Guitar Hero II cheats & more for PlayStation 2 (PS2)

Hints

Five Gold Stars

If you get 100% notes hit on any song, you will have five gold stars when you finish. It's hard, but it's do-able.

Gold Four Stars

Hit every note in a song but strum an extra time whenever you get a 4x multiplier.

Long Note Hint

Did you know that if you are holding one of the notes that are long, they will not count it as a ROCK BOOSTER until you finish the note.

Free Bird

Free Bird is very hard but if know how to use the controller its pretty easy. I use a guitar on it I failed every time. When i got use too using a controller i got a 99% on it. Its kinda easy and yet kinda hard. Good luck. Your gonna need it.

All Characters Hold The Scythe

Think only the grim ripper can hold the scythe well your wrong. To have any other character hold the scythe you must have that characters alternate costume. First you choose the ripper, than switch to the other character. The scythe will be available as a guitar.

Guitarist Grim Ripper

Grim Ripper is for sale in the store for $6000 (under character section).

Guitarist Clive Winston

Clive Winston is for sale in the store for $3000 (under the character section).

Guitarist Xavier Stone

Xavier Stone is for sale in the store for $3000 (under the character section).

Pull Offs And Hammer Ons

to unlock the hammer-ons and pull-offs in the training simulation, you must beat BOTH tutorials that are available to you then go back to training and you will learn how to do hammer-ons and pull-offs, this is good for people who keep on getting 3 stars on hard and expert modes.

Two-Note Speed Sections

Hold down the deepest note out of the two you are playing. Hit that the first time you are supposed to play it. Then, every other note, hit the higher button. However, after pressing the higher note, release it, and it will be counted as a pull off. You will hit more notes than by trying to alternate which button is held down.

Bonus Songs

In order to get a BONUS song, you MUST get a Perfect Ranking on ANY song to get the BONUS song for that ranking. For example: the first set includes Mother, Shout at the Devil, etc. In order to get the bonus song for THAT SPECIFIC GROUP, you must get a Perfect ranking; no mess- ups, which means that you mst hit every note.

Cheats

Unlock Everything

Blue, Yellow, Orange, Red, Orange, Yellow, Red. Keep tapping Yellow, Red at the end until it activates.

Horse Head

At the main menu press Blue, Orange, Orange, Blue, Orange, Orange, Blue, Orange, Orange, Blue.

Unlock Air Guitar

At main menu press yellow, yellow, blue, orange, yellow, blue.

Hyperspeed On or Off

Orange, Blue, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow.

Performance Mode

Press Yellow, Yellow, Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Yellow at the main menu. Everything disappears except for the performance.

Hyper Mode (the Fret Bar Goes Faster)

On the Main Menu, quickly press: Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow. A confirmation will pop up to say that the code was enabled. to DISABLE:re-enter code. Another screen will pop-up to confirm this as well.

Audience Has Monkey Heads

On the Main Menu, quickly press: Orange, Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Yellow. a Confirmation will pop up to say that the code is enabled. to Disable: enter code again.

Audience Has Eyeball Heads

On the main menu, (career, quik play, etc.) quickly press the following buttons on the neck of the guitar: Blue, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Blue. A confirmation screen will pop up stating that the code is enabled. To disable simply enter the same buttons again.

Guitarist Has Flaming Head

At the main menu, quickly press Orange, Yellow, Orange(2), Yellow, Orange, Yellow(2). If you entered the code correctly, a message will appear. Repeat this code to disable its effect.

Unlockables

Casket Guitar

Complete medium mode.

Battle Axe Guitar

Complete expert mode.

Unlockable Co-op Guitars

GIBSON SG BASS (black) - beat 10 songs
GIBSON GRABBER - Beat 20 Songs
GIBSON THUNDERBIRD - Beat 30 Songs
GIBSON LES PAUL AND SKIN - Beat 40 Songs
HOFNER BASS - Beat every song
LAVA PEARL MUSICMAN STINGRAY - Get 5 stars on at least 10 songs
CREAM SG - Get 5 stars on 20 songs
NATURAL SUNBURST GIBSON THUNDERBIRD BASS - Get 5 stars on every co-op mode song (Bonus songs)
NATURAL MAPLE GIBSON GRABBER BASS - Get 4 stars on all co-op mode songs.

Viking Guitar

You must achieve 5-stars in every songs on medium.

USA Guitar

You must achieve 5-stars in every songs on easy.

Fish Guitar

Complete easy mode.

Eyeball Guitar

You must achieve 5-stars in every songs on hard.

Snaketapus Guitar

Complete expert mode.

The LOG Guitar

You must achieve 5-stars in every songs on expert.

The Grim Ripper's Second Guitar

The Grim Ripper has 2 guitars, but it only lets you choose 1! This is how you get to use the second guitar, it's pretty easy. Pick the Grim Ripper as your character on career mode then go to the screen where you choose your band. Go back to your band and look at the profile at the top of the screen. It should say "The Grim Ripper playing the Les Paul cherry sunburst" DON'T go to change guitar otherwise it will go back to the Scythe. This only works in career more.

Get Scythe Guitar

You can play as the Grim Ripper and have it every time or just beat the entire game and buy all bonus songs and beat all of em on each difficulty, that also means Jordan needs five stars.

The Coffin Guitar

You must complete Medium.

Guitarist Becomes On FIRE!

While in career mode, play at least 100 notes in a row in every song in the career!

Bonus Basses

Successfully complete the indicated number of songs in Co-Op mode to unlock the corresponding bass at the shop for Co-Op mode:

Gibson Grabber: 20 songs 
Gibson SG: 10 songs 
Gibson Thunderbird: 30 songs 
Lava Pear Musician Stingray: 21 songs with a five star rank on the Hard difficulty setting 

Pro Face-Off Mode

Successfully complete the game on the Medium difficulty setting to unlock Pro Face-Off mode. This mode allows two players to play all the notes.

Snaketapus Guitar

Complete Hard Mode

The "Log" Guitar

You must achieve 5-Star every song on Expert

Eyeball Guitar

You must achieve 5-Star every song on Hard

Battle Axe Guitar

Complete Expert Mode

Fish Guitar

Complete Easy Mode

Viking Guitar

You must achieve 5-Star every song on Medium

USA Guitar

You must achieve 5-Star every song on Easy

Easter eggs

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Glitches

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Guides

Song List Part 1

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