Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II. You've probably heard these games being talked about a lot in the past few weeks (especially right after the holidays). Well, you might have missed out if you didn't have a ps2 (or xbox as that version is coming out soon). However, there is hope.
Frets on Fire is an free, open source, multi-platform, mod-friendly, expansionable, community driven, amazing piece of software. It has the same basic premise as guitar hero, with notes flying down the screen and requiring the user to press the keys in time. The music plays the guitar parts when you hit the notes correctly, and makes mess up sounds when you don't. This part of the game is exactly like Guitar Hero. The one thing it lacks is commercial support so by default all you have is three songs to play from (this also means that it uses ogg vorbis format). This is not a problem as you can make tablature from music you have, or you can find submissions of tablature that people have made online, or you can import songs from Guitar Hero I/II as it's compatible.
There is no level structure at this point, instead there's a scoring system. The real reward is the audio quality that you get after playing the music. The feeling that you get after knowing that you made your computer play that lick is sweet.
Also, there are a lot of mods out and in the works. The regular game is still being developed heavily (last release was a week or two ago). This core is working towards multiplayer over the internet; however, there are mods out there that will probably achieve this first.
Overall, the game is very impressive. Although it does not match the awesomeness of Guitar Hero, it comes very close and it's free! Plus you will never believe how well the F1-5 keys on your keyboard work as frets and how the enter or shift key is a good pick. If you have a wireless keyboard like myself, it's all the better.
I have only played the linux version, but the windows version is supposed to be just as good. There's a mac version that's still in testing, and there's even a bsd version. So unless you are running some version of OS/2, solaris, or TI-OS, you have no reason not to get this (let's not start in on all the OSs I missed).
As Jorgen Von HavensswafchinMurgen says, I am you're god. You will need to use the escape key when you realize...that you SUCK.
Edit: I tried to put this on the computers at school that I have put Ubuntu on, but I'm having problems that I believe stem from the lack of a graphics driver I have on this computer. I looked into getting a graphics driver, but I've been unable to compile it. The graphics card is a crappy intel integrated 82945G graphics card. I found this and I cvs the opengl package, but I couldn't find where it saved it and was unable to compile it. I know that Frets on Fire requires opengl graphics card. Any ideas?
Frets on Fire is an free, open source, multi-platform, mod-friendly, expansionable, community driven, amazing piece of software. It has the same basic premise as guitar hero, with notes flying down the screen and requiring the user to press the keys in time. The music plays the guitar parts when you hit the notes correctly, and makes mess up sounds when you don't. This part of the game is exactly like Guitar Hero. The one thing it lacks is commercial support so by default all you have is three songs to play from (this also means that it uses ogg vorbis format). This is not a problem as you can make tablature from music you have, or you can find submissions of tablature that people have made online, or you can import songs from Guitar Hero I/II as it's compatible.
There is no level structure at this point, instead there's a scoring system. The real reward is the audio quality that you get after playing the music. The feeling that you get after knowing that you made your computer play that lick is sweet.
Also, there are a lot of mods out and in the works. The regular game is still being developed heavily (last release was a week or two ago). This core is working towards multiplayer over the internet; however, there are mods out there that will probably achieve this first.
Overall, the game is very impressive. Although it does not match the awesomeness of Guitar Hero, it comes very close and it's free! Plus you will never believe how well the F1-5 keys on your keyboard work as frets and how the enter or shift key is a good pick. If you have a wireless keyboard like myself, it's all the better.
I have only played the linux version, but the windows version is supposed to be just as good. There's a mac version that's still in testing, and there's even a bsd version. So unless you are running some version of OS/2, solaris, or TI-OS, you have no reason not to get this (let's not start in on all the OSs I missed).
As Jorgen Von HavensswafchinMurgen says, I am you're god. You will need to use the escape key when you realize...that you SUCK.
Edit: I tried to put this on the computers at school that I have put Ubuntu on, but I'm having problems that I believe stem from the lack of a graphics driver I have on this computer. I looked into getting a graphics driver, but I've been unable to compile it. The graphics card is a crappy intel integrated 82945G graphics card. I found this and I cvs the opengl package, but I couldn't find where it saved it and was unable to compile it. I know that Frets on Fire requires opengl graphics card. Any ideas?