
The USB-equipped X-plorer guitar that ships with the just-released Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360 has some interesting tricks up its nonexistant but metaphorically convenient sleeve. No, we're not talking about or (sheesh) -- we're talking about things like and oh, what's this, Windows support? Randy that the guitar controller works in Windows Vista, but we had to check for ourself. The above image was captured in Windows XP.
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The X-Plorer Controller first appeared in 2007 and was included with the Microsoft Xbox 360 version of 'Guitar Hero 2,' the first game in the series to appear on the Xbox 360. The basic five-button fret, strum and whammy bar set-up can be used on Windows PCs when playing 'Frets on Fire' and other controller-based games. Dec 23, 2012 Yes, my computer is fully updated. And I understand the device is plug & play but like I've said, when I plugged it in and it tried to install the drivers. Guys, i've been trying for a while. Connecting get some OSX Drivers, trying again and again. But it's not connecting the X-Plorer controller, and connecting. I can't install the drivers for these controllers. I first plugged them in and both. Windows 7: Xbox controller & Guitar Hero controller. 4 x OCZ 12800 DDR3 1GB. Click, 'Browse my computer for driver software' Click, 'Let me.
The five frets control the first five buttons, Back and Start control buttons 7 and 8, the d-pad and strummer control the Point of View Hat, the whammy bar controls the X Rotation, Star Power controls the Y Rotation, and the Z Axis sorta just wiggles when you move the guitar. The X Axis / Y Axis does nothing (gotta save something for that effects pedal, no?). Of course, we quickly fired up freeware PC clone,, to see if we could manage to get these two to play nicely together.
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Sure enough, after a minute of changing the control configuration, we were able to rock out! Unfortunately, while Mac OS X recognized the device immediately (pic after the break), it failed to be detected as an HID-compliant gamepad by either or the open source. Additionally, this blogger couldn't convince the Mac OS port of Frets on Fire to load so we're unable to determine if the game would support the device directly. Any Mac using 'stiqers able to get the X-plorer to work?