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The first beta of Band Hero, running natively on Windows: no emulator to set up, sharp graphics, wide screens, high frame rates, and your Xbox 360 guitar.
Important
You need your own copy of the game: the Xbox 360 disc, as an ISO (tested with the disc sold in the USA). This release contains none of the game's files.
Band Hero shares its engine with Guitar Hero 5, so from day one it comes with what GH5Recomp, GHVanHRecomp, GHMetalRecomp and GHWoRRecomp fix and add.
What you get
- Your guitar: an Xbox 360 guitar plays as on the console, whammy bar and Star Power included. Any other controller is a guitar too, and the keyboard can be one (experimental). Each controller's buttons can be reassigned in the launcher.
- Auto-strum, GH2 / GH3 style: on a controller or the keyboard, each fret strums as you press it. Turn it on in the launcher's Controls tab; it only acts during a song.
- Sharp, native graphics with NativeXRenderer (Vulkan), at your screen's resolution, with antialiasing.
- Sharper shadows: the Shadow quality row (Settings > Video) draws them at up to four times the original resolution.
- No first-time stutters: the first time you press PLAY, "Compiling shaders" prepares every graphics combination the game uses for your graphics card, in a few seconds. Skip starts the game at once.
- Upscaling: AMD FSR 1 or NVIDIA NIS, on any graphics card, for 4K screens and slower graphics cards (Settings > Video), with their Quality and Sharpness.
- High frame rates: 60 FPS, or 120, 144, 160, 165 or 240 FPS (experimental). The songs keep their speed and stay in sync.
- V-Sync, on by default: no tearing, without V-Sync's usual delay. Leave it on with a G-Sync or FreeSync monitor too.
- Low latency audio (optional, Settings > Game): the game takes your audio device in exclusive mode and the sound comes sooner. Calibrate the audio again after changing it.
- Wide and ultrawide screens: the stage fills the screen, the note highway, the HUD and the menus stay 16:9 in the center.
- Better than the original: songs no longer drift out of sync, and each screen effect (bloom, depth of field, film grain, color correction, vignette) can be turned off.
- Play together: in Party Play, the first controller to press a button plays with your profile, and the others join as its guests.
- Downloadable content: install your own Band Hero packages from the launcher's DLC tab. Not tried in this game yet.
- Sing (experimental) with any microphone on your PC. Not tested in this game yet.
- Profiles and achievements shared by all the ElGus Recomps launchers: all 49 achievements in the launcher or with F7 in the game.
- Languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, in the game and in the launcher.
- Automatic updates from the launcher.
Known issues
- Drums and singing have not been tested in this game yet.
- AMD graphics cards have only been checked in a simulation, and drum kits not at all: if you have either, tell us how it goes (or what goes wrong), with the newest
ghbandhero_NNN.log. - Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
- Downloadable content has not been tried in this game yet.
- The full list is in the README.
How to install
Download the installer (BandHRecomp-v0.1.0-setup.exe), or the zip (BandHRecomp-v0.1.0-win64.zip) and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). Open Band Hero Launcher, choose the ISO of your game (it installs about 5.1 GB), create your profile (or keep the one you already have from another ElGus Recomps game) and press PLAY. The game starts in Party Play: press Start there to reach the main menu. In the game's options, run the audio and video calibration once.
Windows may warn about an unknown publisher the first time: click More info, then Run anyway.
Something wrong? Tell us on Discord or in issues, with the latest files in the game's logs folder.