I agree! Not everything needs to be Type C as Type A is always common, convenient, and still relevant, which is why most controllers have a USB cable with Type A on one end for that purpose. I find it stupid that people are manipulated by having USB-C on everything when you can just buy adapters to get around it. 🤦
because most of the GH, Rock Band community will have these issues. If you are a player only using this guitar for fortnite then you wont, but most people who buy this guitar will use it for other things.
@@chickennoodlesu322 it has worked flawlessly for me on Rock Band 4, Rock Band 3 Deluxe, Yarg, Clone Hero, AND Fortnite. So again, these people are nit-picking
the dongle problem i was mostly the only who was against it, because it is a piece of plastic that can be easily be losted, and wiring a controller always must be a option
There is a slot for it if you take off the faceplate. The tab to remove it is where the neck connects to the body. It's not the best guitar, very similar feel to the RB. I bought a riffmaster 3 weeks ago, played it for a couple days and then put it down. Bought an Xbox 360 Les Paul for $80 and am much happier!
Still excited to get my hands on one for Xbox, but yeah, the fact that it can only be used wirelessly is a pretty big concern for people like me who are probably gonna using it 10 or so years from now.
@@carlosespinoza6182 I think you’re kinda missing the point. Who’s to say that PDP will still be selling Riffmasters after the lithium-ion battery in mine either can’t hold a charge as long as it used to or outright dies? The USB-C port only being used for charging the controller is a pretty big design flaw in what looks like an otherwise good product.
Please try to hard reset your guitar. (Your guitar should be powered on for this step) Press and hold your PS button for 12 seconds. (The guitar will power off after 6 seconds, this is normal, continue to hold the button for an additional 6 seconds until the guitar turns back on. After performing the hard reset, please try to reset the connection. Make sure the RIFFMASTER guitar is turned off Connect the USB dongle to an active USB port of your console Use a small paperclip to press and hold the re-pair button on the right of the USB dongle until the LED starts flashing rapidly. The button is located in the small hole. (this also can be the Connect Button) While the LED is flashing on the USB dongle, press the power button on your RIFFMASTER Once the guitar is turned on, press and hold the PDP Logo button and Share button on the RIFFMASTER. Keep holding both of the buttons until the LED on the transmitter AND the RIFFMASTER turn solid. Your RIFFMASTER is now repaired and ready for use. (To fix dongle issue, hope it works)
Your riffmaster issues are the drivers, consoles require controllers to have a "security" chip to work right. Its just so they can force a fat license fee to third party manufacturers
@@DanRockProductions To make it register in Clone Hero you need to manually install xbox controller drivers on it. Same with the GH Live controllers on clone hero.
Pretty sure you can plug the usb c to a power brick even when the battery is dead dead and it will work while plugged in. It would get power from said brick and wirelessly send signal to the dongle. I don’t think that when plugged into power it disables the digital signal being sent like some electronics do. I know that you can currently use this while its charging so unless it’s requiring the battery to send signal it should work even in 10-15 years when the battery is fried
I'm largely unfamiliar with the Guitar Hero peripheral world so I'm not sure if it's common for yall to mention stuff about it, but thank you so much for mentioning the battery that does have a shelf life, I find this is something a lot of tech related hobbies don't mention in the slightest but can and will make a big effect on the usage of stuff
Yeah when starting to play Rock Band I had to get use to the clicky colors and the non clicky strum bar but after a while of just playing Rock Band I love it as much as Guitar Hero now.
the issues with festival is that all guitar hero games and rock band games were done on a engine either sourced to them or inhouse engine, fortnite festival is one of the first rythym games done in unreal engine, and has to use the tools fortnite provides, the fact it's come this far so quickly is impressive
Im giving this controller a chance casually. I've bought a lot of strats and raged over them. However when i had the Jaguar, it died after a year. It powers on but doesn't respond very well. Jitters and just plain unresponsive. So I'll enjoy the Riffmaster and get another Jaguar in the future.
anyone else’s riff master strum bar feel just stiff as hell? got one today and literally if you strum up or down it just stays in place and feels like i need to use more force than i should to use it
I paid 142 for a new one from official store on amazon and it came filthy with finger smears, hair, dust and scratches, the strum bar also felt like crap like it would break easy, returning it. It's cheap plastic not worth the price.
