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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 3:50PM (Unverified) said

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Or you can get OXM. It is on the latest demo disc.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 3:53PM (Unverified) said

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I doubt many people want to spend $10 to access a demo, though.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 3:54PM xenocidic said

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@2 what about the quality journalism? /duck
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:03PM murph17 said

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oh hot fire. someone please confirm and this will be the first thing i do when i get home tonight. Halo-what? Master-who? Axel Steel FTW!!
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:06PM (Unverified) said

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Interesting. I wonder how long it will take for modders to figure out how the 360 allows this, and implement it into special ISO-releases.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:06PM (Unverified) said

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this is pretty cool... I'll have to locate this demo because I sure as hell am not paying for yet another rehash of THPS or $10 for OXM.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:06PM (Unverified) said

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You access it through the games blade in the demos and more section. After burning the iso to a CD-R or a DVD-R you insert the disc and it reads as a "Mixed media disc" GH3 is in the demos list. If you try to launch it from the game tray directly it won't work. Pretty simple and a good way to get your GH fix until it comes out on the 28th. This worked for me no problem, been playing it for a couple of days. I thought the chaps over at Neogaf were blowin smoke about burning demos but it turns out it works! Pretty sweet game too, "The Metal" is hard as hell on Expert. Damn Triples!!
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:07PM chex said

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so has anyone tried this yet? i am downloading the ISO file right now. i am going to use a CD-R to burn onto using Sonic RecordNow!...
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:08PM (Unverified) said

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Also BTW, It is a timed demo so after playing about 4-5 songs it will time out after you finish the song. Kind of annoying but still well worth it. Love Even Flow too =)
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:15PM (Unverified) said

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where can you download it from?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:18PM (Unverified) said

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the question isn't where but rather how? I can't figure it out for the life of me... do I need a special download app?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:19PM (Unverified) said

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XD @ 3

Won't MS start throwing the ban hammer around when people start playing the demo though? Or can they not tell?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:21PM (Unverified) said

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5OX44D2U

Then enter the three letters at the top right(Next to where it says Megaupload) and it will start downloading in about 1-2 min.

If this isn't allowed...Sorry in advance =/
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:24PM (Unverified) said

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Happy days!! Downloading now....

Thanks for the tip!
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:48PM (Unverified) said

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Wooooh! Now I just need a controller...
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:34PM JOJOBASS said

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Is this considered theft and is it illegal? I would like to download it to try it out but I need to keep my nose clean legally.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:34PM Helloimbob said

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Downloading now... If only it would go faster! 300k/s still isn't good enough!

Must. Get. Guitar Hero. DEMO!
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:36PM (Unverified) said

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I can confirm it works, played it a bit yesterday and today. Good demo, it put to rest any worries I had about the game switching developers, it feels completely like Guitar Hero.

First I burned the iso to a CD-R, and while it works, it took _forever_ to load. A DVD-R was much, much faster.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:39PM (Unverified) said

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or you could wait till it's up for free on Live next wednesday
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:52PM Macroy said

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#5: My thoughts exactly.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:56PM peter0328 said

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Can someone upload it to a faster site? I don't want to wait 40 minutes @ 203kb/s when i can get a max transfer rate of 3.2mb/s. Thanks.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 4:56PM donthedev said

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And now for a fun game for this to happen to...
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 5:03PM (Unverified) said

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Is GH at all fun to play without the guitar controller? I wouldn't figure it would be, but I don't want to shell out close to a hundred bucks for what I consider to be a simple party game -- don't get me wrong, I know there's depth there, but I just don't have the time or inclination to "master" the game. It's fun to play a song or two on easy/normal difficulty, but the insane levels where you have to memorize every note to have a prayer of succeeding just seem stupid to me.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 5:09PM (Unverified) said

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It's worth the time like playing DDR or Samba de Amigo is with a controller... which is to say, extraordinarily little. I wouldn't bother in that case. Maybe a rental.

