Timeline
Death Piano was released April 1st, 2008. Except it stayed in game -- the April Fool's joke that wasn't a joke.
This thread also brings a more convoluted timeline than Reluctantly Accepting Temporary Overexhaustion, which was released in December the same year.
Some key milestones:
- September 27th, 2008: First handcam video for Full Combo
- September 15, 2009: Less than 100 goods
- December 18th, 2010: Less than 20 goods
- April 21, 2011: Less than 10 goods
- September 3, 2011: First handcam video for less than 10 goods (7-2-0-5)*
- November 14, 2011: All hard sections of Death Piano AAA'd in isolation
- March 7th, 2022: AAA
The above milestones do not include the botted scores (which gets into the convoluted timeline later on in the post).
*less than 10 goods referring to the good count itself, not the combined score
Score Progression
2008
While it's not entirely clear when the first FC happened on Death Piano, what is clear is that back in 2008 just a Full Combo on Death Piano already landed you in the top 10 scores.
An August 30th, 2008 snapshot shows that only two players had above a 3,700,000 break on the chart. Keep in mind too that back in this time period, scores were determined from a combo-based scoring system. 3,700,000 is roughly the equivalent of a 370 goods full combo (any combination of goods, averages, and boos).
The top score of 3,732,305 would remain until December 25th, 2008.
However, no video was up at this time that showed a full combo on the stepchart (at least to my knowledge). The earliest video of a full combo on this chart I could find was my FC video from September 27th, 2008.
December 25, 2008:
The 3,732,305 score was overcome on Christmas the same year, as seen in this post.
While the original score image doesn't display anymore (dead imageshack link), this was the 3,744,950 score at the time.
The 9/9 tier point requirement for Death Piano at the time was a 300 goods or fewer score.
2009
An August 28th, 2009 snapshot shows an improvement from 3,744,950 to 3,753,840.
September 15, 2009:
This was when a 378 break happened on Death Piano (roughly 80 goods FC score equivalent at the time).
2010
Flash Flash Revolution went down in the end of December 2009, and came back up October 10th, 2010. A week later more advancements were made to the point of getting sub-50 goods after a week.
In 2010 there was an ongoing rivalry at the time of MrRubix and myself, but it was eventually found that MrRubix had used a visual bot to get the better scores.
October 17, 2010:
A 379 break happened (37-1-0-12 / 3,791,240).
October 19, 2010:
22-3-0-8
At this point a teens good score (<20 goods) was in sight.
October 20, 2010 there was a score from MrRubix that was 12-4-0-2, but for the purposes of this timeline it doesn't count for the analysis that happened in 2012.
November 3, 2010:
Not quite <20 goods but getting closer with 21-0-0-4.
This same day, MrRubix posted an AAA on Death Piano. For the purposes of this timeline it doesn't count for the analysis that happened in 2012.
December 18, 2010:
The day where less than 20 goods was achieved.
14-4-0-4
13-0-0-4
13-0-0-4 is the same run as in this YouTube video. Unfortunately this didn't have a handcam video, but one would come later in 2011.
2011
At this point the next goal was to get less than 10 goods. Needless to say, score progression was much slower.
April 21, 2011:
The day when less than 10 goods was achieved.
8-0-0-1
At the time I didn't know that there was a double tap during the trill so it offset the rest of my vibrating during it, else it would have been a 4-0-0-0 score. I had 3 goods up until the ending, and got 1 good at the end of the left jack in the 32nd trill. The 4 other goods and the boo were from the double tap on the right arrow jack of the 32nd trill.
There wasn't a video of this specific 8-0-0-1 run, but on September 3, 2011 a 7-2-0-5 handcam run was posted on YouTube.
November 14, 2011:
All hard sections of Death Piano AAA'd in isolation as shown in this post.
2012
The 8-0-0-1 score would last as rank 1 until 2019 when SillyFanGirl got 7-0-0-2. However, before going there, in 2012 the topic of MrRubix's Death Piano AAA score was brought up again.
In March of 2012, MrRubix's replay data was analyzed to be botted. Around this time period, the 8-1-0-2 replay data from MrRubix on Death Piano was recovered from Velocity and it showed similar hits to Gigadelic and RATO AAA. This resulted in the removal of MrRubix's AAA from Death Piano (along with a scorewipe).
