I got this on Medium Drums back in the day. I could play Expert on most songs, but a lot of the metal tracks just kicked my ass so I played it safe. Had my wife sit in on a couple of her favorite songs so I got a break.
Ahh Bladder of Steel...one of my favorite and most memorable achievements. I'll never forget; I went for it on the first day of Christmas break in 11th grade, 2009. I did Expert guitar and managed to do it first try! Only came close to failing maybe 1 time. My biggest roadblock was actually...well, not being able to hold my piss; maybe 20-25 minutes from the end of my run, I just couldn't hold it any longer, so I ended up guesstimating when the song Battery was about to start (I knew it had a long intro with not too many notes - giving me a lot of wiggle room) and ran out onto my porch to pee 🤣 (I lived in a rural area so I was able to easily get away with this lol) I guess I don't technically deserve the title of "Bladder of Steel" but hey, I got every Endless Setlist-related achievement in 1 run along with a timeless story to tell lol
Ah the good ol bladder of steel! My favorite achievement, it was a hell of a ride. Having seen it fully now, I think the achievement is just cursed. I did it with a friend online, and on painkiller my internet dropped, rendering the run dead lol. We ended up trying again the following week, and managed to snag it :)
I still remember my Bladder of Steel run like it was yesterday, I was thirsty as hell by the end of it, so I ran upstairs to get some water during the minute long guitar break in Let There Be Rock, ended up tripping and hitting my head on the wall. Still finished the set, although I came dangerously close to failing Painkiller during one of the solos.
This was 100% the most harrowing trophy I'd ever gotten. Completed it back in high school on expert guitar, and I recall one point where I had to do a speed run piss right when a song ended & managed to get back right when the notes appeared for the next song's chart. Good times
I still have flashbacks to the moment I was 1 note away from failing Painkiller on the last guitar solo of the entire setlist.. never pausing or failing to that point.. but I survived. Probably my proudest achievement in gaming. Also I'm so sorry you had to do that twice 😬
@@Darkshock25 I was using an xplorer when it happened lol. Was one of those who’ve tried to use star power by hitting select and I accidentally hit start instead
@@Darkshock25yeah, I did a second attempt shortly after my screw up and ended up doing it successfully. Just wanted to recount my failure on this one since it was funny to me
I did the endless setlist 2 multiple times on Expert Guitar when I was younger just so I can get the platinum icon on my custom characters. The setlist being so good and fun definitely helped not make it a chore and a blast to do over and over.
Much appreciated! thanks Yes I have a couple more in progress but waiting on some co op help and have some tricky single player bits left. Hopefully won't take toooo long
I just put myself through this again last June, but on Expert Vocals. My throat hurt for a bit afterwards since I never played vocals for 6 hours straight. I had already gone through it near the games release on expert guitar, so I don't know what made me want to torture myself again over a decade later. Awesome job powering through even with all the technical issues!
Attempted the Bladder of Steel challenge once. I played on Expert guitar and failed on the outro of Bodhisattva, which was like the 6th to last song. Like you, I was absolutely shell shocked, but still completed the setlist. I never did go back and try the Bladder of Steel challenge though. And now that I have kids, I don’t see another opportunity in the near future 😂
You can attempt it again on a day off if someone else is babysitting the kids for 6 hours. There’s always multiple ways to get the achievement. And you’ll need to practice Bodhisattva, Battery, Visions, Panic Attack, and Painkiller to pass them all on Expert Guitar.
Look up the hidden big band ending chart for Bodhisattva. It's only there to animate the player on stage, but it's insane and I doubt it's even possible on console.
Great video man, you have to start a band at this point! Some of the rock band drum achievements are brutal… especially on the Green Day and Beatles games
I actually streamed a playthrough of the endless setlist on expert drums a few years back. Took me about roughly 10 hours in total, and I spent over an hour on the last five songs alone since I had severely underestimated the difficulty of Shoulder to the Plow after 7 hours of continuous drumming. I managed to clutch the rest of the setlist out after a break though. My right arm was dead for the entirety of the next day...
