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Technical Help & Discussion => Apple, Linux & Open Source Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: sam on April 23, 2008, 23:29
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... who says open source doesn't mean wicked games!
Personally I'm a huge guitar hero fan... well acutally my whole house has gotten very into it (I have a Wii in the front room!). Anyway.. want that open source alternative, and not just a s**te one, try Frets on Fire. Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. It is an open-source clone of the wildly-popular Guitar Hero game. It supports importing Guitar Hero I and Guitar Hero II songs as well as hundreds of songs composed by the community.
Oh it works on windows aswell as linux.
fretsonfire.sourceforge.net
Here is a video to take a look at (from the older version, the newer versions have better graphics, but its all about the gameplay): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5i6SxSAY4Q&feature=related
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Not sure I get the videos. Is that what someone has created visually, or was it made from the actual playing? I like the idea of a Wii guitar hero! :bubble:
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As a recently born again trainee guitarist I find this type of thing diabolical.
How am I going to become rich and famous as an amazing rock chick guitarist if any kid can play stuff like this on his pc :crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3BERgbdfyE&feature=related
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I've heard this band (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6698221.stm) are looking for a new guitarist, San, to replace the one in the middle, who's gone into a home. :)x
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By the time I have learned to play it as well as I am hoping to be able to then I will probably be so old that I will need to be in a home myself ::)
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Not sure I get the videos. Is that what someone has created visually, or was it made from the actual playing? I like the idea of a Wii guitar hero! :bubble:
that's the game!! :-D your play the notes when they come up... its a bit like those dancing games but with a keyboard... for the Wii I have "guitar"..
(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi71.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi126%2Fweirdspaceman%2FGuitar-Hero-III-Wii-Guitar.jpg&hash=4f859e539a3b5e259f009d73628a9df3878f4536)
not as much fun as a real one but still great when you have people round and a few beers, I'm going to connect this up to my linux machine later... I hope.
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How does that work, Sam? There are eight notes in an octave (twelve if you include semi-tones) but your guitar only has five positions.
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He only intends to play Status Quo, Gill. ;D
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it doesn't actually work like a real guitar :laugh: you press the right buttons that appear on the screen.... on the hard levels you play a note at the same time as a guitarist but its not the right note, it will never make you an actual guitarist but its all good fun :thumbs:
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I'd rather have a real guitar! 8-)
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oh you old people :laugh:
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It seems rather like my accordian which I play in the style of Eric Morcambe - all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order.
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:lol: Rather like my guitar playing.