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PS3 Rock Band 2 gets update

Now Guitar Hero kit will work with it too

24 November 2008 21:41 GMT / By Verity Burns

Any owners of the PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band 2 will be able to upgrade their copies to version 1.01 as of today.

The update fixes a number of bug issues, the most interesting of which is the correction of the "interoperability issue" of the game with Guitar Hero World Tour drum and guitar peripherals.

This means anyone that owns the Guitar Hero World Tour band kit will be able to use that with Rock Band 2, and won't need to clutter up their house with two separate kits.

Even better news - for those of you that owned Konami's Rock Revolution, the game's drum kit will work with Rock Band 2.

The full list of adjustments in the update is as follows:

Hardware:
* Provided support for third party drum and guitar controllers including GHWT & RR.
* Adjusted crosstalk values for drum hardware.
* Bug fix for remote drum fills being silent – users will now hear the drum track when drum fills.

Gameplay:
*Fixed overlapping drum fill bug on drum track.
*Fixed rare network crash involving client signing out during setlist creation.
*Fixed rare crash on calibration screen when users mash guitar controller buttons.
*Fixed bug where Leaderboard scores in BWT were not uploading after users played the first song.
*Fixed bug where Leaderboard career scores were posted including DLC songs and not just disc songs as originally intended.

Full tags

Gaming, PS3, Rock Band, Harmonix, Guitar Hero, Activision, Peripherals, Music games