If you think that achievement was a nightmare to get, wait until you get to the LEGO Rock Band achievement “The Final Countdown” where you have to 100% the guitar solo on the song “The Final Countdown” on Expert Guitar only, and it has to be in a regular run too. Kept trying to practice the solo and it is a nightmare to get because the guitar and bass engine on that game is busted a bit, and I could not get it. I could literally tell you it might give you the same crushed feeling too as I did.
Doing Endless Setlist back in the day was pretty cool because it gave you the platinumed icon for the instrument you played on for online play, or so I believe in the case of Expert, not sure about other difficulties.
Great vid, I got the PS3 platinum trophy for RB2 last year. One of the hardest achievements ended up being getting 1m points in a song with the online mode down. I ended up having to do vocals and guitar solo on Green Day’s Jesus of Suburbia. Really tough stuff - only just cracked 1m after many many attempts.
Funny this pops up in my recommended, my brother and I just finished the endless set list on expert for the first Rockband game earlier today, and it’s much much easier than Rockband 2’s. No bladder of steel achievement for starters, less songs and less difficult songs. I did the second games endless set list a few months back, and only missed out on BOS because my friend accidentally unplugged my guitar… I’ll go back and get it eventually but I’m dreading it haha
My dad and I tried this together back in the day, him on vocals and me on guitar, both on Expert. We had planned this ahead of time with me using the wired RB1 guitar and him having a controller plugged in and using a headset instead of a regular mic. He used the headset so he could run to the bathroom if he needed to and still have a mic handy. I, on the other hand, had to sit there and take it. Anyway, trouble started brewing during Livin on a Prayer when our dog was pacing back and forth across the living room. Remember, we're both using wired controllers, so the inevitable happened, dog disconnected one of us. This pissed my dad off so much that he put her outside. From this point, we had already set aside the entire day for this, so we pressed on. As it turns out, during Visions, which was song #81 or 82, my wired controller decided to pretend to disconnect even though it was still plugged in. And if that wasn't enough, my dad made it so we actually failed Painkiller. So in the long run, our dog did us a favor. To this day, I still don't have this achievement, and it's one of two from this game that I'm missing.
Another perk of the endless setlist playlist is plated icons when you play online (silver for medium, gold for expert, platinum for expert), so by brother and I played through it twice so we could get it on all instruments. We would play until we got too tired, leave the console on overnight, and finish it in the morning. good times
I've done this about 5 times. I think in Rock Band 1 I did it 3 times before I succeeded and in Rock Band 2 I did it twice, there were some really brutal songs near the end. I was a drummer and my honestly my ass was killing me halfway through and I had to stand up for the few seconds between songs to get through. My ankle was killing me in the Rock Band 1 attempts before I found the right technique. I miss having a group of friends that were willing to spend a whole day doing this with me
Discovered your channel fairly recently and just went through just about all of your videos. Great work! I'm excited to see what games you decide to get the achievements for, next! Since you're mostly focusing on classic 360 games, might I suggest Dead Rising? There's an excellent guide by Recommended Playing if you decide to go for the task of 100% achievements for that game or its sequel. It's tough to find games from that era that don't also have now-impossible multiplayer achievements, sadly.
I actually ended up doing this twice on expert back in the day. Once on my friends ps3, him playing the drums and me playing the guitar, then I did it solo on my 360. Shout out to Let There Be Rock for having gaps in the song long enough to use the bathroom 😆
My first time ever going for this achievement and I got it on Expert. I wasn't good enough at the time to play Battery or Visions though, so I really got lucky and didn't fail on those songs cuz I saved my overdrive for the parts that I knew I would miss on. It's still one of my most proudest achievements to this day, nothing comes close
I did this on bass back in the day. I was so close to failing both Visions and Panic Attack not because the songs were difficult (they were) but because I was really tired and so was my arm. But thankfully got through it all without ever pausing. I do want to revisit this game with a working guitar the songs are just too good on rb2
Visions is why I competed the Endless Setlist on vocals. Absolute middle finger to my runs. At least I've heard Panic Attack and Painkiller at some point before 2008 to prep my nerves.