Also I made a comment, but it hasn't shown up for some reason. I think the character design shown here is mostly just horrendous. The lead male singer is one of the most horrible things I've seen in a game in quite some time.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 5:24PM SpaceGhostFlyer said

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Any idea if this could possibly get you banned..?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 5:33PM geeksunny said

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Of course it works. MS made a point of this working before the 360 even launched. People were going to be able to get demos and the backwards compatibility updates from friends burnt onto a cd-r if they didn't have internet.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 5:53PM (Unverified) said

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how do you make it run in the dashboard?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 6:09PM xd3thw1shx said

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#5
that's what i was thinking ;D

ALSO, if you're worried about the ban hammer, why not just unplug your 360 while you play the demo?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 7:29PM (Unverified) said

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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 7:41PM chex said

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so i downloaded it and burned it onto a disc using Sonic RecordNow and when i put it in my 360 it read mixed media disc like it should. however when i go to the demos it is not showing up. perhaps i didn't burn the disc right. i just chose to add files to the disc and then burned the cd. anyone who knows let me know please
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 7:43PM DeadPlasmaCell said

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Worked perfect for me. I burned it to a DVD using Nero and just burned the ISO straight ot the DVD. Popped it in the 360 went to demos and it showed up. Excellent!
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 7:48PM (Unverified) said

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@30

Use ImgBurn (find it yourself. it's freeware) set to 4x burn speed on a Sony DVD+R. RW's most likely won't work.

If you still have a problem, I have no clue.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 8:00PM R0B3RT said

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does a cdrw work ok????
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 8:24PM MendicantBS said

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Megaupload wont work for me :(
Anyone knows or can upload to another site? like rapidshare.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 8:37PM (Unverified) said

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hey how come the disk burns(DVD-R) and it doesnt show up under demos ??? it says mixed media or whatever like its supposed too

im very frustrated
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 8:33PM (Unverified) said

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@33

I'll go out on a limb and say no, it won't. Apparently, CDs load the game slowly anyway. Just try a DVD.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 8:38PM chex said

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ok i am using dynex cd-r's to burn on. i am assuming they are okay to use as it is all i have.....
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 8:57PM (Unverified) said

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I tried this on a CDR using windows vista to burn the disc at 24x - no luck.

However, I did find success burning the file onto a CDR using a program called imageburn at 4x speed - anyone know how to get the secret songs?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 10:08PM (Unverified) said

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CD's didn't really slow it down that much for me

No more than 60 seconds first run.. after that its fine
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 10:29PM chex said

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just to update you guys, i got it to work using imgburn and i had to change the burn speed to 4x. i used a cheap brand (dynex) of cd-r which worked fine. thanks for all the help.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 10:40PM chex said

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@ Ryan
what secret songs are u talking about? i want to get them as i have already beaten the 5 songs on hard....
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 11:20PM Accessgranted said

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haha this is awesome! :) i can't play it very well because i dont have the right controller! :) maybe we can get homebrew this way?
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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 12:00AM (Unverified) said

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Are you guys sure this is legal, and i wont get banned any time soon by this?
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Posted: Oct 18th 2007 11:49PM (Unverified) said

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I burned the .iso using imgburn and my 360 recognizes the demo, but when I launch the game I get a "failure to update" error (or something like that). Do I have to be on Live for this to work?
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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 12:03AM (Unverified) said

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cool got it to work just now. I'm on a mac so i used toast to make a ISO disc and bam it worked.
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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 11:30AM (Unverified) said

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get IMGBURN burn an ISO not just plopping the files and burning to CD/DVD

works for me but I guess it's a timed demo okay game, kinda turned me off of one of the more anticipated games forht e360 though. It's more of the same things, just with newer songs that they could have given as DL content.

this is turning ugly
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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 1:34PM (Unverified) said

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it did NOT work for me: I burned a cd and a dvd+r but none of them worked. maybe this works on US consoles only?
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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 2:02PM (Unverified) said

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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 3:49PM (Unverified) said

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where do you go to download guitar hero 3 and burn to a disc
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Posted: Oct 19th 2007 3:48PM (Unverified) said

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how do download guitar hero 3
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