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I have two of them. Elvis on drums is a bit of a nightmare if I remember rightly.

I’m on the fence for picking up the season pass, so I might cave and then I’ll have all three songs

I've got twelve songs that count for this week's challenge Sound of Silence is a banger though so I might have a look at the season pass and see if there's any other decent tunes that are worth picking up...

Decided to dig out all of my Rock Band 2 kit from my parent's loft - I've got the drums and add-on cymbal, microphone and a Guitar Hero Les Paul guitar. Just can't find the game disc

I'm guessing this will all still work on a PS5?

Preezy wrote:Decided to dig out all of my Rock Band 2 kit from my parent's loft - I've got the drums and add-on cymbal, microphone and a Guitar Hero Les Paul guitar. Just can't find the game disc

I'm guessing this will all still work on a PS5?

Yup as long as you have a the original dongles if they’re wireless.

RB2 game itself won’t work though, PS4 and PS5 only have RB4 playable but all of your DLC will work that you may have purchased

RB4 goes on sale fairly often in October/November to coincide with the anniversary and Black Friday

BID0 wrote:

Preezy wrote:Decided to dig out all of my Rock Band 2 kit from my parent's loft - I've got the drums and add-on cymbal, microphone and a Guitar Hero Les Paul guitar. Just can't find the game disc

I'm guessing this will all still work on a PS5?

Yup as long as you have a the original dongles if they’re wireless.

RB2 game itself won’t work though, PS4 and PS5 only have RB4 playable but all of your DLC will work that you may have purchased

RB4 goes on sale fairly often in October/November to coincide with the anniversary and Black Friday

Excellent, I guess I'll be picking up RB4 at the first (and cheapest) opportunity, thanks dude

Frank wrote:I've got twelve songs that count for this week's challenge Sound of Silence is a banger though so I might have a look at the season pass and see if there's any other decent tunes that are worth picking up...

If you can bang out drum scores we might still be in with a shout of going up!

Preezy wrote:

BID0 wrote:

Preezy wrote:Decided to dig out all of my Rock Band 2 kit from my parent's loft - I've got the drums and add-on cymbal, microphone and a Guitar Hero Les Paul guitar. Just can't find the game disc

I'm guessing this will all still work on a PS5?

Yup as long as you have a the original dongles if they’re wireless.

RB2 game itself won’t work though, PS4 and PS5 only have RB4 playable but all of your DLC will work that you may have purchased

RB4 goes on sale fairly often in October/November to coincide with the anniversary and Black Friday

Excellent, I guess I'll be picking up RB4 at the first (and cheapest) opportunity, thanks dude

No problem. idk how you download previous gen DLC on PS5 but I am sure reddit or a YouTube search will help with that

RetroCora wrote:

Frank wrote:I've got twelve songs that count for this week's challenge Sound of Silence is a banger though so I might have a look at the season pass and see if there's any other decent tunes that are worth picking up...

If you can bang out drum scores we might still be in with a shout of going up!

I am hoping to put a few hours in tonight as I have about 60 songs that count this week. Is promotion still doable?

BID0 wrote:

Preezy wrote:

BID0 wrote:

Preezy wrote:Decided to dig out all of my Rock Band 2 kit from my parent's loft - I've got the drums and add-on cymbal, microphone and a Guitar Hero Les Paul guitar. Just can't find the game disc

I'm guessing this will all still work on a PS5?

Yup as long as you have a the original dongles if they’re wireless.

RB2 game itself won’t work though, PS4 and PS5 only have RB4 playable but all of your DLC will work that you may have purchased

RB4 goes on sale fairly often in October/November to coincide with the anniversary and Black Friday

Excellent, I guess I'll be picking up RB4 at the first (and cheapest) opportunity, thanks dude

No problem. idk how you download previous gen DLC on PS5 but I am sure reddit or a YouTube search will help with that

I don't think I ever got any DLC to be honest, the base game was more than enough content for the time.