I got mine recently, You said you plugged it in fortnite pc and it worked, I needed joytokey and RB4 instrument mapper for it to even work for pc. Overrally i played on a doyo guitar via amazon for 2 months, that broke and got this, i can say its definitely better than the doyo guitars. The strum bar is too quiet, but you can definitely go faster for alt strumming on it compared to gh controllers imo. frets are not hard, just right and bouncey. I think if the strum bar had a clicky sound it would be 10/10
@@delayed_control They literally sell docks so you can use it as your main PC if you want but okay I guess my handheld computer that runs windows 11 isn't a PC lol
My biggest issue with this thing is activating star power on rock band, it’s very difficult to press select unless you find the button first and wait to activate which is kind of annoying when they could’ve just made a big select button like the 360 Les Paul. Also have you tried activating by lifting it up? I had to lift it up like 90 degrees in the air for it to activate, just wish it was more sensitive. Anyways it’s a decent guitar overall
I don't regret getting it but I'm more of a fan of GH style guitars. Also tilt SUCKS in Festival. Button placement for overdrive being absent kinda kills it for me.
8:37 That'd be very interesting to hear about. I've seen on quite a few ocassions the argument of the people at Harmonix not knowing how to code the game or something like that, and that was talking about Rock Band 4
Did you ever figure out what killed the Riffmaster guitar on PC? Maybe not select some settings on RB4mapper software? My Riffmaster works fine on both my Xbox and on PC when playing Rock band 4 and clone hero. I barely play Fortnite Festival cuz it's boring, and you have to own most of the songs otherwise they rotate out of the store and you can't play them again.
PLS HELP I'M PLAYING ON PS5 AND I HAVE TO PRESS EACH CHORD WITH MY LEFT HAND EVERY BUTTON RATHER THAN BEING ABLE TO HOLD IT DOWN WHILE STRUMMING. I need help lol
thought id let you know apparently you can manually remap the controls in clone hero and itll work with the guitar im sorry to hear you bricked your dongle i have one currently shipping to me
Won't it work if, 10 years from now, the battery dies as you said, but you plug it to the wall with an usb-c charger while playing wirelessly to the PS5/xbox?
hope next year they can make a wiffmaster 2 with tactile strum, larger overdrive button that is easier to hit, wired connectivity option, and native pc support.
maybe this is a dumb question, but why would you just go at rb4 mapper? Why would it work? It's not a rockband guitar, it has different firmware, of course you bricked it!
Many, many other people have gotten the Riffmaster to work flawlessly in Rb4InstrumentMapper. You gotta remember that this thing is basically a reworked RB4 Jaguar, made by the exact same people. It is indeed a Rock Band guitar, and they marketed it as that first and foremost before saying it was compatible with Festival.
I have a question, since you managed to fix the Riffmaster judging by the comments.. have you tried doing the RB4IMapper program again? And if so, did it work? And how was the experience?
Please update us if u fixed the dongle for pc recognition. I prefer the feel of a rockband guitar of gh guitar, so this product excited me for its pc potential.
Spent 180 usd on a jaguar not knowing that there was a festival instrument mapper but hey, I’m not waiting months for them to come into stock again. I just hate how stiff the frets are, doesn’t work well on Festival drums with the new compatibility added.
Hey, the Jaguar is certainly an investment if nothing else. It's one of the rarer GH/RB guitars in existence, I've only seen two in person myself. As a guitar, it's nothing special, but as an investment, it'll probably be worth more in the coming years if previous trends are anything to go by
I will continue to downvote misleading thumbnails until creators stop. I know you said you broke it, but the thumbnail makes it seem like it was the guitar's fault
@@DanRockProductions The title isn't the only thing you first see before clicking, and yes i did see and acknowledge the title, but the thumbnail has just as many words as the title, and "dead in three days" implies it was the guitar's fault, and makes the title seem to refer to your average handling. Btw i do like the review
tbh that's why I'm waiting for a PS riffmaster because that version gets picked up by windows and you can use it in clone hero, yarg, rbdx3, etc. and you just have to use the festival instrument mapper to make it work there, but I'm getting a ps5 too so I was already thinking to play pro guitar/bass there and the normal mode on pc
Based on some of your replies you’ve managed to unbrick the guitar but is there still any way to change the drivers to that of a regular/generic controller without bricking it? (I have a ps4/5 model)
Just started playing with the riffmaster on pc, should I leave the dongle in and have it flashing all day? Or take it out each time im done for the day? Any harm on leaving it on? or will swapping it in and out cause ore wear and tear?
