Frets on Fire - OSS Guitar Hero Clone | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Guitar Hero was a huge hit for the PlayStation 2 console. Using a special guitar shaped controller you could "play" a variety of rock hits, hitting the fret buttons in time to on-screen cues. Well now there's an Open Source cross platform clone of Guitar Hero called Frets on Fire which includes support for OS X. The program was originally designed to be played with a keyboard, but at least with the Windows version, you can use the actual Guitar Hero controller (along with a PlayStation 2 to USB adapter) to play Frets on Fire on the computer. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to determine if the controller also works with the Mac. So anybody out there "jamming" on the Mac with the Guitar controller?

[Edit: those of you having trouble on PPC check out this forum thread]

Thanks, Carlo.

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Pete

Now this is a little weird. It's not working on my Pentium 4 as well... it's a Radeon 9800 Pro... can't find the GameEngine.py or something. I tried redownloading and unzipping, same thing. This is sad.

January 01 2007 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ahmad

It seems the website isn't loading anymore

January 01 2007 at 2:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

john russell

It only crashed when I tried to change the settings so that it would take up my full 20" screen; I rebooted and it was fine.

December 31 2006 at 8:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul S.

Yeah, it keeps crashing on my Mac too. It's a 1.42 Ghz PPC Mac mini.

I want to play this so badly too...

December 31 2006 at 5:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Craig McCreath

I seems that every single time I play it, it crashes - saying that there is 'no module named traceback'...

From what people are saying it only seems to work on intels, so no good for those PPC mac owners still out there like me.

December 31 2006 at 4:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Herring

Wow, so that was my second attempt out of five to post a comment. I tried to add that yes, the Guitar Hero controller does work with the Mac version of Frets on Fire.

December 31 2006 at 3:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Herring

I don't know why I haven't gotten a confirmation email from this goofball comment system yet, but I thought I'd add that the keyboard decor in the background while playing Frets on Fire is a Mac keyboard (there are 'option' and 'command' keys on it). I wonder if that's present in the Linux/Windows versions. :)

December 31 2006 at 3:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

andyakadum

Those adapters work on mac! Mine Does!

December 31 2006 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Herring

This sucker works like a charm on my MacBook Pro, even with a Guitar Hero controller (connected via the Radio Shack PSX to USB adaptor).

Kudos to the Frets on Fire team for a genuinely enjoyable port. The default install even comes with a few good songs!

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