The easiest way to get more songs is to beat the game on easy. After beating the game on easy you will have all the regular songs. To get the "Encore" songs you must beat it on at leat medium difficulty and to get all the extras you will use your money you collect tu purchase them at the store in career mode.
You might notice that you aren't getting paid. This is probably because your Career difficulty is set to easy. You only get paid on medium, hard and expert. Once you get paid, you can go to the store.
You cant go into the store yet atleast not in easy in any other level you'll make money in your career then you can go to the store and buy songs/people/guitars/outfits/& videos
You gotta play the game on medium, hard, or expert, but for now i'd finish the easy career so you have good practice. because once you get into those blu notes u really gotta get into the game
GH2 don't pay on easy but GH1 does. I have all 3 guitar Heros and I was irritated at first that easy would't let you in the store on GH2 (which was actually the first GH I bought. Gh1 the second) but I dealt with it.
Ha my friend plays w/o looking...try strumming the right way if ur left handed go to the video options and change it...practice moving ur fingers faster
Anser 3 is rite you do need to practice. Cuz wen I got the game I cud only play easy and not even get 4 stars on anything, and now I can get 5 gold stars on every song on expert except jordan and freebird.
Ry using your thumb to pick. set it above the strum key, and down pick. the only time that you really need to do alternate picking, is on the REALLY close notes, like at the last 10 seconds or so of Hanger 18
When a note of the same color is apearing more then once in a role you can hold down that color and just strum it instead of wasting enegy by contiuosly pressing the color and strumming.
Umm im not positive but.. I hear theres a way you can reassemble your ps2 to put any song you want on there, my friend is doing it, getting a song called rock lobster.. dont ask.
we were sittin on the beach...
everybody had matching towels
somebody went under a dock, and there they saw a rock!
but it wasn't a rock
it was a rock lobster
ROCK LOBSTER!!
ROCK LOBSTAAA
To do this you can either Hard Modify your Ps2 with your choice of chip or you can Soft Modify the Ps2.
I personally perfer soft mod cause you can easyly do it.
When the Ps2 is modified, you have to find a program to add to your Ps2, like mine cog-swap, to detect a Burned Dvd Ps2 game.
The QUALITY OF THE MEDIA MATTERS! - This is for booting reasons.
There is a whole entire world of things you can do with a modified ps2 such as put your own games that you have bought on to a Hard drive that is compatible to the Ps2 and play it never lose it or scrach the darn thing.
I myself have just made a beta version of my CUSTOM Guitar Hero, so therefore whomever is saying that it is not true is a Deet Dee Dee!
I rewrote the entire setlist except the Extras and the song Freya (for some reason this is close to the samples you hear when selecting a song so DON'T MESS WITH IT, unless you know what you are doing).
Just watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqKjEROuYSw&mode=related&search=
YouTube - How to put in custom songs into Guitar Hero 2 - part 1 of 2
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I don't know! why are you asking me, freak? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY? here take this code and stop talking to me. o b o y o b o y= unlock everything and still be able to save!
Basically, you have to get as many notes correct as possible. The more notes you miss, the more notes you get incorrectly, and the more stray notes you make, the more the bar will lean toward the red.
Yeah you train your fingers to move quicker than is possible for most people, if you really want to see someone finsih it on expert go to youtube.com and look it up, then find the one where he simulcasts the game screen and himself playing the guitar..i haven't been able to do it yet either so don't feel bad
When you get to the part in the song with the chunk of trills, realize that it's split in to two parts. You have to make it through the first part without star power. When you get to the second part, throw the star power (which has to be full). The star power should then help you survive most of the hard part of the solo. Work up more star powers for later.
Sup man I have yet to beat jordan but i've gotten through 60% of the song. You have to practice the guitar break section so you will be green on your rock meter before entering the first kick your ass solo. try not to use your star power until close towards the end of the first solo half. The first huge solo isn't hard at all to stay in it. It is just overwhelming. We'll get it but hope this gets u a few percents further. Learn the song in training mode, master the course and you'll get there
I heard somewhere that a guy used a rubber band on the green button in this song and it helped... a lot. he got almost every note. so, you should try it.