Like I said in the video, USB-A is appearing on less and less nowadays. Hell, my brand new laptop doesn't even HAVE a USB-A port, which means if I wanted to play Festival on my laptop, I'd have to buy an adapter. Same with if you wanted to play it on an ROG Ally, Steam Deck, Legion Go, MSI Claw, Ayaneo Air... literally everything aside from the Xbox Series consoles. It makes no sense to me that PDP doesn't have any type C options Hell, they could even get Switch compatibility if they had a type C option🤷
More and more people in the coming years will, for sure. I only have the one that came with my last smartphone, but it's constantly being used for my laptop. It'd have been nice if PDP included an adapter in the box. They probably don't cost much in bulk. I probably wouldn't have even mentioned it in the video
There is no standard amongst the manufacturers in regards to USB-C. This has caused usb c to be so vastly different in terms of functionality, compatibility, and features. Which is a problem. Also, just get a usb 3.0 hub. I use one on my console to have my external storage drive, mouse, keyboard, cable for charging controller, wireless dongle for the other mouse keyboard on the sim rig and of the course another for the wheel itself.
@@s.d.g.global4582 a hub wouldn't necessarily fix my problems unfortunately. I shouldn't need to purchase extra parts to adapt my new $130 controller to a new standard. My laptop and handheld gaming PC don't feature type A ports at all. They should have included an A to C adapter in the box, if not given us the option to choose a different dongle at checkout
With the software crashing and the drivers corrupting themselves? Open Device Manager and overwrite the broken drivers with Xbox One controller drivers, that reverts it
@@DanRockProductions Would that work with a PS4/5 Riffmaster, or will I need to download PS5 controller drivers? (The entire dongle is bricked, and won't detect the guitar anymore. On PC or PS5.)
Honestly you guys have it good and easy. In my country 120 bucks is 704 in the country economy, which is 300 away from the minimum mensal wage. So stop bicthing and enjoy the fucking controller man 😂
The rock band guitars have always been garbage. The buttons feel bad, the strum bar isn't tactile and the necks are way too thin. They will always be inferior to GH controllers. Literally no one has ever used the upper frets, beside GH5.
Dude any guitar hero controller not made for the wii is kinda trash in the first place. Even then the strum bar isnt "tactile" the clicking just triggers the monkey part of the brain. There's a reason for why strum fixes exist for both RB and GH controllers
@@SpectacularSpiderFan disagree. SGs and Kramer's have a good form factor, good strum bar and perfect weight. Both of my Wii LPs overstrum and all genericasters break easily, no matter what console
Great Review! You get to the point with the lithium Battery and the PC Problems, everything else is fine, been playing with the riffmaster for 3 days now and I think it’s THE BEST RB guitar, still can’t beat Wireless Les Paul from GH3
Did you watch the video? I explain at the end exactly why it died in three days, I killed it by accident. You could have also read the title, that would have been a good clue
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The Dongle not being a type C makes sense considering it was made for Consoles and Windows, which will more likley than not use a traditional USB port
I agree! Not everything needs to be Type C as Type A is always common, convenient, and still relevant, which is why most controllers have a USB cable with Type A on one end for that purpose. I find it stupid that people are manipulated by having USB-C on everything when you can just buy adapters to get around it. 🤦
The Xbox Series consoles dont even have a USB C port anyway, so the USB A dongle is even less of a problem when you buy the xbox version
@@Aperez Plus chances are that more people will have to buy an adapter to plug in the riffmaster dongle if it was USB-C. It's such a weird complaint
@@Just_jarmo not to mention the guitars also work on PS4 and Xbox One, so these dongles work fine on these previous consoles as well.
