Was hoping you could browse online, but i'll just do this then. Thanks.

Thanks, that helped a lot! Just played Freebird and tried that, finally got over 300k on medium

Scoring question - does using HO & POs affect your score at all? Or do you get the same score whether you strum it or not?

You get the same score if you strum every note or do the HO/PO method.

I havent read anything on here, but someone found a glitch that lets people easily FC and 5* songs. I'm going to go log in to the xbox leaderboards and check it out.

Cheating like that is for pussies.

Wow, that's way too much effort to cheat for what, achievements?

I hadn't heard if it works for 360. All this does is allow you to get gold stars on songs. It doesn't improve your score and the screenshots don't show a person so you couldn't fake a 100% on Jordan and try and supply proof. I'm guessing all this does is effect achievements if anything.

Is using hyperspeed considered cheating? I tried the code for the first time tonight and I felt it made the game a little easier. The timing felt much more forgiving.

Did Red Octane ever make that announcement regarding DLC?

I'm not sure they said when it would come out other than "early August." I guess before the 15th is "early"

Oh yes, it does indeed work for the 360. I got it to work first try. I checked some scores and someone (probably quite a few other people by now) already decided to get 400,000 points or so in every song.

To me, no. It makes the game more playable. I think that most people agree.

Wow, didn't realize that you could play any song over any other. Incredibly lame.

What does it do exactly? I have heard hyperspeed mentioned many times, but don't know what it is.
I would think something that needs a code to use would have to be considered cheating.

it does require a code.. if you do a youtube search for 'guitar hero hyperspeed', you can get an idea of what it looks like.

The glitch: Does it really matter, in the big picture? The leaderboards were already made incorrect with some people having scores in the billions. After I saw that, I didn't bother looking at them any more. I've never been one to gloat how good (or bad) I may be doing, so I guess I just don't care too much if people want a little gold star by all their songs (which will mean absolutely nothing) or boost their scores above what is possible with even a perfect run.

Hyperspeed: It's just a different way of displaying the notes as they come at you (spaced twice as far apart and the fret moves twice as fast). I greatly prefer it due to how my brain works (too many notes screws up my inner queue). It's no more a cheat than enabling the "big heads" code, IMO.

The RO "announcement": I fully expect the "announcement" to be that they will make an "announcement" in September. Then, in September, the "announcement" will be that they will make an "announcement" in October. In October, they'll announce that Guitar Hero III has been released and all DLC will be released for that instead of II. At some point in there they might release another overpriced downloadable pack (for which I am guilty of buying) containing none of the three songs that I really want (Texas Flood, Crossroads, Cowboys From Hell).

xVladx: Thanks for the post on Freya. I managed to 5* it on the PS2, but always seemed to screw up the part you detailed in your link there. I'd always tried the "hold all three buttons down then release the orange" trick, but my ring finger seemed to like to be attached to my pinky, so it'd come up during the release of orange. Using only the pinky and ring finger then sliding them to the chord worked (which wasn't particularly what you recommended, but your post gave me the idea ).

Here is the hyperspeed code, entered fairly quickly at the main menu:

blue, orange, yellow, orange, blue, orange, yellow, yellow

Well, that's the thing, everybody's hands are different. What works the best for someone could be completely awkward for someone else. What's nice is that because of the mechanics of the game (especially not having to release lower notes to play upper ones), there's a good bit of flexibility when it comes to how you want to play a section.

Thanks, i'll try it out of curiosity.

I checked the boards last night and sadly, the integrity of the scoreboards have been compromised. I was having such a good time climbing up these boards too.

I noticed there was an update when I signed on last night, so maybe it was fixed, but many of the top scores are messed up.

Edit: I read that the update was to get the game ready for wireless guitars. Oh well.

Since I stopped playing career mode I decided to give Jordan a long-awaited attempt today to pass on Expert...



I took Mordred's advice from months back and I tried hyperspeed, and that kinda helped but I kept failing at 58%, and when I gave up and went back to normal speed it felt easier to play then ever before. Now I can move on to another game finally.

I didn't think I'd ever beat it. ever. Now bring on Through the Fire and Flames!

good work rabbit. I'm still stuck on the opening. I can't get passed 7%.

Congrats man! Passing it without hyperspeed isn't very common. I've still never done it. Now you just need to 5* it!

I used to be very inconsistent on the opening verse but I've now got a pattern down so that I usually 100% everything up until the first solo.

Leave your index finger down on green for almost the entire part. Strum the first three notes of the pattern then just tap the Yellow with your middle finger, and don't strum anything again the GRYBOB pattern. On that part, only strum the green, quickly slide your index finger up to Red, and roll your hand through up to orange, and then lift your pinky off for the blue. For me at least, doing just the four strums (with a much easier identifiable rhythm) will greatly improve your accuracy.

Once you get that part down you can start failing along with most everybody else in the solo. I'm even back to only being able to pass it on the odd occasion now.

Well, there's good news, and there's bad news.

Good news is, there's brand new spanking songs for DLC that are not GH1 songs.
Bad news, they are My Chemical Romance songs.

In Game Content: Guitar Hero II
The following Guitar Hero II content is now available on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace:

Content: My Chemical Romance Pack
Price: 500 Microsoft Points
Availability: Not available in Asia
Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) MILD LYRICS] "Teenagers," "Famous Last Words" and "This is How I Disappear" as performed by My Chemical Romance There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.
Posted: Aug 14 2007, 02:24 AM by Major Nelson | with 45 comment(s) |
Filed under: Marketplace, In-Game Content

I want that My Chemical Romance pack, only I can't get my 360 to connect to the internet. I haven't shelled out the $100 bucks for the wireless adapter. I used to connect via my cable wire but ever since Comcast came out to replace the router I haven't been able to connect