You’ll have to get used to alt-strumming and fretting fast to be able to pass Visions on Expert Guitar or Bass in Practice Mode slowing it down. And you’ll need stamina to be able to pass the 4 hardest songs in the game on Hard or Expert Drums. (Battery, Visions, Panic Attack, & Painkiller)
I remember waking up at 8am on a Saturday to do this on Expert Guitar. The bathroom was right next to my room, so I picked breaks in the guitar parts or the gap between songs to run and pee. Nailed it in one try, but I didn't immediately do it. Was familiar with every song
I did also tackle this on Expert Bass, successfully with a wireless Les Paul for the X360! I love Panic Attack so that was the best reaching it after *Blegh* Visions
I played this game so much in my youth, platinum my whole band, although I needed help to get the guitar and drum platinum. Peace Sells (But who's Buyin') back then I couldn't beat solo on drums and of course Visions on Guitar. Bass and vocals were a breeze, and I find it easier to beat the endless setlist on vocals, as you can sing in your own voice (just match the pitch.) I'd say in my lifetime I have completed the endless setlist 8 or so times, 2 times for Steel Bladder achievement, one for me and another for a friend online. Crazily enough, I too had issues the first time trying the achievement, one is with my dog who was running around and bumped my 360. She costed me the achievement 63 songs in, and $60 extra, to purchase a new CD. Power outage stopped another run halfway in, and my own incompetence by dropping my drumstick near the end of Panic Attack, I wasn't able to recover and failed near the last note. (Didn't try the achievement for another month after that mistake.) 😅
I got this one. I only got it on Medium, but under the circumstances I think it was justified. For some reason, when I was already struck with crazy insomnia, I decided that after I'd been awake for like 24 hours I'd have a go at it. I went to the bathroom, turned off the phone, put fresh batteries in the controller, put on the headphones and went to town. By the time I was finishing up I was a WRECK, but I did it. I think I started around 5 in the morning and finished by noon or even later. Delirious, elated, it was the most surreal and wonderful gaming moment in my life (even just at Medium lol).
still remember I almost got the bladder achievement trying to knock out the "Endless setlist on Expert" achievement. I practiced beforehand too and played the harder songs so I wouldn't fail but for some reason I never had the Visions song unlocked. So the first time I ever played Visions (and fucking last time) was during the Endless Setlist. I just... COULDN'T get my mind wrapped around how to do the strumming. I failed it because I couldn't get the hang of the song and I got so pissed. Never went back to re-try it even on easier setting.
You need to practice that song to complete it, man. Even if you hate Visions, you can’t get your Platinum badge until you pass it on Expert. You’ll need to experience all the songs before taking on the Endless Setlist or else everything will go down. No matter how many songs you don’t know from the setlist, the game will force you to play them no matter what you think. You’ll have to slow down the hardest songs in the game in Practice Mode, being “Battery”, “Visions”, “Panic Attack”, and “Painkiller” to get it done with failing too much to make you ragequit.
I got this one on hard drums back in the day. The only songs i wasn't confident about doing on expert were Everlong and Visons because of how fast they were. Nowadays, i can do Everlong, but it is tiring. Visions is still a no-go. Painkiller is also a pain on my foot with how fast and consistent those kicks are, but I can do that. Wouldn't want to save that one for last tho.
Rock Band 2 was the very first game I completed 100% of the Achievements on. I remember borrowing my best friend who's practically my brother at this point, Justin's Wired Xplorer Guitar to play through this set list with no pausing or anything. I made sure i was set, had taken care of everything I needed to do and the first thing I said after I completed the Endless Setlist and got the Bladder of Steel Achievement was, "I need to use the f**king bathroom." Lol 😂🤣
quality nostalgia trip this one. played RB2 to the death and potentially the best one of the series, i failed on the outro of panic attack on my bladder of steel run and its was traumatising. the only achievement i never got on the game 😂
I bought this game half a year ago just because I found out about this achievement. Got it only a week ago now along with the 3 other achievements on my first try.
Me and my buddy went for this achievement a few years ago, Expert Guitar with us swapping back and forth a few times for bathroom breaks. Definitely one of the greatest accomplishments in any video game i've done. And nearly having a heart attack because I almost failed at the end of Bodhisattva lmao
Look up the hidden big band ending chart for Bodhisattva and you're likely to have anpther heart attack. It's only there to animate the player on stage, but it's insane and I doubt it's even possible on console.
