Installation Guide

What You'll Need

Playing Rock Band 2 Deluxe requires these things:

• Either a modded console or an emulator
  • RPCS3 is the team's main testbed, so we know it works well on it. So long as your computer runs it well, it's a good choice.
  • Rock Band 2 Deluxe works on real PS3 Hardware on both CFW and HEN.
• The North American release of Rock Band 2
  • This will be serial BLUS30147 for PS3 or title ID 45410869 for 360.
  • Other regions will not work! BLES versions of the game do not work.

Rock Band 2 Deluxe, depending on platform, comes in either a .pkg file (which are used for PS3 game updates) or as a set of Xbox files, including a .xex file (Xbox executable) and a patch ARK/HDR (for 360). Depending on where you plan to play the game, you only need to follow one of the following sections.

Installing on Emulator (RPCS3)

1. Install your North American copy of Rock Band 2 through the emulator. The official RPCS3 site covers this nicely.
   • Remember, you need to be running BLUS30147. RPCS3 will tell you this in the game selection GUI under the Serial column.
2. Drag the .pkg file and drag it into the game selection GUI. The game will update, and if you were running 1.00, you'll also get a nice Rock Band 2 Deluxe icon in the window to match.

Double-click to run Deluxe.

Installing on Hardware (PS3)

1. Install your vanilla copy of Rock Band 2 to the console's hard drive.
2. FTP into your PS3, or use your preferred way to copy files onto the console's hard drive.
3. Drag the .pkg file into dev_hdd0/packages. That's dev_hdd0, and then you want to put the .pkg into the packages folder on dev_hdd0, your hard drive.
4. On your console, navigate to your Package Manager. Then go into Install Package Files > PS3 System Storage, and select the BLUS30147 update .pkg.
5. Install it.

The next time you mount and run the game, it will be Rock Band 2 Deluxe instead of vanilla.

Installing on Hardware (Xbox 360)

1. Install your vanilla copy of Rock Band 2 to your console's hard drive.
2. FTP into your 360, or use your preferred way to copy files onto it.
3. In the Games folder, there should be a folder (probably named Rock Band 2) with a default.xex file and a gen folder in it. If you don't have that, the game isn't installed to the hard drive.
4. Rename the default.xex to default_retail.xex as a backup in case something goes wrong.
5. Drag in the default.xex you got from your Rock Band 2 Deluxe download. In the gen folder, Drag in the patch_xbox.hdr and patch_xbox_0.ark files from your Rock Band 2 Deluxe download.

The next time you run the game, it will be Rock Band 2 Deluxe instead of vanilla.

Here's a video tutorial that covers all three platforms if you'd prefer that: