You are misundestanding, Kadath. All DLC is compatible with RB1 or RB2. The $5 fee is to turn your RB1 songs on disc (less three) into DLC, which will then work with RB2.
Shadarr
2022
If it really is a technical limitation with instrumentals, it wouldn’t surprise me if they did decide to make those songs RB2-only rather than patch it into RB1. After all, saying all your existing DLC will work in RB2 is not the same thing as saying RB1 will work with all future DLC.
JPR
2023
They have explicitly said both of those things.
Kadath
2024
“In addition, this patch is required for all future downloadable content releases for Rock Band.” Yup, in addition to the cash you have to shell out for Rock Band DLC you will now have to pay for the privilege of handing over your dough."
http://news.spong.com/article/16155/UPDATED_Rock_Band_Track_Export_Patch_Released?cb=812
So do I misunderstood, you can get the (free) patch and download new DLC without paying the $4.99? I was gonna do it anyway but that seems more fair. But this web page seems to say the same thing I am.
Read the update at the top of your link. There is a patch. The patch does two things, it is needed for download of future DLC, and it enables exporting. Exporting costs money, the patch does not.
Kadath
2026
Right, i read sites like that one that said the same thing without having seen the patch message itself, so i got the wrong intel FROM THEM not my own imagination =)
delirium
2027
Next week they’re kicking off the RB2 with a new album release - Megadeth’s Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying - which includes the following tracks:
Wake Up Dead
The Conjuring
Devil’s Island
Good Mourning / Black Friday
Bad Omen
I Ain’t Superstitious
My Last Words
Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? will be available for $10.99 (880 Microsoft Points) for the album, or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track.
Also being released are an additional 4 songs:
“One of Those Nights” by the Cab
“Hands Down” by Dashboard Confessional
“She’s a Handsome Woman” by Panic! At the Disco
“Natural Disaster” by Plain White T’s
All tracks in the Rock Band Tour Pack are $.99 (80 Microsoft Points) or $3.99 (320 Microsoft Points) for a limited time (October 14 on Xbox and October 16 on PS3) when they return to $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track or $6.99 (560 Microsoft Points) for the full pack.
MSUSteve
2028
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t like the hardcore 80’s metal bands in Rock Band.
Rock8man
2029
Plus there was a stealth DLC release yesterday. Stephen Colbert’s Charlene is available for free for Rock Band. I downloaded it, but man, that Youtube video is pretty bad. I’m not sure if playing 80s parody songs on RB is a good idea.
Holy Shit! That’s an awesome album! Wow wow wow wow wow! Thank you Harmonix!
Goddammit, I downloaded this and played through it a couple times (it’s super-short, and the chords are mildly tricky but fun).
Now the song’s been running through my fucking head all day, and I can’t make it stop. (I’ll try listening to some Philip Glass or something, that might help)
Jab
2032
I have a question regarding the export feature in RB 1. Does it also take all the bonus tracks, even if you didn’t unlock them ingame yet?
Your not the only one, all the metal is what has kept me away from these games. Finally with RB2 it seems like the music has enough variety to interest me so I’m probably gonna pick it up.
I hope you are talking about Megadeth there.
I have a question regarding the export feature in RB 1. Does it also take all the bonus tracks, even if you didn’t unlock them ingame yet?
Yes. And if you’re me, that’s just a few more tracks to delete off your hard drive post export. Goodbye, Vagiant! So long other bands/songs I can’t be bothered to remember!
RB2 has apparently integrated bonus content into the “regular” setlist this time, if you can call the marathon challenge unlocking mechanism the regular setlist. I guess I’ll use it as an opportunity to make a mental note for what to delete in RB3.
CSL
2035
You know I was actually hoping for some special out of the blue DLC for the launch today. Alas, disappointed insofar as I know I probably won’t buy more than one or two tracks off Megadeth (probably).
Adree
2036
An entire game of new tracks isn’t enough for the time being?
It exports all RB1 songs to your hard drive for use with RB2, except for: Paranoid, Enter Sandman and Run to the Hills.
Shadarr
2038
According to a Harmonix guy on the forum, they weren’t supposed to announce the Megadeth album with the rest of the DLC. It was supposed to be an exclusive announcement on the Spike TV countdown show (which sucked, by the way) but then the note to not announce the Megadeth album didn’t get to the right person and it all go announced on the regular day.
Rock8man
2039
Now that Rock Band 2 finally makes some great use of DLC to enhance the Rock Band experience, and I had such a great time with The Cars album tracks showing up randomly the other night, I finally decided to buy a lot of DLC I’d been planning to get some day. I bought the Boston pack, The Who pack, Judas Priest’s album, and a few other songs. So last night I spent as much on the game as much as Rock Band 2 cost, to buy around 43 tracks. I feel pretty good about my purchases though. A couple of songs already showed up in random setlists last night.
I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that the version of Eminence Front in the game gets rid of my main pet peeve with the song. I’ve only recently become a fan of The Who in the last few years, and I didn’t know they were putting out good material this late in their career, so I didn’t even consider getting the album from their later years. I heard Eminence Front on the classic Rock station in GTA: San Andreas, and fell in love with it. But when I got the album version of the song, I discovered it had a really annoying stereo mix. The main organ/guitar riff comes out of one speaker, and the vocals during the song come out of the other speaker. This does make it easy to convert the song into an instrumental, which is what I ended up inadvertently doing when I moved from Seattle to Kansas City when my car was so filled with my stuff that the right speakers were blocked from my hearing. On the other hand, the song just doesn’t sound very good with this mix.
Luckily the Rock Band version has both the main music riff and the vocals come through both channels, and the song sounds much better this way. Now it truly is one of my favorite songs of all time, and the Rock Band version is the definitive version for me now for sure.
Rock8man
2040
I was just talking about finding the Rock Band mix of Eminence Front better than the original. Now there’s word that the new Metallica album sounds better as a Guitar Hero download compared to the CD version which has a lot of distortion.
I guess technically I shouldn’t have put this under the Rock Band DLC thread.
