After a crazy night of Guitar Hero and marijuana, one of my friends (who is looking to enter the video game industry quite soon) said that he wants to write a program that will allow him to play other music files with the Guitar Hero controller while his PS2 is hooked up to his computer via USB. Has anyone else tried this?
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Anyone try developing with the Guitar Hero hardware?
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Yeah it's really easy, hell I got that shit working with Taiko Drums, Dance Mats, and Light Guns, just Ask Jeeves he'll tell you how to do it he knows everything. :lol
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Woah, hold the phone. What are you guys doing? you can plug the PS2 into your computer and play your own songs with Guitar Hero? WHAT!? Someone please explain to me how this works!
Basically, but you use a USB convertor on the GH controller, you don't plug the PS2 into your PC.
Admittetdly it isn't very convenient.
Konami tried this with their Gutiar Freaks concept in a game called Guitar! Guitar! Guitar! but it really didn't work.
Also, keep in mind that you need to have the PS2 game in your PC for the game to read your music.
Admittetdly it isn't very convenient.
Konami tried this with their Gutiar Freaks concept in a game called Guitar! Guitar! Guitar! but it really didn't work.
Also, keep in mind that you need to have the PS2 game in your PC for the game to read your music.
Seriously though, I guess it could be possible to create a note-setting program for the PC for your own songs, kind of like that DDR thing which I forget the name of. It would be trickier though, since the GH controller is obviously more purpose made than a dance mat. A dance mat only outputs directional commands after all.
SSR.
And it wouldn't be too much tougher to do than what people have done for IIDX sims, either, but that takes a lot more effort than I'd ever want to put in. Plus I don't quite have the tools needed to dissect recorded audio and make the 1000 .wav files for each individual note in a song.
And it wouldn't be too much tougher to do than what people have done for IIDX sims, either, but that takes a lot more effort than I'd ever want to put in. Plus I don't quite have the tools needed to dissect recorded audio and make the 1000 .wav files for each individual note in a song.
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Oh my God. So I'd just use this program, GH in my CD drive, and the controller plugged into my USB port...and I could potentially rock out to Hotel California?brandonnn said:
If that's true....Guitar Hero +1. I wasn't interested because I play a real guitar and I didn't like the song list...but if I can play my own music... holy hell!
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Er, right, got a little mixed up there. So I'd just need the controller and this program?Hyoushi said:
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You'd need the controller, the program, the ability to record your songs into OGG format, then program in all of the keystrokes that you think fit with the song by yourself.
Note that in doing this it still isn't the same as what GH provides, since the keystrokes you program in won't be tied into making any sort of noise; therefore the music will sound the same every time you play, and this sorta kills any reason to "play" the game.
Note that in doing this it still isn't the same as what GH provides, since the keystrokes you program in won't be tied into making any sort of noise; therefore the music will sound the same every time you play, and this sorta kills any reason to "play" the game.
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Awwwww. There goes my Guitar Hero boner.
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