Hi everyone! I finally figured out a setup that lets me use some of the cool new music game controllers on Xbox! I've tested this on both Rock Band 4 and Fortnite Festival, and it works pretty well. I imagine it'll also work with Stage Tour, since it supports RB4 instruments.

Requirements

• Roll Limitless adapter
• Brook Wingman XB (mine is first generation, but I imagine newer versions should work as well)
• A Nintendo Switch-compatible controller (most of these newer controllers support Switch)

General Guide

What we're basically doing here is tricking Rock Band into thinking our controller is a guitar, and then tricking Xbox into thinking our Switch-compatible controller is an Xbox controller. Maybe newer generations of the Wingman also work with generic PC Bluetooth controllers, but at least on mine, Switch mode was the only one that worked.

1. Install the correct Roll Limitless firmware: You can find the firmware here. The process is pretty straightforward, and there's also a guide available on the website.

Which firmware you need depends on how you plan to play:

• Rock Band Guitar: If you're using a controller with strumming.
• Guitar on Controller: If you're playing with regular buttons (pad). Both Guitar Hero and Fortnite Festival layouts are supported, so choose whichever you prefer.

There's the Multiple Firmwares option as well, which lets you switch in real time. I recommend just installing whichever firmware you're going to use and reapplying it on PC when needed. I had quite a few accidental button presses that switched the firmware mid-game.

2. Configure your controller bindings: This is probably the part that requires the most work, depending on your controller. If you're using it as a guitar, Rock Band expects the following inputs:

• A = Green
• B = Red
• X = Blue
• Y = Yellow
• RB = Orange
• Right Analog Stick (Y-axis) = Whammy
• Select / Back = Star Power
• D-pad Up / Down = Strumming

If you're using it as a pad, you can follow either of these layouts:

• Guitar Hero: LT / LB / RB / RT / A
• Fortnite Festival: Left / Right / X / Y / B

If your controller already matches one of these layouts, great! You can skip the remapping. If you're only planning to play Fortnite Festival, that's also great, since you can rebind your controls directly in-game. Otherwise, you'll need to use your controller's proprietary configuration tool to change the bindings on the device itself.

Also, keep in mind that some Switch presets invert the face buttons (especially X and Y), so you might need to account for that when configuring everything.

3. Connect the Roll Limitless to your Xbox.

4. Plug the Brook Wingman into the Roll Limitless USB port.

5. Pair your controller with the Wingman: Some controllers work with Switch wireless pairing. If not, use it wired.

6. Calibrate your game and enjoy! :)

That's pretty much it for the general setup! Below are some more specific instructions for the two controllers I've tested.

Polybar Micro

This one requires some configuration on PC before it'll work properly.

1. Download Santroller Configurator v1

I recommend using this instead of the standard Three Pieces Configurator, since the latter doesn't have all the features we need. I also couldn't get mine to pair with Santroller v2, so I'm basing myself on v1 only.

2. Back up your current configuration: I recommend exporting your existing settings to a file, just in case you want to restore them later.

3. Configure your bindings: If you own a PolybarMicro-USK, you can simply import my configuration here

Otherwise, here's what you'll need to change:

a) Controller Settings

• Device to Emulate → Gamepad
• Swap Switch Face Buttons → Enabled

b) Remove unused buttons: For mine, I kept only:

• A / B / X / Y
• D-pad Up / Down
• Start / Back
• Right Joystick Y-axis

c) Check the X/Y button mapping: You might need to swap X and Y manually. An easy way to check is to see if pressing X lights up the yellow fret instead of blue (and vice versa). If that happens, copy paste each values to make the switch.

4. Save your changes

PS: I was only able to get the Polybar Micro working through a wired connection. Wireless pairing didn't work for me.

CRKD Neo S (with 5 frets)

This one is a bit more interesting, since both pad and guitar gameplay make sense on it.

1. Configuring the bindings: You can use the official CRKD app to remap the controller. It works for the most part, but keep in mind that some bindings can randomly fail to save on the controller. If a button isn't behaving as expected, try applying the configuration again. I had to do this a few times before everything worked correctly.

2. Playing in pad mode: I recommend using the Fortnite Festival layout on Roll Limitless, as the Expert preset already covers the buttons you need. The classic Guitar Hero layout also works, but you'll need to create a custom binding for the frets.

