about how they took out the opening bit for the guitar chart in 'Maps' on RB because it was apparently too hard to play.

smh dude should've don't Casanova from mid fight masses

You know, Im Broken was also released Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock and it was charted much better.

They should've just given us Guitar Freaks.

"Until one day.... This happened..." Casual AD: "Let me just slide in here now...."

It sounds like someone getting pissed on their keyboard whenever they end up spamming

There's also an example of broken charting in Pump it Up, specifically Prex3 / Exceed, the song "Let's Get The Party Started", where right near the end of the song, there's a drill stream of down left and down right arrows that is so fast that you literally cannot hit them all; the game can't process steps that quickly. ....oh, and the rest of the chart is a completely terrible mess that makes no sense whatsoever.

Gotta love the dedication of the video game community. Imagine investing so much time and energy in a completely forgettable game that sold 3000 copies, just for the sake of it.

Etienne: “i know you aren’t subbed” me: how did he know?!

the absolute irony of that song name

Imagine if he checked the recording and it froze.

The brokenness of this game and song broke me

If anyone’s wondering what the intro music is, it’s Je T’aime by sugi.wa

definitely Have to respect the level of dedication to fc that song

1:49 i still have my disney sing it and mic

Badass. Edit: Coming back to this 7 months later (happy new year) to say: Accurate song name.

You should have put Bee Nightmare difficulty on the Pump it Up 2007. It was literally impossible.

At first i thought the title was meant as a bonus level because they couldn’t get it to work

We can all say Arcaea overdead chart is broke but that’s was made for 2021 April fools day