As if Guitar Hero II wasn't enough on its own, it seems the X-plorer guitar does even more than expected. Our overlords and fellow slaves of rock at Joystiq have discovered that the X-plorer guitar controller that ships with the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II works flawlessly with Windows. The device reportedly works in both Windows XP and Vista. The fret buttons correspond to buttons 1 through 5, back and start control 7 and 8, the D-pad and strummer control the Point of View Hat, the whammy bar controls X rotation, star power controls Y rotation and the Z-axis moves as you move the guitar.
With some control configuration, the peeps at Joystiq even managed to get the guitar up and running with the freeware PC Guitar Hero clone, Frets on Fire. Getting the guitar to control a guitar game is interesting, but we're not satisfied. No, we won't be satisfied until we're pulling off headshots with our guitar. Even better, we'd like to see someone rig a music program to use the guitar as an actual instrument. Maybe someone could whip something up with Game Studio Express. Anyone care to take up the challenge?
[Via Joystiq]
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4-06-2007 @ 6:40PM
Erv said...
could be interesting...there might be a ton of good songs available if there is an underground version of gh going around...
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4-06-2007 @ 7:30PM
Tim said...
You bet there is. http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3585606/Frets_on_Fire_Song_Pack__1_(210_songs)
You might recognize some of them.
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4-06-2007 @ 9:38PM
MDB said...
That song pack for FoF off of torrent sites sucks. There are a ton of songs, but most are so easy they're not even fun to play. Don't expect to be entertained with FoF as well as you are with GH
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4-07-2007 @ 12:33AM
Tony said...
Several people have mentioned it seems to work fine with Windows before... I guess I'm lucky, not only do I have the "worse" of the two controllers, every aspect of it works fine.
I notice that the controller seems to care where you hold it in relation to how straight you have to raise it for star power. If you're starting off some song with the guitar all slanted, you really have to put it at a weird angle to activate the power. If I start out my songs horizontally, I have no issues with that. Maybe it's just a coincidence.
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4-07-2007 @ 3:12AM
BluesmanTLU said...
The first thing I thought of was "Freespace 2", the best space combat sim ever.
You would literally be saving humanity with the power of rawk.
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4-07-2007 @ 10:26AM
aragorn said...
BluesmanTLU: The shivans are no match for the GTVA's Power of Metal! 'w'
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4-09-2007 @ 1:16PM
AMarine said...
You wanted headshots so I got them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXaqP7CVcs
I hooked it up to play Halo PC.
PS: If there is an email to send this to for the blog plz tell me.
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