Harmonix to the Rescue! RB 2 Fix in the Works.
Yesterday, in bullet 4, I referred to a deblitating Rock Band 2 glitch that could effectively wipe out your entire band. Well, it’s received a lot of press and Harmonix is now on board. People are complaining that Harmonix took a long time to respond, but in actuality, they have been working on this since September 17th (at least).
According to hmxsean, Harmonix is “dedicating a lot of resources into trying to find a good repro case” for the bug. That being said, he also mentions that “the number of people this has happened to is pretty small” and encourages people to keep playing. Do not delete your save files!
If you have experience with this bug, please hop over to this thread and give your answers to Sean’s 11 questions. Hopefully Harmonix will have this resolved soon. We’ll let you know if we hear anything else official.
read moreThe Hottest News (from last week – sorry)
Okay, so last week’s news might not be the best way to start a week, but lots went on last week that I didn’t get a chance to cover. Without further ado, here are the stories that piqued my interest last week:
- Nintendo is doing Karaoke right on the Wii. Joysound will provide online subscriptions to millions of songs rather than individually downloaded tracks. Japan only for now. If this comes to North America, I’ll get tons more use out of my dust collector Wii.
- Speaking of Nintendo, they’ve announced the DSi. Main features include bigger dual touch screens (3.25″), a .3 megapixel camera, and built-in memory. They’ve also removed the GBA cartridge slot to incorporate a sleeker design. Wait, doesn’t Guitar Hero: On Tour require that slot to work?
- Punch-Out!!! for the Wii. You read that right. Punch-Out!!! for the Wii. *drool*
- According to this thread on Rockband.com, there is a SERIOUS bug in Rock Band 2. When playing World Tour with the leader signed in as an Xbox Live member and a second player signed in as a non-Xbox Live member (2 different profiles), many users report losing some or all of their save data between sets. Hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’ll be cautious from here out. 17 pages at time of publishing and no response from Harmonix yet.
Thursday marks the start of the Tokyo Gaming Show, which I intend to follow. I promise to cover as much of it here as I can (truly flakes… I will).
read moreHarmonix Loves Us!
Here we have a developer doing something right. In the days of Spore and their controversial DRM, Harmonix has enabled users to transfer songs from Rock Band to Rock Band 2 for the miniscule price of 400 Microsoft Points (~$5). This is simply a license fee and it’s a one time deal.
If that wasn’t enough, as a thank you for purchasing Rock Band 2, Harmonix will be releasing 20 FREE DLC songs this fall. Tracks and timing have yet to be confirmed, but this is still one sweet bonus.
Thank you Harmonix for loving the gamers that love you back.
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