Rockin’ out!!!

Well last night I talked Mrs Fireshaper into letting me get Guitar Hero 3 for my Wii, of course I had to promise that I would play it every day to get our $90 out of it but that is a small price to pay for the fun I will be having with it. We grabbed the last copy that Target had. We got home with the game and I immediately put it in and dove in head-first, not knowing a thing about Guitar Hero except that when the colors come falling down the fret you have to press a button and then “strum.” I’m no beginner when it comes to guitars, I’ve been playing for about 10 years now, so it was almost second nature and I had a short learning curve before I was singing along to Slow Ride and dancing to my wife’s lack of enjoyment.

Of course, Mrs Fireshaper got into it after a while and was singing and watching the dancers and rockers on stage with my character, and after I finished playing she took my guitar from me and proceeded to put the stickers that came in the box on it.

I had one problem with the guitar and I am currently doing some research on it, but when I try to use the joystick on the guitar the pointer on the screen just goes straight up, off the screen, and I can’t find it again. I had to take the remote out of the guitar to choose the game from the main menu and once it started I put it back in. I don’t know if the guitar is messed up or what, I hope it’s just a glitch that will fix itself.

And since I am a nut for open source apps, I already knew about Frets on Fire but I wanted to get a guitar for it instead of using the keyboard. Now that I have GH3 for the Wii I have the guitar and Honkey Kong has posted a GlovePIE script on his blog to use the Wii’s guitar on Frets on Fire! Now if someone would get a script for DarwiinRemote for the Mac…