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Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: Xbox-Scene on April 10, 2007, 07:50:00 PM
Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Posted by XanTium | April 10 21:14 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
From allaboutthegames.net:
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Red Octane confirmed today via its customer support team that unfortunately there is a batch of Guitar Hero II X Plorer controllers for the Xbox 360 with a faulty whammy bar. The problem causes whammy bar movements to either not be registered within the game, or for there to be a slight delay before you whammy bar movements are represented on screen.

Red Octane has promised that unsatisfied customers can exchange their controllers at their place of purchase, or if purchased via their online store, can submit an RMA request and have the faulty controller exchanged.
The problem is isolated to two specific models of the controller, the numbers of which are 95065 and 95055.

However all is not as bad as it seems as we have discovered a remedy to this problem which is as simple as loosening two screws and which does not void your warranty. Carefully follow these simple instructions.

Full Story: allaboutthegames.net

Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: darkmike57 on April 10, 2007, 07:16:00 PM
Did the mod. Works perfect!
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: mlapaglia on April 10, 2007, 07:37:00 PM
now that is some great customer service. coming out, admitting a flaw, and fixing it.
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: Maverick0984 on April 10, 2007, 08:20:00 PM
worked for me too
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: ILLusions0fGrander on April 10, 2007, 08:50:00 PM
heh... of course this is the model i have  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

oh well, at least theres a simple fix..  wonder if its a perma-fix?

i wondered why the whammy only worked sometimes :/

This post has been edited by ILLusions0fGrander: Apr 11 2007, 03:50 AM
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: Norkusa on April 10, 2007, 09:04:00 PM
Submit a RMA online for an exchange? Good luck with that. I submitted 2 of them exactly one week ago from today and STILL haven't received any reply from RedOctane yet.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by Norkusa: Apr 11 2007, 04:08 AM
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: neovader on April 10, 2007, 10:13:00 PM
I found the fix a few days ago and I moved the unit more than slightly and works perfect and its very sensitive and easy to activate SP
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: bucko on April 11, 2007, 05:53:00 AM
Nice there fixing it, Of topic: I've never had any problems with my Guitar Hero 2 on my PS2, stuck on one song though on Hard Mode I think it's (What was she doing in my room last night), so dam hard.
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: grim_d on April 11, 2007, 05:24:00 AM
QUOTE(ILLusions0fGrander @ Apr 11 2007, 03:21 AM) View Post

heh... of course this is the model i have  dry.gif

oh well, at least theres a simple fix..  wonder if its a perma-fix?

i wondered why the whammy only worked sometimes :/


yes its a permenant fix, one that i assume will be done on assembly from now on.
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: 0794 on April 11, 2007, 06:01:00 AM
classy response to a known problem - and such a simple fix.

i find it odd that you can basically take the whole thing apart and still NOT void the warranty...
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: DanITman on April 11, 2007, 07:22:00 AM
This fix is not officially from Redoctane.
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: HansiHusten on April 11, 2007, 07:26:00 AM
Does any1 of you know where i can order the guitars separately in europe? not even amazon does have a single solo guitar to sell..... damnit
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: brywalker on April 11, 2007, 08:08:00 AM
Great fix!

Now the guitars will work perfectly for all of the downloadable songs on Live that Microsoft is trying to rape us on. Yay!
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: mlmadmax on April 11, 2007, 09:05:00 AM
At least they admitted there is a problem, i am going to wait for the wireless controllers before i pick this game up though. biggrin.gif
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: Knasen on April 11, 2007, 10:56:00 AM
Glad to hear there is a fix for this as I was thinking of buying this game but was hold back by the reports of faulty guitars, now I am really interested in getting this again  smile.gif
Title: Faulty Guitar Hero II Controller Fix
Post by: feflicker on April 11, 2007, 03:50:00 PM
They should recall them and send out new perfect units to retail. I want to buy this game but I want a working controller out of the box. I dont' want to have to take it apart and tweak it just to play the game. I know its simple, and trust me I have the technical ability, it's just the principle of the matter. Are they expecting 1/2 of America to have to return their controller because it doesn't work? Talk about an inconveinance! Some people have to drive 30 miles to get to the store they bought it at, even if it is 5 miles away, it's still a pain in the arse...