3. Playing in guitar mode: Create a custom bindings so that the frets match A/B/Y/X/RB. For strumming, I like mapping Right to D-pad Up and Left to D-pad Down so that I can play on any orientation. You can assign the back buttons to select for the star power or the bumpers.

And that's it! Hopefully this helps anyone who wants to use these newer controllers on Xbox without having to rely on the original Rock Band instruments.

If anyone has any knowledge on what exactly this demo disc is (i.e. what the interview and tug of war videos are) what songs it might have / how they were added to your account I’d greatly appreciate it. I don’t own this personally, just a listing seen on poshmark. I’d get it myself to just see but my entire RB setup is for ps3 so it’d be a random outlier in my collection.

Propane 🤠

I'm not sure who charted this but salute to them 🫡

Done on PS3 with Riffmaster

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For me still into you on bass and drean genie on vocals are insanely overtiered, while little white church and i dont think Whats up should be a warmup on guitar.

If you ask me, still into you being a 5 on bass is so overtiered that it barely is even a 1 and to give a 5 is genuinuly wild especially since its in the same tier such as suspicious minds and hour of rats, and little white church being a 1 on guitar is actually such understatement for just how tough it actually is, its atleast a 3 maybe even a 4 on guitar.

Today 16 years ago today Rock Band 3 was released to celebrate here’s some art featuring Zehvora one of the prefabs in the game art done by missmagui_art.

Rock Band 3 has taught me alot especially on drums I will always be grateful for that 🙏

To me i see hour of rats having a more difficult chart than dream genies guitar chart, but what are yalls thoughts?

I have a significant amount of DLC on my CFW PS3 that I like to use for parties and such. Pretty much every DLC track available for RB1-3 and Green Day. However, I much prefer to play completely without DLC songs when doing Career Mode solo. Is there an option to disable DLC for the career mode in any of those games?

I've had this bad boy since 2010 and put the whole thing a tiny carpet for easy movement and called it a day. This works fine for most songs, but as you can imagine the pedal incrementally slides forward when there are a lot of bass drums involved. I remember the set came with these 'pins' with little springs on 'em, but 15-year-old me had no clue what those were for. Long story short: what's the proper way to keep the pedal in place? Thanks in advance, guys!

I’ve been trying to get into playing drums as I feel I’ve already sort of “mastered” guitar. I want to ask those of you who’ve climbed to the heights of the drums skill levels of the progression journey is as linear as guitar is? Like will the jump from easy to expert be over the course of a year or a couple months?

My PS3 has been used since 2013, but recently it has been lagging, and freezing recently and its frustrating when a song just freezes mid song - and lags and then you lose your streak and miss notes because of the lag mid song. It's very frustrating, and im not at all a tech person at all, but I want to know what it could possibly be? I understand we wont truly know unless I go and take it to a shop, but I want to be sure its not something that I could just do or try to do before taking it to go get looked at.

Let me furthermore explain in greater detail what is happening / problems im experiencing.

- Long Load Times for RB3

- Song Menu hard and choppy to maneuver around

- songs randomly mid freeze

- after freeze, audio is delayed or ahead in songs often messed up sounding after.

- drops frame rates during high demand scenes such as music videos

Thanks, guys. I'm just trying to fine-tune my PS3 so I can enioy Rock Band the way I did when I was a kid!

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Hey everyone!

I’ve got 1000+ Rock Band DLC songs and wanted friends to be able to browse what’s available before it’s their turn to play. So I put together Setlist Party and it's gone down really well at my own parties.

You add your song library, create a party, then share a link or QR code. Everyone can use their phone to:

• Search the songs you actually have.
• Check instrument difficulties.
• Request songs and choose which instrument they’d like to play.
• See what’s currently playing and coming up.

The host manages the shared queue and uses it to pick the next song in-game.

You can try it here: setlistparty.com

It’s free to use and doesn’t require an account. It also supports Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and custom Clone Hero libraries.

For Xbox players, there’s a guide to importing your DLC using the CSV from rb4.app’s Xbox Library Exporter. Credit to bookreader52 for that tool!

I originally made this for my own parties, but thought other people here might find it useful too. It’s an early release, so I’d love to hear how you get on, especially anything confusing, bugs you encounter, or things that would make it better for your own rhythm game nights! And yes I plan to update to include Stage Tour content in December :)

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