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If you own Guitar Hero 2 for the 360's, you've probably noticed that you can download some of the Guitar Hero 1 songs from Live. You've also probably noticed how bloody expensive they are, costing 500 Microsoft Points for a pack of three songs. If you do the maths, that means you'd need to pay just under seventy pounds to get all the songs from GH1. And to add insult to injury, you can't buy songs individually. Given that you can buy Guitar Hero 1 and the PS2 Guitar for just £39.99, there's something wrong.
But there's a solution. An enterprising programmer has created a PC version of Guitar Hero, known as 'Frets on Fire', which can be found here and it's pretty damn good. It comes with a few songs which aren't bad. Other people have also created 'Frets' versions of their favourite songs, but these tend to be fairly poor hack-jobs where the guitar track isn't separate from the rest of the audio as it is in Guitar Hero.
So what use is it to 360 owners, then? Well for a start, you can plug your USB 360 guitar into your PC, enter the button combinations into Frets on Fire, and you can play Frets with your 360 Guitar Hero guitar. But it gets better. You can also import songs from Guitar Hero 1 or 2 into Frets on Fire, and play them exactly as you would in Guitar Hero 1. Well, with the exception of the whammy bar and star power, but that's no great loss.
You see where I'm going with this? All you need to do, if you want access to the Guitar Hero 1 songs, is to buy a cheap second hand copy of the Guitar Hero 1 disc, which can be had for around fifteen to twenty quid depending where you shop. Then, just import them into Frets on Fire, which is pretty easy to do, plug in your 360 guitar and you're away.
It certainly beats handing over seventy quid to Microsoft, and best of all, it's legal. If Microsoft ever decide to reduce the price of their downloadable to fifty points per track or similar, I may buy them and stick my GH1 disc back on E-Bay. But for now, I'd heartily recommend this method of gaining access to Guitar Hero 1's tracklist.
But there's a solution. An enterprising programmer has created a PC version of Guitar Hero, known as 'Frets on Fire', which can be found here and it's pretty damn good. It comes with a few songs which aren't bad. Other people have also created 'Frets' versions of their favourite songs, but these tend to be fairly poor hack-jobs where the guitar track isn't separate from the rest of the audio as it is in Guitar Hero.
So what use is it to 360 owners, then? Well for a start, you can plug your USB 360 guitar into your PC, enter the button combinations into Frets on Fire, and you can play Frets with your 360 Guitar Hero guitar. But it gets better. You can also import songs from Guitar Hero 1 or 2 into Frets on Fire, and play them exactly as you would in Guitar Hero 1. Well, with the exception of the whammy bar and star power, but that's no great loss.
You see where I'm going with this? All you need to do, if you want access to the Guitar Hero 1 songs, is to buy a cheap second hand copy of the Guitar Hero 1 disc, which can be had for around fifteen to twenty quid depending where you shop. Then, just import them into Frets on Fire, which is pretty easy to do, plug in your 360 guitar and you're away.
It certainly beats handing over seventy quid to Microsoft, and best of all, it's legal. If Microsoft ever decide to reduce the price of their downloadable to fifty points per track or similar, I may buy them and stick my GH1 disc back on E-Bay. But for now, I'd heartily recommend this method of gaining access to Guitar Hero 1's tracklist.
I destroyed Guitar Hero in GAME the other day. My brother was so proud ^-^
If you own Guitar Hero 2 for the 360's, you've probably noticed that you can download some of the Guitar Hero 1 songs from Live. You've also probably noticed how bloody expensive they are, costing 500 Microsoft Points for a pack of three songs. If you do the maths, that means you'd need to pay just under seventy pounds to get all the songs from GH1. And to add insult to injury, you can't buy songs individually. Given that you can buy Guitar Hero 1 and the PS2 Guitar for just £39.99, there's something wrong.
But there's a solution. An enterprising programmer has created a PC version of Guitar Hero, known as 'Frets on Fire', which can be found here and it's pretty damn good. It comes with a few songs which aren't bad. Other people have also created 'Frets' versions of their favourite songs, but these tend to be fairly poor hack-jobs where the guitar track isn't separate from the rest of the audio as it is in Guitar Hero.
So what use is it to 360 owners, then? Well for a start, you can plug your USB 360 guitar into your PC, enter the button combinations into Frets on Fire, and you can play Frets with your 360 Guitar Hero guitar. But it gets better. You can also import songs from Guitar Hero 1 or 2 into Frets on Fire, and play them exactly as you would in Guitar Hero 1. Well, with the exception of the whammy bar and star power, but that's no great loss.
You see where I'm going with this? All you need to do, if you want access to the Guitar Hero 1 songs, is to buy a cheap second hand copy of the Guitar Hero 1 disc, which can be had for around fifteen to twenty quid depending where you shop. Then, just import them into Frets on Fire, which is pretty easy to do, plug in your 360 guitar and you're away.
It certainly beats handing over seventy quid to Microsoft, and best of all, it's legal. If Microsoft ever decide to reduce the price of their downloadable to fifty points per track or similar, I may buy them and stick my GH1 disc back on E-Bay. But for now, I'd heartily recommend this method of gaining access to Guitar Hero 1's tracklist.
But there's a solution. An enterprising programmer has created a PC version of Guitar Hero, known as 'Frets on Fire', which can be found here and it's pretty damn good. It comes with a few songs which aren't bad. Other people have also created 'Frets' versions of their favourite songs, but these tend to be fairly poor hack-jobs where the guitar track isn't separate from the rest of the audio as it is in Guitar Hero.
So what use is it to 360 owners, then? Well for a start, you can plug your USB 360 guitar into your PC, enter the button combinations into Frets on Fire, and you can play Frets with your 360 Guitar Hero guitar. But it gets better. You can also import songs from Guitar Hero 1 or 2 into Frets on Fire, and play them exactly as you would in Guitar Hero 1. Well, with the exception of the whammy bar and star power, but that's no great loss.
You see where I'm going with this? All you need to do, if you want access to the Guitar Hero 1 songs, is to buy a cheap second hand copy of the Guitar Hero 1 disc, which can be had for around fifteen to twenty quid depending where you shop. Then, just import them into Frets on Fire, which is pretty easy to do, plug in your 360 guitar and you're away.
It certainly beats handing over seventy quid to Microsoft, and best of all, it's legal. If Microsoft ever decide to reduce the price of their downloadable to fifty points per track or similar, I may buy them and stick my GH1 disc back on E-Bay. But for now, I'd heartily recommend this method of gaining access to Guitar Hero 1's tracklist.