Tame your hands to deal with the pain, the trick is to go through the first hard-as-hell solo without using star power. if you can achieve this, you can beat the song.
It's gunna be a while 'til you beat Jordan.
You gotta slow it down, preferably slowest, and then practice hammering-on and pulling-off. We all know what that is.
It took me a week to beat it. but that's because I deticate time.
1. Practice a lot (gtr break, solos a, b, c, solo f and bridge)
2. You must have a full rock meter going into solo A, B, and C
3. You must have a full star power meter going into solo B
4. You must get through the first break in solo B before you can use your star power, or else you probably won't get to the BNOF
5. If you really want to challenge yourself, try to tap the solo. Its hard but its the only way possible to FC it (which has never been done lol)
I can get through most of the beginning flawlessly, and then I get owned. exept for that one solo that repeats the same note four times and then switches... im really good at everything after that.
It was crazy! I saw this guy on YouTube beat Jordan on Expert 95%. In the middle of the song he started mashing the buttons with both hands. Then he missed a note and I was like, "OH NO!" It was awesome though.
In career mode after you have bought the alternate costume go to change guitarist and pick a guy and after you pick it will let you change there costume
In Medium, Hard or Expert mode, buy a new costume from the shop. Aftre that, go to "Select Charachter" and it will give you the option of which costume to wear.
When you get money, and buy the costumes you want, then go to change character and press the green fret button on the caharacter you bought the costume for. You can use the strum button to chose the new outfit.
No there is no career mode in co-op (which is ashame because that would be awesome). However, you get scores and ratings in co-op for the songs and there are 8 bass guitars that can be unlocked by playing songs in co-op mode
I had the same prob!
go to the practise screen and practice the sections that you have trouble with, and if im right it is the bridge and solo's
another trick is save all your start power, and use it at the hard bit, so the notes you hit increase the score by alot, and you dont need to hit as much notes as you would without star power
hope this helps!
I didnt have much of a problem with it, btu im going to recommend not to dopractice mode, its alot easier to do it at normal speed, even if it is in practice mode. but practice mode doesnt give any motivation, since you cant fail it. I only use it for certain solos, and such.
A way to beat woman on hard is if you keep practicing and keep practicing you will probably be able to finish the song if you get better at the game with practice mode
Same problem here. When I started playing guitar hero my buddy just told me what to do and I aced all of the medium level songs. Then when I went onto Hard in my career I just couldn't get through Woman. I went back to the practice area and still couldn't do it. Then I went back to 'lessons' and actually sat through the three different lessons. Lesson 3 is the key - hammerons and pull-offs will get you through Woman. I think its the first song you really need to use these on to get you through to the next stage.
I'm struggling with this one too. In case you haven't figured it out already, play most of the song in the second hand position (index on red) and use HOPOs for the bridge and solo. Also, that fast G-R-Y-B, G-R-Y-O section at the end of the bridge can be played better (for me) by sliding my hand down so my ring finger hits the blue. Then, if I need to hit orange I can just set my pinky on it.
Actually its like a real guitar and how you get better with it. electric guitar legends didnt get on the computer and ask. Everyone who is great has put in there time to be there. I remember when I got to the hard section and I realized that I wasn't thinking about the notes anymore. it came with practice. now im pro. good luck.
Ends on your playing style.
Mainly the best tip I can give you is to memorize your fingerings on comand. Try playing with the lower possition ( first finger on the 2nd button) and just stretch your first finger to hit green. Unless your hand is really small it should work without any problems.
I don't suggest going on practice and slowing down the song because you'd have to practice every song that would be hard for you.
2 thing to say 1) get the guitar..more fun. 2) yes it is. try holding down the L2 button or L1 and then enter the code. im not to sure what L it is so try them.if they dont work try the R ones.
You can enter cheats, but the dual shock controllers have a delay with games like guitar hero and time crisis and other not pad-style games, so it makes it much harder to enter the cheats fast enough
You get stars based on note percent AND score. Make better use of you star power, try to use it on sections with alot of notes and when you have 4x multiplier.
