Beyond Guitar Hero - Be a Keyboard Hero !

Be a Keyboard Hero with "Frets on Fire"! -- an Opensource Freeware application for PC or Mac.

Check out this demo! (google video)

You can get the program 'Frets on Fire' from the project's main website at http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/.

Features:

• Unique inverted keyboard gameplay style (computer keyboard, not musical keyboard).
• Support for guitar controllers and generic joysticks.
• Includes a song editor for making your own tunes.
• Submit your scores to 'the World Charts'.
• Hundreds of songs composed by the community.
• Supports importing Guitar Hero™ I and Guitar Hero™ II songs.
• Multiplatform (runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD).
• Open source, full Python source code available.

links:

• Frets on Fire (FoF) > download current release from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fretsonfire/
• > Archived Website

Now see:

• Make a Guitar Hero Kit for your PC (Jan 2007) { http://www.instructables.com/id/EBWOWVK2PPEXCFG5WI/?ALLSTEPS }
• Extra credit:
  How to make a PS2 Guitar Hero controller out of scratch { http://www.instructables.com/id/EWO41A9F4MSZZS9/ }

See also:

• Frets On Fire played using a Wii Remote+Nunchuk

Related links:

• official guitar hero red octane store: { http://www.redoctane.com/gh-ps2.html }
• red octane store at amazon.com