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brilliant, great tip!!

Welcome I hope you enjoyed this vid and got what you wanted :)

Brilliant, how in the hell did you figure out how to do this lol?????

Also amazing it took like 6 years for this to be discovered :D

Took me a long while to go through and sort out all of the other videos on YouTube but I just found this part that worked well, and got this video :) I'm glad this video has helped you and god dang! 6 years ! I'm here at your service lol

this looks amazing, i'd given up on trying expert but i'll be looking for my copy of this back off my mate now to try it out. cheers

Thanks for watching and giving me this wonderful feedback, I'm glad this will now help you beat this bloody hard game, that I lost all previous skill for lol. Cheers mate

Oh dear this is a terrible exploit! Terrible in the sense that many people will now get their expert achievements when they're playing on easy, I loved this game and it's a shame to see it being exploited like this, but oh well.

Yeah I liked the game two. I've beaten it twice 100% and this is for people that want to do it or just don't got the skill to do it or like me have been f.d over and need an easy way. Either way this is not cheating. Period

Hey man when i do this when i pull out my pad when i come back it still says restart? iv tryd both with my guitar and pad any ideas?

Got to say I never expected this to work at all, then got the Kick the Bucket achievement... You are a God.

its only giving me 4 stars?

i did the glitch on easy. you have to do it on medium full speed like you said haha. got 5 stars.

If you do this glitch after completing a song you get gold stars but it doesnt show as 5, i got 4 stars on free bird on expert before doing this glitch. I completed all the steps and got the Kick the Bucket Award, but when i did career songs on expert i only get 4 gold stars :/

I just did it, and had no issues whatsoever. For the people having issues with the career mode only giving four stars, did you perhaps do the glitch on Easy instead of Medium? Pretty sure it HAS to be Medium in order to get 5 stars.

EDIT: Just noticed that on any song you've already beat, it gold stars it, but the star rating doesn't change. I'll edit this again once I've finished all the songs on one difficulty to see if the achievement still unlocks or if a new band is required if you've already started working on it.

Still working! The only hurdle I had was the Blue button on my GH2 Guitar controller sticking.

Still works

Oh my god, I was about to quit this game trying to get this achievement. Thank god this exists.

Still works, even with the latest patch

Can confirms this glitch still works.

If you have trouble timing the disconnect of your remote to trigger the glitch, I have the solution for you:
After you disconnect the first time, reconnect the remote, hit resume and immediately disconnect again. Do this a few times. You should see the note sheet board thing (Whatever it's called that displays the notes) move up a bit each time. Then resume, and voila.

You just have to get past the point where the restart menu is called up by the game I guess.

If anybody is having trouble with counting for the unplug, count exactly 5 fretlines and then as soon as the 5th one reaches where you would strum a note, unplug/turn off your controller and it should work, what I had to do

Confirming still works as of Jan 1st, 2020.

(And yes, I got the achievement 13 years after I bought the game...).

Confirming that this glitch still works (Jan 19, 2020).

It took me about 50 attempts to finally nail the timing down. I find the easiest way to get it your first try is just to disconnect your controller as late as you possibly can before the menu usually pops. I guarantee it you'll get it each time. I got it first try each time.

Thanks for posting this solution man.

Also one last important tip:

In order to get 5 stars on each song, it has to be your very first attempt at the song. That means if you attempt this even on a 4 star song it will remain at 4 stars even at gold stars, so you'll have to create an entire new expert career and knock em out one by one. I get 5 stars each song now.

Confirms still works August 14, 2020.
+1 from me.

Worked for me today! Got the trick set on the second attempt. Pretty easy on the wired X-plorer guitar.

this glitch is patched as of August 2023, I tried what the video did multiple times over and over and it doesn’t work.

I find it hard to believe it's been patched after all this time. Are you having trouble triggering the glitch or is it triggering and just not working?

Also, try it on a clean save. If you've already played a song, the glitch won't work. As I mentioned previously, having a score seems to make it so the score needs to be broken for it to actually work.

Yeah it still works, just did it today

As of March 2024, this glitch still works. Also, even though this video uses a wired guitar controller, you can still do it with a wireless guitar but you have to take out a battery a little bit earlier so it has time to register that the controller is off.