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Guitar Compatibility Charts-March 2024

Mar 17, 2025 5:36 AM

　　By: Staff - Posted on Friday, Nov. 30, 2007 Being a rock star was a lot easier when Guitar Hero was the only franchise in town. Once you had a Guitar Hero controller, you could depend on your trusty axe to work on all future Guitar Hero games on the same game console. However, guitar compatibility has become a major question now that Rock Band has joined Guitar Hero in the genre. You can't mix and match controllers with games anymore now that we have two competing game franchises with different guitar designs. We put together guitar compatibility charts for each major platform to show you which controllers work with Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

Xbox 360 Guitar Compatibility

Xbox 360	Guitar Hero II	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock	Rock Band
Fender Stratocaster (RockBand)	No	No	Yes
Gibson Les Paul (Guitar Hero III)	Yes	Yes	Yes, no effects switch
Wireless Gibson X-plorer (Guitar Hero II)	Yes	Yes	Yes, no effects switch

The Guitar Hero III Gibson Les Paul and the original Gibson X-plorer from Guitar Hero II will both work as lead or bass guitars in Rock Band on the Xbox 360. However, they don't have the built-in audio switchers to activate echo, flanger, and other guitar sound effects.

　　While the Xbox 360 RedOctane controllers play nicely with Rock Band, we can't say that the Rock Band guitar returns the favor. The Rock Band Fender Stratocaster will not work with Guitar Hero II or Guitar Hero III.

PlayStation 3 Guitar Compatibility

PlayStation 3	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock	Rock Band
Fender Stratocaster (Rock Band)	No	Yes
Gibson Les Paul (Guitar Hero III)	Yes	No

As you can see, there isn't much cross-game guitar compatibility on the PlayStation 3. The Guitar Hero III Gibson Les Paul controller works only with Guitar Hero III, whereas the Rock Band Fender Stratocaster only works with Rock Band. The problem is that the Rock Band package includes only one guitar. This means that many aspiring groups will have to make do without a bassist until Harmonix begins selling individual guitars.

Wii Guitar Compatibility

Wii	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Gibson Les Paul (Guitar Hero III)	Yes

The Wii only has Guitar Hero III right now, but we made room for a chart in case Rock Band becomes available.

PlayStation 2 Guitar Compatibility

PlayStation 2	Guitar Hero	Guitar Hero II	Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock	Rock Band
Fender Stratocaster (RockBand)	No	No	No	No	Yes
Wireless Kramer Striker (Guitar Hero III)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wireless Guitar (Guitar Hero Encore)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	TBD
Gibson SG (Guitar Hero I & II)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

We don't have Rock Band for the PlayStation 2 yet, but we'll update the chart once we get the chance to run the game and the guitar through the compatibility gauntlet.

　　Update: Rock Band for the PlayStation 2 is now available. The PS2 Fender Stratocaster didn't work with any of our Guitar Hero games, but the wireless Kramer and the original Gibson SG guitars worked fine with Rock Band.

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