Guitar Hero 2: No videos in the store?

The Valentine Zombie

I've searched the forum to see if anyone else has "suffered" from this, and found no threads or topics. So I tentatively start a new thread asking...what the hell? I bought Guitar Hero 2 (with guitar) from HMV for £10 less than it's rrp on the day of it's release. Bargain, I thought. I took it home, opened it up...and was slightly surprised to find a black guitar instead of the cherry red guitar promised on the box. *shrugs shoulders* Who cares about colour, so long as it works. I fired up the game, and enjoyed it thoroughly...and then noticed, after a while, that the "store" has a space at the bottom, ie a blue rectangle below the characters, skins etc that would otherwise indicate that there was another item to buy but had been removed. I checked on Medium, Hard and Expert; nope, nothing. I've heard that this was/is supposed to be the space where videos are bought, ala the first GH game, but my sources may be wrong. Is there something wrong with my copy of the game? I entered the Hyper Speed code a while ago to see what difference it made, could that have done something?

Or am I worrying about nothing?

Cymoro

I'm thinking you've been had by a pirate copy. Probably a knockoff guitar, plus the videos were cut so it could fit on a regular disc. That's what I'm thinking.

Daedalus

Cymoro wrote: »

I'm thinking you've been had by a pirate copy. Probably a knockoff guitar, plus the videos were cut so it could fit on a regular disc. That's what I'm thinking.

Buh? How would that work on an unmodded PS2? This isn't the Dreamcast we're talking about here; you can't just throw any old DVD into the PS2 and have it boot.

SporkAndrew

Same with my copy. Black guitar - no videos.

Think it's either a UK thing or just an odd batch..

The Valentine Zombie

Well, if it's a pirate, it's the best quality I've seen in my life lol. It came with the manual, the disc had the official PS logo...and I can't think of many pirate games that come with a £30 peripheral. But if it is a pirate...what can I do? Not that I'm really bothered, I saved a tenner on it. But it is mysterious...

NB: Could it be some kind of beta/store demo/other kind of disc?

McPrecious

Are you sure you have Guitar Hero II and not the more recent Rock The '80s? The latter has a vastly scaled down store.

Bottles

Yeah, they removed the videos from the UK version of Guitar Hero 2- something about different video formats. Don't worry, it's not just you.

Rookie

Bottles wrote: »

Yeah, they removed the videos from the UK version of Guitar Hero 2- something about different video formats. Don't worry, it's not just you.

If that's true, that's absolutely asinine. As if they couldn't just convert the original video from PAL to NTSC.

Also, as a Canadian living in Australia, I love how pretty much every new TV I see here displays NTSC and PAL. I've never seen a TV at home that does this.

Bartholamue

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vmdEjIMiIE8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xbvlTlSBjGc&mode=related&search=

Here they are.

Glal

The Valentine Zombie wrote: »

I took it home, opened it up...and was slightly surprised to find a black guitar instead of the cherry red guitar promised on the box.

A friend of mine had this happen also. He called them up and apparently they ran out of reds, so they started shipping the remaining black ones instead.

The Valentine Zombie

Man, that sucks donkeys. My 10 year old portable telly does NTSC and PAL, what possible reason could they have for leaving the videos out other than laziness? (The same lazy streak that left "Rock the 80's" with GH2's graphics/BG music).

As for the lack of cherry red guitars...*sighs*. Oh well, maybe my guitar & game box combo will be a "collector's item" in years to come lol.

*thinks*

Actually, no, whoever bought it would think I broke the cherry red one and replaced it with a new black one, therefore diminishing the value. If I ever decided to sell it, that is.