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> It's unfortunate that this particular bug wasn't found before release but I think the root cause wasn't necessarily this pool size being low but instead insufficient testing.

Unless I'm misinterpreting the video, the bug only occurs if you modify the game to add extra custom songs. The bug won't occur with the original unmodified game data. As with so many things in tech, it works just fine for the intended use case.



You misinterpreted, yes. Custom setlists and downloaded songs are a big part of the intended use case of Guitar Hero.


Custom setlists were most definitely not a big part of the intended use case, as they were hacked in after release by modders.

Downloaded songs were part of the intended use case on the lead platform, but no official DLC ever came out for the PC version to make use of it.

Having a setlist with 200+ songs was probably never even tested.




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