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SingStar PS3 - Official Thread: Share your drunken vorspiel videos!
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Dedication Through Light
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Random question but are there trophies in the game? Is seems like this thread is really the only place that Ive found to even get information on the game.
And can every song be song with two microphones at the same time?
And can every song be song with two microphones at the same time?
Yes and yes.
There is one set of trophies for all PS3 SingStar games. So if you had say Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, your trophies for one game are the same as your trophies for another.
Every song can be sung with two microphones in either a Battle where both people have to sing the entire song, or a Duet where players take turns singing lines or verses.
There is one set of trophies for all PS3 SingStar games. So if you had say Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, your trophies for one game are the same as your trophies for another.
Every song can be sung with two microphones in either a Battle where both people have to sing the entire song, or a Duet where players take turns singing lines or verses.
Just a random thing I remembered... A while ago my friend and I were playing Duet mode. We usually just do battle, but recently I get her to try out all my new song purchases with me and we do duet so she doesn't have to sing as much.Toki767 said:
So anyway, we are shuffling around and ended up doing a duet for "Hey Ya", and it had awesome note charting for the duet mode.
Blue: Hey, alright now
Blue: Alright now fellas
Red: Yeah!
Blue: Now what's cooler than bein' cool?
Red: Ice cold!
Blue: I can't hear ya'
Blue: I say, I say what's cooler than bein' cool?
Red: Ice cold!
Another example is "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"
Blue: Give it to me baby
Red: Uh huh, uh huh
Blue: Give it to me baby
Red: Uh huh, uh huh
Blue: Give it to me baby
Red: Uh huh, uh huh
Both of these songs are charted as single artists (no dedicated separate parts when playing duet), but in some instances the person charting the duet naturally broken up the lines to red/blue mics to match different singers. It's something that feels really natural and awesome when you are singing, as if you are your partner are actually working together rather than just singing random verses of a song.
It would be done by hand.Toki767 said:
A lot of work goes into the duets to ensure that each microphone (usually) sings the same amount and type of material as the other, so that one player isn't disadvantaged. Particularly obvious with song structures like 'verse-chorus-verse-chorus-chorus', where you'll notice in the second verse the Red/Blue player assignments are opposite of what they were in the first verse. This way each player has sung the equivalent of a whole verse.
I can't image how they would have problems. Worst case scenario, each player gets random blocks of lines.Toki767 said:
Each player's maximum scores are always normalised to 5000 anyway.I think something much harder would just be note charting (in general) for songs which have overlapping vocals. Especially when the singer goes on their own tangent, and the charting either has to stick with the backing vocals or follow the lead singer.
I think Rihanna - "SOS" was an example song which was hard to chart. At the very least, it was hard to sing. I never knew if I was meant to sing her lines or the backing lines, and always ended up with a terrible score.
Callibretto
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I just found out that singstore download is tied to your psn id and your hardware. so, I just recently upgrade to PS3 slim. now I couldn't re download my downloadable songs. and I don't think I can re buy them either...
am I screwed?
am I screwed?
Downloaded a whole crap of songs before I took the PS3 up to familys for Thanksgiving. Had a blast.... annoyed that there are songs on Vol 2 that can't be purchased through the store. Annoyed that Vol 3 isn't out in the US. Annoyed that the "normal" version of UB40's Red Red Wine is still not the whole song.
But we did have made fun on Friday and the voice control works pretty well.
Callibretto per earlier in the thread call Sony.
But we did have made fun on Friday and the voice control works pretty well.
Callibretto per earlier in the thread call Sony.
Sony's been pretty good about cases where people upgrade from their old PS3s to the new slim. I believe all you have to do is e-mail the customer service and explain your situation to them and ask them to transfer your license from your old PS3 to your new one.Callibretto said:
Dedication Through Light
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Rihanna's SOS on the Boogie game wasnt actually that difficult, but I think it was actually singing her lines and not the background vocalists.
Wow the song isnt standard in SingStar vol 2 nor on the download list? lol
Wow the song isnt standard in SingStar vol 2 nor on the download list? lol
"SOS"? It's on SingStar Pop [US PS2] and SingStar Pop Hits [EU/AU PS2].Dedication Through Light said:
Rihanna is an artist under Universal Music Group (UMG). The UK branch of UMG has a online licensing agreement with SingStar, but the US branch doesn't. There's a chance Rihanna - "SOS" could be released on the UK SingStore, but not the US one.