Yeah my pc doesn’t even have a Usbc port anyway and the Xbox doesn’t have usbc in the front
Im so glad that every review of this guitar I watch, any complaint is just some weird nitpicky bitchy thing that isn't a problem for 99% of people.
because most of the GH, Rock Band community will have these issues. If you are a player only using this guitar for fortnite then you wont, but most people who buy this guitar will use it for other things.
@@chickennoodlesu322 it has worked flawlessly for me on Rock Band 4, Rock Band 3 Deluxe, Yarg, Clone Hero, AND Fortnite. So again, these people are nit-picking
whoever deleted my reply can eat rocks
typical reddit mod comment moderator
@@Sithedd I use reddit for porn and nothing else.
the dongle problem i was mostly the only who was against it, because it is a piece of plastic that can be easily be losted, and wiring a controller always must be a option
store it in the guitar
There is a slot for it if you take off the faceplate. The tab to remove it is where the neck connects to the body. It's not the best guitar, very similar feel to the RB. I bought a riffmaster 3 weeks ago, played it for a couple days and then put it down. Bought an Xbox 360 Les Paul for $80 and am much happier!
Still excited to get my hands on one for Xbox, but yeah, the fact that it can only be used wirelessly is a pretty big concern for people like me who are probably gonna using it 10 or so years from now.
So buy 2
@@carlosespinoza6182 I think you’re kinda missing the point.
Who’s to say that PDP will still be selling Riffmasters after the lithium-ion battery in mine either can’t hold a charge as long as it used to or outright dies?
The USB-C port only being used for charging the controller is a pretty big design flaw in what looks like an otherwise good product.
Please try to hard reset your guitar. (Your guitar should be powered on for this step)
Press and hold your PS button for 12 seconds. (The guitar will power off after 6 seconds, this is normal, continue to hold the button for an additional 6 seconds until the guitar turns back on.
After performing the hard reset, please try to reset the connection.
Make sure the RIFFMASTER guitar is turned off
Connect the USB dongle to an active USB port of your console
Use a small paperclip to press and hold the re-pair button on the right of the USB dongle until the LED starts flashing rapidly. The button is located in the small hole. (this also can be the Connect Button)
While the LED is flashing on the USB dongle, press the power button on your RIFFMASTER
Once the guitar is turned on, press and hold the PDP Logo button and Share button on the RIFFMASTER. Keep holding both of the buttons until the LED on the transmitter AND the RIFFMASTER turn solid.
Your RIFFMASTER is now repaired and ready for use.
(To fix dongle issue, hope it works)
Your riffmaster issues are the drivers, consoles require controllers to have a "security" chip to work right. Its just so they can force a fat license fee to third party manufacturers
Yup, I was able to roll back my drivers with device manager by overwriting the corrupted ones
@@DanRockProductions To make it register in Clone Hero you need to manually install xbox controller drivers on it. Same with the GH Live controllers on clone hero.
@@DanRockProductions How did you rollback your drivers? I'm running into the same issue
@@NotoriousHRT I reinstalled them using Device Manager. Basically clearing them out and hitting "automatically search for drivers" took care of it
@@DanRockProductions Thank you! My stomach sank when I'd thought I'd bricked my guitar
So youre telling me for 10 to 15 yrs i can play fine on my pc? Sounds like a not bad deal for 120$
Pretty sure you can plug the usb c to a power brick even when the battery is dead dead and it will work while plugged in. It would get power from said brick and wirelessly send signal to the dongle. I don’t think that when plugged into power it disables the digital signal being sent like some electronics do. I know that you can currently use this while its charging so unless it’s requiring the battery to send signal it should work even in 10-15 years when the battery is fried
You have to go to the devices section of Windows and uninstall the driver that the mapper put, then restart the PC and I you can use again the dongle.
Yup, did that shortly after I broke the dongle. That resets it, but I can't map the instrument using the software at all anymore. Unfortunate!