I did the endless setlist multiple times. One time I got together with some online friends where we were all going to play an instrument we weren't as good at and get the platinum icon for it (playing together allows you to revive each other and not fail the song). My internet was terrible and it cut out around song 60 and made everyone disconnect. The guitarist got really mad at me. I woke up the next day and did it by myself so I had a platinum icon for each instrument.
Today I was bankrupted, left by my wife and I found out that I was adopted. Was an excellent day though, as JForJack uploaded a video playing my second favourite guitar simulator.
Did this twice (I was on vocals both times :)) once alone once with a full band. If you’re doing bladder of steel and your bathroom is close to your real room vox is the move for sure. Songs like the trees and let there be rock have long breaks to get drinks or use the restroom
I have fond memories of my older brother doing it with his friends, and them including me in to play drums with them. Meant a lot to be included as a child with the older kids lol. I do recall using the super long organ intro on Wont Get Fooled Again to quickly run out and power piss quickly in the toilet, as a proverbial "F-U" to the achievement name, lol.
I attempted this year's ago, and my controller disconnected for literally 5secs and at the time I didn't know that ruined the attempt... Haven't done it ever since, life etc.
You can still schedule another day as a day off to attempt it again, make sure the controller’s wired so it won’t disconnect at all during the setlist without pausing or worrying about failing. It’s not too late to try again. If life is getting in your way, then finish it or let someone do the work for you for 6 hours to get another chance to attempt it again. 😉
got into a huge bad habbit, running bladder of steel on expert drums, while live on stream once a week, before i lost the details to my account haha. this was back when it was called justin TV
This is my proudest achievement. I bought a mic stand and did the guitar and singing by myself. Knowing all the songs made it easy to sing since I knew the lyrics. Knocked out the difficulty achievements out by doing bladder of steel and the expert endless simultaneously I did a random bathroom break in between songs and ran since my room is next to the bathroom.
Actually used to run this trophy for my friends; if I remember correctly playing through the endless setlist would earn your characters a silver or golden icon (maybe only RB1), so I would do that for all of them as well. Must have gone through the setlist on expert a dozen times or so. Ahh, not having to pay bills was a great time.
One of the few platinums I actually feel triumphant lmao. The endless set list wasn’t bad to me. As I was already a pro at this I 5* every song in this game. I started it at 9pm so I wouldn’t risk anyone bothering me. And after hours of playing. 4 trophies popped with the platinum 😎 good times man.
If it makes you feel any batter I'm currently doing the drive 1000 miles in the Mafia 2 dlc 'Jimmy's Vendetta'. I just glitch through the map and drive in 'space' while i watch youtube. Almost at 800 miles! Can't wait for my 10 gamerscore
I remember getting this when I was 12 on Expert Guitar on my first try and feeling like Jesus lmao. To make it even sweeter I ended up getting Gold Stars on some pretty difficult songs like Panic Attack.
I did this with my cousin!! I could’ve done expert on drums but I chose hard, and he did expert on guitar. We were gonna double up and do bass and guitar and in hindsight we should’ve but it was so fun.
I remember attempting this back in the day on PS3, looking back at the wireless instruments it had, it probably would have ended in a similar way >.> Still this game holds a special place in my heart, I got it for Christmas in '08 and played it every day until I got a Drum kit in '10. Been playing ever since :^)
It took me 4 rounds to get this trophy on PS3 to get the platinum, with expert vocals, 2 times the game crashes and other one with my brother on expert bass to get platinum logo for guitar and vocals, the 4 one was success and get my first platinum trophy in my PlayStation account
Luckily when I went for Bladder of Steel, I had a bathroom that was just off my living room, so I was able to quickly rush in to take a whiz between songs at one point. But yeah, probably the most insane achievement I've accomplished in a game.
A very energized 15 year old me took on the 84 song challenge on NYE 2008/NYD 2009. If I remember right I had just got the drum set for Christmas (0 drum experience) and decided I wanted to give it a shot. Around 4 hours into the challenge, it was 2 or 3am and my Grandpa told me to go to bed. I remember leaving my Xbox on pause just hoping it wouldnt crash overnight. I woke up around 8am and finished the rest. Never came close to your achievement (which I forgot existed until this moment) but completing this challenge on an instrument I had no experience playing regardless of difficulty felt good at the time. Never tried it again haha.
