Guitar Hero: Aerosmith won't play nice with Rock Band guitars
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted Jul 1st 2008 7:02AM
posted Jul 1st 2008 7:02AM
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Could've seen that one coming...
At least the old guitar hero controllers work with this version of the game, I would be extremely pissed if you had to get the Areosmith guitar to play. D:
Fake.
How many gonna bet that this article gets completely delete soon.
Hey, im starting to think this isn't true also. Look at the way the pink box appears on the left and right sides. Doesn't that look photoshopped?
quality blogging!
No, it doesn't look photoshopped, it looks poorly programmed. A photoshopper would've tried to blend the two pieces together. A half-assed programmer (at activision) would've just had the top and bottom of the dialog overlap.
It is fake. There's a scorehero thread about it. FENDERS WORK WITH GH:A.
Guitar Hero Aerosmith is acceptant of all kinds of guitars.
SO damn acceptant that you can play the PS2 version WITH A 360 EXPLORER 0.o
Let the music game war BEGIN. Iv chosen my side have YOU?
This image has been passed around 3 times already, Xbox 360 owners confirm that Rock Band controllers DO work with Guitar Hero Aerosmith.
Come ON, 3 times already!
Wii non-support was expected, as they had no time to allow support. PS3 support, still unsure of.
But Rock Band controllers for the 360 GH:A Have been CONFIRMED.
wow I REALLY need to upload a video I recorded from an XBOX360 XNA conference from Q2 2007
***THIS HAPPENED BEFORE ROCK BAND EVER EXISTED***
I asked "If I was to create the next guitar hero how would I complicated would it be to make and program a controller"
the answer was that all xbox360 peripherals use the same button configuritions, all the controllers are the same physically mapped to different areas.
Heh, looks like you couldn't decide between two questions, neofolklore.
Anyway, they use the same button configuration, but the controllers do have some sort of identification. (See Rock Band only letting you use a guitar controller for guitar and bass). I'm not sure if there's a way for games to tell who made the controller or not.
And I'm still confused as to what is compatible with what. I remember hearing the wireless Rock Band controller doesn't work with the Guitar Hero games. This says the regular wired controller doesn't work with the Guitar Hero games:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6183555/index.html
The image even looks badly done.
Yeah, wow, you can see where they cut the bubble in half and put it back together. Terrible photoshop. Oh well, now I don't have to use my busted ass GH3 controller for it!
Yet another reason I won't be buying this game. The companies putting out games need to understand that doing things such as this does not increase sales, but merely pisses off potential & existing customers. Rock Band has these guys by the nads so bad that they had to copy them to try and compete. Got news for them though, a little too little too late.
What we really need is some enterprising 3rd-party company to come up with an attachment that will fool the system into thinking the appropriate controller is attached. That would fix 'em, greedy bastiches!
It's 'supported.' The game knows exactly what it is, so anything other than "a third-party guitar has been blocked" is a lie.
I'm still hearing both that it doesn't work and that it works. I'll wait for the dust to settle.
played and finished the game with the rock band guitar. Not sure where the info in this post comes from....
What Rock Band owner would even buy Guitar Hero Aerosmith?
yeah, seriously. people still play guitar hero?
After seeing all 100+ copies (both with guitar and not) collect dust at my local Circuit City... well, I doubt anyone plays it still.
The real question is: who the hell likes Aerosmith enough to buy a game that's 90% Aerosmith content? They already tried it with Revolution X. You'd think that Activision would remember that travesty because it really wasn't that long ago, or maybe I'm just old.
Amen. This is an answer i'd like to know.
@ Hafk
Yeah, you're right - it's even plainly stated in some reviews (like Gamespot's).
This article needs an update!
And this comment needs a reply, and I do it by clicking the reply button! You can too!
I did!
My Strat works just fine with GH:Aerosmith.
People that play Guitar Hero are the people that are married and their wives wont stand for a drum set in your living room when the whole corner is already taken up by 2 turntables and music recording hardware! Oh well...I'd rather have the real music equipment.
My wife convinced me to buy Rock Band after sitting on the fence. And also suggested we buy a copy of Guitar Hero: On Tour each at the same time.
Wow Engadget, check your sources. Expected this out of CNET, but you guys?!...
"It's like they never even knew each other."
No it is like they know about each other, and do not want to play fair.
This sort of thing is good for their bottom line, but bad for customers.
it's almost like they're not the same game!!!
GASP!
Idk what Engadget is thinking like the wii usb keyboard support they wanted and is been supported on wii but they said other wise posted a few weeks ago but I have GH: Areosmith and Rockband using the wired Strat and i can confirm it works.
So is this not going to get an update?
yea, wheres the update?!?
delete delete delete
That's Crazy/Amazing!
Huh.. wonder if there is more than 1 version.. I dont have a Rock Band guitar to use, but the box clearly states:
Only official Guitar Hero guitar controllers are compatible with Guitar Hero Xbox 360 games.
Just stating what the box says.. I just picked up the Version w/ the guitar.. Have a wired but wanted the Aerosmith Wireless..
Huh.. wonder if there is more than 1 version.. I dont have a Rock Band guitar to use, but the box clearly states:
Only official Guitar Hero guitar controllers are compatible with Guitar Hero Xbox 360 games.
Just stating what the box says.. I just picked up the Version w/ the guitar.. Have a wired but wanted the Aerosmith Wireless..