U have to play it on at least medium and its not percentage cause me and my friend played tonite I'm gunna rock you tonite and both got 100% and still only got 4 stars you have to get a certain amount of points.
The whole star system has absolutely nothing to do with the percentage of notes you get correct. The star system is based solely on your score. Each song has a set point range for each star rating. Sorta like: 30k-65k = 3 stars, 66k-99k = 4 stars, 100k+ = 5 stars. I have scored 5 star ratings for songs that I only made an 86% on. And on some songs, I get a 4 star rating even though I nail 96% of the notes. It's all about the score. Getting a 4X multiplier, then jacking it up to 8X with star power where there's a lot of notes.
If you want to get 5 stars, don't worry. just make a huge combo. Trust me, I 5-starred Free Bird on Expert with 83%. No joke! I just didn't mess up the slow part and the 1st part of the solo. All you have to do is just not mess up on stuff you could do.
Its not about the score or the percent, its about the average multiplyer. >2.0 for 3 stars, 2.0 for 4 stars, 2.8 for 5 stars.
no joke. I played several songs to figure this out. I got 2.7 on different songs and only got 4 stars. when I got 2.8 or higher on any song I got 5 stars. as far as I know this only applies to single player. co-op im certain is score related.
The third answer is totally bogus.
It's % and pts. According to "pts only" there's no way to get more than 3 stars on many of the songs (they are very short and with their highest possible score, using star power throughout, you can still only get about 55,000 pts. And that's definitely not fact, because I've gotten 5 stars SEVERAL times on short songs with
The 3rd answer is right.
It's about the points.
EACH song has a set range of points to get each star rating.
Keeping a good combo going is a good strategy to get a high score. Using star power to further higher your score is extremely helpful.
Ok look in co-op you will need both percentage and score, but they must work together. Like if one person gets 50% but the other gets 100 you will get 3 star. not only this but the scores must be good unless you both get 100 percent and dont use star power. Star power also counts, the less you use it the more stars.
I am going to have to go with the assumption that the song you played was Tonight I am Gonna Rock (Tonight), in any case, there are some songs that simply require one of you to be doing Hard mode to aquire enough points to achieve the rating. For ex: if you play TIGRT both on easy and both get 100% of the notes with no foul up s and using all the star power phrases in the correct point, you will still only get 4 stars. If you think I am wrong guitar gurus, try it yourself.
- its points not percentages that get you the star rating (with exception to five gold in single player)
You can sit there and not use ANY Star Power and get 5 stars... you have to get a high enough percentage on EACH SECTION OF THE SONG. To check how you did, go to "More Stats" after you finish the song. There's a cutoff percentage, and you have to get at least that much on EVERY SECTION to get 5 stars.
WOW! in Guitar Hero its all about your score. % has absolutely nothing to do with it. There is a certain score you need for different amounts of stars. You can get 60% on a song and still 5* it as long as you have a high enough score. If you think i'm wrong look at scorehero.com
I got a 98% on one song and only missed 5 notes and I still only got 4 stars! But then I played it again... and got a 95% and got 5 stars!1...yea thats crazy huh?...the video game makers come up with some bogus stuff! haha
Ok, hopefully I can end this whole chain of answers right here. the GH2 starring system is ONLY based on score. believe me, im about 5 songs from getting 5 stars on all expert songs. the percentage is just to tell you how you did, and where your strengths are. There is an exact point value you have to reach to get five star. I swear, some of these people are such noobs.
It's all based on points man...go to scorehero.com and it gives you the total score to beat for each song. If you do that then you get the amount of stars it says next to the score. I know people are saying stuff like its multiplyer and stuff but the truth is you probaly need a good enough multiplyer to get the points...but overall its points
On the Xbox 360 there is a way to download songs onto your console and play them through it; however there is not a way to do this on the Playstation 2.
Well, you should check if any of your friends or family know how to mod or hack before you do anything. If one of them can, you should definetly (sp?) ask him/her to mod the game for you. They will probably know how, too.
