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I never thought they could pull off Guitar Hero on the DS, but the did, and I think it works well. Of course, a full-sized guitar controller would be better, but that's impossible, right?

Nope. A hacker named Eric Ruckman has made a hell of a mod, rigging the DS to a full guitar (a PS2 GH controller), with functional buttons and all. His DS sits inside a special housing in the guitar, and a built-in FM Transmitter pipes the audio to his home theater speakers. 

If you'd like to make one for yourself, there's more details on the construction here and pictures here.

[Via Gamesdog]








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vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 12:22
vexed alex
Why not just play Guitar Hero on a console...?
Mr Wilson's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 12:32
Mr Wilson
Seriously. Thats way too much work to play Smashmouth's All Star with a real fake guitar
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 12:33
MrSadistic
... uh why would you want to do that?
jackburnt's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 12:50
jackburnt
He did it because no one else has done it before; because it's a challenge; because it's his hobby.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 13:00
Excel-2011
Combine that with the mod to route the DS outputs to full-sized tablet PCs and we have us a monumental waste of time.
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 13:50
pendelton21
Pure fucking insanity right there.
banzai78's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 14:45
banzai78
epic. who cares if it was a huge misappropriation of time and energy, no one's done it, so he did it. kudos to him. i admire his candor.
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 15:44
Red TheHaze Veron
damn it this guy beat me to it. I was thinking of a mod like this about a year ago when I got jam sessions on the DS.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 17:48
Holyetheline
Man that's a trip.
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 13:33
Furnimus
Hey, he made it and it works. That deserves some props by itself.
braulio09's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 18:49
braulio09
awesome...but he should've set the ds on its side. the way he has it, it would look confusing.
DibbityDan's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2008 16:57
DibbityDan
More trouble than it's worth.
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