Hacked Elmo Guitar Hero controller

hack124x768 · Post by **hack124x768** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:40 pm

http://tgi.net/~andrew/hack124x768/guitar

First time porting a hack here. It's a guitar from a thrift store hacked with USB game controller guts to be used with the PC guitar hero clone Frets on Fire. What do you guys think?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:48 pm

that's awesome

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:51 pm

That thing creeps me out

. Great job on it and looks very well made. It almost seamless.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:58 pm

Good job, plus you have a quote by me in your sig, that makes you double cool.

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:31 pm

This is very old

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hack124x768 · Post by **hack124x768** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:42 pm

jeroen wrote:This is very old .

Old? I just finished it this morning. If you mean the idea, well geez, I still see people making portable NES systems. it still can be cool to see a new way of doing something.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:44 pm

It looks like a really small controller isn't it hard to play with ?

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:48 pm

hack124x768 wrote:
jeroen wrote:This is very old .
Old? I just finished it this morning. If you mean the idea, well geez, I still see people making portable NES systems. it still can be cool to see a new way of doing something.

Oh sorry didn't look. I thought it was a link to the guy that made that guitar hero elmo guitar. Looks pretty sweet. Once more sorry.

hack124x768 · Post by **hack124x768** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:48 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:

It looks like a really small controller isn't it hard to play with ?

It isn't as long as a real one, but it is about an inch and a half think, so it is easy to hold. And the neck buttons are about the same size as the real one, just a bit closer together. It actually feels pretty good, but I do need to do a bit more work on the flipper. My younger brother is a good bit better at FoF than I am, and it is bugging him that there is so much play and not much contact feedback.

jeroen wrote:
hack124x768 wrote:
jeroen wrote:This is very old .
Old? I just finished it this morning. If you mean the idea, well geez, I still see people making portable NES systems. it still can be cool to see a new way of doing something.
Oh sorry didn't look. I thought it was a link to the guy that made that guitar hero elmo guitar. Looks pretty sweet. Once more sorry.

No problem, these guitars are pretty common, So go figure someone else has done something similar.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:53 pm

ha, I've talked to him in real life to. BENHECK!!!BENHECK!!!!111!!!!

I dont think he enjoyed it, sadly.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:28 pm

Excellent! I would have so much fun ripping it up to a metal song with an elmo guitar!

Where did you get that thing?

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:17 pm

heh, I believe I have one of these elmo things sitting in my basement, and a beat up guitar controller (for PS2) with a broken whammy bar in my room. I should do this but leave just 4 buttons so I have an excuse to play non orange songs

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:37 pm

Cool except elmo needs some Kiss facepaint

jedi knight · Post by **jedi knight** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:41 pm

No, Elmo needs to learn to scream Lamb of God style and play guitar like Dimebag Darrell. Seriously though awesome mod.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:06 pm

I wanna see elmo doing some Shildren of Bodom.