You have to check ur ps2 to see if it's modded or not, if it is you will see a special chip inside it. you also need GEX (guitar hero explorer) on your computer. it's long process but you can do it and it takes a little luck.
Ya G Ex is a thing on your comp that lets you put custom songs on GH2,me myself dont know how to do it...but I would like to find out and epecially get some AC/DC and Ramones,and Clash on there.
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Gex (Guitar Hero Explorer) can be used on either guitar hero 1 or 2, Guitar Hero 2 is just plain easier to modify though.
This program will let you open the files on your disc via the dvdrom tray on your computer, Note must be the original disc not a copy YOURS NOT RENTED NOT STOLEN OR BORROWED MEANING BUY THE GAME AND THEN YOU MAY USE IT FOR YOURSELF AND NOT FOR SALE OR INFINGEMENT OF ANY KIND. If you can find a way to do that then your good. Anywho when you have the gex program open you should see a file button in the upper left hand corner press that and select Archive> copy from dvd (the dvd rom drive that you have YOUR game in). This may take a little while, then you go into the songs folder on the left hand side. You will notice a litle plus press that to open the folders when you get to the song you wish to replace you will see that there are more files then one? thats ok how do you think they make the star power sound different different track that is linked to it. just find the main vgs file
Ex. ftk.vgs NOT Ex. ftk.voc, ftk._p50vgs, ect
Just the main one some of the songs are a little different but once you get it well its easy.
Right Click on the vgs and hit import (select a mp3 or wav ect) and it will replace the song that was on there with the selected one. Well now that you got the song you want to hit the notes right?
Find the mid file next to the other files in the song folder (these mid files are listed at scorehero.com or can be made by you) and right click that you will choose import and find the corresponding mid file that matches your vgs that was a song you wanted.
Note you may find that the song and the notes do not match up this is due to the fact that people modify the songs when downloading the song or ripping it off of the cd they have, so the blank part in the begining may vary. If this is so then reimport the song but befor chosing the channels for the sound (left options are left channels and on the right is the right channels pretty simple) right click on the song and it will give you some options choose properties and you will see the option box with OFFSET in it, next to that you will see a box that you can fill in. These numbers are mesured in miliseconds so you have to kind tinker around you can go positive to bring the vgs to play later IF THE NOTES COME TO LATE or negitively IF THE NOTES COME TO SOON. Adjust that and the song should line up.
After you have finished you can just close the gex it is a program that modifies in real time so there is no saving just editing.
Now you have choices to make
-If you have a Ps2 hard drive (FFXI Game comes with it or at least search for a compatible one and format it using WinHiip) you can make an Iso using many programs (I use UtraISO it is simple) then open WinHiip and copy that to the hard drive that you connected to your computer and formatted. Select the Hard Drive it should say PS2 next to the option NOT PC. You will see the gray options blacken and then you press add you can just copy it via the game to the hard drive or from your made ISO, in this case your custom game is NOT ON THE ORIGINAL DISC so pick the ISO you made and it will add it to the hard drive in PS2 format.
When your done, shut down your computer and remove the hard drive and insert it into the ps2 slot in the back (there is a removable spot in the back of a FAT PS2 the thin ones have another method of achiving a softmod with a USB HARD DRIVE but the Ps2 Fat does not go well with the USB so stick with INTERNAL HARD DRIVE. This option is best cause you don't waste dvdRs and it will not get scratched or lost (by the way to connect the hard drive to the ps2 you will need the 10 dollar eathernet connection piece for the back.
-Burn it to a disc, pick your ISO and burn it to a DVDR when you do this use QUALITY MEDIA I mean the dvdr should be a compatible one not
Ex. Imation or other cheap ones but Ex. Sony and others are good.
These things take some time to learn from modifying your PS2 to making your songs, a lot of reading will help you but unless you know what you are doing your not going to get very far... Look throught the internet for answers they ARE there just search for them.