My analog stick broke in 3 months even though I barley touched that part
Apparently, the PS controller works on PC without needing to map it, but that's secondhand info I got from some other YT that did a review
I'm largely unfamiliar with the Guitar Hero peripheral world so I'm not sure if it's common for yall to mention stuff about it, but thank you so much for mentioning the battery that does have a shelf life, I find this is something a lot of tech related hobbies don't mention in the slightest but can and will make a big effect on the usage of stuff
Yeah when starting to play Rock Band I had to get use to the clicky colors and the non clicky strum bar but after a while of just playing Rock Band I love it as much as Guitar Hero now.
the issues with festival is that all guitar hero games and rock band games were done on a engine either sourced to them or inhouse engine, fortnite festival is one of the first rythym games done in unreal engine, and has to use the tools fortnite provides, the fact it's come this far so quickly is impressive
Im giving this controller a chance casually.
I've bought a lot of strats and raged over them. However when i had the Jaguar, it died after a year. It powers on but doesn't respond very well. Jitters and just plain unresponsive. So I'll enjoy the Riffmaster and get another Jaguar in the future.
anyone else’s riff master strum bar feel just stiff as hell? got one today and literally if you strum up or down it just stays in place and feels like i need to use more force than i should to use it
I paid 142 for a new one from official store on amazon and it came filthy with finger smears, hair, dust and scratches, the strum bar also felt like crap like it would break easy, returning it. It's cheap plastic not worth the price.
I bought one and love it. I haven’t played rock band in years and this is a great way for me to jump back in to it
I got mine recently, You said you plugged it in fortnite pc and it worked, I needed joytokey and RB4 instrument mapper for it to even work for pc. Overrally i played on a doyo guitar via amazon for 2 months, that broke and got this, i can say its definitely better than the doyo guitars. The strum bar is too quiet, but you can definitely go faster for alt strumming on it compared to gh controllers imo. frets are not hard, just right and bouncey. I think if the strum bar had a clicky sound it would be 10/10
It really does suck that you can't turn it into a wired guitar or you can use it in GHWTDE, YARG, GH2DX, etc. without running the risk of breaking it
after you brick the dongle you have to run the xbox signed driver back onto it through device manager on your pc!
USB A Adapter is an issue
Me: Heheh, PC no problemo
My ROG Ally is a gaming PC without a type-a slot!
@@delayed_control They literally sell docks so you can use it as your main PC if you want but okay I guess my handheld computer that runs windows 11 isn't a PC lol
My biggest issue with this thing is activating star power on rock band, it’s very difficult to press select unless you find the button first and wait to activate which is kind of annoying when they could’ve just made a big select button like the 360 Les Paul. Also have you tried activating by lifting it up? I had to lift it up like 90 degrees in the air for it to activate, just wish it was more sensitive. Anyways it’s a decent guitar overall
Tilt does work for me, but like you said, it's not sensitive at all
I hate trying to activate on fortnite festival. You have to use the D pad and I'm always overstrumming because they set the D pad to strum also.
You can use the view button as the activation for star power on the xbox version of Rock Band
I don't regret getting it but I'm more of a fan of GH style guitars. Also tilt SUCKS in Festival. Button placement for overdrive being absent kinda kills it for me.
No one is releasing dongles in anything but usb A, so out of all the things getting called out in this video that one feels a bit excessive
8:37 That'd be very interesting to hear about. I've seen on quite a few ocassions the argument of the people at Harmonix not knowing how to code the game or something like that, and that was talking about Rock Band 4
Did you ever figure out what killed the Riffmaster guitar on PC? Maybe not select some settings on RB4mapper software? My Riffmaster works fine on both my Xbox and on PC when playing Rock band 4 and clone hero. I barely play Fortnite Festival cuz it's boring, and you have to own most of the songs otherwise they rotate out of the store and you can't play them again.