It wasn't just Death Piano, but also other files as well.
- Gigadelic AAA*
- RATO AAA
*Note that OMGWTFT0k3N used to be Gigadelic before it was changed to Winning.
2019
The 8-0-0-1 score remained rank 1 for 8 years. In 2019, SillyFanGirl achieved a 7-0-0-2 score that became the new Rank 1 record. Several other notable mentions that were playing for an SDG were 11brendon, AlexDest, One Winged Angel, and so on -- if your name wasn't listed here don't worry, your scores can be seen on the scoreboard
This score was achieved August 3rd, 2019 and would remain rank 1 for 2 years.
2022
A bounty was put up for a Death Piano AAA at the start of 2022.
In February 12th 2022, Eliminate294 registered a 4-0-0-0 score on the chart. This would remain a new Rank 1 record before jakads returned and played Death Piano for 5 hours to achieve an AAA.
March 7, 2022:
The big date. jakads gets an AAA on Death Piano.
- Replay Link
- Youtube Video
- Twitter Post
jakads had already gotten single digit goods within the first hour, but I can tell you from personal experience playing Death Piano that the second half is incredibly stressful to piece together. After you get past the jump and quadjack speedup after the break section, it is very easy to slip up on the fast 16th jumpgluts, which then leads to a very uncomfortable jump transition into hands and polyrhythms -- and that goes into the 32nd roll into the 32nd trill.
The 32nd trill going into the 48th roll is also a big hit or miss in many plays. If you're vibrating the 32nd trill you can hit the up and right arrow as a jump, and then just vibrate it through. But in the case of jakads, he was using overlay setup (two fingers on the same key) so there were a few runs where he had the AAA going but then one of his fingers accidentally touched the up arrow key and got a boo.
It should also be noted that in 2016 jakads got the Rank 1 record for RATO and it held for two years. jakads had been on FFR before and this was a very welcome return to complete the AAA of both boss songs added ingame in 2008.
Congratulations again to jakads, and a special shoutout to SillyFanGirl for being the first player to beat the long standing 8-0-0-1 record and also AAAing RATO.
Death Piano was released April 1st, 2008. Except it stayed in game -- the April Fool's joke that wasn't a joke.
This thread also brings a more convoluted timeline than Reluctantly Accepting Temporary Overexhaustion, which was released in December the same year.
Some key milestones:
- September 27th, 2008: First handcam video for Full Combo
- September 15, 2009: Less than 100 goods
- December 18th, 2010: Less than 20 goods
- April 21, 2011: Less than 10 goods
- September 3, 2011: First handcam video for less than 10 goods (7-2-0-5)*
- November 14, 2011: All hard sections of Death Piano AAA'd in isolation
- March 7th, 2022: AAA
The above milestones do not include the botted scores (which gets into the convoluted timeline later on in the post).
*less than 10 goods referring to the good count itself, not the combined score
Score Progression
2008
While it's not entirely clear when the first FC happened on Death Piano, what is clear is that back in 2008 just a Full Combo on Death Piano already landed you in the top 10 scores.
An August 30th, 2008 snapshot shows that only two players had above a 3,700,000 break on the chart. Keep in mind too that back in this time period, scores were determined from a combo-based scoring system. 3,700,000 is roughly the equivalent of a 370 goods full combo (any combination of goods, averages, and boos).
The top score of 3,732,305 would remain until December 25th, 2008.
However, no video was up at this time that showed a full combo on the stepchart (at least to my knowledge). The earliest video of a full combo on this chart I could find was my FC video from September 27th, 2008.
December 25, 2008:
The 3,732,305 score was overcome on Christmas the same year, as seen in this post.
While the original score image doesn't display anymore (dead imageshack link), this was the 3,744,950 score at the time.
The 9/9 tier point requirement for Death Piano at the time was a 300 goods or fewer score.
2009
An August 28th, 2009 snapshot shows an improvement from 3,744,950 to 3,753,840.
September 15, 2009:
This was when a 378 break happened on Death Piano (roughly 80 goods FC score equivalent at the time).
2010
Flash Flash Revolution went down in the end of December 2009, and came back up October 10th, 2010. A week later more advancements were made to the point of getting sub-50 goods after a week.
