Features

Rock Band 3 Deluxe improves and expands upon Rock Band 3 in every way possible, like adding much-desired quality-of-life upgrades, and letting YOU get creative and customize the game any way you want!

Here's just a few of the amazing things that await you...

Putting On a Rock Show

Song library too big? Don't know what to pick? Vote for the next tune with 'Play A Show'1, backported from Rock Band 4 to Rock Band 3! The more players, the merrier!

Meet Some Friends of Mine

We previously said this was impossible. Turns out we were wrong! Pick from over 70 new characters (and counting!) Enjoy watching them be silly on-stage with the 'Custom Characters' build. They also sync online for anyone else with the build!

Express Yourself

Make the game yours by picking from a TON of options to customize your interface. Change anything from your gems, the length and angle of your highway, individual fret colors, to the highway background, and even the HUD. Move things around at your whim and share your themes with others!

No Guitar? No Problem!

Join in with standard gamepad controllers, or keyboard if you're on emulator! Simply select a song like you normally would on vocals, and you'll see extra parts available. You can also remap the buttons to your preference and even change slots to earn achivements for guitars, drums, and keys!

Not The Same Old Song

Want to play that keyboard part from Rock Band 1 that you couldn't before? Maybe you want a duet of "Bring Me to Life" with someone. Enjoy retroactive song upgrades, with new harmony parts, keyboards, and even Pro Guitar support!

Overhauled Online

Rock Band 3's online is back thanks to GoCentral2! Jump in with 4 different instruments, swap parts without leaving a setlist, taunt your friends with Quick Chat, and other fun stuff! With nearly 6000 users, and 1.7 million scores submitted, the online experience has been overhauled to be better than ever!

Perfect Precision

Hone your skills with detailed judgements, mid-song calibration, and even accuracy/average stats! You can also adjust your calibration in increments of 1ms and the "strum" calibration now has a steady rhythm to help you calibrate better!

Modifiers, Modifiers, Modifiers!

Push yourself further with a backported version of 'Brutal Mode'. Enable 'Kick Bounce' to watch the drum track bounce up and down like in Rock Band 1/2. Ignore scores and enjoy the vibes in Karaoke Mode. These and many other modifiers are available to tweak your experience.

In Search Of...

Taking too long to scroll to that one song you want? Plug up a keyboard and find things easily in your library. It even works with the Xbox 360 Chatpad and on RPCS3!

Backwards Compatible

Need to uninstall Deluxe to record some FUBs for some old site? Your saves are backwards compatible³, should you ever decide to return to Rock Band 3 vanilla.

Quality of Life

• Install over 4,000⁴ songs on hardware and up to 32,000 on emulator
• Faster boot time
• New "Deluxe Settings" menu for new modifications
• Additional Menu Themes
• Controller Navigation Pad for MIDI instruments in RPCS3
• "No Lanes" modifier
• FC indicator
• Measure break countdowns
• Pro Keys song key highlight
• Pro instrument synthesizer
• Song time display
• Note streak display
• Lyrics display (without All Instruments Mode)
• Fully customizable song title overlay
• Feedback for FC, missed notes, or overstrums at the end of a song
• "Full Combo" sound effect
• Customizable track angle
• Customizable track length
• Additional practice speeds (10% to 100%, with 5% increments)
• SELECT to restart the section in practice mode
• Fixed Practice Mode crash on PS3 version for emulators
• Pro instruments can play alongside their non-Pro equivalent
• Option to disable whammy pitch-bending
• Default difficulty on first load is Expert
• Selectable song speed and track speed by 5% increments
• Selectable venue framerate up to 60FPS
• "Post Processing" menu to control screen effects
• Restored per-pixel lighting for RPCS3
• Selectable venues, including a "Black Venue"
• Music video venues toggle, default disabled
• Change band's on-stage "attitude"
• Hide inactive band members
• Option to skip the venue intro (1 second to get into a song vs 7 seconds)
• Arbitrary instrument slot selection for four-lane multiplayer
• Keys on Guitar unlocked without meeting requirements
• Missing pro instrument trainers no longer crash the game
• Scroll 10 songs at a time via left/right D-Pad in the song library
• "Controller" menu for easy instrument mapping
• Option to disable the ambient noise in song select, disabled by default

Authoring

• Autoplay modifier for chart demos
• Gameplay watermarks to deter abuse of autoplay, including -
  • Disabling autosave
  • Replacing result percentage with BOT
  • Manipulating song title overlay

Additional Modifications

• Precision and Drunk modes
• "Party Play" modifier for uninterrupted joining during local multiplayer
• Random splash text on the title screen
• Allow for full control of menu backgrounds and cutscene transitions
• Jukebox Mode, for easy venue showcases
• All official exports, DLC, and RBN sorted into individual sources
• Ported characters from the "Games On Demand" (GoD) version of RB3
• In-depth theme editor with real-time preview option with save and import option
• Live drag and drop support for converted textures on PS3/RPCS3
• Acceleration Mode, speeds up the song the better you play
• Overdrive in practice modifier
• Huge variety of custom song sources supported
• Selectable vocal pitch display
• Author Finder to display various metadata from a song
• Accessible premium clothing, tattoos, and face paint by default
• Four online vocalist mode for up to 12 harmonies players
• Auto-activating drum modifier (no fills mode)
• Translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German
• "Cycle Camera" button in the camera menu when autoplay is enabled for video game photography
• Screensaver mode - remove UI elements from menus to view the background menus unobstructed
• Nice (69%) and Awesome Choke (98-99%) callouts on solo completion
• New main menu music reconstructed from other Rock Band titles
• Gem color shuffle modifier
• Pro Upgrades for tons of songs from rb3_plus
• Compatibility with RB3Enhanced for Xbox 360
• Various patches from RB3Enhanced embedded directly into DX binaries.

...and much, much more!

^1:_{'Play A Show' on Xbox 360 requires the latest version of RBEnhanced.}

^2:_{Online play on Xbox 360 requires either RBEnhanced (recommended) or the use of a Stealth server.}

^3:_{Please remove any characters added by Rock Band 3 Deluxe as stand-ins before uninstalling!}

^4:_{The technical limit is 8,000 but it is very unstable unless you disconnect from the servers and disable backgrounds, along with other features.}