How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Guitar 121
An anonymous reader writes 'Sean Lind over at PokerListings has written a really interesting piece on how to configure Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) instruments to use them as controllers for playing online poker. The instructions given in his how-to could really be used to configure the instruments for any game.' Or how about a genuine chording keyboard?
That's one good use for the kiddy guitar (Score:2, Insightful)
If you're going to play with the plastic Rock Band guitar, you might as well go whole hog and play all your games with it. It's just a controller, FWIW.
If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.
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Not really, as Sid Vicious has proven times and times again.
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Dude, I do know how to play the guitar, I even used to play in a small Pink Floyd tribute band some years ago.
That was only a sarcastic remark.
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And I'm not even a Malcom McClaren.
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And also requires effort and skill to play.
Are you talking about guitars or women?
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Exactly, nothing beats having them do something fun with you, before you something else that's also fun.
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Exactly, nothing beats having them do something fun with you, before you something else that's also fun.
Like playing Japanese dating sims?
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And who do you think got more pussy - Billy Joel or Jimmy Page? Elton John or Ted Nugent (ok, that's probably not fair)? Ben Folds or Keith Richards? Barry Manilow or any other guitar player ever? So yeah, I guess if you want a girl "with a nice personality" (aka not hot) who appreciates a guy with a sensitive side, play the piano. But in real life, every chick wants to sleep with the guitar player. The piano player only gets girls if the drummer is already passed out. It isn't
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Wow, your shallowness amazes me. Seriously, grow up.
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You're right. Bad day. My bad. Carry on with the shallowness. :)
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but he gets in and out quickest
Maybe that's why the chicks avoid him.
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or be a Greg Brady type nerd who walks around with a Pignose battery-powered amp and cheap electric guitar at all times. :)
If only somebody would create a guitar that create audible music through well designed acoustical properties, rather than electric power...
Of course, the guy who brings the guitar to the party is always much more of a tool and a loner than even the guys playing guitar hero.
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the guy who brings the guitar to the party is always much more of a tool and a loner than even the guys playing guitar hero.
Keep repeating that to yourself when the girl you wanted to get with is fucking said tool because he plays guitar. Then go back with your other buddies who aren't getting laid either and play some more Guitar Hero.
That's funny, since I do play guitar, bass, and drums. I'm just not the guy sitting in the corner noodling on his guitar being anti-social.
I also don't need to impress girls anymore, so them and said tool can bang all they want, doesn't bother me.
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Attraction is almost never rational, or, at least, the underlying bits are rational if you think about it but there isn't always a lot of conscious thought involved. Thus, even if the underlying bits make perfect sense, it's still not rational as being rational requires thinking.
Anyway, as a woman, I'll offer this bit of insight that may explain part of this (not very) baffling phenomena. I may get my chick card revoked for sharing this, but my ties to the nerd community are more important than the duties o
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Re:That's one good use for the kiddy guitar (Score:5, Funny)
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If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.
And I don't think you're playing video games for the right reasons...
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If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.
If your goal is to pick up women, might as well go whole hog and ditch the video games, trolling message boards, studying IT/Engineering/Science/anything remotely geeky. It's just what you enjoy doing, FWIW.
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If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.
Depends on the quality of woman you expect. If that's your pick, just go the whole length and create an emocore band.
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Sorry pal, but I have dozens of friends in bands and not one of them "play bad zeppelin covers" (or any covers for that matter - that is for shit bands) or have ever played for a 6 pack before. Even if only 10 people show up they get like $50 and at least 3-4 free drink tickets. On a good night it may be more like $300-$600 and unlimited free drinks. And the band that I manage has made over $1000 for an hours worth of work on a few occasions. Let me ask you something -
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But if you can do it and not ruin the pizza, it would be an interesting hack. I am assuming you mean pop-up toaster.
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In the interests of safety, I'd like to point out that most pop-up toasters use non-insulated resistive wiring as their heating elements.
Please do NOT put a conductive metal, especially something like aluminum foil that can have pieces easily bend and shred.
Not only does this risk shorting across the heating elements, causing an overload, but if the aluminum foil only touches the
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Ob: Tap quote (Score:2)
I'm sure you can do some napkin math
F*** the napkin !
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
I bet that guy rocks at poker.
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That's nothing. (Score:3, Interesting)
Those guys actually play music with it. [youtube.com]
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Drummer said he played primarily with a Muppet Baby kit, but peferred the Smurf cymbals
This sentence should be preserved for posterity. Not the one I just typed, I mean, rather the one I quoted.
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Funny you mentioned that, I used my MacBook and a Guitar Hero controller and was able to play a few simple tunes on it with GarageBand. No real practical application (GH controllers are better for playing GH with than anything else, obviously) but it was fun. :)
I don't understand? (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't really understand why this is news. I have a friend that can kick your ass at any fighting game using the guitar instead of a controller. Myself, I've played Halo with the rock band drum kit, and I had 1 kill. You can't move or fire, but you can do the melee hit, which I used to ambush people who thought I was AFK. I've played several Xbox live games with the guitar, including that free side scrolling shooter. The main disadvantage was I couldn't go left or right, but up and down was easy, and all you really need. The controls for poker are so trivial I can't imagine this took more than 5 minutes of effort. The real story would be if he was playing counterstrike with the guitar, or if he was writing software with the guitar instead of using a keyboard. Because really, what coder wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?
