Guide - PS2/PS3/Wii/All other guitars to work on GH3 PC

**kereta** · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

I've been searching the whole forum and google for a proper guide to set up ps2/ps3/wii/all other controllers to work on your GH3/aerosmith without mapping your keys to your keyboard. And then I remembered that there is this xbox360 controller emulator and the newer version allows me to emulate xbox360 guitar.

Requirements
Xbox 360 Controller Emulator
http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/downloads/list

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyID=bd512d9e-43c8-4655-81bf-9350143d5867

MSVCR100.dll (If Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 doesn't work)
http://www.dll-files.com/pop.php?dll=msvcr100

Guitar Hero 3/Aerosmith (PC version)

And a guitar controller

Guide

Step 1
Go under Advanced tap and select "AlternateGuitar"

Step 2
map your keys accordingly to the colour frets:
Green: A
Red: B
Yellow: Y
Blue: X
Orange: Left Bumper

Step 3
Next, your strums, whammy and starpower tilt
Strums: your D-Pad
Whammy: Positive Axis X
S.P. Tilt: Positive Axis Y
Select (2nd S.P.): Select
Start/Pause: Start

Once you've done that, copy both "x360ce.ini" and "xinput1_3.dll" (MSVCR100.dll if applicable) that you've just generated, put them into your GH3/aerosmith folder.

ROCK ON and have fun

Tested On:
- GH3 v1.31
- GH - Aerosmith
- Logitech dual action
- PS3 GH3 LP
- Windows 7 32bit & 64 bit

PS: Please do some homework before asking me unnecessary questions. For example, if your driver does not sense your tilt motion, I can't help you on this. It's good to hear some feedback from all of you. Cheers

**GreyWolf94** · Joined: 07 Sep 2008 Posts: 9

I'm going to try this with Guitar Hero III v1.31. I'm using a Guitar Hero: World Tour guitar and a Guitar Hero 5 guitar. I'll test it out and post here if it works.

Also, is there a way to set the select button (star power button) use activate star power when you press it? I usually never tilt the guitar.

**kereta** · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

**wynaut01** · Joined: 30 Oct 2010 Posts: 1

Great! I finally found it. thanks for this guide.
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**kereta** · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

It has been a while since I posted this guide. Let's hear some feedback on how many types of guitars work and maybe we can have a list of guitars that are compatible with this guide

**KamilSramil** · Joined: 26 May 2011 Posts: 4

Hi
I bought PS2 guitar...i can bind all buttons from guitar in this program but GH3 doesn't even recognize that something is connected

EDIT: works in gh4 but doesn't in gh3

any ideas why?

Thanks in advance

**kereta** · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Did you put the this trick in GH4(world tour)? My current PS2 port to USB is missing, and so i can't test a ps2 guitar yet. just to double check if all required files are together in the directory game folder.

**KamilSramil** · Joined: 26 May 2011 Posts: 4

it works in GH4(although i think there's a little delay sometimes) but doesn't in GH3. I tried with dinput, various xinputs etc.

Another thing is i just bought new PS2-USB adapter(previous was borrowed) and it only handles button up to number 12.
strum up&down was button 13 and 15 and now i can't use it properly and need to use joyToKey again :/

**TwinkieOverlord** · Joined: 23 Jun 2009 Posts: 3

Hello, sorry if this sounds noobish, but i don't have a damn clue. I have a gh5 guitar for ps3, that i am trying to use on gh3 pc, and the buttons only fork in menus and in songs, they are really weird. M y green is an orange and my orange is a red and the others don't respond. I tried using the program in the OP, but all that was in the folder was the .exe and it wouldn't work. Please help, I just want to play customs on the comp, but my guitar is too stupid.

**KamilSramil** · Joined: 26 May 2011 Posts: 4

did you turned "LEFTY FLIP" off? it's in options->controller
i hope i understood your question right...

**TwinkieOverlord** · Joined: 23 Jun 2009 Posts: 3

Yes, Lefty fip is off, that's not the problem. The problem is that during songs, the fret buttons don't work properly and I can't even tell if the strum or whammy work. Just to reiterate things...

It works fine in menus just not during the song.

**neverfail** · Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Posts: 2

**REANS3** · Joined: 14 Aug 2011 Posts: 3

I need some help here please...

I have this adapter http://www.gamezone.no/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_88_98&products_id=31163
(sorry that the site is in norwegian lol)

But I can't changer to analog mode or set direction buttons mode to auto...

I'm not sure if it's because I don't have the newest drivers though
Does this mean I won't get the whammy to work ever?
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**zarzonis** · Joined: 18 Aug 2011 Posts: 3

i finally made my guitar hero world tour guitar pc edition to work on guitar hero 3 but i have a problem. the keys makes wrong actions. for example the when i press the red button guitar hero says that i press the green. what should i do?

**LocalH** · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 1400 Location: MiloHax

For anyone who is using a PS2 Kramer and is having problems getting the strum bar and whammy bar to map to different inputs, hold Start and Select on the guitar and strum down once (up if you're lefty flipped). This will map the strum bar to the POV hat and leave the whammy bar on the left analog axis, allowing all functions to work. This does not apply to SGs at all, and may or may not apply to third-party guitars.
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