Can I play without "Real Tone Cable"?

[GeTSxNT9]

I want buy Rocksmith 2014 but I can't pay 60$ for an adapter... Any solution?

[TheRetroDJ]

no. you cannot play without the cable. its vital to Rocksmith being able to work. save up and buy it if you're so interested in playing guitar.

[Boris the Animal]

You can buy Rocksmith 2014 pre-bundled with the cable included. While the RS version w/out the cable is $10 via steam the RS version with the cable is $40 in stores. Those are both U.S. based fees since I don't know where you plan on buying it through. So make sure that you get it with the cable included.

[T-Bone Biggins]

I just got this game for $10 a few hours ago on the Humble Store sale. Wanted to try RS2014 each time it hit a sale, cost of a starting guitar kit and the cable kept me back. This time I got it, $10 for the software. Now on Amazon I can find the real-tone cable from Ubisoft for $45 or so, but look at this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NPG4MU0/

Right now the XBox One version of the game is $36 with Prime shipping. That is the version WITH a cable. PS3 is $52 etc. but for some reason the XBox One version is running cheap right now. Honestly I will buy that just for the cable since it's the same cable across all platforms. I could toss the XBox One disc in the trash and not care, I'm saving another $10 on the cable.

As for modifications some people in Taiwan or something hooked up guitar cable with a USB plug in the end into an Arduino and coded what they considered nothing much....turns out it was hundreds of lines of code. But for where they lived the real-tone cable is super-expensive, so it was actually cheaper for them to get an arduino/raspberry pi and required hardware to rig a cable that would work. It took a lot of work but was cheaper. For THEM. In the US it's actually more expensive to go down that route compared to just buying the Ubisoft cable. Sure, I'm certain they could still profit selling it for $15 instead of $45+. We all know they are gouging and using the cable as a form of DRM. But it's price is at that threshhold that bothering to bypass it is currently (in the US) more expensive than just going along and getting the cable. I researched this for over a year and really I'm at the point I got the PC software portion cheap and can get the cable for a decent discount compared to what Ubisoft normally peddles it for. Going to jump on it. Amazon does have $100 electric guitar kits but I expect them to be sh-t quality. They probably sound alright but when the next cheapest kits are $200 or so it makes you wonder if that's getting so much savings you are actually wasting money or not.....

[MTZIGG]

http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubina/en_US/pd/productID.333132500

[T-Bone Biggins]

Originally posted by MTZIGG:

http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubina/en_US/pd/productID.333132500

That's really not bad, $30 and with economy shipping it comes to just shy of $36. Same price as that XBox One copy with cable in it I found on Amazon.

[GeTSxNT9]

Originally posted by T-Bone Biggins:

I just got this game for $10 a few hours ago on the Humble Store sale. Wanted to try RS2014 each time it hit a sale, cost of a starting guitar kit and the cable kept me back. This time I got it, $10 for the software. Now on Amazon I can find the real-tone cable from Ubisoft for $45 or so, but look at this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NPG4MU0/

Right now the XBox One version of the game is $36 with Prime shipping. That is the version WITH a cable. PS3 is $52 etc. but for some reason the XBox One version is running cheap right now. Honestly I will buy that just for the cable since it's the same cable across all platforms. I could toss the XBox One disc in the trash and not care, I'm saving another $10 on the cable.

As for modifications some people in Taiwan or something hooked up guitar cable with a USB plug in the end into an Arduino and coded what they considered nothing much....turns out it was hundreds of lines of code. But for where they lived the real-tone cable is super-expensive, so it was actually cheaper for them to get an arduino/raspberry pi and required hardware to rig a cable that would work. It took a lot of work but was cheaper. For THEM. In the US it's actually more expensive to go down that route compared to just buying the Ubisoft cable. Sure, I'm certain they could still profit selling it for $15 instead of $45+. We all know they are gouging and using the cable as a form of DRM. But it's price is at that threshhold that bothering to bypass it is currently (in the US) more expensive than just going along and getting the cable. I researched this for over a year and really I'm at the point I got the PC software portion cheap and can get the cable for a decent discount compared to what Ubisoft normally peddles it for. Going to jump on it. Amazon does have $100 electric guitar kits but I expect them to be sh-t quality. They probably sound alright but when the next cheapest kits are $200 or so it makes you wonder if that's getting so much savings you are actually wasting money or not.....

Are you sure that adapter works on PC?

[Boris the Animal]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

Originally posted by GeTSxNT9:

Are you sure that adapter works on PC?

Yes the RealTone cable is the same for every platform. I'm currently using one that came with a 360 version on my PC.

Same here

[arrbuc1]

See if you can buy rocksmith 2013 with cable cheap.

[Shalle]

The game can be bought on k i n g u i n (steam likes to censor stuff) for 6 bucks. Though, the cable still would be a problem, because it's in price of the game itself.

[T-Bone Biggins]

Originally posted by arrbuc1:

See if you can buy rocksmith 2013 with cable cheap.

I found the original Rocksmith a few times but it was even pricier, again likely because people knew it had the cable. It's running between $50 and $70 depending seller and version. Right now the only 'loophole' where you can get one cheap is that Ubi store MTZIGG pointed out or the XBox One version I found on Amazon, and that I think is going cheap because lots of people are having latcency issues on that platform where you get a delay between guitar and the game that makes it impossible to play for some people.

[arrbuc1]

Anyone figure ow to get a GS cable to work on other audio editing and recrding software?

[MTZIGG]

I can use my RTC in any of my other software Reaper ,Amplitube and Audacity with no problems at all

[sumhavok]

Wow, prices have gone up on the cable. I remember getting mine for $29.99 on Amazon. Anyway, PlayAsia is another option. I have purchased from them a few times.

http://www.play-asia.com/search/rocksmith