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"Songs ... wouldn't support the Rock Band Stage Kit."

This is incorrect. The Rock Band Stage Kit lighting functions work under RBN just fine. What charters don't have access to is the cue to trigger the fog machine. The rationale was that very few testers would have the Stage Kit to test the fog cues, and thus someone could release a song that would flood the room with fog wihout being caught in playtesting/peer review.

However, the lights on the Stage Kit follows from the stage lighting in the on-screen performance, and that can be set by RBN track authors.

If you went over to the GH5 site, they actually have lists of this:

GHWT exporable tracks:
• “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” – Beastie Boys
• “Dammit” – Blink-182
• “Livin’ on a Prayer” – Bon Jovi
• “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)” Lynyrd Skynyrd
• “L'Via L'Viaquez” – The Mars Volta
• “About a Girl (Unplugged)” – Nirvana
• “Spiderwebs” – No Doubt
• “Re-Education (Through Labor)” – Rise Against
• “Do It Again” – Steely Dan
• “Demolition Man” – Sting
• “Love Spreads” – The Stone Roses
• “Santeria” – Sublime
• “Are You Gonna Go My Way” – Lenny Kravitz
• “Band On The Run” – Wings
• “Heartbreaker” – Pat Benatar
• “Hollywood Nights” - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• “Lazy Eye” - Silversun Pickups
• “Never Too Late” – The Answer
• “Obstacle 1” – Interpol
• “One Armed Scissor” – At the Drive-In
• “One Way or Another” – Blondie
• “Our Truth” – Lacuna Coil
• “Overkill” – Motorhead
• “Shiver” – Coldplay
• “Soul Doubt” – NOFX
• “Stranglehold” – Ted Nugent
• “The Joker” – The Steve Miller Band
• “The Kill” – 30 Seconds To Mars
• “Up Around The Bend” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Everlong” – Foo Fighters
• “The Middle” – Jimmy Eat World
• “Today” – Smashing Pumpkins
• “Toy Boy” – Stuck in the Sound
• “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!” – Hushpuppies
• “Stillborn” – Black Label Society

GH Smash Hits Exportable Tracks:
• “Caught In A Mosh” – Anthrax
• “Cult Of Personality” – Living Colour
• “Free Bird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
• “Freya” – The Sword
• “Heart-Shaped Box” – Nirvana
• “Hey You” – The Exies
• “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” – Pat Benatar
• “I Love Rock 'N Roll” – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
• “I Wanna Rock” – Twisted Sister
• “Message In A Bottle” – The Police
• “Miss Murder” – AFI
• “Monkey Wrench” – Foo Fighters
• “No One Knows” – Queens Of The Stone Age
• “Nothin’ But A Good Time” – Poison
• “Play With Me” – Extreme
• “Psychobilly Freakout” – Reverend Horton Heat
• “Rock And Roll All Nite” – Kiss
• “Shout At The Devil” – Mötley Crüe
• “The Trooper” – Iron Maiden
• “Woman” – Wolfmother
• “Yyz” – Rush

35 tracks from GHWT and 21 tracks from S.Hits, so less than half of each game.

"This is about the least informed comment I've read all day. Nintendo specifically *announced* SDHC firmware support. Like an operating system, how would a program access a storage device if the operating system didn't support it?"

Because you don't understand how the Wii works, and that the Wii doesn't actually have an "operating system".

There is a layer of common system code, but storage support is not built into that system code. The "operating system" paradigm is that the system boots into one piece of software, the operating system, and the operating system can then open a program for the user while the OS still stays resident in memory. This doesn't happen on the Wii. The Wii boots to the system menu, and when you select to play a game off the disc, the system menu software does some simple verification(to make sure you're booting off a real Wii game disc), and then exits entirely to transfer full control to the game itself.

Even the stuff that looks common, like the home screen you get when you hit the home button, isn't actually running from any sort of common asset. Instead, the code to generate that screen is manually put into every game. If you go to the home screen and choose to go back to the system menu, the game gives up control over the system and starts the system menu software again, but the instance of the menu you return to is not the same instance of the menu you booted the game from.

Since the small bit of common system code there is doesn't handle the SD card interactions, that means each game was wholly responsible for its own interactions with the SD card. Any developer could have inserted working SDHC drivers at any point prior to Nintendo doing it for their menu software. In fact, homebrew applications had been using SDHC for some time before Nintendo patched the support into their menu application.

Nintendo's system menu software is just another program, and not the "operating system" style software like the dashboards on the 360 and PS3. Nintendo's announcement of SDHC support was for their menu software.