Author Topic: Guitar Hero (Read 16769 times)

ChadTower · « **Reply #40 on:** December 05, 2005, 11:57:39 am »

I wouldn't be surprised to see homebrew songs out there at some point that you can burn and use on a hacked console, though.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #41 on:** December 05, 2005, 12:22:59 pm »

Well, this is just a ps2 controller. So it should be seen by a ps2 to usb convertor, perhaps.
Then it would just be adding a new supported game format to stepmania.

GGKoul · « **Reply #42 on:** December 05, 2005, 01:24:53 pm »

There isn't that big of a homebrew scene for Stepmania. As I've been looking for some homebrew songs and can't find any good ones.

ChadTower · « **Reply #43 on:** December 05, 2005, 01:25:44 pm »

Keep looking.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #44 on:** December 05, 2005, 01:53:09 pm »

There is many hombrew stuff for stepmania. Start looking at DDR forums, you can start at ddrmaniax. Start at their forums and start following links. Enjoy.

Just remember stepmania supports many formats. So stuff that works with programs like DWI will work with stepmania.

GGKoul · « **Reply #45 on:** December 08, 2005, 11:01:29 pm »

Finally picked the Guitar Heros bundle from my local EB today. And I have to say its an EXCELLENT game!! All the positive reviews out there are correct. Its a fun and addictive game. I've been playing it for the past 3 hours. Going to be ordering another guitar for multiplayer action for sure!!!

ChadTower · « **Reply #46 on:** December 09, 2005, 10:52:59 am »

I'm holding out for Jukebox Hero.

GGKoul · « **Reply #47 on:** December 09, 2005, 11:04:47 am »

haha..

SithMaster · « **Reply #48 on:** December 10, 2005, 03:30:41 pm »

i asked someone who works at gamecrazy if there is even a chance for downloadabel content and he said no but there will be a second out some like maybe in feb or march. i played at my local bestbuy and got my friend addicted so he will buy it for christmas. i just need to get him to get the bundle for 2 players. We were actually going to go back to bestbuy for an hour just to play guitar hero.

ChadTower · « **Reply #49 on:** December 10, 2005, 04:04:19 pm »

Tell me when The Greatest American Hero comes out. I want the goofy tights controller.

GGKoul · « **Reply #50 on:** December 10, 2005, 07:05:52 pm »

I've been playing with Guitar Heros all day today!! Its a great game!

For more information http://www.guitarherogame.com/

GGKoul · « **Reply #51 on:** December 11, 2005, 10:06:08 pm »

http://cbs13.com/video/?id=3252@kovr.dayport.com

Excellent Review of the game!!

spiffyshoes · « **Reply #52 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:17:20 am »

Just a thought, but has anyone considered building a custom controller for this game? Like make a guitar that is more life size and has more weight to it?

GGKoul · « **Reply #53 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:23:06 am »

Quote from: spiffyshoes on December 16, 2005, 12:17:20 am

Just a thought, but has anyone considered building a custom controller for this game? Like make a guitar that is more life size and has more weight to it?

On the Guitar Heros official forum, some one made a controller out of a toy elmo guitar.

ChadTower · « **Reply #54 on:** December 16, 2005, 09:34:31 am »

So they made a custom downgraded controller?

SithMaster · « **Reply #55 on:** December 16, 2005, 03:32:38 pm »

i was thinking of hacking a ps2 controller and placing it into a toy guitar only for cost benefits. charging 40 usd for an extra controller is a little much. but chad is right i dont think any other controller could replace the current ones.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #56 on:** December 16, 2005, 06:14:42 pm »

I bet a modified hot lixx would work pretty well

ChadTower · « **Reply #57 on:** December 16, 2005, 06:21:16 pm »

I want to modify a Fisher Price xylophone.

GGKoul · « **Reply #58 on:** January 05, 2006, 10:24:23 pm »

Cheats!!

Easter Egg Pushbutton Codes
Enter these at the Game mode selection menu:

Orange, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Orange -- Player uses Air Guitar

Blue, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Orange -- Venue Disappears

Blue, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Blue -- Unlocks Hero Guitar

Blue, Orange, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Blue, Orange -- Crowd has Monkey Heads

Orange, Yellow, Blue, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Blue -- Crowd has Skull Heads

yellow, blue, orange, orange, blue, blue, yellow, orange -- Rock meter will always stay green

Yellow, Orange, Blue, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Yellow -- Unlock All

mccoy178 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 05, 2006, 11:45:42 pm »

Chad, I can't help but pick up on a whiff of distaste coming from you in relation to this game. Are you being funded by the National Drummer Association of America or something?

