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
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
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.
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.
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.