The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
XBox 360 Rock Band 2 guitar sync problem
Erandus
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
So, a couple weeks ago, our Xbox red ringed. We let it sit for a while and finally went and bought a brand new Arcade version. The guitar sat in a closet during that time. We took our harddrive off the old xbox and put it on the new one. All the game data and rockband songs and whatnot are there. When I was setting up the xbox, just getting it turned on and running, I used the controller out of the box that it came in. I was able to power on the xbox with the controller without even syncing it.
I grab my RB2 wireless guitar out of the closet and try to sync it. When I hit the sync button on the guitar, nothing happens. If i hit the xbox button on the guitar, all 4 lights on the guitar flash slowly about a dozen times, then quickly 3 or 4 times. This repeats endlessly until I pull the batteries. Any combination of hitting/holding the xbox and sync buttons is completely ineffective. The lights do not spin at any time on the guitar when I hit the sync button. I just got back from running out for brand new fresh batteries. No difference.
Is my controller fucked?
I grab my RB2 wireless guitar out of the closet and try to sync it. When I hit the sync button on the guitar, nothing happens. If i hit the xbox button on the guitar, all 4 lights on the guitar flash slowly about a dozen times, then quickly 3 or 4 times. This repeats endlessly until I pull the batteries. Any combination of hitting/holding the xbox and sync buttons is completely ineffective. The lights do not spin at any time on the guitar when I hit the sync button. I just got back from running out for brand new fresh batteries. No difference.
Is my controller fucked?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Erandus on
0
Posts
The guitar still turns on the old xbox... which red-rings, naturally, but still responds to the power cycle command.
And then the guitar goes on to reproduce it's 4 blinking lights pattern and is non responsive to the sync button.
But if it's busted why can it still turn on the old xbox? :P
The problem really seems to be that the guitar refuses to recognize it's sync button being pressed. If you press sync with the guitar off, nothing happens. If you hit the guide button to turn the guitar on and then press sync, it does not register in any way at all. The green lights never 'spin'. They just blink out their same pattern, 12 slow blinks, 4 fast blinks, repeat ad nauseum. I called XBox support last night (who told me in a nice way to go buy a new goddamn guitar), and while I was on the phone with them for ~ 20 minutes, and did not touch the guitar the whole time, the guide button lights never stopped blinking on it.
It can turn on my old red-ringed xbox, but even after holding the guide button down turns that xbox on, the guitar gets up to it's old tricks of repeating the blinking pattern.
Final note - It seems that the guitar is also dedicated to teasing me. In swapping out batteries, I tried a set of generic Hy-Vee (local grocery chain) batteries. Apparently those batteries are nearly dead because the guide button lights come on, but very faintly and they fade quickly. However, they do the "battery low" spin pattern instead of the solid blink, and wonder of wonders, the sync button makes the lights do the 'spin'.... just before the guitar dies because the batteries are too dead.
I'm just gonna go back to my GH2 X-plorer until I get a new RB2 guitar.
This is why I fucking hate needless wireless controllers. I ain't trying to play from 20 feet away from my tv, or run wildly around.. Wires just aren't that much of a shackle to me.
After pressing the sync button on the 360, hold down the sync button for a couple seconds on the guitar while it is already on. If that doesn't work, try holding down both sync buttons at the same time, and make sure both are powered on.
Also, having low batteries will cause syncing to be a real pain in the ass.
The guitar simply refuses to respond to a press of the sync button. It should make the lights around the guide button go into the spin pattern, but it does not interrupt it's current 4-light blink pattern in any way. It just refuses to acknowledge the sync button has been pressed. And if the guitar is turned on, it continues its blink pattern indefinitely until the batteries are pulled. It never reverts back to a powered off state.
Tried with fresh batteries right out of the packet, slightly used batteries, batteries dead enough to make it do the 'low battery' flash but still function for a while, and batteries that had only enough power left to bring the lights on to a very low level for 5-10 seconds.
Conclusion is that the guitar is probably dead. Google shows me a lot of people having this "4 lights blinking slow and then fast" pattern, and other people showing up in the thread saying they have the same problem, but nary a solution to be found.
I'm going with "busted".
as a side-note: have you tried the ghwt guitar? (since you're going to buy a new one anyway). i have yet to talk to anyone on the fence, they always love one and hate the other. i personally can't stand the rb guitar(s).
I have fiddled with a GHWT guitar, and I find it to be "nice". I liked the RB2 better by far.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar