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Thousands of Guitar Hero fans will go crazy for the Guitar Hero III touch-screen and magnetic switch.
No, this isn’t some thing new on the market in time for Christmas. It’s actually the creation of Cyberpyrot, a creative gamer who installed the touchscreen himself as well as a magnetic switch to enable play with a magnetic pic, so now it “plays much better than before.”
Gizmodo even has a video of it!
As it turns out, the countless hours that I spent playing Guitar Hero shirtless on my leather couch was only validating EA’s and Harmonix’s proof-of-concept for something much bigger: Rock Band. The PS3 (and x360) game is set to amalgamate the most addictive interactive games on this planet, earth… [More]
Since the screen uses most of the space, the guitar doesn't have its usual controller. Instead, Cyberpyrot--who did the mod--added a magnetic switch under the body so he could use a magnetic pic to play the guitar. Cyberpyrot told that "yeah, it plays better but unfortunately I don't."
The touchscreen itself mirrors the action on the TV and something else: it allows you to control the whammy bar by sweeping your fingers across the screen.
(gizmodo)
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