Hmmmm.... Well, if you want to call what I have "working".
I got pretty far on this but eventually hung it up because of the problems that I was having. I only tried emulation because of the fact that my PS3 can't completely emulate the controls on a PS2 guitar correctly - something that this setup can't match and with a worse framerate at that.
First of all, it should be noted that this game (at least with my setup, possibly using slightly older plugins) runs playable really only while in training mode. Actually playing the songs in the setlist is just too much for my setup to handle (Core 2 Duo @ 3.0Ghz + DDR21000 memory and nVidia 8800GTS!) Usually I get about 30 jittery frames or so while playing in the setlist.
Secondly, Yes, I can play songs but it is somewhat awkward. The way I have the buttons mapped, Starpower can only be activated via select, and the strum bar doesn't actually strum - for reasons I can't explain. The frets strum immediately when pressed which makes it difficult to play even the easiest songs. (To put it mildly, I got past 'freebird' on expert in the 360 version in ONE playthrough, but I get 82% on 'mental health' - easily the tamest song in Rocks the 80's)
So it is possible, but really the two biggest problems are the frets that strum immediately when pressed and the non functioning strum bar.
It's also worth mentioning that I found NO other controller plugin that would detect the 360 guitar correctly when I was mapping buttons. Because of the 360 guitars wierd Z and Y axis mappings (starpower and something else that kind of jitters back and forth as you jiggle the controller) whenever I tried to map a button, the rest of the plugins that I tried would always assign the dang Z or Y axis over the button that I was pressing. For some reason this one waits just long enough to register the correct buttons, or perhaps has a margin of error when detecting the axes.
Pictures here:
www.techtalkblog.com/psx1.jpg
www.techtalkblog.com/psx2.jpg
www.techtalkblog.com/psx3.jpg
(If they don't work its because I'm posting this and then getting the screen caps afterwards.)
If you feel that you can improve on it, please be my guest. In fact, please tell me what you managed to get working over what I have as it would be AWESOME to play this game on my computer.
EDIT: Please let me know if you need anymore information. I understand that some of my plugins are (probably) old and in need of updating. I also felt that It didn't really matter posting my graphics options due to that fact that the framerate was comparable on several different plugins and it differs in performance for all setups.
Last edited by coolcool23; March 14th, 2008 at 01:18..
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