Guitar Hero III on PC w/ Wii Les Paul controller + GlovePIE

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This is my twin brother, Ichinisan/jevansturner, playing GHIII on the PC for the 3rd time with the Wii Guitar displayed on the Sony KDL-52XBR2 @1080p.

This isn't a skill demonstration, so ignore the performance unless you just want to see it work. He's still getting used to the latency it introduces (he didn't calibrate) and the 2 phones ringing didn't help him focus any. He's only been playing a few weeks on and off.

This motherboard's DTS Connect feature is a good way to one-up the Wii version's current lack of a fix, replacement, or work-around for DPLII surround-sound, though I'm not really set up for it at the moment.

Using GlovePIE, we only just got it working so we haven't finished the parts of the script for supporting tilt, but that'll be easy ("-" button for now). The whammy bar will be better once we figure out how to smoothen the mouse mapping. There's no support for the Wii-exclusive speaker and rumble, though I'd expect the Guitar Hero clones to add this soon. The recent Wii homebrew hack seems to have helped make sense of the Wii's disc format, so importing from the Wii disc may be the next big thing.

One problem is that the PC version always defaults to "Leftie Flip" when there is no X-plorer guitar connected due to the default KBM config.

It's paired with some Bluetooth adapter that was included with a MS Wireless Presenter Mouse. It functioned as a proprietary USB wireless mouse at first, but it was easy enough to download and configure the right Bluetooth stack to get this going. At least this way it was easy to find 64-bit drivers!

PC specs:
Antec 900 -this gawdy case grew on me
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 -CPU
Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus -motherboard
XFX nVidia 8800GT SLI -video; SLI disabled
4GB Crucial 800MHz DDR2 -memory
500GB -hard drive; game & OS installed here
2TB RAID0 -transitioning to this
Daemon-Tools -image drive; loads super-fast!
Nintendo Wii Remote -input; DUH
Red Octane Gibson Les Paul -controller; Wii version

YouTube user "mrbellek" has made a nice GlovePIE script with tilt, rumble, and more:


Be sure to thank him for it!

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: January 4, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Author: CZroe

Length: 00:06:04
Rating: 4.29
Views: 29262

Tags: Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock PC Wii Gibson Les Paul controller Remote video game GlovePIE Glove PIE Bluetooth

Video Comments:
xakor (October 20, 2008 at 2:01 am)
I'm interested in knowing what kind of lag we are talking about when using les paul wii guitar on the pc with a bluetooth adapter?

Thanks.
CZroe (October 20, 2008 at 4:06 am)
Some people swear there is none, so it's entirely subjective. My impression was that it is about the same as the latency introduced by the PS3 version's USB dongle. Obviously, that wasn't enough to hurt the PS3 version, so it's really no big deal.

The only reason some people notice it is because their TV's image processor adds more latency and any small amount over that becomes intolerable.
CZroe (October 14, 2008 at 6:52 pm)
We have it working too, but thanks.
CZroe (October 14, 2008 at 6:41 pm)
Yes, but you need the Microsoft XBOX 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver ($20).
CZroe (October 14, 2008 at 6:39 pm)
Yes. That's similar to what we were running and we played at the native resolution of whichever display we used (1080p & 1920x1200).
CZroe (October 14, 2008 at 6:38 pm)
Adults working and buying their own stuff is not "spoiled;" it's fiscally irresponsible (we can't save and we put ourselves in debt).
CZroe (October 14, 2008 at 6:51 pm)
Oh, and I wish we could afford a laptop or even a crap PC for games when we were teens! We were raised on welfare exclusively and won an Acer Aspire - IBM P150 CPU (AKA Cyrix 133MHz), 16MB of RAM, 1.1GB HDD, & a 2D-only integrated ATI chip that couldn't even do 800x600 resolution in high color. I used that until I turned 18, got a job and built my 128MB PIII 500 at the launch of the CPU. I paired it with a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee and upgraded to a Voodoo3 and it was my 1st taste of real PC gaming.
tanman1234543 (October 15, 2008 at 1:50 am)
well just saying macs are nice and your lucky you have one
CZroe (October 19, 2008 at 5:08 pm)
That's Windows Vista Ultimate. We never bought an Apple product until we got our iPhone 3Gs long after this video, and boy are we disappointed! The browser crashes constantly and even three firmware updates have not stopped the glitch where it erases everything I typed. I have all the same problems, except now the on-screen keyboad (OSK) is ALWAYS sluggish.

To top it off, the iPod functionality will not even scroll to display song details (or even names!). Heck, the mini player shows more!
CZroe (October 14, 2008 at 6:37 pm)
It wasn't in the script then, but it has been added. There's a link to one such script in the description, so your question was already answered.