In 2010 there was an ongoing rivalry at the time of MrRubix and myself, but it was eventually found that MrRubix had used a visual bot to get the better scores.
October 17, 2010:
A 379 break happened (37-1-0-12 / 3,791,240).
October 19, 2010:
22-3-0-8
At this point a teens good score (<20 goods) was in sight.
October 20, 2010 there was a score from MrRubix that was 12-4-0-2, but for the purposes of this timeline it doesn't count for the analysis that happened in 2012.
November 3, 2010:
Not quite <20 goods but getting closer with 21-0-0-4.
This same day, MrRubix posted an AAA on Death Piano. For the purposes of this timeline it doesn't count for the analysis that happened in 2012.
December 18, 2010:
The day where less than 20 goods was achieved.
14-4-0-4
13-0-0-4
13-0-0-4 is the same run as in this YouTube video. Unfortunately this didn't have a handcam video, but one would come later in 2011.
2011
At this point the next goal was to get less than 10 goods. Needless to say, score progression was much slower.
April 21, 2011:
The day when less than 10 goods was achieved.
8-0-0-1
At the time I didn't know that there was a double tap during the trill so it offset the rest of my vibrating during it, else it would have been a 4-0-0-0 score. I had 3 goods up until the ending, and got 1 good at the end of the left jack in the 32nd trill. The 4 other goods and the boo were from the double tap on the right arrow jack of the 32nd trill.
There wasn't a video of this specific 8-0-0-1 run, but on September 3, 2011 a 7-2-0-5 handcam run was posted on YouTube.
November 14, 2011:
All hard sections of Death Piano AAA'd in isolation as shown in this post.
2012
The 8-0-0-1 score would last as rank 1 until 2019 when SillyFanGirl got 7-0-0-2. However, before going there, in 2012 the topic of MrRubix's Death Piano AAA score was brought up again.
In March of 2012, MrRubix's replay data was analyzed to be botted. Around this time period, the 8-1-0-2 replay data from MrRubix on Death Piano was recovered from Velocity and it showed similar hits to Gigadelic and RATO AAA. This resulted in the removal of MrRubix's AAA from Death Piano (along with a scorewipe).
It wasn't just Death Piano, but also other files as well.
- Gigadelic AAA*
- RATO AAA
*Note that OMGWTFT0k3N used to be Gigadelic before it was changed to Winning.
2019
The 8-0-0-1 score remained rank 1 for 8 years. In 2019, SillyFanGirl achieved a 7-0-0-2 score that became the new Rank 1 record. Several other notable mentions that were playing for an SDG were 11brendon, AlexDest, One Winged Angel, and so on -- if your name wasn't listed here don't worry, your scores can be seen on the scoreboard
This score was achieved August 3rd, 2019 and would remain rank 1 for 2 years.
2022
A bounty was put up for a Death Piano AAA at the start of 2022.
In February 12th 2022, Eliminate294 registered a 4-0-0-0 score on the chart. This would remain a new Rank 1 record before jakads returned and played Death Piano for 5 hours to achieve an AAA.
March 7, 2022:
The big date. jakads gets an AAA on Death Piano.
- Replay Link
- Youtube Video
- Twitter Post
jakads had already gotten single digit goods within the first hour, but I can tell you from personal experience playing Death Piano that the second half is incredibly stressful to piece together. After you get past the jump and quadjack speedup after the break section, it is very easy to slip up on the fast 16th jumpgluts, which then leads to a very uncomfortable jump transition into hands and polyrhythms -- and that goes into the 32nd roll into the 32nd trill.
The 32nd trill going into the 48th roll is also a big hit or miss in many plays. If you're vibrating the 32nd trill you can hit the up and right arrow as a jump, and then just vibrate it through. But in the case of jakads, he was using overlay setup (two fingers on the same key) so there were a few runs where he had the AAA going but then one of his fingers accidentally touched the up arrow key and got a boo.
It should also be noted that in 2016 jakads got the Rank 1 record for RATO and it held for two years. jakads had been on FFR before and this was a very welcome return to complete the AAA of both boss songs added ingame in 2008.
Congratulations again to jakads, and a special shoutout to SillyFanGirl for being the first player to beat the long standing 8-0-0-1 record and also AAAing RATO.
- Tosh 2014
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