Guitar Hero 2 on a real guitar

Author: Ryan Garside
Published: 7th December 2006
Comments (8) Stumble
Console mods are all the range with this being an awesome example.

Console mods are all the range with this being an awesome example.

When we reviewed Guitar Hero 2 one of the things we all agreed on in the office was that it would be really cool for someone to mod a real guitar to play the game. As if they somehow knew, Tool Monger has completed the mod and posted the work logs over on their site.

It’s a really cool mod; they started by buying a cheap Fender Squier Bullet for $99. Obviously you wouldn’t want to mangle up an expensive guitar and essentially it doesn’t make a huge amount of difference as long as it looks the part.

They then took apart the Guitar Hero 2 guitar. The mod logs, which are designed to allow people at home to mimic the process, explain how to complete your ‘real’ guitar in both wired and wireless formats.

The actual process looks a lot simpler than it probably was. After removing the strings they placed the buttons from the original Guitar Hero controller into screwed holes. They then painted the buttons all black to make it look less gimmicky.

The real difficulty in a project like this comes when you have to put the controller back together after dismantling it. Here’s their description of the most difficult part of the project:

“The most difficult part by far, however, is locating and installing the fret buttons. While the plastic GH controller is quite small, its neck is almost half again as deep as the one on a real guitar. After a lot of searching, we found some small buttons from Radio Shack that (barely) fit in the neck.”

The finished product is great, it’s refreshing to see so many innovative modders out there producing mods recently. If you didn’t catch it I highly recommend checking out the one handed 360 mod.

What do you think of the Guitar Hero 2 mod? Let us know in the forums.
Quote dragontail 7th December 2006, 13:42
Nicely done! ;)
Quote Lord_A 7th December 2006, 13:54
Really cool mod, very neat as well!

You guys seen the Lego version yet? Pretty cool as well
Quote Omnituens 7th December 2006, 15:07
puts my mod to shame :(
Quote Darkedge 7th December 2006, 17:20
not bad, however this is better:
http://www.destructoid.com/guitar-hero-mod-of-ultimate-lust-real-guitars-wireless-28434.phtml

I want the red and black one :D
Quote sadffffff 7th December 2006, 17:41
so all they did is put the guitar hero controller in a different shell? and here i thought it was gunna be more like you actually pluck the strings, it finds the frequency so it knows what "button" you "pressed" and then feeds that back to the system
Quote overdosedelusion 7th December 2006, 17:51
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Originally Posted by sadffffff
so all they did is put the guitar hero controller in a different shell? and here i thought it was gunna be more like you actually pluck the strings, it finds the frequency so it knows what "button" you "pressed" and then feeds that back to the system

same man, i though i could have my guitar plugged in and play along for real ¬_¬ oh well, someone will one day create a game like that. could do wonders for teaching people too!
Quote DXR_13KE 7th December 2006, 19:35
maybe future games will teach us how to play real guitars or other instruments... nice..... nintendo DS microphone.......
Quote LoveJoy 9th December 2006, 12:56
Damn. I was about to do the same but he got it done first
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