Guitar Hero III Hack (Kinda) - Motorola Q Forum

craiggiarc · 05-04-2008, 10:20 PM

So I've been looking into the issue where GH III will only keep the last 2 tracks. Being only on 1X it's a little frustrating but while trying to grab the songs and store them locally I seem to have stumbled accros a solution for this as I now have them all accessible and all new songs I download do not delete the previously downloaded ones.

I guess they must have some rule that goes something like:-

On download of new song if current song count = 2 then deleted oldest song.

Obvioulsy I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than that but these are laymans terms! So once you have more than 2 songs it doesn't delete any.

They way I achieved this is as follows:-

1) Download 2 songs.
2) Browse to the folder where GH III is stored, on my device it's \Storage Card\Program Files\GuitarHeroMobile.
3) Copy the two song files to another folder, the songs appear to all be in the same format sng_songname.bar
4) Download another song.
5) Copy the two previously copied songs back to \Storage Card\Program Files\GuitarHeroMobile so that you now have 3 songs in that location.
6) Continue to download songs and they should just continue to download without deleting any of the others.

As you can see I have stars next to all the songs which shows that they are saved locally.

PacoJr67 · 05-05-2008, 06:46 AM

hey, thanks for figuring this out. I have 'em all now too.

n99hockey · 05-05-2008, 08:17 AM

great job man!!

craiggiarc · 05-05-2008, 08:27 AM

I guess they did this for phones that don't have a large amount of memory but they could have made it configurable couldn't they.

Not to worry, it's pretty easy work around.

Craig

capo8488 · 05-07-2008, 12:10 AM

hey how is it for the Q? I want to get it..just want to hear how it is.

PacoJr67 · 05-07-2008, 06:39 AM

well it's not the entire song, but the audio is done well. and the notes seem to be much more rhythmically accurate than on the "dumb phone" version. I think it was worth it.

craiggiarc · 05-07-2008, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by capo8488

hey how is it for the Q? I want to get it..just want to hear how it is.

After much deliberation I finally gave in and purchased GHIII Mobile and am not disappointed, esp. now that I don't have to download songs each time I want to play.

It's very responsive, although if you have a process running in the background like email checking it can slow down a little at those times. It's only got the 3 frets but this makes it more functional on a handheld device and the key mappings work well. I use the d-pad.

It is easier than the full version of the game, I can actually get 100% on medium which I could hardly do on the full version and so I'm looking forward to the challenge of hard.

For $15 I think it's a great little addition to the Moto Q and with 3 new songs coming out each month it should keep the interest going for quite a while.