BID0 wrote:I am hoping to put a few hours in tonight as I have about 60 songs that count this week. Is promotion still doable?

No, it’s too brutal. We simply don’t have the man (and women) power to crunch away at grinding and grinding.

Preezy wrote:

BID0 wrote:

Preezy wrote:

BID0 wrote:

Preezy wrote:Decided to dig out all of my Rock Band 2 kit from my parent's loft - I've got the drums and add-on cymbal, microphone and a Guitar Hero Les Paul guitar. Just can't find the game disc

I'm guessing this will all still work on a PS5?

Yup as long as you have a the original dongles if they’re wireless.

RB2 game itself won’t work though, PS4 and PS5 only have RB4 playable but all of your DLC will work that you may have purchased

RB4 goes on sale fairly often in October/November to coincide with the anniversary and Black Friday

Excellent, I guess I'll be picking up RB4 at the first (and cheapest) opportunity, thanks dude

No problem. idk how you download previous gen DLC on PS5 but I am sure reddit or a YouTube search will help with that

I don't think I ever got any DLC to be honest, the base game was more than enough content for the time.

Fair enough. RB4 has the biggest track list yet. It's mostly in the OP but there has probably been another 20-30 indie artists added since in free updates.

Buffalo wrote:

BID0 wrote:I am hoping to put a few hours in tonight as I have about 60 songs that count this week. Is promotion still doable?

No, it’s too brutal. We simply don’t have the man (and women) power to crunch away at grinding and grinding.

Damn it would have been cool to do it again. It must have been over 2 years now since we last hit the top league. I guess with the top players consolidating in to only a handful of teams it's almost impossible now for anyone who wants to play for fun.

Yeah it does suck knowing it’s so difficult to get there but I’ve made my peace with it.
It hasn’t stopped me from regularly kicking out inactive crew members though I don’t mod any more so I’ve got to get that power trip from somewhere, right?

Buffalo wrote:Yeah it does suck knowing it’s so difficult to get there but I’ve made my peace with it.
It hasn’t stopped me from regularly kicking out inactive crew members though I don’t mod any more so I’ve got to get that power trip from somewhere, right?

my partner is terrified every week that you've kicked her

I would never!

(Unless she stopped playing for too long)

We could definitely have made it, but we needed those drum scores - it's absolutely necessary to have top tier spotlights nowadays sadly. Even now a couple of us in tandem could probably grind up most of those additional points and give ourselves a chance at it.

This week's DLC is strawberry floating smashing again btw, Mercy Me is just phenomenal. I'd long given up hope of seeing Alkaline Trio in RB!

Free pack next week to celebrate 7 years of Rock Band 4



15 years of Rock Band. 14.5 years if you work from the European launch. I feel old.

Jesus. I remember importing the first game (or the hardware at least) and buying a PS3 especially. Also had some sort of virtual credit card so I could buy DLC on the US PSN (Entropay?)

Some of the best "lads nights in" I ever had.

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If there's anyone out there who bought the game but not the expansion a year later, it's now free.

Just seen that now that Epic have bought Harmonix, they're shutting down the servers for everything pre-Rock Band 4 Luckily it seems like only the very first Rock Band had online achievements (unless I've missed anything obvious), so there's still a bit of time to grind those out before they disappear forever. Think it's the end of the month that they all go down

Anyone still got a 360 set up for some OG Rock Band grinding?

I can probably find the time if you need anything, yeah. Let me know.

Rock Band 3 has pseudo-online achievements depending on whether you've already bought certain DLC before it went off the service(Vesuvius, I think). If you have that, you should be fine. Maybe check L:RB as well?

Ooo I just checked

Lego Rock Band - Final Countdown solo at 100% . I'm never gonna complete that on expert
Rock Band 3 is just all the pro stuff which won't ever be done now as I don't have those equipments any more.

I take it that RB 1 and 2 don't work on Xbone? Never played it since I had completed both.