Geek Fun: Frets on Fire
If you cannot get enough of Guitar Hero while playing on your home console then Frets On Fire is a great way to get a similar experience on your computer. Frets on Fire is a cross-platform Open Source project.
You can download and install Frets on Fire on a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X box. There is also a portable version which ensures you can get your guitar gaming fix any where there is a computer.
By default there are only three songs to choose from but there is the ability to import songs in OGG format as well. A site that has a bunch of ready to use songs is Keyboards on Fire. Just download the zipped song file and extract it to Data \ Settings \ Songs.
The default keys for frets are F1-F5 which might might be oddly placed for some players. Just go into Settings to change the fret keys on the keyboard to what you're most comfortable with. Also, I was able to get a Logitech game controller to work on the Windows version.
To start off it is a good idea to run through the tutorial to get a feel for the controls.
Conclusion
If you are a fan of Guitar Hero or have never played it before you will have a lot of fun playing Frets on Fire. For additional support and new songs check out the community site fretsonfire.net. For a bunch of new songs to play check out Keyboards on Fire.
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That is such a coincidence! I was going to mention this on Off-Topic only yesterday!
People - you could also download the X mod from here: http://geetarfreaks.net/Software%20-%20FOFiX.html
This one has improved features involving multiplayer mode, star power, guitar/bass/drums, support for themes and much more!
Also, this website has a whole load of songs you can download to play - from the actual Guitar Hero & Rock Band Games
Hi!
I prefere www.JamLegend.com a site that lets you play Frets on Fire like within the browser window.
Frets on Fire requires SSE CPU instruction set and therefore excludes anything below an AMD 64 CPU (e.g. Athlon XPs). Whenever I have online access (which is usually the case at home
Will run on nearly every computer that can run slightly more than an MP3 alone
I tried it with a 1.7 GHz P4 mobile (5 years old) and an MAD Athlon XP2600 (also about 5 years old). On Windows XP or Ubuntu with any browser that can run Javascript.
Come and chalenge me there (I'm a beginner, though)!
Greetings,
SuAlfons
Sorry for typos
It's challenge and AMD of course.
Greetings,
SuAlfons
you can also use your guitar for the xbox, or playstation on your computer via the usb port. plugging it in on a xp computer, and a vista computer, it was installed automatically.
Or download FoFiX at the official site:
http://code.google.com/p/fofix/
There's a lot of people working to make this a very high quality PC-clone of the Rock Band/Guitar Hero games. The original FoF is sparse compared to FoFiX.