Shredding to Street Fighter
posted May 19th 2010 11:00am by Mike Szczysfiled under: peripherals hacks, playstation hacks
Strumming to punch and changing frets to move, [Alan Chatham] plays Street Fighter using his guitar. It’s been modified to use OpenChord, an open source guitar controller package he developed. This was originally meant to be used with Guitar Hero and the like but as he mentions in the video after the break, it is open source so you can do whatever you want with it. In this case, he’s patched into a PS3, showing yet another way to use your own hardware on that console. Unlike alternative guitar-like interfaces you won’t have to relearn how to play. You just need to adapt your favorite songs to fall in line with butt-kicking controller combos. For the adventurous you can build your own but [Alan's] got kits available too.
Very clever. I’m not sure if it would improve my Street Fighter performance (I’m already bad enough), but it looks like a fun project and would be cool to show off.