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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: romperwomb on January 28, 2007, 01:48:12 pm

Title: Wiitar Hero
Post by: romperwomb on January 28, 2007, 01:48:12 pm
This person wrote a script to allow him to use his Wiimote on his PC with the home brew Guitar Hero game called Frets On Fire.  You strum using the numchuck and fret with the main Wiimote.  Pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgt33Ax2bUY
Title: Re: Wiitar Hero
Post by: shmokes on January 28, 2007, 10:19:29 pm
To be perfectly honest, that doesn't sound like a very satisfying way to play Guitar Hero.
Title: Re: Wiitar Hero
Post by: romperwomb on January 28, 2007, 11:03:21 pm
I agree, like a step back towards playing air guitar.  The nunchuck doesn't seem to always register all of his strums either.

I hadn't heard of Frets on Fire before I'd found this.  Also interesting finds: Freetar Hero (http://antonstruyk.com/freetar/index.html) and PC Guitar Hero (http://www.viosh.net/?page_id=8).  You can get custom songs for these apparently.  Bring on the Dragonforce!
Title: Re: Wiitar Hero
Post by: MajorLag on January 29, 2007, 09:39:22 am
From my own experience, even playing FoF with a real GH PS2 controller isn't a very satisfying way to get your GH fix. FoF is a really poor imitation, honestly.
Title: Re: Wiitar Hero
Post by: ChadTower on January 29, 2007, 09:44:38 am

So far.  The homebrew DDR clones were that way at first too.  Now they are mostly better than the "official" games.
Title: Re: Wiitar Hero
Post by: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2007, 01:29:54 pm
I've tried this script.  The strumming part works well... the pressing the frets part, not so much.  there simply aren't enough buttons on the wiimote and the author of the script has insainely mapped different frets to different directions on the d pad, which makes no sense.  Even after I remapped it to more sensible buttons it was clear that the buttons on the wiimote are just too small and too spaced out.  You could probably map 3 frets for easy, but not all 5 for hard.