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Hey everyone. I've had Guitar Hero 3 for Mac for most of 2008 and really enjoyed it. We just got an Xbox 360, which is nice because there's no sign of GH:WT or RB2 coming to Mac anytime soon.
Several of the Guitar Hero games have been released for Windows and Mac, including Guitar Hero III, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and USB-based instruments should work natively with them. None of the Rock Band games have been released for.
My question is, do you know if the wireless controller that comes with WT can somehow work with the Mac? The wired controller that shipped with GH3 is an XBox one, so I assume it would work with WT and RB2. I ask this because I didn't want to go out and spend extra on a guitar controller for GH3, so I was just waiting until I got the next one, but I want to make sure it will work with GH3. Thanks for your help! Hey everyone. I've had Guitar Hero 3 for Mac for most of 2008 and really enjoyed it. We just got an Xbox 360, which is nice because there's no sign of GH:WT or RB2 coming to Mac anytime soon.
My question is, do you know if the wireless controller that comes with WT can somehow work with the Mac? The wired controller that shipped with GH3 is an XBox one, so I assume it would work with WT and RB2.
I ask this because I didn't want to go out and spend extra on a guitar controller for GH3, so I was just waiting until I got the next one, but I want to make sure it will work with GH3. Thanks for your help! You need the wireless controller adapter from Microsoft for the new GH:WT controller to work. Its about $20 at your local gamertown, whatever name's on the front of the building doesn't matter.
You need to make it work. I can't actually say whether it will work or not since it hasn't been updated in a year, but it should work OK with the controller. The touchpad thing might not work but its garbage anyway. GH3:Mac wouldn't let me play with a 360 Rock Band Stratocaster, or a GH Gibson SG or Kramer Striker in a PS2 adapter, without additional software to map it to keyboard input. I used to resolve that.
Now we will start to setup the controller to use it with frets on fire. Open Xpadder. Click the gamepad image at the top left corner, then new. Go down the tabs following the instructions. (You can skip the sticks and triggers tabs.) Theoretically, you only need the buttons (Frets), the D-pad, and tilt sensor, but you can also add the start button, and whammy bar (for use with fofix, which we'll go in to more detail on later.). First add a controller image.
You can get them from the link in the last step. Just click on open and find it. Next we put the directional pad.
Check the enabled box and then follow the directions on the screen. Your strum bar up and down should be the same as the up and down on the d-pad. Now to add the buttons. Just press the button on the guitar, and when it appears, move it to its correct place on the image. Start with the frets and then do the whammy (if applicable), and the start button. Lastly tilt the guitar for the tilt sensor.
(It will recognize it as a button) Move the button wherever it makes sense to you. The button moving is critical for the next step so don't forget it. If you press the strum bar, it should just do up and down on the d-pad. Press all the mapped buttons to make sure you have them aligned correctly. They will light up green when you press (Or tilt) them. When done it should look something like the fifth picture. Then go to the finish tab and close the window.
Be sure to save the controller. (Gamepad-save as). If your tired of frets on fire's look and feel, and you want to up the guitar hero experience, i suggest you download FoFix ( ). Its the upgraded version of fof, that has many new features to make it feel like guitar hero or rockband.
(Multiplayer mode, Star power, killswitch (whammy), and themes to complete the guitar hero / rock band feel, or whatever other feel you want. (Mario, Microsoft Paint, etc.)) The rest of this instructable is done using Fofix, but its fairly easy to figure the rest out on your own if you don't want it.
Here is a link for themes.