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Because really, what coder wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?
This guy. Right here.
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Because really, what coder with two thumbs wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?
This guy. Right here.
There, fixed that for ya.
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Until I rob you using that gun from Duck Hunt.
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Play with DDR Pad. Purpose: amusing workout/exercise.
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Because really, what coder wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?
It's doable. The five "color" buttons can be interpreted as 5 bits, which give us 2^5=32 possible characters, probably enough for a simple case insensitive language... of course, nothing stop you from using another button (select?) to get to 64 and have more breathing room.
Could be very cool, in a geeky, "that's what I did during my weekend" kind of way. I wonder how a=a+1 sounds...
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well, 31.. because I don't think "00000" would be a particularly useful "key press". But,point taken. But, I remember seeing a blind / deaf man using a braille typewriter when I was a kid. It was very similar to what you describe. The point there being.. with just a small amount of buttons (6 for braille, one for morse!), you can relay quite a bit of information.
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Actually, 00000 is a useful keypress. The strum bar can be used to strobe in the value. Whammy for shifting, and a few keycodes for alternate chara
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Because really, what coder wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?
Except for the fact that you're not strumming a guitar, you're manipulating plastic controls, and you're not playing chords.
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Five guitar buttons, five-card poker. At least the hardware fits the application.
As for why to do it? Just do monkey around with hardware, of course. Myself, I added a foot-switch to my RB guitar, since the 5-way switch is too much of a pain to hit while playing. Totally superfluous, but I had fun doing it.
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Why should we want to do that ? I know we can. But why playing poker with a guitar ? Perhaps I am getting old...
What, you've never seen those World Series of (Online) Poker matches where one guy's holding a guitar, another guy isn't wearing pants, the third keeps screaming at his wife in the audience that he's busy and will take the garbage out later, the fourth is a teenage boy but says he's really a forty-year-old housewife, the fifth keeps jumping between two seats/hands and insisting he's really two people, and the rest are robots?
-1 modded slow news day. (Score:1)
Request for *facepalm* mod category please.
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I used my wireless logitech gamepad to control my media player from the other side of the room over three years ago... I'm with you.
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And I've used my wireless Atari 2600 controller to play Sonic the Hedgehog.
Basically they're all interesting "wow, you can do that!?" concepts, and it's important to remember that novelty frequently takes precedence over practicality.
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I used my Wiimote and Classic Controller to play Super Mario 64.
Funny use of the guitar features (Score:1)
Yeah, at first I thought this was lame since the guitar is just another type of USB wireless controller but then I watched the video. The ALL IN command is linked to the star power feature of the guitar which would might be amusing to those watching you play poker.
As both an avid rock bander and poker player (Score:1)
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Is crap a bad word where you're from?
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His guitar doesn't have an 'a'.
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I play poker with my dog.
He loves it so much he started gambling with his friends and wearing old-timey clothes.
We have some pictures at our site http://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/gallery/coolidge/ [dogsplayingpoker.org] .
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Because some guy used a game controller to play a different game. What, are you saying that doesn't just completely blow your mind?
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So does that mean a Power Chord in C-Major beats a Full House?
How can it be major or minor without a third? Bah, maybe you're talking about that weird "key of C-Major" crap.
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Now I have one decent reason to get that rock band guitar....
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Other mods for a guitar controller... (Score:2, Interesting)
Seriously, this isn't a hardhack. All USB PS3 controllers can be plugged right into your computer (I also use an arcade stick like a sampler/drum machine). From there you use it like any HID. That means if your app supports HID you can use the controller for free. If not, you can use a program like joy2key or something.
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All USB PS3 controllers can be plugged right into your computer (I also use an arcade stick like a sampler/drum machine). From there you use it like any HID.
I seem to remember the USB PS3 SIXAXIS controller needing a special filter driver because it doesn't provide a "button descriptor" (or something like that), which tells the operating system's HID class driver how many buttons the controller has. But interestingly enough, a PS3 guitar controller made by Blockhead worked right away, both on Windows XP and on Ubuntu Hardy.
Awesome (Score:2)
This article really inspired me, so I went and made some experiments myself. I don't have one of those guitar controller, but I do own a Fender Stratocaster made from something very heavy, so I reckoned I could modify it slightly and use it as a sledgehammer. It worked! I actualy managed to demolish a small garden in my neighbor's garden, but then it developed a HW related fault, and I had to stop, but it sure shows that the principle is sound.
I played poker with my Rock Band guitar... (Score:2)
...To my dismay, I discovered that the guitar controller really isn't very good at poker. But on the bright side, I won enough money for a couple DLC tracks.