Anyone attempting this achievement make sure you have a good chair with neck support. When I obtained this achievement 3 years ago I did it while sat on an old stool that had no back or neck support for 6 and a half hours. Let’s just say the next day I couldn’t move… Don’t be like me! Take care of your entire body not just your wrists and your bladder!
@@JForJackPlays It’s an upgrade for you icon as a badge. Medium awards a vinyl badge on your current instrument, Hard awards a gold badge, and Expert awards a platinum badge. I studied Rock Band 2 for almost 5 years to know almost everything about the game. If you have questions about the game or need any tips for the game, I’m totally your guy. 😉
You’re a madman for using the player one guitar in that arcade 😂 I’ve been there and you basically have to turn the guitar upside down to activate star power lol
I did this achievement, too. I was kind of sad to see they didn't keep up the endless setlist in Rock Band 3. I didn't want another bladder of steel achievement, but another endless setlist to get an achievement with would have been fun.
Me and some friends decided to go for Bladder of Steel some months ago. We don't live close to each other so we had to do it online. Oh my God it was so scary haha. I had to make sure EVERYONE was playing on a wired/ethernet connection to lower our chances of randomly disconnecting. My dumbass was playing with a wireless guitar and the low battery alert lights were blinking towards the ending of the setlist. Our guitarist almost failed the achievement for us but we made a huge save at the very last second. Those six hours were a whole ass adventure. Good times.
I can remember the amount of the times me and my band mate would try to do this. Something would ALWAYS happen. It just never happened. Kudos for getting this done.
I tried this in the summer holidays 2010 on expert drums, we were getting a new landline put in and the internet dropped out, disconnected me from xbox live and sent me back to the main menu..... never tried it again
Never do it during repairs, man. It’s too risky. You can schedule it another day to try again but on a day off and making sure you’re not too busy with life getting in the way by finishing what else you need to do or have someone else do the work for you before attempting it again. 😉
@@Darkshock25 I was a little 10 year old I was the main character in my own little rock band world, no planning, no forethought, just video games and cartoons 🤣
What i did for the rockband achievement to do the whole setlist in one, no pausing etc, i did bass on the easiest difficulty and just sped it up to 300-400% speed, completed it in abour 1hr 45min
You’ll have to practice the 4 hardest songs in the game (Battery, Visions, Panic Attack, Painkiller) to pass all 4 of those songs in one go. Slowing it down in Practice Mode, and you’ll need to get used to alt-strumming and fretting fast to pass Visions on Expert Guitar or Bass.
Rock Band 2’s setlist is phenomenal, probably the best in both Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Bodhisattva actually got me into Steely Dan! I would never do the Endless Setlist though, too much hassle 😂
My stupidest achievement: I beat Super Mario World speedrun category “960 Exit” you must beat the whole game 10 times back to back to achieve nothing but a place on the leaderboard. It took me 16 hours and funny enough I did twice, the first time took me 17 hours. I can backup my words because I got it all on video.
I played on expert and could 5 star everything on guitar so naturally I wanted all 5 stars on every song. I played through the endless setlist, having to take a leak twice in a McDonald’s cup without pausing, lemme tell ya, it ain’t easy. Got all the way to visions and didn’t 5 star it and not thinking, I paused it and restarted the song cause I didn’t wanna have all 5 stars except that one song and as it was loading back up I realized my mistake. Inches from the finish line I made a stupid mistake. 😭 never again lol
Vocals was def easier to pull off cause you could set the mic down for certain songs to do what you had to do. RB2 had it spaced out so you really could get away with it lol
I've been crazy enough to do this thing at least 4 times 😅 1st. On my cousin's 360 while me and him did expert guitar 2nd. My PS3 on expert vocals (failed Shackler's Revenge) 3rd. My PS3 again on medium vocals so i could get Bladder of Steel 4th. My 360 on Expert Vocals again (no failure thankfully)
I'm in the process of getting all of the single player gh3 achievements, but playing through the campaign 10+ times can really be a slog. Definitely want to get bladder of steel on expert guitar sometime in the future though.
Dang i didn't even consider playing bass back when i did this, that woulda been a lot easier. I've always drank a lot of fluids though so 'bladder of steel' needed pro gamer strats... i wore a diaper
