According to Bizarre Creations' latest Studio News post, the BBR title update adds guitar and dance map peripheral support, an enhanced scoring system, better VGA support and an improved fireworks rendering engine. Among those additions, the update also fixes other general bugs and gameplay issues, all of which you can view after the break. Anyone up for some Boom Boom Guitar Herocket?
[Via Gaming Bits]
Boom Boom Rocket Title Update
- Guitar and dancemat peripheral support.
- Japanese and Korean language support.
- Tweaked scoring system to make grade awarded more fair (now purely based on accuracy).
- The huge loud "noise" which popped up occasionally on endurance mode is now gone.
- Occurrences of scores getting overwritten with a lower score when playing with 2 profiles signed in is now fixed.
- Display updates when viewing the game through a VGA cable.
- Friends leaderboard now shows extra information such as grade, accuracy, etc.
- Multiplayer endurance mode fix for player colours swapping sporadically.
- Slightly bigger and better explosions (updates to firework rendering).
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11-06-2007 @ 12:07PM
Boff said...
I really enjoyed this but kept putting off the purchase for some reason. With GHIII just round the corner (UK) there doesn't seem much point now.
Although saying that, the guitar support may help it once I get bored of rocking out on GH.
Still, nice to see Bizarre supporting it and keeping it up-to-date.
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11-06-2007 @ 12:08PM
Boff said...
P.S. I didn't think there were any dancemat peripherals for the 360???
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11-06-2007 @ 12:10PM
DjDATZ said...
boff...there are dancemat peripherals for the 360...they come with DDR universe.
loved the visuals of this game...too bad i have NO rhythm whatsoever.
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11-06-2007 @ 12:22PM
Maiq The Liar said...
I'd dust off my copy of BBR IF it had a case which could accumulate dust...but I'll definitely fire it up tonight and give it a go with the GH guitar. Peripherals FTW!
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11-06-2007 @ 12:31PM
mnemo said...
The title update was already online Saturday night. I received it when I showed BBR to a friend.
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11-06-2007 @ 12:33PM
TORO said...
It was a boring game with the controller, playing this with the guitar is just Guitar Hero with fireworks.
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11-06-2007 @ 12:43PM
Synapse49 said...
Anyone else notice that the little patch that was released prior to this one swapped out the Bizzare Creations logo with the EA one at the intial load screen?????
That's a good use of my harddrive space if I ever saw one. ;)
Also, do you actually have to strum the guitar if you're using that peripheral?
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11-06-2007 @ 12:56PM
CyberKnight said...
What, no support for the Scene It controllers? >:(
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11-06-2007 @ 1:34PM
Deezul said...
TORO - And Guitar Hero ISN'T Boom Boom Rocket with a plastic guitar and rock music?
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11-06-2007 @ 1:38PM
Andrew said...
Yeah, I'm going to have to try this on my GH guitar tonight. Hopefully there is a way to correlate the firework arrows with the frets on the guitar. Otherwise it will just be confusing :/
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11-06-2007 @ 1:49PM
xenocidic said...
Well this game comes on the Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc (comes with the Xbox 360 Arcade consoles) AND I just got GH2 , so , double bonus!
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11-06-2007 @ 2:33PM
Haly said...
DjDATZ: DDR universe isn't out in the UK so the dancemat support isn't much good over here. But the other additions are something :)
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11-06-2007 @ 4:43PM
Macroy said...
Can anyone tell me how much harder the songs get than "Hall of the Mountain Dude"? I was thinking about getting this, and I tried the guitar with the demo...but not if the hardest song is the equivalent of a Medium GH song.
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11-06-2007 @ 5:13PM
Major Suckage said...
Um, you could use the Guitar Hero controller back when BBR was released. I beat several of the songs using it before it was just a gimmick.
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11-06-2007 @ 5:27PM
mnemo said...
Just tried it with the X-plorer guitar. You really have to STRUM the "notes". Insane!
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11-07-2007 @ 12:11AM
ccc said...
@16
Yeah thats what I was just wondering myself.
If I can pull myself away from PuzzleQuest long enough while my 360 is powered up I'll give it a shot.
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11-07-2007 @ 2:58AM
borandi said...
Good update, some DLC would be good too ;) Probably go after the full 200GS now - been stuck at 100 for a while.
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11-07-2007 @ 1:41PM
ccc said...
Well, I tried it, played Smooth Operetta on medium, played it good I thought, hit 100 notes but only got 85 % accuracy. Looks to be the same old Boom Boom to me.
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11-07-2007 @ 4:44PM
Amber said...
Yeah, same old bbr. Still impossible to get an A unless you have +90% accuracy which is very difficult on Medium. I *did* see that the note chart changes for those playing with the guitar to make it more "guitar hero" like though.
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11-10-2007 @ 1:12AM
Asforoneday said...
Hopefully they tweaked the score system for the better. Getting an A on Medium was nearly impossible for some songs.
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