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RedOctane Admits to Guitar Hero II Patch Problem Posted by XanTium | April 16 11:02 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From eurogamer.net: The update, released on Saturday, was supposed to help users whose copies of the game were refusing to acknowledge input from the Xplorer controller's whammy bar. However forum threads quickly sprang up on Xbox.com and the official Guitar Hero website complaining that the patch was followed immediately by system freezes and, in some cases, the dreaded ring of death - the only answer to which is returning the console to Microsoft. RedOctane initially declined to comment, but this afternoon a spokesperson told Eurogamer: "We're aware of the problem and we're looking into it." Full Story: eurogamer.net

[jeff10]

Mine is fine, but......I went to my buddies and played his yesterday, and his game gets jerky while playing, the screen sorta stops and goes in short burst...??\\

[Davek1013]

Very strange, indeed. I didnt have a problem at all with this, and ive had my console since Feb 06. FW hacked even. I always wonder about people with bricked 360s If they were really are poorly built or if their owners mistreat them. Im sort of doubting this console breaking glitch as well. They said they were looking into it. *shrugs* I dont know how many people who've bricked their consoles treat them but i know one person whose broke twice because he kept moving it when the damn system was on.

[BipSmith]

They are aware that there's a problem and that the problem may or may not be caused by their patch.

That's far from admitting to a problem.

[bucko]

Glad I got the PS2 version

[JUANVAN]

Well atleast they are coming clean on it. Unlike m$ were its Never the patches fault for bricking the box

[wweboy]

Mine has the ring of death because of this fucking game, Sad part is is my 360 is modded so there is no chance MS is getting it back.

Worst part is I had just got my 360 back from my co-worker who fixed my 3 red light issues and now it's doing it with GH2 THIS SUCKS I've spent so much on games and perf's to have a patch kill my box.

[1nsan3]

Thank god I hate this game. would be a bit more interesting if it had strings instead of buttons, buttons give it no challenge.

[Nytemunkey]

Go cry in the corner or something.

[Midnight Tboy]

This stupid thing happening could potentially have a positive outcome.

Unlikely, but still potential..

If it turns out their patch is indeed to blame, then it could be they have ways to replicate the issue that causes the 360 to overheat, which can then in turn prove that there is a physical hardware fault in the machines.....something that the 360 has no safeguard against going into a 100% cpu usage overload or something and then frying something that is obviously vital.

I'm sure it'll no doubt be denied as this seems to be the trend these days...but who knows

I was about to buy GH2 at the end of this week - I'm not so sure now tho - def hanging fire til I hear any responses and fixes etc

[Kells]

You know, I'm a huge fan of this series owning both Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2. I have 2 Red Octane Guitars and a 3rd party guitar yet I was so pumped when the 360 version came out .. I had already set aside the cash for the game and a second guitar.

I was blessed with a crap guitar. My tilt switch was defective and I was having the whammy bar problem. I've seen all this talk about this so-called patch that fixes the whammy bar problem, yet it says nothing about "faulty" tilt switches.  Needless to say, Instead of going back to buy a second guitar, I think i'm just going to return the whole game. I was on the fence until I saw those guitar hero 1 songs and the price of those downloadable packs .... screw it, I'll just keep my PS2 hooked up thanks very much.

It's just not worth the headache .... besides, in my opinion the PS2 version plays better. I've noticed sync problems with the 360 where during certain songs, during intense solo's the notes actually rush through the song ... completely destroying the guitar hero illusion.


Bad form Red Octane .... I guess Activision should have kept Harmonix on board.

[psyantist]

My controller has crapped out for another reason.  I got up out of my chair to do some serious shredding and ZAP-POP.....must have been some static electricity build up, but anyway my green button will not work as well as strum down.  Strum up still works and the other buttons though.

[twistedsymphony]

Since when is "Admits"  the same thing as "Looking into it"

Honestly... RedOctane didn't admit to anything.

If I told you your house was burning down and asked what you were going to do about it and you replied with "Really? I need to makes some calls to find out what's going on!" you didn't admit to jack Sh*t, that is in no way is a confirmation that your house is burning down...

RedOctane isn't admitting anything, basically they saw that a lot of people were complaining about the update and they're going to check it see if there update is really doing anything (which I highly doubt it is).

10 bucks says in another week or so saying they didn't find anything wrong and that they're not to blame...

[feflicker]

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10 bucks says in another week or so saying they didn't find anything wrong and that they're not to blame...

Yep. I agree. How could a game patch brick the console, it doesn't make sense. I mean, maybe some rogue process maxed out the CPU and fried it, but I'm sure they would have caught something like that in debugging... They sit there and watch all of that while they play it to make sure nothing like that happens.

[0794]

QUOTE(feflicker @ Apr 16 2007, 12:09 PM)

Yep. I agree. How could a game patch brick the console, it doesn't make sense. I mean, maybe some rogue process maxed out the CPU and fried it, but I'm sure they would have caught something like that in debugging... They sit there and watch all of that while they play it to make sure nothing like that happens.

exactly, more than likely this is a coincidence - and Red Octane has admitted nothing yet - and they shouldn't until it can be reproduced and proven that their patch is involved.  i like hearing all the whiners - makes me realise how immature so many people are and how difficult their lives must be if a gaming console can make them lose complete sense and act out as such.

obviously if people are worried then they should just do the hardware fix and bypass the software patch for now...glad i could not care less about this game...