Guitar-Hero Midi Drum Hackery

Nov 30, 2008 21:01

Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames - Expert

... on midi drums. It worth watching for this guy's chops alone, even if the game starts to say "fuck you" at about 5:20.

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People new to this game/song might want to check out what this is supposed to look like with the game's intended controller.

Hackaday.com has a link-laden rundown of the related technologies used to pull this off. In a nutshell, the stock midi drum controller was wired up through a PC, and then through an XIM implementation that allows the PC to talk to the console. If you ask me, this really sounds like a job for an Atmega chip and a hacked Xbox controller, but I can't fault our hero here for getting the job done with such amazing results.

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