In hard mode, the song Hey You has 544 notes (according to scorehero.com).
Now, if you got 100% notes hit, yet your longest streak was 350, that means you must have overstrummed several times while still hitting every note. Every time you overstrum, your multiplier resets to 1x.
The only thing that the fact your longest streak was better than your friend's longest streak means you had one demonstrable instance in which you had a longer multiplier than she did (for example, she could have had two streaks of 230 notes each, while you had one 350-note streak, then no streaks over 40 thereafter; this would give her a 4x multiplier thorughout nearly the whole song, whereas you would only have a 4x multiplier for half the song, and it constantly reset to 1x - though this example would give her more than enough points to beat you by well over 700 points).
I'm willing to bet that if you had looked at the number of streaks broken by each of you, you would have had more. Also, this being Guitar Hero 1, the only co-op mode is face-off, which does not guarantee a perfectly symmetrical scoring method (that is, your friend could have had far more notes when she activated star power, as mentioned above, or simply more notes in general, which allows here the possibility for a greater score, even if you two perform perfectly evenly). Added to the fact that she had two star power usages to your one (i assume if you had three phrases, and used star power as soon as it became available, you would have had one unused portion throughout the rest of the song), it is not unsound logic at all to assume she beat you, especially by as little as 700 points (which, at a 4x multiplier, can be achieved by getting as little as four notes or two chords). Mathematically, every aspect of the scorekeeping in-game works out perfectly.
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vct33
17 years ago
Also, if you didn't hold all of your sustained notes until the very end, you could have missed out on some points. You could hit every note and get 100% with a 544 note streak and have the same star power and still get two different scores if you don't sustain every note till the end.
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snow-wolf
16 years ago
Assuming the scoring system is the same in GH II, I've had something similar happen as far as chords go. On pro-face off, you have the same exact set of notes for each player, and if both players don't miss a single note for a while, it takes a while for the meeter in the middle to stop being neutral (white in color, as opposed to blue for player one or red for player two). I have witnessed it go blue when I was player two and I was hitting the same notes as my roommate because I stopped holding the fret button earlier than my opponent on a chord. What's mroe, I've beaten my roommate by getting a lower percentage than her but getting a higher score. Points determine the winner.
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