Amplitude - Synthesized Insane world record - 10711

This is a video of the world record for the song "Synthesized" on Insane difficulty in the PS2 game Amplitude (with a score of 10711). Performed by Infil in February 2006, and recorded and captured by my good friend SnapDragon. Full combo, with incredibly hard track transitions and optimal score doubler/freestyle usage. And no, this is not emulated. It took me about 6 hours to get this run. :P

This score is roughly 3000 points higher than the next verified score. Enjoy!

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[quixoticMoon]

Damn. Noticed that little miss with the bass line at the end. Good thing you had an auto blaster. I would've been so pissed off to go through all those brutal tracks. Just to get f'd over by a bass line.

[Infil]

It was an intentional miss. Note how I get more points for autoblasting the bass and playing the drum track (in that order) than any other 3-measure combination! If I play the drum track first (then autoblast the bass), that specific 2-bar drum segment is worth less points than the 2-bar drum segment 1 measure later. And, of course, freestyle is worth more than playing the song, so I finish with that.

[DriftAnime]

What i dont understand.. is why your missing things on purpose in the beginning. Is there really a set rhythm your supposed to follow in each song? Either way, incredible playing. I guess i never could get that dedicated with this game. So much better then all the popular music games out now though.

[Infil]

When you play a track, it respawns something like 8 measures later, but the powerups are set in place when you choose the song from the menu. That means if you play tracks in a certain order, you can miss good powerups while the track is unavailable. My misses at the beginning are intended to stagger the "availability" of the tracks so all the good powerups 30+ measures away will line up in an optimal way. (As you can see, optimizing an Amplitude song is hard work!)

[livingxxgod]

I used to be fantastic at this game, and frequency. But I had never thought of capturing video, I just played to keep up my hand/eye coordination and for the music. But one thing is for sure, I can't seem to play this game much at all on my HDTV on my PS3. It's frustrating, as if they're is some inate lag in the system - yet even after months of no play, if I put it in my slim PS2 and set it up on a SDTV, I do fine. I wonder if all HDTV's are like that, does anyone else have this issue?

[Infil]

Yeah, some (many) HDTVs, especially older ones, have brutal lag in them. Unfortunately there's really no fix for this. Another problem: I believe the back-compatible PS3s actually have inherent lag in them when running PS2 software. I read somewhere that it's about 4 frames of lag; people who tried to play old fighters on BC PS3s reported the same problems. I think the problem is on both your PS3 and your TV. :( Just have to play on a CRT with your PS2, I suppose.

[fgh8ud]

screw rock band 4 i wanna see freqlitude!

[chaoticparadoxx]

This game was my childhood... :3

[superplayerprimaire]

Holy shit, Amplitude. That game is awesome, and you're awesome.

I'm currently trying to get a full combo on most of the songs without powerups, in Insane mode. Synthesized is brutal as fuck, but nothing compared to the human-limit breaking Blink 182's Rock Show, haha.

[markthehammer]

I'm trying to play this game on a PS2 and a HDTV, with a scart cable... same damn lag problem.

...love this game, it still rocks after 10 years!

[Drew Littlejohn]

It was truly a pleasure to watch this. In my more youthful days I used to hold a record, but it was such a joy to watch this and completely relate and understand your complex decision making to achieve this high score. I actually cheered as you jumped from track to track. *Green Player takes the lead*

[Carapuce3810]

thank you guy you maked me bad!

it was wonderful :)

[GuySavage2]

world record my ass... i was godlike on this game compared to you.

[midgetmann1984]

Best I ever did, 7424 on BT - Kimosabe. Took a lot of practice and made me the best out of all the locals. I also had the high score among friends with Chris Child at 6486 and Slipknot at a smooth 6120. I was only beaten in 1 song...the rock show

[jimday666]

do you play it with a regular controller?

[Deandre Turton]

Every once in a while I grab a PS3 controller and watch these old amplitude videos and pretend like I'm playing along :')

[Ralph Caffery]

Great gameplay, and thanks for bothering to explain why you did everything you did. It was fun to watch, especially for someone (such as myself) who finished this game and Frequency, but never was able to get very good.