[dundee] Games

[James Le Cuirot]

Heh that would be really cool however you do it. The PS2 adapter should
be straightforward enough. I doubt xpad needs to be changed much to
work with the latest kernel either. I'd never heard of Frets On Fire
before.

Chewi


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:45:16 +0800
"Nistur Effee" <nistur at karate.com> wrote:

> I was just thinking. Who here has got Guitar Hero {I,II}
> I've just downloaded FretsOnFire and 2GB worth of songs for it and it
> works brilliantly on my computer. One little problem though. you use
> F1-F5 for each of the "frets" and enter for the strum. It's actually
> surprisingly close to playing the game. However I was thinking of
> expanding this. My choices seem to either be: XBox 360 controller PS2
> Controller w/ usb adapter self-hack
> 
> Easiest would be the XBox one. However I've got a 2.6.20 kernel
> running on both my machines and the newest xpad (needed for 360
> controllers) seems not to work on 2.6.20 kernels for whatever reason.
> The second option is a possibility but I'm not sure how good the
> PS2-USB adapters are. Last but not least
> http://www.instructables.com/id/EBWOWVK2PPEXCFG5WI/?ALLSTEPS I don't
> know how the link is at the moment because it doesn't seem to be
> working for me today (worked yesterday) but yeah. I guess I could do
> that with either one of my GH controllers (one has a broken
> Wammie-bar anyway) or get a cheap toy guitar.
> 
> Anyway, an idea for freshers fair? What do people think?
> PS. If anyone thinks they might be able to... help (not necessarily
> helping make, but advice etc) the creation of the guitar it would be
> much appreciated :)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Signing out
> Nistur