Here's the first good Guitar Hero Clone for the Wii!

All Songs you can download from here: www.fredsonfire.com!

I hope the Icon and Banner is good enough for you!

It's my first selfmade banner!

copy the 'guitarfun' folder in the root of the SD memory

Add the folders with 'Frets on fire' songs in the 'songs' directory

Add the background and necks bitmaps in the 'bitmaps' directory (see the PDF document)

V 2.6
- Now it's possible to change the buttons like you want
- Menu is better looking now
- fixed some bugs

As requested via a mod this thread is to be labeled as a Rumor, so please take it like that.

Today I ran across some information.
However I do live in an area with a good deal of employees/contractors from a rather large corporation and have worked with some of them in my past.

So lets start off with some of the info I was given starting with the 360 in general.
From what I was told during a conversation;
Microsoft seems to be slimming the system down to a 'Wii-like' size. (A Fat overweight Wii )
This model should have the CPU+GPU Combo Dye with the E-DRAM off to the side.
Thats all the information I have on that.

Now I'm not 100% sure on this so do not get hyped up, but speculated release is Late Winter 2008ish?
Side note, ATI/AMD has been working on a CPU/GPU Combo dye for sometime. LINK


Clairifying this section... guess I confused some people. Its not the Xbox 360, its the Next Gen system.
As for the Xbox,
The Next Generation Xbox after the Xbox 360... thats expected to have a Blu-Ray Drive?, 1TB HDD, and a Quad-Core CPU.
Speculative Date is considered 2010~.
(Considering its still early these are most likely to change.)
They also mentioned the spec sheet for the console was leaked. ?

Lastly, the handheld xbox-like device. As far as I know its considered a "Pie-in-the-sky".

Sony has a new guru in charge of all in-house games development. Luxuriating in the job title of President, Worldwide Studios, his name is Shuhei Yoshida, and we were there, at Sony’s London Studio, when he first faced the press in the UK. We decide to quiz him about where he sees Sony’s in-house development for the PlayStation 3 going, his background and where the UK stands in Sony’s general development scheme of things. A personable, impeccably polite chap with a fine grasp of English, he has been a PlayStation man since the earliest possible days. So read on…


Shuhei Yoshida’s roots

Q: Tell us about your background: you’ve been based in the US, haven’t you?

Shuhei Yoshida: Yes, for the past eight years, and I’m still based there now. But I joined the PlayStation project in February 1993. At that time, Ken Kutaragi’s team was purely an engineering team, and I was there as a non-technical person, to help them develop business plans and software strategies for the team. My first job with them was to help them convince Sony to make the investment and start the business. So, that was successful and the company was established in the November of that year. At that time, I was assigned to be the manager of the third-party relations group, working with Namco, Konami and Capcom.

I moved to game development in 1996, and managed our internal studio in Japan for four years. When I moved to product development, there was only one team making games for SCEI – Kazunori Yamauchi’s team. They were finishing their second game, Motor Toon Grand Prix 2, and working on a prototype of Gran Turismo. I helped them finish the game, the game was very successful and they became an independent studio. I helped people to form new teams, which made games like Ape Escape and Ico. I moved to become the head of the US development group in 2000 and held that position until last month.

Q: Now you’re stepping into a large pair of shoes vacated by Phil Harrison. What are your first impressions of the job, and what directions are you looking to take?

SY: I’ve known Phil since 1994, when he became the official evangelist for the PlayStation project. I’ve always been impressed with how good he is at articulating very technical things to non-technical people. Then he moved to product development in Europe, and we were peers – I was running the group in the US and he was running the group in Europe, and we met regularly. So when he became President, Worldwide Studios in 2005 and became my boss, he asked me not to just run the US group, but to participate as a part of Worldwide Studios management — to form and lead the strategy for the entire group. Phil’s departure was unexpected, and we miss him, but as far as where we are going, we have so many things we are already working on, so I just continue that drive.

Shuhei Yoshida on collaboration between Sony’s many internal development teams

Q: When I visited the London Studio recently, everyone was keen to stress that there is a new spirit of collaboration between Sony’s in-house development teams.

SY: That was one of the key initiatives that Phil and I worked on. Before, we were part of each regional organization of Sony Computer Entertainment, so we were a little bit at arms’ length, and didn’t necessarily share information from an early stage. But after Worldwide Studios was formed, we have been sharing our technology and developing a common infrastructure. After two and a half years, the distance between the London Studio and Foster City in the US might as well be as close as the distance between London and Liverpool. I may be exaggerating, but we feel as if that is already happening.

Q: You have shelved the development of Eight Days and The Getaway: what was the thinking behind that?

SY: People were doing the right things on the projects, and there were things in the games that were working really well, but the projects were coming to the end of the pre-production stage, and that is the time when we evaluate every product. Because after that, we would assign more resources to them, and they would really become major investments. This is a regular appraisal process for every project. We do evaluate and cancel projects all the time, because we do start more projects than we finish, and if we finished the same number of projects that we started, that would mean we were not taking any risks at all, and that wouldn’t move our industry on any further.

There are many new ideas that sound very interesting, but we don’t know whether they would really work, or how much it would take to accomplish our vision – that’s why we use the early pre-production stage to try new ideas and measure how much it would take to develop the product. With all that understanding, and with all the other projects that are going on – perhaps other projects are at the same stage and demanding lots of resources from many fronts, because we support many platforms in PS3, PSP, PS2 and PSN – there are more things we want to do than we can, given the number of people and resources. So, it was not like Eight Days was in jeopardy: it was making

I started to port SDL to the Wii only to see that the guys at devkitpro already had a partially working GC version. I just played around with it here and there. The code for sdl sound i borrowed somewhere from the SDL mailinglist, unfortunately it isn't working properly. I havn't yet found the time to play around with sound, i just hoped it would work :-P
I just used the latest version found in the repository at www.devkitpro.org.

I hacked a very simple demo together to test the balance board.

I patched the libogc source code to include support for the balance board.
I just used the latest version found in the repository at www.devkitpro.org.
Thanks to the guys at devkitpro for their hard work and additionally i want to thank wiibrew.org as i borrowed part of their code to handle the balance board events.

Hi there,

my first post at this forum
I just successfully compiled a Wii binary from source code of the Linux Game Barrage. The original game can be found at http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage

The wii version can be found at http://game-designer.net/wii
The only part which is not working correctly is the sound, so i disabled it for this build. Does anyone know if there is a SDL version for the gamecube/wii which has working sound output?

Regards

Kevin

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