One of the core tenets of Rock Band 4 was that Harmonix would do their utmost to ensure backward compatibility to everything from the previous games. While that’s proven to be relatively simple for plain DLC content, the situation with exporting tracks from the disc versions of Rock Bands 1, 2 and 3 have been much murkier.
Rock Band 3 in particular had no existing provision to export songs into a future game, but Harmonix have announced today that this is on the way and planned for 8th December. The export will cost $14.99 within a console family, and will require that your game is verified as yours, meaning that you’ll need to have bought and played the game on the last generation consoles. If you don’t own the game, but would like to get a hold of those songs though, then time is running out to buy it digitally, as Harmonix can only continue to sell it until October 30th. Retail copies are certain to still be out in the wild, though.
They’re still working on getting the actual songs from games prior to Rock Band 3 into your hands as well, though they need to first have been exported to Rock Band 3 before your entitlements can carry forward to Rock Band 4. This option is no longer open to those late to the party, in some cases. It’s all rather messy, but Harmonix have posted an FAQ and there’s plenty of information to be found from digging into their forums as well.
stefhutch20
Whilst I applaud Harmonix for letting us access our old DLC, the process is still a bit of a mess at the moment (at least on the European PS Store).
I’ve been able to download a number of tracks with no problem, but many say ‘no content was found’ when selected, while others are completely missing from the list of purchasable DLC. Similarly, the Rock Band Blitz songs aren’t showing up as free for me, despite the fact that I own the game.
I’m confident that all of these issues will get fixed eventually, but until then, unfortunately RB4 is nowhere near as good as it should be.