Dedication Through Light
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Wow why is the US Singstar website so, lacking compared to the others. And also where is this facebook group, I cant find it...
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SingStarUKDedication Through Light said:
The singstargame.com website was established a couple years back. The site actually has a fully featured US version that can be accessed by changing the URL, but for whatever reason SCEA wanted the US version to direct to their own version.
SiegfriedFM
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On the subject of updating hardware, do I have to re-download everything if I change the HDD in my PS3 to a bigger one and just make a backup of everything that's currently on it to the new one (via USB stick)?
Dedication Through Light
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Wow the US PC store for it either stopped working for me or just acted weird, there are so many "text missing" errors and the song previews dont work at all for me. I did want to browse the site more.
Do they ever ask fans what songs they would want for a future update?
And has the song choices been a criticism of the game for awhile, seems like the "most" popular songs arent in there, well recent ones (like no 2009 songs(?))
Do they ever ask fans what songs they would want for a future update?
And has the song choices been a criticism of the game for awhile, seems like the "most" popular songs arent in there, well recent ones (like no 2009 songs(?))
Because the US part of the site isn't usually accessible they haven't bothered fixing minor things like that. Most of the song previews should work though. :-/Dedication Through Light said:
The SingStar Team are actually quite good with listening to fans. In particular, Nina Scherer posts the fortnightly SingStar updates on the EU PlayStation Blog, and she responds to user comments. In general, I think that they know what the majority of people want, and really want to bring those songs to the store, but their hands are tied with licensing.
Still, the group are UK-based, so they might not know about bands which did good in the US but never in the UK. e.g. on the SingStore you can find Fun Boy Three - "Our Lips Are Sealed", which was a hit in the UK, but not The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed" which was the popular version in the US and Australia. That's one of the reasons why I usually request Australian artists from them; I figure they already know the obvious artists like Lady GaGa and Rihanna.
And yes, song choices have been a complaint pretty much since day one. Currently of the major four music labels, Warner Music Group is refusing to licensing songs for the SingStore, Universal Music Group is licensing in Europe only, and Sony Music Entertainment is holding off their best content. EMI is the most licensing friendly, but even some of their major hits (Coldplay - "Viva la Vida", anything from Katy Perry) haven't come through.
Other two GaGa songs actually.kassatsu said:So since Lips got that other Gaga song, I hope we get it next update
I'm still super-stoked for next update. With SME Australia on their licensing spree, there's a chance for more Delta Goodrem, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Rogue Traders. A repeat of last week would be soooo awesome.
Speaking of licensing, I still have to send off a request for R.E.M. - "The One That I Love" and "It's The End Of The World As We Know It". Most of their songs are under Warner, but their pre-1988 music was released under IRS which was later absorbed by EMI, and is now managed by Capitol Records. End of the World would be awesome purely so I can learn the lyrics.
Dedication Through Light
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So when I get the game thursday I will get this update?
I guess I would have no clue how the old singstore interface looked, if they update it.
I guess I would have no clue how the old singstore interface looked, if they update it.
Hows this for a bug... I downloaded the latest patch on SingStar Vol 1, and it deleted every single song that was not previously released on PS2 back catalogue. I'm doing more detailed analysis on which songs remained to try and find out the cause.
But yeah, I'm keeping SingStar Pop Edition at 4.21 for now..
But yeah, I'm keeping SingStar Pop Edition at 4.21 for now..
Tntnnbltn said:
Thanks... we don't play Singstar that much... actually we haven't played in awhile but I brought the PS3 with me up to my Dad's on my wife's request(which first involved purchase another 40+ songs hadn't realized it'd been so long since we played, had to check the store out...) so we could play it and had a good time(actually posted a video or two of the fam on facebook), so I want to rent the PS2 discs via gamefly and see if any have enough tracks to consider keeping or picking up via Ebay....
So when the PS2 disc is on do you only see tracks that are on that disc or do you see those tracks and your installed PS3 tracks... also are the clearly delineated so you know which is which?