How to identify if my Guitar Hero package is the defective one?

[sarausagi]

I just bought Guitar Hero II [the other day actually] and am having trouble opening it or not

I heard there were defective guitars in the GH2 shipments

How do I identify whether or not it is a defective package?

Is it on the box?

Or if I open it, is there a specific set of numbers on the guitars?!

 

[R1V3R5]

I was under the impression that while it appeared to be a hardware problem, it was actually software related. Activision has since released a patch over LIVE.

Edit:

"On April 13, 2007, Activision revealed that the issue was not a problem with the hardware, and that the guitars were not defective. The cause of the problem was anti-cheat protection software, and Activision released a patch on Xbox Live on April 14, 2007 to remedy it."

 

[Malik112099]

the mandatory patch fixes this as soon as you log into xbox live and load up the game

 

[masked lemon]

How long have you been sitting on that unopened GH2?

 

[screwkick]

I believe the so-called bad box part number ends in 55, while the good box ends in 56.

I could be wrong.

 

[CokeCola]

It is a hardware problem - the whammy bar doesn't start out at or return to its 0 position. The patch just makes it so it doesn't matter quite as much.

Just a technicality.