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Four fret buttons on the attachment are positioned below the touchscreen, which is used to strum the guitar and play on-screen notes while any fret buttons are pressed. The Guitar Grip is a special attachment that connects to the DS' backwards compatible Game Boy Advance Game Pak slot (thus making the On Tour games incompatible with both Nintendo DSi models and the Nintendo 3DS family), allowing the player to hold the system sideways like an open book and use its bottom half as a guitar neck. Vicarious Visions developed a special guitar controller accessory for the Nintendo DS handheld, called the Guitar Grip, and it is used for a spin-off Guitar Hero trilogy subtitled On Tour, released exclusively for that platform, as well as the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero. The Guitar Grip and guitar pick-shaped stylus for the DS-exclusive Guitar Hero: On Tour trilogy and the DS version of Band Hero The PlayStation 3's controller had the same layout as the Xbox 360, but it was a slightly lighter black. The Xbox 360's controller had the same layout as its predecessor, but the design was a black Gibson Les Paul. Although it still had a start and back button built into it. The Wii's controller, unlike the other models, had a cut out for the Wii remote and would use the remote as its D-Pad, Start, Back, and Guide button. The Wii came with a white body and a black head. The difference between the three was the color. The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii all had the same design, that resembled a Gibson Les Paul.
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The guitar for Windows and Mac OS X was the same guitar that came with the Xbox 360's version of Guitar Hero II. It resembled Gibson's Kramer model and had the same layout as its predecessor. The first guitar was for the PlayStation 2. Guitar Hero III had 3 different types of guitars. The guitar controllers bundled with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock black Kramer Baretta Special (PS2), White Gibson Les Paul (Wii), Black Gibson Les Paul (PS3), White Gibson X-Plorer (Windows/Mac OS X), and Black Gibson Les Paul (Xbox 360) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PlayStation 2 and 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, & Mac OS X) This function is also usually mapped to an axis, or the Wii Remote's motion sensors for Wii-based guitar controllers.

Guitar controllers also have a "gesture" feature in which the player can tilt or gently shake the guitar neck, which is used in most guitar games to activate a power-up mode, such as Star Power in Guitar Hero games or Overdrive in Rock Band games.
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For example, the solo bar on a Rock Band guitar controller is implemented using the same controller buttons as the main fret buttons, plus an additional modifier key, whereas the Slide Bar from recent versions of Guitar Hero is simply another axis. Other vendor-specific features can be implemented using standard controls, or combinations of them. A guitar controller for a Wii music game often conveniently has the meta buttons supplied by the Wii Remote itself, which is inserted into a conveniently shaped cavity in the controller. The meta buttons (start, select, back) map directly to their standard controller counterparts.The whammy bar is implemented as an axis, used for menu navigation.Fret Buttons are implemented as the standard action buttons on the controller- for example, the buttons on a guitar controller for the Xbox 360 map to the face buttons and left shoulder buttons on the standard Xbox 360 controller.Implementation as game controllers Ī guitar controller is almost always an adaption of existing regular controller technologies for a given home video game console-all features of the guitar are implemented using features found on a standard game controller. The guitar design for Guitar Hero Live does not use the five colored frets, instead using two rows (one black and one white) with three buttons each. The fret buttons are colored usually in the order of (from lowest to highest pitch) green, red, yellow, blue, and orange.

Different games and models of controllers have introduced additional features, such as effects switches, additional fret buttons, and fret touch pads. The controllers also feature a whammy bar, which is used to bend notes and collect each game's equivalent of bonus energy. The controllers are played by holding down a colored fret button that matches a colored, on-screen note, while pressing the strum bar as the note passes through the target. Guitar controllers are often used for music games such as UmJammer Lammy: NOW!, GuitarFreaks, Guitar Hero, and the Rock Band series. The guitar controllers bundled with Guitar Hero releases (from left to right): Gibson SGs for Guitar Hero & Guitar Hero II (PlayStation 2) and Gibson X-Plorer for Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360) and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PC)Ī guitar controller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument.