It is humurous to read a couple great comments about the game then there is one from you with something crappy. I couldn't stop laughing as I continued down the thread.

Keep up the good work. Oh yeah, I played this over the New Years and it is an awesome game. It will be the first console game I will have bought in a couple years. Now it is your turn.

versapak · « **Reply #60 on:** January 06, 2006, 08:05:49 am »

The "Rock meter will always stay green" code is a very nice thing to have. It essentially gives this game a MUCH needed practice mode, and it is nice that Harmonix made it so you can't save if you use them.

adonis_minus_20 · « **Reply #61 on:** January 06, 2006, 08:40:34 am »

I play guitar, and I must say this game is great!

ChadTower · « **Reply #62 on:** January 06, 2006, 09:10:53 am »

Quote from: mccoy178 on January 05, 2006, 11:45:42 pm

Chad, I can't help but pick up on a whiff of distaste coming from you in relation to this game.

versapak · « **Reply #63 on:** January 06, 2006, 09:27:10 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on January 06, 2006, 09:10:53 am

My biggest issue with it will be the same as the home based DDRs... you pay $80 for a game and controller and get 15 songs. Once those songs are done, so is the game, and thus far they have not come out with much extensibility to any of the commercial Bemanistyle home games.

Actually...

You pay $70 for the game & controller, and you get 47 songs.

Also... What do you mean by "Once those songs are done"?

A person could just do the bare minimum to make it through the songs, and progress through the actual game rather easily (easy being a relative term), or they could actually try and perform the song as perfect as possible.

These are like games of old for me.

I didn't play Pac-Man to get to that great next level. I played it to best my or others high scores.

It is the same with Guitar Hero (and games like). I try and perform them better and better. I am not happy with a 3 star 80% rating. I want 100% (or as close as I can get), and a 5 star rating, and I want that rating on expert.

The play time that it is going to take to get what I want is far more than most other games offer up these days. Yeah Guitar Hero cost more. So what? You are paying for an unbelievably AWESOME experience, and that experience requires that you have the special controller (the game does not, but the experience certainly does). I will gladly pay the extra bit required for that extra bit of immersion that such controllers add.

ChadTower · « **Reply #64 on:** January 06, 2006, 09:35:26 am »

I tend to be a bit colored in that there is a flat fee dedicated Bemani arcade 5 minutes from me, too.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #65 on:** January 08, 2006, 01:30:40 am »

I picked up the game last night and have been addicted to it since. I've already played all the way through easy and medium (excluding the unlocked songs) and am a few songs into hard. That last song on medium difficulty (the ozzy osborne one) is ridiculously hard, I must have tried it a dozen times, but I finally just now got it. One thing about the game is it is really satisfying when you nail one of the songs, you really do feel like your playing the guitar.

Awesome Game.

GGKoul · « **Reply #66 on:** January 08, 2006, 11:44:25 am »

Quote from: AtomSmasher on January 08, 2006, 01:30:40 am

I picked up the game last night and have been addicted to it since. I've already played all the way through easy and medium (excluding the unlocked songs) and am a few songs into hard. That last song on medium difficulty (the ozzy osborne one) is ridiculously hard, I must have tried it a dozen times, but I finally just now got it. One thing about the game is it is really satisfying when you nail one of the songs, you really do feel like your playing the guitar.

Awesome Game.

Want until you try that song on Expert level.

crashwg · « **Reply #67 on:** January 09, 2006, 09:37:25 pm »

I can't friggin wait till my guitar comes! I ordered it on Friday so it should be here sometime before the end of the week.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #68 on:** January 09, 2006, 09:56:23 pm »

I got to try it out. I noticed something about easy mode. Most of the time it is following the bassline, especially in iron man. It follows the well known guitar licks but during solos and such it tends to follow the bass. That's kinda cool. Once you realize that you know what to listen for.

