Frets On Fire

[figos]

Don't know if anybody knows this. It's a Guitar Hero clone for the PC http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/uv/fretsonfire/

It also supports the original guitar hero songs from the game discs

Edited January 4, 2007 by figos

[King Ellis]

I spent some time earlier today looking at GH stuff on PC...

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

[METALMAN]

Do you rip the songs off the CD?

Edited January 4, 2007 by metalman

[figos]

Importing Guitar Hero songs

Frets on Fire now has a built-in importer for the songs in the game Guitar Hero by RedOctane. To use it, you'll need to have the game DVD, at least 500 megabytes of free disk space and a lot of patience.

You'll also need to have the OGG Vorbis command line compressor installed. In Linux, you can usually get it in a package called vorbis-tools. In Windows, copy the encoder (oggenc.exe) into the game directory.

The importer can be started by choosing Song Editor in the main menu, followed by "Import Guitar Hero Songs". The importer will ask you the path to where the game files can be found. Usually this is just the driver letter of your DVD drive, e.g. 'D:'.

After you have entered the correct path, the importer will start ripping the songs. Note that this will take a very long time. For example, on a 1.8 GHz Pentium M laptop with 2 gigabytes of RAM the process took about 4 hours. It is recommended that you run the game in windowed mode so that you can leave the importer running in the background and do other things while it's doing its magic.

Once the importer is finished, you'll find the songs in the regular song selector. Note that if you abort the importer midway, it will mostly pick up where it left off when you run it again.

[Cactus Drags]

...or you could just play Guitar Hero.

[King Ellis]

...or you could just play Guitar Hero.

Indeed, these types of thing are only good for playing your own music on. That or if you wanna rock out on GH but your PS2 is broke.