PLS HELP I'M PLAYING ON PS5 AND I HAVE TO PRESS EACH CHORD WITH MY LEFT HAND EVERY BUTTON RATHER THAN BEING ABLE TO HOLD IT DOWN WHILE STRUMMING. I need help lol
If you're talking about fortnite you aren't on pro
thought id let you know apparently you can manually remap the controls in clone hero and itll work with the guitar im sorry to hear you bricked your dongle i have one currently shipping to me
It wouldn't show up in CH at all, so I couldn't map it in the first place :(
@@DanRockProductionsmine does appear as X-input on clone hero but nothing on the guitar works, can’t remap the buttons
A very solid and thourough review. Well done. I just wish I'd watched it before I bought one, lol. Oh well. I'll still enjoy it for what it is.
Thank you!
Also big fan of your Game Room Ideas series, keep up the good work :)
Won't it work if, 10 years from now, the battery dies as you said, but you plug it to the wall with an usb-c charger while playing wirelessly to the PS5/xbox?
Maybe that'd work? But how many people would honestly want to be tethered to a wall outlet to play a Rock Band game lol
hope next year they can make a wiffmaster 2 with tactile strum, larger overdrive button that is easier to hit, wired connectivity option, and native pc support.
Did you try remapping the buttons on clone hero?
The guitar doesn't show up at all in Clone Hero
The guitar does not show up at all in Clone Hero
maybe this is a dumb question, but why would you just go at rb4 mapper? Why would it work? It's not a rockband guitar, it has different firmware, of course you bricked it!
Many, many other people have gotten the Riffmaster to work flawlessly in Rb4InstrumentMapper. You gotta remember that this thing is basically a reworked RB4 Jaguar, made by the exact same people. It is indeed a Rock Band guitar, and they marketed it as that first and foremost before saying it was compatible with Festival.
I have a question, since you managed to fix the Riffmaster judging by the comments.. have you tried doing the RB4IMapper program again? And if so, did it work? And how was the experience?
I tried again, the program crashes on startup sadly
@@DanRockProductions Does that mean no Guitar hero 3 support?
@@DiamondDawn9 nope, sadly not
Please update us if u fixed the dongle for pc recognition.
I prefer the feel of a rockband guitar of gh guitar, so this product excited me for its pc potential.
Spent 180 usd on a jaguar not knowing that there was a festival instrument mapper but hey, I’m not waiting months for them to come into stock again. I just hate how stiff the frets are, doesn’t work well on Festival drums with the new compatibility added.
Hey, the Jaguar is certainly an investment if nothing else. It's one of the rarer GH/RB guitars in existence, I've only seen two in person myself. As a guitar, it's nothing special, but as an investment, it'll probably be worth more in the coming years if previous trends are anything to go by
The xbkx series has usb A on the console , the only usb c associated on xbox series is on the controllers
Really fair point with that battery crap.
When will these be in stock again at game stop 😢
I will continue to downvote misleading thumbnails until creators stop. I know you said you broke it, but the thumbnail makes it seem like it was the guitar's fault
cool did you read the title that literally says "I broke my riffmaster?"
@@DanRockProductions The title isn't the only thing you first see before clicking, and yes i did see and acknowledge the title, but the thumbnail has just as many words as the title, and "dead in three days" implies it was the guitar's fault, and makes the title seem to refer to your average handling.
Btw i do like the review
tbh that's why I'm waiting for a PS riffmaster because that version gets picked up by windows and you can use it in clone hero, yarg, rbdx3, etc. and you just have to use the festival instrument mapper to make it work there, but I'm getting a ps5 too so I was already thinking to play pro guitar/bass there and the normal mode on pc
Wrong. Doesnt wokk with Yarg at all.
@HyredGunnz weird, mine does work
@HyredGunnz Incorrect, the PS version now does work with YARG.
Worried about stick drift on a guitar controller, that’s a new one.
Thank you for the honest review.
