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Money to burn, yet you suck at Guitar Hero? I have something for you


Colette Bennett \\ 02.27.2008	27 comments

No matter what it is you aren't so good at, there's a solution somewhere between cheating on tests and penile implants. This little device falls somewhere squarely in the middle, allowing you to hack a Guitar Hero controller so it will play all the notes for you while you pretend to play. I think it sucks that anyone would actually use this in competition, but I'm sure someone will try.

At ay rate, no need to worry about coming up against it just yet: with an average price of about $500 to construct one yourself, it's a little too pricey to start popping up commonly just yet. Beware if you're invited to the home of a clumsy mad genius to play GH, however.

[Via Gizmodo]

27 COMMENTS, LATEST BY Android8675
There are PC/MMO cheat programs that basically detect pixel colors on the screen and do things according to what the program sees. Seems like it'd be easy to run GH3 PC through this and simply te... - view discussion

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SourGr8pes says:
02/27/2008 15:47

This fails on so many epic levels... Well, not the construction of it; that's genius. But the whole concept at installing this thing to cheat...

MrSadistic says:
02/27/2008 15:49

I stopped the video after the second time he was whoring an advertiser. I guess that device is for the cool kids who suck too much at playing a real guitar, but still want to impress friends and family with a plastic one but not sucking at that also. At any rate, I know a few things to buy for 500 bucks. Like... uh.. crack.

Rockvillian says:
02/27/2008 15:54

I can't decide what depresses me more - the Holocaust, or the person that buys this.

DryvBy says:
02/27/2008 15:55

If I walked in to my friends house, caught him playing with this thing after saying he was so great at GH, I'd feel the same way as if I walked in on my brother spank his monkey. It's embarrassing and shameful.

HarassmentPanda says:
02/27/2008 15:58

Wait, did you say $500 to build one myself? What the hell parts went into that thing? I feel like there are much cheaper solutions if you want to do this sort of thing. But, it's still stupid and shameful.

Xenomorph52 says:
02/27/2008 15:59

Let's just hope no one figures out how to do this cheap and easy enough so that it becomes widespread.

The-Excel says:
02/27/2008 16:02

So how does it detect what notes to play and for how long?

Guagloves says:
02/27/2008 16:03

Systm is such win.

@MrSadistic:
Sponsors are pretty much the main reason Rev3 can keep shows on the internets.

SourGr8pes says:
02/27/2008 16:03

@Harassment Panda

Resistors and chips created from the bones of long-dead kings and emperors. When you go to Radio Shack, they're waaaaaaaay in the back, behind a glass case.

blehman says:
02/27/2008 16:03

This is, quite possibly, the most loserist(?) invention of all time. Fake it on Guitar Hero?

Oh, this is for achievement whores. That's what it is.

PrinceofCannedPeaches says:
02/27/2008 16:06

That's like buying a tutorial for masturbation: even if you're awesome, you're still in the junior leagues. Except... I don't think you'd show that to your friends.

MrSadistic says:
02/27/2008 16:07

@Guag

Yeah I understand that, but when you are doing promos and sound like a mix between the dead announcer from The Price Is Right and someone who is constipated, then it gets a bit awkward.

DJDuffy says:
02/27/2008 16:12

It took them 10 trys to get it lined up with the game...sooo that doesn't seem very practical =P

GagaMan says:
02/27/2008 16:15

NERRRRRRRRRRDS!

Aertyr says:
02/27/2008 16:17

Oooo, he can hack easy mode... awesome?

wardrox says:
02/27/2008 16:17

pff, I could build one out of a PIC chip and 9v battery for about a pound, actually.

KMCC says:
02/27/2008 16:19

WHY??
Air guitar is even cooler than that.

Eschatos says:
02/27/2008 16:23

Sad, yet potentially amusing. I'd get one solely to get a perfect score on Through the Fire and Flames on Expert.

Holyetheline says:
02/27/2008 17:51

HAX!!! ONOES!

Conrad Zimmerman says:
02/27/2008 17:56

It looks like it would be really time consuming to program a track like Through the Fire & Flames on Expert using that interface. Even if it weren't lame and expensive, I don't think I could be bothered to do this.

king3vbo says:
02/27/2008 18:08

SO MUCH FAIL

Superfluous Moniker says:
02/27/2008 18:28

Ads at the beginning and end of your show: Acceptable way of paying server bills/making money.

Stopping multiple times to advertise unrelated software in the middle of your show: Whoredom.

TheStripe says:
02/27/2008 21:44

So I'm going to spend $500 and all day on cheating out ONE song SOME OF THE TIME?

Wow, massive fail.

Volomon says:
02/27/2008 22:42

Yeah more achievementwhore cheating.

Necros says:
02/28/2008 02:20

Wow. This really sucks. Fuck anyone who uses this.

copulatingduck says:
02/28/2008 07:24

What a douche!

Android8675 says:
02/28/2008 10:55

There are PC/MMO cheat programs that basically detect pixel colors on the screen and do things according to what the program sees. Seems like it'd be easy to run GH3 PC through this and simply tell it what to do when a certain color passes a certain spot.

The problem, as I see it, with this hardware solution and the solution I just mentioned is that neither could keep up with "Through The Fire And Flames" on expert, and if it can't do that, what's the point?

LAME! So much money invested on something that only works 1 out of 10 attempts, and apparently on EASY? Pass.

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