360's Guitar Hero II guitar works in Windows, Frets on Fire Options

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360's Guitar Hero II guitar works in Windows, Frets on Fire Posted by XanTium | April 7 13:28 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From joystiq.com: [QUOTE] The USB-equipped X-plorer guitar that ships with the just-released Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360 has some interesting tricks up its nonexistant but metaphorically convenient sleeve. Randy tipped us off that the guitar controller works in Windows Vista, but we had to check for ourself. This image was captured in Windows XP. Of course, we quickly fired up freeware PC clone, Frets on Fire, to see if we could manage to get these two to play nicely together. Sure enough, after a minute of changing the control configuration, we were able to rock out! Unfortunately, while Mac OS X recognized the device immediately, it failed to be detected as an HID-compliant gamepad by either GamePad Companion or the open source Xbox 360 Controller driver. [/QUOTE] Full Story: joystiq.com

[sicknasty413]

Cool beans.

I have Guitar Hero II...I have Vista...I should try this out!

Guitar Hero II is pretty kick ass. I suck at it..but, it does kick ass.

Guitar Hero must turn people into the biggest "Rocker" posers ever.. lol. ::sees myself becoming one::

Oh, btw, for those who don't know and have this game- There are 2 different models of guitars out in the wild. One guitar, model number: 95055, is commonly known to have a faulty whammy bar. Model number: 95065 is said to have fixed this issue.

How do you differentiate between the 2? Model number: 95055 has the pedal jack on the same side as the power/USB cord. Model number: 95065 has the pedal jack on the same side as the Mic port.

There is no way to differentiate between the retail boxes, AFAIK. The first GHII that I bought had the 95055 model guitar. On the back of the retail box, it had the model number 95055. Then I returned it and failed to find a retail box with the model number 95065 on the back of it. Giving up, I just took my chance and bought a random GHII from Circuit City. Luckily, it has the 95065 guitar...even though it says 95055 on the box...

Thought I'd share that...Not sure if it's pinned somewhere or something.

This post has been edited by sicknasty413: Apr 7 2007, 05:53 PM

[Norkusa]

[b]Oh, btw, for those who don't know and have this game- There are 2 different models of guitars out in the wild. One guitar, model number: 95055, is commonly known to have a faulty whammy bar. Model number: 95065 is said to have fixed this issue.

This actually isn't true. BOTH models have whammy bar problems. I know because I've got one of the 95065's and the bar only works about half the time. A lot of other people with 95065's are reporting the same problem as well.

I think the confusion about it started on release day when someone with both models noticed his 95056 worked fine while his 95055 was having problems. So he assumed that there was nothing wrong with the 56's and posted this info with pics and the news spread like wildfire, so now everyone assumes the 55's are the only ones with problems.


The good news is that if you have a guitar with a bad whammy bar, it can be fixed fairly easily. Someone on the official GH forums posted this fix with pics. Just tried it out on my guitar controller and my whammy bar has been working flawlessly ever since:

http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.as...sts&t=17898