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Originally Posted by euphoricism
I'm so setting this up on my desktop, I dont care what I have to do. But tehre isnt yet a way to *play* it on your desktop, just create/download songs, right? You still need to dump it to ISO, burn it, and put it in a modded ps2. I think.
I'm reading tons of posts over at scorehero but its a LOT to take in.
Yeah you need to do that.
You can play it on your computer but it doesn't work very well. What you would need to do would be to download a PS2 emulator and play the game on that. You would need to take the bios off your PS2 and put it in the emulator inorder for it to run anything (pain in the ass). Then you would need to buy an adapter for to use your guitar on your computer. This is a huge pain in the ass in my opinion and I duno if it is really worth it. Plus I think the frame rates you would be getting on your computer are CRAPPY at best.
Your best bet is to read the stickies and order a Swapmagic. Swapmagic is cheap compared to a hard drive (although with a hard drive you can put whole games on there so you don't have to buy them, so the hard drive does make its money back) and WAY easier to set up. Just start swapping out songs right now with Guitar Hero Explorer till your Swapmagic arrives. It takes like 15 or so min for you to swap out a song with GHEX so by the time Swapmagic gets here you will have a whole brand new list of songs too play. Also the media you burn to makes a difference so get something like Verbatum or Sony. And also the burn speed makes a difference. Burning a game is very finkiky.
I would also recommend not changing anything in the dtb file until after you get a working game. In the dtb file you can change all of the type in the game. You swap out song titles here and even change what the loading screens say (mine are Chuck Norris quotes FTW). These are usually what screw up your burn and make it not work. Well uhh good luck...
Edit: BTW I don't think I can stress this enough STICKIES ARE YOUR FRIENDS!!!
Edit 2: You can play a Guitar Hero clone on your computer with relative ease, I think (I don't really have much experience with it though). Search Frets on Fire on youtube to see some examples of it. The graphics on it are terrible, but if you can't get a custom game to work on your PS2 I guess it's better than nothing, maybe.
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