My ps2 was doing the same thing and throwing the music off beat... my disk was brand new and had no scratches... I ended up taking my ps2 appart and cleaning the laser lense... be careful when doing so though... dont touch the lense with your fingers... use 2 q-tips and isopril alcohol... use one dry q-tip to hold down the laser and the other (with alcohol) to clean it...
Your ps2 needs to be cleaned and sometimes if you leave your disk out of its case and its not IN the ps2, dust will get on it and leave scrathces. If there are a lot of scratches on your disk, try putting alcohol on it and wipe it off with a Q-tip
Sumthing might be wrong with your ps2 or your xbox 360 , or your cd is scratched .. it does the same thing to me sometimes , but when it does that , it means you'll have to get another ps2 or CD
Well one of my 360 games has messed up before and I took my friends advise and I will pass it to you. put some normal toothpaste on your disk all around in the silver part,NOT the clear center.then what you do is rince off the toothpaste in warm water.pat dry and then try to play.make sure to use colgate or something like that because some toothpast will just dammage the disk.Rock on my fellow rockers! -Answer by:asqurttgun
Hold the guitar as you normally would, but to hit the blues you NEED to use your PINKY. cant do half the songs on medium or hard without the pinky...practice the pinky, padawan...
After awhile of playing medium using the pinky will come so naturally that even the hardest songs on medium will be as easy as 123. It took me awhile too. Now my concern is playing on hard and expert which I suck at, but hard is getting a little easier.
You don't need to restart the PS2, but you're in the right menu. You may have entered the code incorrectly. Try again, but this time, enter the code faster.
Are you sure you're not using the correct version? cuz there are two versions of the cheats.......for the regular ps2 and for PAL ps2! (i think pal is modded [the fat one])
There are many different cheats for the same things what you need to do is go to main menu {just the main menu} search for other codes for the same thing.
Its at the main menu heres some to get you started horse head b,o,o,b,o,o,b,o,o,b hyper speed b,o,y,o,b,o,y,o and my favorite performense mode y,y,b,y,y,o,y,y
It happened to me. For some odd reason, when I tried a Performance mode cheat from the Cheats section, it made my fret section, score, and rock meter dissappear so I hjad to guess what notes I had to hit. -Answer by:BobDoleRulz
Use practice mode. Start on the slowest and do the parts proceeding the part you are bad at AND the part after it. Once you figure you are doing better, move up to the next fastest speed. Make sure to use Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs.
This one was hard for me too, you need to practise the parts in the beginning hammeron pillof section, and make sure you get all the starpower notes the first 2 times it comes up, then you can use the power quick and limp through the song lol
For certain notes, you don't need to strum all of them. If there's a string of different notes coming up, you can strum just the first one and fret the rest. That only works, though, on some notes: if you look at the white thingamabob on top, some of them will have a ring around them. The ones without the ring you don't have to strum. For the rest, though, like on Misrlou (sp?), you just have to go up and down really fast. =)
My preference is to play it like a bass guitar with index and middle finger. Always always IMIMIMIMIM. I taped a cut piece of straw just above the pick guard for a thumb rest. I just picked up GH 80's a week ago, started on expert and I've got two songs left to finish expert. Of course, GH 80's is easier.
Move the strum bar up and down(that means to alt strum) really fast if the notes are close together. If that doesnt work just try to strum really fast.
You just practice. it's that simple. I'm 16, got the game two weeks ago, and have beaten Hard already. don't take the fun out of the game, just get better and feel good about yourself :)
Say that you are playing and a red note appears then an orange one after that.... move your first finger to the red instead of your second finger and then shift all of your fingers down one so that you are ready for the upcoming orage one!
I got 3 words for you my friend. USE YOUR PINKY,USE YOUR PINKY,USE YOUR PINKY. I know its hard but YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR PINKY IF YOU WANT TO BEAT THE GAME OR TO PLAY FAST IN RAL LIFE. trust me I play guitar in a band and I know how hard it was for me to learn to use my pinky but TRUST ME USING YOUR PINKY IS THE KEY. GOOD LUCK
Yeah man use your pinky ,... but you use your pinky on medium, so you should be able just to shift your fingers down, what I did was I just played medium until I knew I was up for a chalenge (when I kepts geting 5 stars and 98 %) good luck bud
Study songs you absolutely can't pass. for these songs, just keep your fingers starting on red. you can press green notes with the edge of your pointer, easily.
