Guitar Hero: Metallica (PlayStation 2)

Guitar Hero: Metallica
Developer: Budcat Creations Publisher: Activision Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: April 14, 2009 Released in EU: May 29, 2009 Released in AU: May 27, 2009 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused modes / minigames.

Guitar Hero, with Metallica. Also included a new Expert+ mode which lets you use two pedals while drumming.

Build Dates

Two different build dates are present, as with every Guitar Hero game after III.

Date = Mar 18 2009 Time 16:45:08

Dumping from elf built on %s at %s
Mar 18 2009
16:46:23

Development Related Text

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and 3 (?!?) related strings are present in every Guitar Hero after III.

http://www.thug3online.com/testmotd.dat
http://www.thug3online.com/motd.dat

THUG2 Viewer

THUG2
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NTSC
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Some commented error messages.

Allocation successful. I am shocked. Shocked!
We appear to be stuck reading the movie data, 
bailing out...
ezpcm.irx module set PANIC flag: Look at its last 
error message.

Rhythm Guitar Charts

To do: Add video of these charts; perhaps on a subpage?

Every Metallica song in the game has a hidden rhythm guitar chart! They can be found in the midi files on the track PART RHYTHM (separate from PART GUITAR and PART BASS). It appears that this feature, found in earlier entries, was set to come back before ultimately being scrapped.

Though the final game only allows the player to choose between lead guitar and bass, the rhythm guitar charts can be viewed using a midi editor, and are fully playable when imported into Clone Hero.