GuitarsOnFire

Guitars On Fire
General
Author(s)	Daid
Type	Music game
Version	1.1
Licence	GPL
Links
Download
Source
Downloadable via the Homebrew Browser
Peripherals

Guitars On Fire is a Guitar Hero clone, like Guitarfun and FretsOnFire. It uses Frets On Fire compatible songs, which can be found all over the internet. Lots are to be found at FretsOnFire fan forum Everything is released under GPL, which means the code is open for everyone to view and modify if they wish. It borrows graphics from both Guitarfun and FretsOnFire, and contains some new graphics. It does NOT use any of the FretsOnFire code, and only a little bit of the Guitarfun code. So it's a different game with a different feeling to it.

Status

The game is mostly modeled after GuitarHero3, which is the best version so far according to me and my friends.

In it's current state it supports playing single songs from SD card. Up to 5 players in quick play mode. With 4 guitars and 1 USB keyboard. No online multiplayer as of yet. It has no lag and all the notes are perfect on time, compared to FretsOnFire. (Some songs are not done well and just look out of sync)

Controllers

GuitarsOnFire is designed to be played with Guitars. Currently it supports many of the Wii wireless guitars. And is known to work with the following guitars:

• GH3 Guitar [1]
• GH WT Guitar [2]
• GH Metallica Guitar [3] (Works 100% the same as a WT guitar)
• Flying V [4]
• PS2 Guitar with PS2->GameCube converter.

It WON'T EVER work with USB guitars, unless someone figures out how those work. I have reports that the cheapest guitar you can get "Nyko Frontman Wireless Guitar" does NOT work for some reason. I found some hints why, so if someone has one and it willing to test a few things, then leave a message in the talk page.

Next to guitars you can use:

• The GuitarHero World Tour Drums
• A classic controller
• An USB keyboard

Videos

GuitarsOnFire 1.1 Mario stage

Changelog

Version 1.1

New Features:

• Freestyle mode (Special thanks to WaxyPumpkin72 for the sound effects)
• New difficulty/instrument selection menus
• Online score list, see http://daid.mine.nu/guitarsonfire/
• New results screen after playing a song
• Much requested volume settings
• Low battery warning icon during gameplay. And auto pause if a controller disconnects.
• Restart option in pause menu
• Samba share option (see readme.txt)

Bugfixes/changes:

• Some audio fixes to make more songs playable
• Many small things in the menus, larger texts, better fitting texts.
• Loading is a bit faster now, and no longer speeds up at 90%.

Version 1.0

New Features:

• Practice mode
• Versus mode
• Last man standing mode
• 50/100/150/200 streak effect
• GuitarHero World Tour Drums support
• Experimental USB support (No idea if it works, enable it in the settings menu)
• Saving settings
• Saving of top scores and showing which songs you have compleeted already in the song list.

Bugfixes/changes:

• Song selection redone (now returns to where you last where)
• Default neck is now gray
• Custom stages can supply a own neck/effect texture and note 3D models.
• Ajusted the hammeron note generation, makes less hammerons
• Fixed crash bug related to audio. Also fixed a few causes where the audio would get out of sync.
• Make sure there is a bit of time after the game start before the first song.
• Many tiny things I forgot.

Version 0.8

• Customizable scriptable stages. 3 stages included by default (GuitarsOnFire, Guitarfun, Mario)
• Lefty flip
• Load all GFX from png files on SD card
• Load drums.ogg if it exists
• 'lower fret overriding'
• Sound fix when no song.ogg is found
• Gamecube controller support (Untested)
• Classic controller support (Untested)
• Not showing a difficulty if there are less than 10 notes (some songs just add a single note to show up as having all difficulties)
• Added 'start' key for keyboard
• No songs message when no songs are found
• Fix scoring for sustained notes
• Remove tails for short notes
• Add neck/highway gfx
• Failing a song when playing badly
• Keyboard keymap customizing
• Basic drum track support

Future version

Here I keep track of a list of things I want to get done in the next version. Not everything might make it, but these are the things I'm working on.

• Advanced game mode: Momentum (as seen in GH5)
• Change difficulty during play
• Whammy bar effect
• Solo sections (as seen in rockband)
• Starpower/overdrive per player, as in GH5
• New 3D model code for the notes
• Downloading new songs and stages in game

If you want to see an updated state of the code, then you can look in my subversion repository. It should be compilable and pretty stable at all times.

Keys

				Game Action	Menu Action
	↑ ↓ RShift ↵ Enter			Strum	Navigate the menu
	F1			Green Fret	Select an item
	F2			Red Fret	Cancel/exit menu
	F3			Yellow Fret	-
	F4			Blue Fret	-
	F5			Orange Fret	-
	Escape			Menu	Random song in song selection.

Songs

The FretsOnFire wiki contains a LONG list of songs that you can download here free. Or You Can Download Calthephenoms Demo Song Called "The Devil Lives In Ohio" or The ROFLCopter Of Appitilation By Calthephenom

Mods

Up from version v0.8 of GuitarsOnFire there was a gfx folder which allows you to change the look of some of the parts of the game. You can also add new stages in the stage folder.

Neck Mods (Note Highway):

• Black Flames, Blue Neck
• Tetris stage - More of a proof of concept of how powerful the stage editing is. All gfx replaced and with some fancy scripting you can play tetris in the background.
• basic full screen background template - Also is a very simple not animated FoF stage.
• [5] GOF Theme - Electrode [6]
• [7] Theme: Legend of Zelda [8]
• Strobe - Shows a flashing "light" in the background. The color depends on the key that is pressed on the controller.