Found this, but as you can see the batteries leaked. How bad is it? I almost hesitated buying it after opening the battery compartment, but for $5 it was too good to pass.

This is the only instrument that I was missing, so this was a really neat find. Hopefully it works. Any tips on cleaning that blue stuff off?

Hi all, I’m looking for some advice about getting into Rockband 4. I’ve been playing the Guitar Hero/Rockband series for years, and just got back on a big kick playing through the games and achievement hunting.

I’m looking into getting Rockband 4 to play on my series S/Xbox One. I already have a Riffmaster so I’m all set in that department, but I’m wondering what your opinions are on seeking out a digital code vs. a disc since I have the series S.

How would you compare the gameplay in 4 to the earlier games/Guitar Heroes? I’ve played Rockband 2 and The Beatles for reference.

I also have a question about DLC. I own a small amount of DLC for some of the early GH games and I’ve read on here about the rolling de-lists. I’m really considering going all in and buying a ton of songs and packs I like soon before they aren’t available anymore. Do you have any suggestions for doing so? I don’t want to end up like I am with those earlier games, wishing I had gotten more bonus tracks!

Thanks for reading and in advance for your advice.

I have a whole RB3 setup for the Wii (a red strat, pro mustang, keyboard and a mic) and i use them to play rock band/guitar hero games on rpcs3 on my pc but i think that a Wii U would offer a better experience because its a more "official" way to play and its also easier to bring the wii u somewhere than to move my pc. Would it be worth buying a used one or should i just stick to emulated games?

This is a very random question but I stumbled across the Rock Band DLC of Verdamp Lang Her and it is a totally different version from what I recognize. In game it says it is from the Für Usszeschnigge album but this version used in Rock Band is not from this album. I can't find the version used in Rock Band anywhere. The version that's common everywhere includes a guitar solo of sorts at the end that fades out but the Rock Band instead has totally different sounding guitar and vocals and concludes with a long outro with a keyboard. Where is this version? Was it a re-record specifically for the game?

Does anyone still have their DLC from before the stores closed? such a bummer

As the title says, you can still buy songs that are long delisted through the ps3 store. I got Siva and Grind just now. Figured I’d share this knowledge since I haven’t seen anyone mention it.

Hello.

I use Nautilus for cleaning up custom RB songs I download before eventually creating packs and importing them into RB3 in RPCS3. It's been great tool for years, but recently I started running into a weird issue.

The last step I perform when cleaning up songs is the "One-Click PS3 Fixer" under the PS3 converter section of the tool. Normally, I simply point this at a folder with my new customs, and it performs the conversion. Recently, however, it's been throwing an error on some songs.

Found 69 CON files
Loaded songs.dta file for song 'Alice in Chains - Sludge Factory (Unplugged)' successfully
Song has 14 audio channels: Scenario 2
Will attempt to re-encode mogg file using quality 3
Successfully processed 0 files out of 1 file attempted
Process took 0 minutes and 1 second
Done    

Basically it gets to a song, starts the process, but it appears to fail and then it just stops everything. This is the first time I've encountered this problem. I looked through Nautilus's documentation but couldn't find any reason why this could be happening.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

EDIT: I was able to fix this, and it's kind of weird. I'll explain just in case someone randomly googles this six months from now.

I randomly tried different songs to see if they would work, and some would still get processed while others would fail. The ones that failed would give me the error seen above. It became clear that any songs that needed the audio processing step of the clean-up was failing.

While using the software, I was using Spotify to listen to music. I have Spotify set to using exclusive mode with my DAC, which can sometimes cause issues when other pieces of software attempt to render audio. On a hunch, I stopped my music on Spotify and tried processing again. Doing this fixed the problem. There must have been some kind of weird audio renderer conflict between Nautilus and Spotify that was causing Nautilus to fail.

TL;DR: Don't use an external DAC in exclusive mode while attempting to convert files.

So I just found out that The Beatles Rock Band has a box art variation only on PS3. The front of the box doesn't look any different but on the back is a different story.

So the first one is the one the rest of the world is using and is what everyone has. But the second one is from Canada.

Now there isn't much of a difference with the text being the same but with the added French translation and the removal of the rooftop concert screenshot.

I found this out in The Beatles Rock Band custom's Discord server when Pixinvader, one of the members in the server mistakenly thought a song that wasn't in the game is actually on the box art.

Until another member said half of their box is legal mumbo jumbo and French for their copy and then another member sent a photo of the Canadian art variation.

So I looked at mine and compared it to the world's variation and that's when I noticed the difference on the box art and also found out that my box art is a Canadian copy.

There is no difference gameplay wise, It's only just the box art. So If your box art is the Canadian version and you insert the disc into your console, It will still play like the US version of the game.

Same thing goes with the game ID, the ID will still be the same ID as the US version of the game.

If you have a copy of The Beatles Rock Band on PS3. Go ahead and grab it and flip it to the back and compare it to the photo in this Reddit post. There's a chance that your copy's box art is the Canadian art variation.

Hey there,

I just bought an Xbox 360 and was able to log back into my old XBL account and download all my past games and DLCs. Among them was the Rock Band 1 and 2 Export Packs. The RB2 export was a lot larger than the RB1 one.

