First Ever Shockwave FC, DS Full Series FC

Описание: Words cannot describe how happy I am that it's finally over. This marks the first time this song has ever been FCed, and also marks the first ever full series FC of the DS games since I saved it for last.

I started to crash out earlier because my DS's connection with my grip was deteriorating, the red would be inoperable and the yellow would be "pressed" in game even if I wasn't holding it down. Usually just reseating the grip would fix this (btw do it with the lid closed to not need to restart your DS, nice trick), but not this time. This time it was permanently stuck. So I got the rubbing alcohol and cleaned the pins on the DS as well as the board on the grip. Still nothing. So I set it down and left it alone for a bit to stew in my own thoughts.

Earlier today, I had come up with a different strat for the outro. What I had been doing was strum and tap blue at the same time, but this is inconsistent because of how the game reads strums. It won't always read them at the same time, meaning your strum can't consistently be applied to the blue note. To make this easier, I would also strum on the release, but even still the same thing happens with the second strum. What this means is, there's no way to tapstrum consistently. If I could strum through it all, it would be better. However, I can't trill consistently with my pinky, and tapping everything while strumming everything just wasn't working for me when I tried it.

So I tried something different. Strum everything, but only tap the trills. And it just works. For the strumming that's halfway through the outro, I still have to do it the same way because going from Y down to R, up to Y and B, then back down to Y R G, causes me to not hit the last Y, but then at the next trill I just continue that strumming motion into the new method again. And from there, the method is complete. All there was to do was to build up the muscle memory and do it in a run, and I pulled it off the same day as finding the new method.

It's done. It's over. No more DS for me.

Unless... Coop?.................