Based on some of your replies you’ve managed to unbrick the guitar but is there still any way to change the drivers to that of a regular/generic controller without bricking it? (I have a ps4/5 model)
I don't believe so, I'm afraid, aside from rb4instrumentmapper
Any body having a “press any button” screen on the ps5 and know how to fix it!?
would you recommend this for xbox or should i get a guitar hero guitar(idk if they work with fort or not)
Just started playing with the riffmaster on pc, should I leave the dongle in and have it flashing all day? Or take it out each time im done for the day? Any harm on leaving it on? or will swapping it in and out cause ore wear and tear?
personally I unplug mine when not in use. cheers🎉
Xbox Series X|S has no USB C so not sure what the issue is with a USB A dongle
Like I said in the video, USB-A is appearing on less and less nowadays. Hell, my brand new laptop doesn't even HAVE a USB-A port, which means if I wanted to play Festival on my laptop, I'd have to buy an adapter. Same with if you wanted to play it on an ROG Ally, Steam Deck, Legion Go, MSI Claw, Ayaneo Air... literally everything aside from the Xbox Series consoles. It makes no sense to me that PDP doesn't have any type C options
Hell, they could even get Switch compatibility if they had a type C option🤷
@@DanRockProductions the transition to usb c has been pretty messy but more people will have A to C adapters so maybe that's better off
More and more people in the coming years will, for sure. I only have the one that came with my last smartphone, but it's constantly being used for my laptop. It'd have been nice if PDP included an adapter in the box. They probably don't cost much in bulk. I probably wouldn't have even mentioned it in the video
There is no standard amongst the manufacturers in regards to USB-C. This has caused usb c to be so vastly different in terms of functionality, compatibility, and features. Which is a problem.
Also, just get a usb 3.0 hub. I use one on my console to have my external storage drive, mouse, keyboard, cable for charging controller, wireless dongle for the other mouse keyboard on the sim rig and of the course another for the wheel itself.
@@s.d.g.global4582 a hub wouldn't necessarily fix my problems unfortunately. I shouldn't need to purchase extra parts to adapt my new $130 controller to a new standard. My laptop and handheld gaming PC don't feature type A ports at all. They should have included an A to C adapter in the box, if not given us the option to choose a different dongle at checkout
One of my all time favorite guitars is gh2 red octain ps2 controller only con was it was small as hell
One of the GOAT guitars
I have the issue described in the video....Is there any way I can fix this or did I just throw money to the trash?
With the software crashing and the drivers corrupting themselves?
Open Device Manager and overwrite the broken drivers with Xbox One controller drivers, that reverts it
@@DanRockProductions Would that work with a PS4/5 Riffmaster, or will I need to download PS5 controller drivers? (The entire dongle is bricked, and won't detect the guitar anymore. On PC or PS5.)
you look like frank iero lol and that's kinda sick ngl
holy shit that's a great compliment, thank you
Honestly you guys have it good and easy. In my country 120 bucks is 704 in the country economy, which is 300 away from the minimum mensal wage. So stop bicthing and enjoy the fucking controller man 😂
The rock band guitars have always been garbage. The buttons feel bad, the strum bar isn't tactile and the necks are way too thin. They will always be inferior to GH controllers.
Literally no one has ever used the upper frets, beside GH5.
I've always felt the same way. The Riffmaster is a wee bit better, but an Arduino modded GH5 guitar feels lightyears better
Dude any guitar hero controller not made for the wii is kinda trash in the first place. Even then the strum bar isnt "tactile" the clicking just triggers the monkey part of the brain. There's a reason for why strum fixes exist for both RB and GH controllers
@@SpectacularSpiderFan disagree. SGs and Kramer's have a good form factor, good strum bar and perfect weight. Both of my Wii LPs overstrum and all genericasters break easily, no matter what console
A good review and a good video.
Great Review! You get to the point with the lithium Battery and the PC Problems, everything else is fine, been playing with the riffmaster for 3 days now and I think it’s THE BEST RB guitar, still can’t beat Wireless Les Paul from GH3
Yeah the “dead in three days” thumbnail is total clickbait, I’ve had mine for Yarg and FF and it works perfectly and has for the past month
Did you watch the video? I explain at the end exactly why it died in three days, I killed it by accident.
You could have also read the title, that would have been a good clue
Man he complains about almost everything even the dongle being type a instead of c lol
Literally bro I play on a Series S 💀
Series S doesn’t even have a USB-C port on it lmao
So like 12$ a year😂 worth it
The strum bar is a huge no for me
I like my strumbars long like ones that the wt and gh5 have