Lol, to the responses above me. on some songs there r orange notes on medium, as well as power chords. these r mainly to bonus songs, but I think there might be one song in which theres an orange note on medium. anywa,s they key is to learn how to put ur pointer finger on red, otherwise u will [bold]never[/bold] beat the game
It depends on the song really, but I find it's easier to keep your 4 fingers on the higher notes, and stretch your index to cover both the red and the green button.
Put your index finger on the red button middle finger on the yellow button etc. put a rubber band on the green button so u dont have to stretch ur finger over to it u just have to strum when there is a green note.
Put your index fingers on the red button. Then if you have a G-Y chord stretch your index finger to the green while keeping your middle finger on yellow. Of course you can't do this for a G-R chord, but if you absolutely must move your hand down, try to get it back asap
My way is when yuo see an orange note slide all your fingers down 1 fret then when you see a green go back up.... after you do it for a while it gets easy
Try it again try it slower until you get it down in your mind then you can do it faster to do it or if that doesnt wrok then double check the cheat or its not a cheat -Answer by:probasketball28
Ranks
One star Get 64% or less of the notes correct.
Two stars Get 65% to 76% of the notes correct.
Three stars Get 76% to 88% of the notes correct.
Four stars Get 88% to 96% of the notes correct.
Five stars Get at least 96% of the notes correct.
Gold five stars Get every note correct on a song.
That is false information. I played a song and got like something around 90% and I got 4 stars. Then my brother played it and he got higher score than me but around 86-88%. I missed a few notes with gaps and he missed a couple of more but at the same time so he could keep his x4 multiplier most of the time. I got up to like x3 and then I missed one over and over again. Once again, He got 5 stars, I got 4. I had more %, he had more score. Since all songs have different ammount of score to achieve, there's no "score for 5 stars".
It might not be the propper cheat ...
but if you REALLY want to get all of them I reckon you should start practising ... for me , well its easy coz my handz are very addicted to it .. HEHE :P
Its on number three or a hack witch I saw on youtube have a file for guitar hero 2 put it in your computer there is a pop up click on it and put it on tell your friend from cheat helper not realy a helper
Alright dudes master of masters! ok really now it took me 2 hours to beat Jordan, its all about you getting into the song and just be with the beat, before you even think about trying it go to Traning and practice solo A B and C first keep practing until you can accomplish at least 73% after that do the other half and then the whole solo but try it on slower then slow then full speed. thats all I can say now I can do most of the time jordan 99 to 100% percent just go to youtube.com and check for five star on expert song Jordan! peace Rock on dudes
You need to put it on your game as a custom song. go to youtube and type how to put a custom song on guitar hero 2, but first you have to find the song and learn how to put it on. or go to scorehero.com it tell you how to put song on there. just to want you thogh you need to download about 3-7 thing on your computer in order to put a coustom song on your game, but score hero tell you every thing you need to download there. oh yeah I forgot to tell you, you need to burn a copy of guitar hero2 for this to work. I hoped I halped you in any way
You have to play the game on Medium, Hard or Expert to earn the all needed money to buy what you need from the store, once you have bought these items for example if you buy new clothes for a charature you go to chracture select choose the one you want then choose the clothes you want them to wear.
There is a cheat code on pretty much all major cheat sites. The code unlocks EVERYTHING. The only down side is, saving is disabled. The whole point of the code is for u to play the game w/ friends.
1.) I beat hangar 18 on xpert, and all I can say is practice. also I played it like I was trying to strum all notes on jordan, so good luck buddy. 2.) "always green" cheat doesnt work. it's non-existant
PRACTICE
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That song is piss easy! I got 100% 1st time I tried, iv'e beat freebird 100% aswell w/a ps2 controller
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