Help my wife (to play)

[Cardellos]

tldr: I want to add a mode that is easier to play with all "tap" notes

Basically i love PS but my wife never wants to play because it's harder to hit the notes and she's not used to strumming, we'd only play guitar hero 3 on pc, and that's all she wants to play.

Can somebody help me make a mod or point me in the right direction please?

Thanks to all the devs and everyone helping in the forums for all the help they given me by answering someone elses questions.

[vandorb12]

Edit chart in EOF
Change all notes to taps or move to keys
Save as a copy

Profit.

[Cardellos]

Sept 16, 2017 2:06:13 GMT vandorb12 said:

Edit chart in EOF
Change all notes to taps or move to keys
Save as a copy

Profit.

I though about doing that, but i have more than 500 songs and that's not an option...
also i like strumming, i'd like to have a "GH3 mode" where she selects in her profile and plays that way...

[Cardellos]

Quick follow up:
I'm editing the mid in EOF and adding the "guitar coop" as "slider/tap track"
if anyone knows a batch operation for it, it would be greatly appreciated.

[lordashes]

I have not done a lot of editing so I am not sure about the "guitar coop" but I would guess that whatever this entails is just information that is added into the MIDI tracks. If so, I have source code (that I created) which extract the contents of a MIDI file into a list of human readable lines and then some source code (that I created) which packs such human readable lines back into a MIDI file. This can make editing the MIDI file, through a program, much easier than trying to make the changes directly in the MIDI file.

Using this code you could compare the MIDI before adding the "guitar coop" and after to see what human readable lines you need to insert (to add the "Guitar Coop"). If the added content can be isolated then it would be fairly simple to write a small program that will perform the insert (or a similar insert) on a batch of songs.

You could obviously write a program that makes the modifications to the MIDI file directly but that requires understanding the MIDI file structure which is not absolutely necessary if you use my unpacking and packing code.

Let me now if you are interested and I will post it or send it to you.

[lordashes]

An alternate idea: I am not sure if the strum action is required by the device controller configuration or the device selection in the game. Would it be possible to create a custom device configuration which would use the guitar controller but convince the game that it is a keyboard or drum (where there isn't a strum). The issue there may be that then the game may not allow it to play as a guitar but as a keyboard or drum.

[djlastnight]

The first thing that comes in to my mind is to hook xinput and send strum (dpad up or down by default) along with the fret button.

Unfortunately I'm not sure if this will works well for chords.
This is 100% hacking stuff, but obviously the OP requires this kind of cheating.
This is not Phase Shift specific, but all xinput games including Guitar Hero for PC.

-- edit --
I tested it. Works like a charm, but it's harder for me to play.
This means it's not a real hack
Anyway, I can not include such links here, soooo
if someone is interested, let write me a PM.

[lordashes]

I just started playing with GlovePIE to try to get my Guitar Hero guitar working with PS (it would not work for me out of the box). GlovePIE supports various controllers and allows you to map controllers to other controllers.

For example, you can map your guitar to keyboard keys (which Phase Shift can understand). Best of all you can map to multiple outputs so you could easily configure GlovePIE so that when a fret it pressed, it generates the corresponding keyboard key for both the fret and the strum. So it is a similar solution to Fatdog's suggestion about but without the need to hack...just download the free GlovePIE application.

[Cardellos]

Jan 19, 2018 0:43:53 GMT lordashes said:

I have not done a lot of editing so I am not sure about the "guitar coop" but I would guess that whatever this entails is just information that is added into the MIDI tracks. If so, I have source code (that I created) which extract the contents of a MIDI file into a list of human readable lines and then some source code (that I created) which packs such human readable lines back into a MIDI file. This can make editing the MIDI file, through a program, much easier than trying to make the changes directly in the MIDI file.

Using this code you could compare the MIDI before adding the "guitar coop" and after to see what human readable lines you need to insert (to add the "Guitar Coop"). If the added content can be isolated then it would be fairly simple to write a small program that will perform the insert (or a similar insert) on a batch of songs.

You could obviously write a program that makes the modifications to the MIDI file directly but that requires understanding the MIDI file structure which is not absolutely necessary if you use my unpacking and packing code.

Let me now if you are interested and I will post it or send it to you.

Sorry for the late reply, life things...

Anyway, that sounds like my kinda thing, could you please send me those source code or maybe even a compiled version of them?

ps: I've tried the "auto-strumming key" thing, and it's not viable in my case, cause sometimes we play with her little sister and she plays with my controller...

pps: I've also "played" with GlovePie a long while back, for this to work i would have to re-learn it and i'm to lazy for that, plus, for me it would feel like to much clutter (Game+GlovePie+DS4Window+My Song Organizing app(Still in development)).

[djlastnight]

Cardellos, if you wish I could add option to completely disable the "hack" when you hold all the fret buttons for 3 seconds.

Let me know what you think.

[yellowtube]

get joy to key and map the frets accordingly
Green = 1 and down
Red = 2 and down
Yellow = 3 and down
Blue = 4 and down
Orange = 5 and down
It'll make it impossible for her to navigate with her guitar, but you can do that with the keyboard and no modding hope this helps

[acgp]

Sept 15, 2017 15:17:44 GMT Cardellos said:

tldr: I want to add a mode that is easier to play with all "tap" notes

Basically i love PS but my wife never wants to play because it's harder to hit the notes and she's not used to strumming, we'd only play guitar hero 3 on pc, and that's all she wants to play.

Can somebody help me make a mod or point me in the right direction please?

Thanks to all the devs and everyone helping in the forums for all the help they given me by answering someone elses questions.

i use xpadder, to configure taps and drum i a one button on joystick.