Finally got some time over the Christmas break to do a little work on the buffet!
Not much in terms of "building", but mainly software config this time around.
First up, get my wireless guitars connected and operational.
I picked up 2 of these before christmas
![](http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=ist1hie29cujnp5o56gvsgp264&action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=158999)
Then I picked up a wired XBox360 drum set off a guy on CL for cheap.
The guitars are pretty slick. Solid body, they feel like real guitars and not cheap plastic controllers. The drums... Well. They're plastic
![Smiley :)](http://newforum.arcadecontrols.com/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
Hooked everything up and pulled down the FOFIX version of frets on fire, along with the Rockband skin.
Then found a few places to download the chart info for songs I've already got. Holy cow! There are TONS of good charts out for FOF. I grabbed a pile of Stevie Ray Vaughn tracks.
Anyway. it took a bit of trial and error.
First, I'd plugged them into USB hubs that were powered, but apparently under so... so when all three activated, things started dying.
A few swaps of USB ports and that was fixed.
Then, even though everything worked properly in the Game controller view in windows, when I started FOFIX, it'd scramble the Drum controller, the Xbox light would start flashing, and it'd no longer work. If I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it'd would work, but then the Guitar controllers would be screwed up. and round and round it went
Here's a view of some of the controllers installed.
![](http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=ist1hie29cujnp5o56gvsgp264&action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=159001)
More trial and error and I discovered that the wireless guitars have 3 "modes", PS2, PS3 Guitar Hero, and PS3 Rockband. For whatever reason, in Rockband mode, the xbox drums screws them up.
But, I switched them both to Guitar hero mode and now FOFIX loads up and can control all three with no hicupps.
Sweetness!
Here's a screen shot of the FoFix Rockband theme. It's really nicely done.
![](http://www.smedjeborg.se/other/fretsonfire/screenshot2.jpg)
But, alas, all was not well. Mame was screwed. All my controllers had been remapped when I plugged up the guitars and drums.
That story is for another post, though. I've gotta get something to eat.