Wow, Nice!!!!!!

Good for a prototype...

This guy has an X360 model that can 100% Through the Fire and Flames, though:

+ Watch video

Sad.

Is someone actually proud of this or is it a cry for help?

Don't worry folks, this computer still has much to learn... I could hear the plinks and wails of missed notes in the background.

That wasn't really perfect...

looks to me like it did not hold the long notes.

Through fire and flames just got served :p

that prototype seems to work a hell of a lot better than the crappy wii mod

What's the point? I thought you were supposed to play it yourself to get the enjoyment. Why not just put in the CD and save a ton of money AND time?

It sounded pointeless when i read about it, who wants a robot to play a song perfectly. Even more pointless when i watched the video and see the it actually makes mistakes.

You guys are missing the point. It has nothing to do with making a controller that can complete the game for him. The point is that he can make the controller play the game. Using their electronics skills and overcoming technical hurdles is what drives people do this, not the satisfaction of a completed song.

I don't know, on one hand I think it's really neat that he figured out how to do this. But this is completely pointless.

Oh well. Hooray for wasting time!

@PissedPS3Fan: Because you can make money from such contraptions, most of the ones that make money are software based if you catch my drift *cough*

Nerds, is there nothing they can't do?

@Lexxon:

thats definitely cool, but that guy is using the actual note code from the dvd.

the guy posted here is using the actual video signal and trying to interpolate that into key presses.

@PissedPS3Fan: I dunno buying cd's these days might be more expensive.. I mean 16 bucks for 8 tracks, seriously!?

Ah the days when I actually used to buy cd's when they contained atleast 12 songs and cost about 12 dollars... oh hey iTunes, there you are (not like I buy songs from them but well you know.) Today's music sucks anyways! I'm old and cranky and you youngsters with your music scare me!

people who are confused about the use of this, I would assume that the only real point, is to challenge people online and kick their asses...when it actually manages to perfect it's playing abilities

@Barob: Ding ding. Quite correct.

@Derigor: Seriously, where do you come from ?! Because the last CD's I bought still had around 12 tracks ... I guess some people like to whine about everything and say that teenagers these days ar nothing more than shit ...

Come on, don't you have something more original and unecesseraly amplified to say ?

In communist Russia, game plays you!

I'll be impressed when someone can mod the guitars to play the songs AND the buttons depress as it plays.

Like those old self-playing pianos that seem like a ghost. That'd be cool.

@Lexxon: Good god. I honestly can't imagine anybody playing that song on that difficulty without missing at least one note.

Not saying it can't be done... just that I can't imagine somebody actually doing it.

That's great. Now I just need some drums that play themselves and then I can just sit back and listen to them play (and watch my characters on the screen)! Awesome!

Now if they can create something that will play my games for me also, that would be the best!

Good Grief.

@Does Not Equal: Ill never be able to play that song on expert.

Mmmm..that's slightly retarded. But still pretty cool.

I wonder how the detection process works. Does he hook into the game or detect the video or what.

...groovy.

I would argue that a game worth playing can't be simulated better than human intervention, but I'm still trying to 5 star Free Bird on expert.

@mistercow.pnoy: I really doubt that's the point. It's one thing for a person to cheat using an exploit or hack; it's another altogether for a person to assemble the hardware and software to pull off what these controllers are trying to do. This isn't about e-penises in online matches. It's about trying to see if you can build a system that can accomplish what many would think only a human can.

@dutchct: Indeed.

This is actually incredibly impressive. I've never seen one of these that actually decodes the composite video signal on the fly and plays as such. The guy just did it as a hobby and to play around with the technology (and to beat his son's scores! A valid pursuit for any father.), if you went to the site.

@Lexxon: That a bot right...like...that's fake?

I think it's technically awesome, in a sense anyway. Whereas cheating is wrong, I don't think the guys do it to cheat, they do it to see if they can do it.

I love this from a nerdy standpoint. It's not like someone is making an aimbot to help them cheat, it'd be more like making a bot that plays the whole game. Taking it online to top out the leaderboards would be pretty lame, but I don't see anything wrong with this.

@Lexxon: Achievement unlocked: Robot Devil Hands.

I have to agree the amount of work and engineering going into designing a system like is good basis for any education.

I mean there's defintely a good mix of electrical and computer engineering skill here.

@dutchct:

Ah that's why, well that's really impressive. I still can't beat GGaHT on Rock Band expert guitar :( I like it though because then I feel really good when I do beat those songs, even if I suck.

There were definitely missed notes in there. Not saying I could do better, I couldn't, just pointing that out.

@Lexxon: That guy uses a pre-programmed note sequence; he essentially loads the note chart into his software, then syncs it with the start of the song. The Wii version depicted above actually reads the screen (or at least the individual frames), so it's doing a lot more work.

Look at me! I just programmed something to play my game for me! Yay!

@2SBs: Yeah.. get a girlfriend.. *sigh* Something I would know..

@dutchct: Aah, OK, I didn't see that before. That explains the random "plinks". Pretty awesome this way, actually.

Guys, it's not like these guys are sitting there in their basements dying to find ways to cheat at Guitar Hero.

They want to experiment with electronics and learn how things work, and what better way to do that than to mess around with something you already enjoy? Good job to this guy.

@Lexxon: Dear god.

You killed the games soul!

This just made leaderboards irrelevant.

@Lexxon:
i shall never play guitar hero online ever again if i see that score up there.

The awesome Guitar Hero mod was made by man.

They evolved.

There are many copies.

And they have a plan.

My senior project in college used the same principals (scanning NTSC video signals for bright spots) and working on it was a absolute blast. And my application was boring too (using a flash light as a targeting system), so I can just imagine how much fun this must have been.

@Axel: Sign up for Beauty and the Geek if that show is still being made.

haha nice work... its always nice and interesting to see what people come up with on their own. It this sort of thinking and muddling with electronics that help bring about new innovations...

props to that and keep it up.

in this thread: a lot of people who will never understand ee or cse majors.

on topic, that's pretty damn cool. can't wait to see it when it's perfected.

The point of this is not to win the songs, the point is to make the robot. I actually want to try and do that now...