Red Octane responds to Xbox Guitar Hero II guitar issues

my friend was playing GH2 last nigh and when I was in private chat, his mic was all messed up. As soon as he unplugged it, siwtched ti a wireless controller and used his headset on that, it sounded just fine. Guitar = broken (or at least microphone port is)

I have the supposedly bad one and have no problems.

Whoever started that nonsense about the recall should be ignored from now on. It was blatantly obvious that it was shown as a "recall" because some Target stores had put them out early and they needed to knock it off as soon as the word was out. This isn't hard to figure out, guys.

With Pokemon AND Super Paper Mario coming out, I'm afraid I don't see a lull in my gaming habits enough to warrant buying Guitar Hero II again.... once the slower months roll around, though.

I'm just curious as to why there's two revisions of the 360 guitar...

Can i get one for free? with a copy of the game... >.>

Yea I bet it's just a couple of idiots holding down buttons while booting up. Same thing happens with any controller on any system. Hold down buttons or directional pads and the thing will be messed up for the duration of the session.

"3. I'm just curious as to why there's two revisions of the 360 guitar..."

Same here.

Defective model working fine for me. Who uses a wired headset any more? Just looking for a store that has another x-plorer contoller in stock to bust some "Jessica" with my wife!

sheppy,

I hope you are ghost sheppy. I would have never thought real sheppy played pokemon. Gotta catch em all, I guess.


As for the controller issue, I hope it becomes a complete rumor. I had planned on picking up GH2 on my way home from work. Now I am stalling until I can be sure all is well.

The fact that Red Octane didn't totally debunk the rumor has me suspicious. If it was completely bunk, they wouldn't be looking into it through their QA department.

It's not a rumor, I had the whammy bar problem last night as did one of my friends. Another friend got the game also with no problems at all.

It sucks but its not a rumor. I have the model that's been problematic and sure enough my whammy bar is really shot. It worked well when I first played it , and when i started playing 4 hours later it was really not responding well. But activating my star power meter hasn't had problems though.

Them making two different models for launch is really weird.

Actually i have a completely different problem with one of my two controllers. I ordered the multiplayer pack from Red Octane directly. The Strum bar on one of my guitars sticks when strumming downwards. It's annoying as hell trying to beat some of those songs strumming upwards. Anyway i am hoping that after playing for a bit it will break in otherwise i will be calling Red Octane.

"I hope you are ghost sheppy. I would have never thought real sheppy played pokemon. Gotta catch em all, I guess."

Nah, it's not ghost sheppy. Here's the dealio, I occasionally play a Pokemon game from tiem to time. Spcaing em out just enough so that they add a ton of new stuff instead of minor things. As such, one of my current bitches about the upcoming release is that we still cannot get even some basic animations for the sprites on the battle screen. This wouldn't be all that hard to do and considering Nintendo has sold 3+ million copies thus far, it just shows them as cheapasses in this regard. We only get to see the monsters animated when we see their 3D models (and even then, animation sets are limited, forcing me to believe this entire franchise is being handled not to make the best game possible but the cheapest game probable).

Incidently, I also enjoy the Shin Megami Tensei series (and yes, I DO know they reuse models with only minor updates) and I'm looking quite forward to Monster Kingdom on PS3.

Enough with the guitar hero already. My God!

@ dark:

Don't be jealous that you cannot rock with the rest of them. Your time will come.

Yep, it's not a rumor. I have the "faulty controller." It's not that messed up, at least for the whammy bar part, I just have to bang on it real hard. It's like it only has on and off, no in between for different bended sounds. Not a big deal for me, I wish it worked like it's supposed to but oh well.

"Don't be jealous that you cannot rock with the rest of them. Your time will come."

Playing a fisher-price "My first guitar" is hardly rocking out. The game is fun...but come on...

As a musician, it disturbs me how elated people get when it comes to this game. It's DDR with a plastic guitar. It's more fun than DDR, I'll give you that.

Hopefully my pick-bar works correctly...it didn't work in the upward direction. I just dealt with it instead of restarting because of the short time I had to play it. I'll check it out when I get home today.

Whammy bar Tremolo is fine...and I have the "problematic" model.