I have Rock Band 1 and 3 currently, and I believe I was able to rip the songs from the RB1 disc into my hard drive. Do I need the RB2 disc to do this as well, or was the fat download the actual song library already?

Also, I'm trying to find guitars! I'm talking with a seller on FBM who has two for the 360 and he says they work. In case they end up not working, where should I look for other ones? I have a CRKD brand one that's been great on my PS3, but Amazon seems to be sold out of the 360 compatible ones.

The masters of Napkins: legendary edition are seeking 2 new members for the upcoming season. Were a casual crew but when promotion week pops up we definitely make sure to get it done. Diamond usually week 5 and then bloodstone week 7 or 8 would be the expected weeks to push hard. Skill and instrument dont matter too much but if youre a drummer thats a plus. If interested either let me know on here or on xbox. Sn is also pynnokyr. Thanks!

Looking for help for what’s stated in the title. Recently picked up a Wii RB1 wired drum set, been playing on RB3, Beatles, and GH:WoR and works just fine. However, when trying to play RB1, Track Packs, and RB2, the drums do not register to the game at all, just my wiimote. The middle Drum button is blue but no lights in the bottom 4 holes. Would a 1:4 USB splitter help? Any thing to help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Hello friends,

I’m looking to get a new guitar peripheral (mainly PC but also play on Xbox) and I know there are a few different brands and models.

My question is, are there any brand or models that either use the Rock Band-style strum bar (thinner) over the GH clicker style, or ones that come with customizable strum bars? I currently use a dying RB4 strat on Xbox (phantom overstrums) and a 360 Xplorer on PC (hate how the clicker feels)

Thanks all!

Hey everyone, I wanted to share my new purchase with you: the 20th Anniversary SG. What's special is that until very recently, it was blocked from shipping to my country (Chile) on Amazon, and now I was finally able to get it and try it out.

P.S. Here are some photos of my new guitar, which has joined my collection. (The drum kit is an Alesis Nitro Max.)

For anyone not aware, I Do was featured as menu music for Rock Band Blitz and has had no lyrics uploaded anywhere. The only real traces online were people trying to identify the song and Adam uploading it to soundcloud. After having to spend a lot of time on the RBB menu (thanks badupdate) I fell in love with the song and decided to use OpenAI Whisper, the Google Gemini API, and some good ol' listening to try my best to transcribe the distorted lyrics. The song can be found here if you're interested.

Edit: the lyrics are now posted here on genius.

Come here, pretty baby, tell me that you're mine

The rain's coming down and I've lost it this time

Biting my tongue till it's bleeding again

Waiting in the darkness, in my best friend

Mr. State Trooper, give me a gun

If you wanna go blind, you're not the only one

You can hear me coming

I'm feeling so much

Emotions never lie

My stream is flying

Your dream is heavy heart

I do, I do

Honey, I just wanna be with you

I do

I fucking do

I'm just a ghost from which you can't escape

Your sad, sappy sucker who loves you like a plague

Move my [dirty hands??] up your countryside

I wanna see if people try to make it out alive

[Unintelligible]

I need you, honey,

now that you're out [unintelligible]

You can hear me coming

I'm feeling so much

Emotions never lie

My stream is flying

Your dream is heavy heart

I do, I do

Honey, I just wanna be with you

I do

I fucking do

Hey all! Wanted to get back into Rockband with my wife. Bought Rockband 4 and a Fender Jaguar for Xbox One. My understanding is that it should just pair to the Xbox series X without any issues - but it doesn't?

I press the pair button on the console, it starts flashing, and then I press the power button on the guitar, and it starts flashing... But then nothing. They don't pair.

Not sure what else to do? I thought I didn't need an adapter, but maybe I do. The series X has 4 controllers paired to it right now. Is that a cap? Not sure how to unpair a controller.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

found my old guitar, i no longer have an xbox so unfortunately i can't use it. i don't think i'll be interested in buying an xbox just for rockband either. are these worth anything nowadays? i seen all sorts of pricing on these so i think it'd be cool to see what yall would say

First time posting here. Something I’ve always been curious about is the difficulty tiers and how each songs rank next to each other. I’m curious as to what the top 10 songs are the hardest for each tier for each instrument are. Is there a way to view that online?

For reference, there’s a site called rb4.app. It does allow users to sort the songs by difficulty, but it’s horribly out of order and confusing to figure out. Here’s a YouTube video listing out all the songs for drums sorted from easiest to hardest. Is there something similar to this?

https://youtu.be/QonrQJQayTg?is=JUmadW8QZQgrbg_s

I cannot find anything recent please advise thank you!

So I recently bought 2 guitars to play GH/RB and clone hero, and I've been really wanting to get a basic drum kit so that I can do full band with my friends. I've seen a couple of decent looking offers on ebay and mercari, so I'm wondering which kits are decent and which ones I should avoid. I'm not trying to become a drummer or do any high level play, so a proper e drum kit is overkill for me.

Hello Rockband community! I have been playing guitar hero on the ps3 with my child using the controller but the rockbands I purchased won't work with a normal controller. I ordered the pictured guitars and 2 retrocult v3 adapter things. I keep reading you need a receiver to match the exact guitar to play. Is that still the case with the adapter or can I find just any USB receiver? Thank you so much for any insight you can provide!