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How is that going to work?
Beatlesfan94 | 6:11 PM on 05.11.2008 16 comments




Does anyone have any idea how a track pack disc for the PS2 and Wii versions of Rock Band could work? It can't copy the songs over to anything, seeing as the two consoles have very little storage space (the fat PS2 had a HDD and the Wii has 512MB of storage) and that was the reason why Harmonix is releasing these $30 discs.

You'll obviously be switching discs, but how will the game know you have a track pack disc?



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BluDesign's Destructoid Blog
You won't have to do anything more than just have the original game saved to a memory card. Duh. It'll look for a game save from the other version when it loads up.

Why was there any question as to how this would happen?

Disc Swapping's a pretty common thing now days.
AngelsDontBurn's Destructoid Blog
Definitely disc swapping.
Conrad Zimmerman's Destructoid Blog
I'm pretty sure Harmonix already explained this. You don't actually have to even have Rock Band or a Rock Band save game for it to work. You just pop the disc in and play. The disc will contains the Rock Band program in addition to the tracks.
Mxyzptlk's Destructoid Blog
Voodoo magic.
Y0j1mb0's Destructoid Blog
I'm gonna have to go with Voodoo magic as well. Sounds like such a different approach.
razerangel's Destructoid Blog
Yo sucka only the linux PS2 had the option of a external hard drive, it has no internal storage.
Conrad Zimmerman's Destructoid Blog
@razerangel: He did specify that only the phat PS2 supported a hard drive, no mention of internal storage.
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Destructoid Blog
Wow. This really sucks. You have to switch disks just to play 20 songs and switch back to play the rest. :(
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
sucka
liam2015's Destructoid Blog
chicken blood
007's Destructoid Blog
How could you NOT know?!


jk jk IDK either
Conrad Zimmerman's Destructoid Blog
@SWPM: Well, yeah, if you want to play the songs on the original Rock Band disc, you'll have to have that disc in the console. Same goes for the "DLC" tracks. But you don't have to start with the Rock Band disc for the DLC disc to run. It will boot directly.
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Destructoid Blog
@conrad
I see. Its better then I thought but far less conivinirt than DLC
Skribble's Destructoid Blog
conivinirt
EternalDeathSlayer's Destructoid Blog
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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Destructoid Blog
I'm on an iPhone, typing is hard :P


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