JonnyBoy · « **Reply #69 on:** January 09, 2006, 09:59:05 pm »

That game really has impressed the heck out of me. The only thing I didn't like was that the controller felt tiny and I felt like I was wrestling with it. Maybe I'm just used to playing full scale guitars, hence why I really want to try making a homebrew controller using an old busted up guitar.

versapak · « **Reply #70 on:** January 09, 2006, 10:22:13 pm »

Quote from: JonnyBoy on January 09, 2006, 09:59:05 pm

That game really has impressed the heck out of me. The only thing I didn't like was that the controller felt tiny and I felt like I was wrestling with it. Maybe I'm just used to playing full scale guitars, hence why I really want to try making a homebrew controller using an old busted up guitar.

You oughtta check out the official forums for the game.

There is a lot of modding going on around there, but the one that would no doubt interest you the most, is this one:

http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=1263

JonnyBoy · « **Reply #71 on:** January 09, 2006, 10:29:41 pm »

Yeah, he took the guts out of an original controller and transfered them. I was thinking of a way to do this on a real tight budget and using the existing stratocaster hardware, probably not going to happen until I get my hands on an existing controller to inspect it.

Thanks a ton for the link!

versapak · « **Reply #72 on:** January 09, 2006, 10:33:46 pm »

Quote from: JonnyBoy on January 09, 2006, 10:29:41 pm

Yeah, he took the guts out of an original controller and transfered them. I was thinking of a way to do this on a real tight budget and using the existing stratocaster hardware, probably not going to happen until I get my hands on an existing controller to inspect it.

Thanks a ton for the link!

Getting good buttons to use for the frets might prove to be difficult, but everything else should be simple enough.

To get a regular controller to be recognized as a guitar controller, you just hold left on the d-pad. Other than that one thing, it would be very little different from hacking a controller for use with arcade controls, which we do quite regularly round these here parts.

Actually...

The tremelo may take a little creativity, since it is the analog stick, but I am sure it could be done without too much effort.

JonnyBoy · « **Reply #73 on:** January 09, 2006, 10:39:01 pm »

What do you think for the tremolo? For the actual game is one of the analog joysticks used for the whammy bar? Because I mean, I could possibly figure a way to mount the analog stick to the spring loaded whammy bar, so as you move the tremolo, the back end would them move the analog stick...

The strumming button has me confused...is it some sort of toggle switch or an actual button?

Thanks!

SirPoonga · « **Reply #74 on:** January 10, 2006, 12:11:18 am »

heh, time to go to the pawn shop....

Felsir · « **Reply #75 on:** January 18, 2006, 06:51:34 am »

At last! Harmonix announced that the game will be available in Europe soon!

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #76 on:** January 18, 2006, 10:38:20 am »

Anyone beat every song on expert yet? I've finished them all except the last 2, now I'm just going back to hard difficulty and getting 4-5 stars on each song, hopefully I'll eventually get good enough to beat those last 2. Its amazing how you get so much better at this game the more you play. I remember thinking I'd never make it through all the songs on hard, but now I can get 4-5 stars on most of the hard songs. Fun stuff.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #77 on:** January 18, 2006, 12:41:52 pm »

Quote from: AtomSmasher on January 18, 2006, 10:38:20 am

Its amazing how you get so much better at this game the more you play.

Kinda like playing a real guitar. Wow, practice does work

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #78 on:** January 20, 2006, 08:57:25 pm »

Quote from: SirPoonga on January 18, 2006, 12:41:52 pm

Quote from: AtomSmasher on January 18, 2006, 10:38:20 am
Its amazing how you get so much better at this game the more you play.
Kinda like playing a real guitar. Wow, practice does work

Heh ya. To expand on what I meant, the progression of the difficulty of the songs is set up perfect so that your skill level is almost always exactly good enough to beat that song, with each song getting slightly harder (with the exception of the last couple songs which seem to jump in difficulty). I didn't realize how good I was getting until I went back and played on the easier difficulty, playing on medium now feels like I'm playing in slow motion. I still haven't beaten the last 2 songs on expert, but then I havent tried since I last posted, I've just been going back and trying to get 5 stars on all the hard difficulty songs.

Felsir · « **Reply #79 on:** April 13, 2006, 05:39:02 am »

Finally! Today I received the PAL version of the game! I only played a few tunes but so far this game is great!


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