Talk:Guitar Hero: On Tour (video game)

Song in trailer

Anyone know what song is playing in the Guitar hero: On Tour ad shown on IGN? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.172.173.151 (talk) 22:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments I've read say it's something from OK Go. But I have no title or confirmation of this. TRTX ^{T / C} 19:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

The song played in the trailers (and on the official GH: OT site) is Do What You Want by OK Go. 68.194.16.14 (talk) 22:21, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Old Style DS peripheral compatibility?

Well, saw the trailer last night, and the first thing I wondered about was wether the peripheral would also properly fit into a 'first-generation' DS. Everything seems to be modeled for the DS Lite nowadays, and the ads only focus on the newer design. So everything concerning the classic DS remains vague. Saphatorael (talk) 10:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Im sure it will fit, the backs of the Lites and original DSs have the same space between them, dont they? Skane (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:34, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

The DSLite GBA slot isn't as "deep" as the one in the original (GBA games stick out the bottom of it because of this). If the Grip is designed with the Lite in mind the adaptor will likely be too small for the original DS's GBA slot. TRTX ^{T / C} 19:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I've been wondering that, too. I hope they design it with a little bit sticking out so that it'll fit in the old DS. That would be the smart thing to do. But enough idle chatter. Someone needs to find something addressing this issue.--Sherwood-Nightshade (talk) 06:04, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

So far it doesn't look like anybody's had it hands on. The best you could do is try and get something off of a Customer Service forum that's open to the public. TRTX ^{T / C} 15:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

The official RedOctane store claims "Platform: Nintendo DS (Lite & Original version)". Check it out yourself: http://www.redoctane.com/guitarhero-ontour-ds.html J. Straub (talk) 17:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

According to this IGN podcast: http://wii.ign.com/articles/865/865441p1.html, there will be an adapter to allow the Grip to be used with the original DS. They seem to be fairly sure of themselves. --Filovirus (talk) 01:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Will said adaptor be included with the whole $49.99 package?--Sherwood-Nightshade (talk) 15:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

The gamespot preview (per soundtrack) suggests the same thing, that it's something in the package you just take off for using on old-style DS. --MASEM 19:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Official press release available

Kotaku has the press release. [1] It may be worth going through there to update some of the references to a more official source. TRTX ^{T / C} 19:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Four frets, not five?

Any indication as to why the design is different from the standard Guitar Hero five-fret configuration? 69.143.240.243 (talk) 16:05, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

To press the fifth fret, a player would need to move their hand up or down the unit. This doesn't translate to a handheld, where the player only has one hand supporting the unit (the other is going to be strumming on the touch screen. The fifth buton is impractical for this reason. TRTX ^{T / C} 04:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, there's a place on the back to slip your hand in, so you would be able to move your hand freely up and down like so. However, an extra fret would obscure the headphone jack or the volume control. - A Link to the Past (talk) 05:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

major question

will this even work with a left hander at all?

from what i can see, to do that it must be fastened to the right hand so the left hand can strum the touch screen, but i cannot see this happening. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Murakumo-Elite (talk • contribs) 06:15, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Not necessarily an appropriate question, but the quick answer is it is likely to be, flip the entire unit (DS and grip) 180, hold in right, strum with left. Other "vertical" DS games do that same trick for left/right switches. --MASEM 06:19, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

In that case, it better not have a "lefty flip" powerup thing for versus play. --Sherwood-Nightshade (talk) 17:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

maybe it will have that in options, like guitar hero III71.53.20.131 (talk) 23:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

"Reference" section needed

I made some changes today to turn an external link into a reference, however I noticed that none of the existing references (sa well as the one I added) are actually appearing on the page. I'm currently trying to find the propre wiki-markup to generate the reference list, so if anybody knows how to auto-generate one it's needed at the moment. TRTX ^{T / C} 12:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

"Breed"

I've seen this edit a few times. Most recently an editor used the "NFC" as a source. I found the site here and did a quick scan. Here's the "confirmation":

The upcoming Guitar Hero: On Tour by Activision will be made available for the portable console Nintendo DS. According to Activision, this latest version of Guitar Hero offers up the most diverse selection of songs, including selections by artists like Nirvana, OK Go and No Doubt.

Story courtesy of Gearlog.

NFC will soon publish an article dealing the games, movies and TV shows that Nirvana's music has been licensed for in recent years.

Update: The NFC can exclusively reveal that the Nirvana track included in Guitar Hero: On Tour for Nintendo DS is the Nevermind classic Breed.

There is no link, press release, or source given...except that they can exclusively reveal it. I have been unable to confirm this anywhere else that doesn't just point back to either Wiki or this story. -- TRTX ^{T / C} 00:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

On Tour Bundle - Worth mentioning?

I know other GH and RB articles have discussed bundles, and I saw this article on Joystiq this afternoon. Is this something worth mentioning in the article? And if so, where is it included? -- TRTX ^{T / C} 18:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Free play?

Does anyone know if it'll have a free play mode? I just lost teh game (talk) 10:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Promotion

Also, if you pre-order it at some stores, they have a free 'exclusive' Guitar Hero: On Tour pick stylus. I got mine at Best Buy. It comes in a regular DS game case. Ladder4321 (talk) 00:10, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

only 15% covers, and fat free!

http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=885&page=2 tells us which songs are covers, 85% are the original master recordings apparently (!) 199.214.26.41 (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Like an advertisement

I think this article is written like an advertisement so I tagged it with Template:advert. I do realise it is hard to have criticism besides all the marketing information when a game is not released, but the whole article seems to applaud the game and only shows criticism when it can be refuted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DWizzy (talk • contribs) 08:55, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

You cannot write a reception section until there are reviews from others to write a reception section about. This the is the approach that all unreleased games are written in. Also, this is very far from what would normally be considered as a ad-style article that that template implies. --MASEM 12:16, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Time to split?

The game comes out soon, and it looks like we've got the full setlist. Is it time to split off into List of songs in Guitar Hero: On Tour? It currently redirects to the songlist on this article. -- TRTX ^{T / C} 15:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Confirmation for Battle Items?

I cleaned-up the piece about these, however while reading them I'm starting to get a bit skeptical. Especially the ones that supposedly "switch the top and bottom screen" as well as those that "make the highway move slower" for the opponent. One seems to make the game impossible (you can't strum if your guitar's on the top screen). And the other isn't a disadvantage at all (at least not the way I understand battle mode as it is in GHIII). I gave it a fact tag and left it that for now. -- TRTX ^{T / C} 14:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Reminder: need free picture of Grip

I'm going to try to do this myself (I have both a DS and DS Lite) but we need to get a not non-free pic of the Grip to replace the current one, one we take ourselves once we have the game. Once the game's out tomorrow, we should be able to do that. --MASEM 19:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I Own the Game, and Europe is not in it

The final song is "I Know a Little" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.79.5 (talk) 17:59, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Criticism Section

I think there should be a criticism/controversy section added in the near future, because of the large amount of complaints circulating on the internet about the quality of the peripheral, soundtrack quality, hand cramps from playing the game on Expert, and the overall broken touch screen mechanic that can potentially destroy the DS touch screen. A bunch of complaints can be found in various threads here. Doshindude (talk) 20:52, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Forum posts are not reliable. However, if these lead to a response by Activision or VV, then we can add it. --MASEM 20:55, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Bonus Songs

Scorehero confirming there is at least one bonus song, I Am Not Your Gameboy by Freezepop, and possibly more, unlocked by beating guitar duels. I added the song to the list a picture is here...

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67126