Gah..."Whammy bar" was supposed to be in strikeout. So much for HTML in comments. ;)

My 2 cents, I got GH2 for Xbox today and mine has the wammy bar problem. It's quite noticable. I have both GH and GH2 for PS2 and never had an issue. I've sent an email to red octane support and wait for a reply. I got the game at Circuit City and I'm debating if I should just return it and take my chances with another controller or wait for Red Octane. It's unfortunate that the guitar is having this issue. I just hope Red Octane addresses it quickly since it is a great game and it's ashame it's gettin this black eye.

@SuicideNInja: I've been playing guitar for more than half of my life at this point and Guitar Hero is still ridiculously fun. You can totally rock out with it. Why are you disturbed by this? Don't be the "I'm a musician..." guy. Nobody likes that guy.

"As a musician, it disturbs me how elated people get when it comes to this game. It's DDR with a plastic guitar. It's more fun than DDR, I'll give you that."

Why does it disturb you? It's not like playing a real instrument...it's about the fantasy of being a Rock God with cool graphics. One doesn't have a reflection on the other, despite the fact that some people seem to think it does.

Off to the store to try and pick up GH II right now! Wish me luck!

Hey - Which one exactly is broken (sorry if it was posted elsewhere). Mine has the pedal jack on a DIFFERENT side as the power cord.

Thanks dudes

ok, i commented on teh first post about the whammy bar and now i have both versions of the guitar. both have issues if you press it too quickly... both work fine if you have a steady rate of "whammying"

i think its more of a flaw than a defect.. people (including me) tend to press the whammy as fast as i can to increase the star power, so it doesnt pick up the response immediately (like it should), so i think thats the problem...

unless both of mine are "defective".. .then i want replacements!!

My guitar seems to work alright so far. I got the type that's "not problematic" with the foot pedal jack on the side.

Anyway, the whammy bar seems to be less responsive than the PS2 version, but it still works fine, just a split second lag before the whammying begins. In my opinion nothing to complain about. Great game.

Here's the issue myself and 2 friends are having.

The damn Up and Down on the D-pad is reversed! Makes it a real PITA to navigate menus and type.

"Don't be the 'I'm a musician...' guy. Nobody likes that guy."

I couldn't agree more. I've been playing guitar for years, even got a minor in music. This game is ridiculously fun.

Wait, am I being that guy too? Shit...nevermind.

Picked up GH2 yesterday...whammy bar sucks. Not very responsive and only works when it wants to.

Ya i just got it last night in the mail straight from red octane and the pedal jack is next to the head set thing and i noticed that the wammy bar sucked even before i read this message so i hope they fix it or recall them because i plan on buying a second anyway

My whammy bar is crap. As mentioned before, it works when it wants to. Sometimes I have absolutely no problem and other times it couldn't be bothered. It's not debilitating, but it would be nice to have when you're trying to beat your friend's scores.

has anyone else noticed that the yellow button seems to stick or not completely press down at times? I've noticed this and its irritating as hell....as is the whammy bar is garbage as everyone else has mentioned...and I've also got a different model than the ones listed

I have the 95065 model (pedal jack on bottom next to communicator jack). I had no whammy bar issues, but 2 days after getting the game the guitar refuses to power up. I treated it with the utmost TLC, but what can you do.

I alerted RedOctane's support team to my issue by e-mail (no phone # listed on the website) and got a form message about the whammy bar issues, which has nothing to do with my problem.

Red Octane's QC team must be crapping itself.

09APR07 Update: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158585

I'm having the sticky yellow as well. It seems to help if I push in the center of the button and stay away from the edges, but I don't have to do that on the other buttons so it's pretty irritating. It's giving me calouses on my ring finger because the little yellow button bump is right there.

my guitar for the 360 does have issues with the whammy bar, but its not all the time, its not a game breaking problem, but it does make it so in sections where you can use the whammy to get star power in one shot, it makes it a lot more difficult. i by and large don't notice it really. it usually will stop working, if im using the whammy really really fast, to try to gain the power.

I have the pedal port by the guitar strap model and my wammy bar was not a problem. However, the green fret button stopped working after two weeks of melting faces .. and I am now trying to get a replacement.

-MayheM

Go to www.guitarheroparts.com to fix whammy bar. i fix 2 Guitars my whammy bar works Great.