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Buying a non-defective Guitar Hero 2 360.
Gaming-Module
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Bought it earlier today and returned it for a refund to EBGames after the Whammy bar didn't work, at all.
Now I'm wary of buying it period. Is there a way to guarantee getting a working guitar that doesn't require the patch? My brother brought his over last weekend and it worked perfectly patchless on my system, which is the way I want it.
I heard that the serial numbers ending in 55 are bad and that 65 and 67 are better, but the threads on Kotaku and Joystiq that have that information are almost two months old.
Has anything changed/is the problem resolved or are EB and Gamestop just repackaging the fucked up units and selling them?
Now I'm wary of buying it period. Is there a way to guarantee getting a working guitar that doesn't require the patch? My brother brought his over last weekend and it worked perfectly patchless on my system, which is the way I want it.
I heard that the serial numbers ending in 55 are bad and that 65 and 67 are better, but the threads on Kotaku and Joystiq that have that information are almost two months old.
Has anything changed/is the problem resolved or are EB and Gamestop just repackaging the fucked up units and selling them?
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We get them sent to us by Red Octane
so you just have bad luck
and should connect to Xbox Live
Why didn't you try an exchange, the receipt would still be good for another week.
But more importantly, I just don't feel like playing games with almost $100, after tax.
So is there some way to increase my odds of "getting lucky" and buying a functional whammy bar unit, or are we going to go through what I went through with the guy at the register and discuss how I should overcome buying a broken product through various fixes and rolls of the dice?
If they allow that sort of thing.
I noticed that this box was a two piece package with the case art printed on the front and back of the box itself, and the one that I got from EBStop came in a plain white two piece box that slid in and out of a one piece sleeve that had the art printed on it.
The new one is a 95065, although I didn't look at the product ID# on the first one.
Anyway, hope this thread helps someone avoid a shitty guitar, because it would suck to bring it over to a friend's house to play, but they don't have the patch or the Internet, so everyone gets to enjoy a big "bummer-dude" instead of a rocking evening of Guitar Hero.