Video Game Hero has the guts, glory

by Eric Caoili { Jul 6th 2008 at 2:00PM }

The release of Guitar Hero: On Tour might make homebrew games like Video Game Hero seem obsolete, but this project has two great things going for it:

Unconventional music tracks like "Eye of the Tiger" and the Inspector Gadget theme (after the post break)
It's free (provided you have the hardware to run homebrew programs)!

The touchscreen controls are nice to have, but we'd really love to see Video Game Hero support On Tour's Guitar Grip, especially since we've already seen one other homebrew application utilize the slot-2 accessory. Whether or not programmers Sumiguchi and Daydream decide to add that option, we'll make sure to check this game out when they release it this August 20th!

See also: Music Monstars rocks Europe

[Thanks, Balrogs Pain!]

Tags: daydream, eye-of-the-tiger, guitar-hero, inspecgtor-gadget, music, rhythm, sumiguchi, survivor, video-game-hero

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Balrogs Pain @ Jul 6th 2008 2:08PM

:D Yay lol it gotz submitted :D

Shariq Ansari @ Jul 6th 2008 2:11PM

As cool as it is, I gotta say that rendition of Eye of the Tiger just sucks.

SephFinale @ Jul 6th 2008 4:08PM

It's probably a MIDI. Wait a minute...DARKESWORD?!

Shariq Ansari @ Jul 6th 2008 4:46PM

Yes, that's me.

Backslash @ Jul 7th 2008 3:03AM

WHOA HEY IT IS YOU

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Pedroion @ Jul 6th 2008 3:24PM

It was already released?

Crazylink @ Jul 6th 2008 4:11PM

Why use midis for this? The average (micro/mini)SD card can easily hold a hundred mp3 formated songs.

WiiFTW @ Jul 6th 2008 5:50PM

If I recall, the guitar hero games use two tracks for the same song, one if they hit the note, and one if they miss. That would halve the song count. Also, many people have other homebrew/music/apps etc. which take up space. I'm going to guess with MIDIs this game is a lot smaller so that more people are able to play it. I'm actually interested in this game (moreso than the stupid 4-button On Tour)

FantomRedux @ Jul 6th 2008 6:08PM

There's also the fact that the DS is very limited when it comes to RAM. It has about 4-5MB, which isn't really enugh to hold graphics, code AND play 2 MP3 tracks, as well as a MIDI for the notes you play, assuming it would work the same as Frets on Fire, which uses an MIDI file with 3-5 tracks to generate the notes on screen

psyborg @ Jul 6th 2008 6:10PM

Using midi makes it easier for the game to have the two separate tracks, the background music plus the guitar track your "playing".

SephFinale @ Jul 6th 2008 6:45PM

Do everything as chiptunes. :o

divergio @ Jul 6th 2008 8:58PM

I'm excited for when someone makes a homebrew on-tour setup. Despite some peoples' complaints, I think the peripheral is pretty good. The song listing sucks, though.

Someone has to make a a community-expandable 3rd party guitar hero/rock band remake for the DS that uses the peripheral.

Nadril @ Jul 7th 2008 10:13AM

You guys think it'll be possible to add new "modded" songs on the DS Guitar Hero like people did for the console Guitar heroes?

I don't really see any reason why they couldn't, and it would be really great.