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Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
Now's a good opportunity to promote Clone Hero
Does Clone Hero have the characters dancing in the background like on regular Guitar Hero? I'm all about the immersion.
Not out of the box, but you can customise the background.
I haven't bothered to look into it but I'm sure there are packs you can download with all of the background videos from the games.
It'll never be quite the same without the master tracks.
For customs? Yeah. But pretty much every master used in the RB or GH games have been ripped and are available for use there too
I’m sad I never got this to fully work with my Td 17
What's not working? If any amount of midi is being picked up then you may need to remap, otherwise you might need drivers for the usb, or need to use a hardware usb midi box instead of usb
The drum functionality was new when I tried. This was years ago.
And this is why disc games should never go away.
Don't worry, the games industry has you covered on that now. They just release games that are broken or half-finished without the day 1 patch, but then allowing it to update removes all of the licensed content.
The digital download isn't going away either (yet).
What like the songs or Kindle books that can be removed from your library next time your computer logs onto the Internet due to a licensing dispute?
With more games and systems requiring online access every X number of days, downloads don't mean shit.
u keep everything you bought on rock band it has been that way since rock band 3 shut down. even when metallica was pulled from the stores absolutely nobody lost the metallica songs they had bought
Man, this sucks. I haven't played any games like this in a while (i legit have my guitar hero mounted on the wall) but it sucks to see something like this going away
I've heard good things about YARG (yet another rhythm game). Basically an open source rock band clone on PC.
There's also Clone Hero
Frets on Fire is the one I knew of back when Guitar hero was at its peak
For about 1 year my two sons and I played Rock Band, mostly The Beatles, everyday when they came home from school. At least an hour each day. We played other versions of Rock Band, but the Beatles was easily our favorite.
It directly led one of them to learn the piano and eventually get a master's degree in composing, and the other to enjoy playing in bands and performing in musical theatre.
This is one of the weird aspects of games that seems to make no sense because of archaic laws that never entered the 20th century, nevermind the 21st. It seems to be about manufacturing new copies of the already made game, not selling them. So it only affects digital sales, I would assume because of their "creation" on a new sale, every physical game copy was already manufactured and out there, nothing changes there.
So uh, happy... anniversary... I guess?
End of an era 🥲
Obligatory plug: Rock Band 3 Deluxe mod, Rock Band 4 Deluxe mod
Shoutout to the Milohax team
I have so many good memories of playing Rock Band in college. I just picked this up for PS4 for like $10, but it looks like the instruments are going to cost an arm and a leg...
Just like being in a real rock band!
Too bad PS4 emulation isn't quite there yet. You can, however, pirate the fuck out of the earlier games, DLC and all. Truly a better way to play, cause that DLC was hella expensive.
Rock Band 4 does get in-game now on ShadPS4, but it's a long ways off from playable.
https://github.com/shadps4-compatibility/shadps4-game-compatibility/issues/1165
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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