The 360 Version (Custom Songs)

**Beerus** · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 96

When the 360 version of Guitar Hero 2 comes out, will the process for adding custom songs still be the same? Or will it not even work anymore? Sorry if this is in the wrong spot.

**Riz** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011

All of these processes are entirely PS2 specific and none of them will work with GH2-360. The note data itself is likely to remain relatively unchanged, but the audio format is likely to be completely different. The process for getting the data into the game on the 360 will be radically different as well, if it is even possible at all. It will actually be a telling sign about how Activision feels about the Homebrew community, as the 360 platform presents the ability to make it vastly more difficult, if not completely impossible, to modify the game in any (non-official) way.

So the short answer is, we of course have no idea at this point, and we won't, probably, until well after GH2-360 is released.

Riz.
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**DOOManiac** · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 147 Location: Edmond, OK

If there is to be a ray of sunshine to the whole deal, there is potential for someone to write a Guitar Hero-ish clone (i.e. Frets on Fire, FeedBack, etc) through the 360 XNA stuff.

But frankly the state of 360 XNA itself isn't looking too hot right now so I wouldn't count on it.

**katamakel** · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

You do realize that you have to be a registered developer to do stuff for the 360, right?
My bet is that the actual game itself will be modifiable, but how many people actually have modded 360's?
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**Cygnusx1** · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 201 Location: Springfield, IL

Sometimes I have this dream where it's the year 2010 and Red Octane has just released Guitar Hero V and I'm still playing custom songs for GH2 on my Playstation 2.

Then I wake up in a cold sweat.

Actually I'm fine with that. Really.

**DOOManiac** · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 147 Location: Edmond, OK

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

**smellsam44** · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

Somebody will find a way to mod the xbox 360 to play modded songs. I hope that red octane embraces putting custom songs on the game, but what i heard was that a bunch of indy bands will be able to get downloaded into the game via xbox live

**BigFattee** · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

right now, on the 360, you can play a back-up of a retail game. it is not possible to run a game with modifyed game information. recently, an exploit has been found on the 360 tho.

http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEZkykVkkFmojzapEq.php

MS has already come out with a patch for this exploit. it comes in the form of a dash update. it is possible to revert to previous versions of the dash board, so this exploit is still usable.

although, there has been no successful homebrew applications on 360 yet and there is still no way to run unsigned code using this exploit, there are many people working on this. like i said before this exploit is very recent, and i think it's just a matter of time before a breakthrough is made.

XNA subscribers probably have already made games similar to guitar hero. but they will never be guitar hero. there are many XNA subscribers. it already has caught on(i just don't think you'll see many 360 fans on a ps2 site). when a game is developed thru XNA, it can only be played on the console that has the subscription. so in order for a XNA game to get released to the public, it has to go thru MS approval. so if there ever was a game very similar to guitar hero, i don't think MS would approve it. i think we would spend less time waiting for the 360 to be hacked so we can play a back-up with altered game info. i think this is as close as we can come, right now, for custom songs in the 360 version. we gotta wait. i just hope it's sooner then later.