using regular controller for frets on fire

[trevor9900]

hey i was wondering, i SUCK bad with the guitar and since now their makin it so that people cant play with the regular controller on ghwt, is there a way to make the xbox 360 regular controller or the ps3 sixaxis controller work with frets on fire?

[Co2Noss]

yeah plug it in, and map the buttons.

but please next time

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[trevor9900]

yeah plug it in, and map the buttons.

but please next time

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could you be a little more specific plz

[bloodpuke]

I'm having the same question.

The microsoft website nolonger has the drivers.

I tried downloading Xpadder to map my 360 RB2 "portable" drum kit (with USB cord).

Xpadder see's my drums, but I have not been able to do any "mapping" or "key mapping". A bit confused about that whole thing.

Sorry, I have searched these threads and tried for three nights! Can anyone please help?

Thanks!

[SketchMan3]

Well, my MadCatz portable RB drumkit works just fine. I'm not sure if there's a difference between the portable RB and portable RB2. I tried it with my sisters laptop, but it didn't work. I was kind of worried until I took it home and plugged it into my desktop and the window "new device is installed and ready" or whatever it says.

I think it might have something to do with my Logitech controller drivers that I installed. The disk that came with it has some sort of Microsoft generic controller drivers.

[bloodpuke]

O.K., Yeah!

I have the madcatz as well! And my computer does recognize my device and says it is ready to use, I just can't play any of the songs.

Maybe my problem isn't the controller, but mapping the controller.

How do you "map" a controller?

You have played Frets on Fire with your Madcatz right? What version of FoF do you use? I am using FoFiX 3.1.00

Thanks for your response and help!!!

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Hey THanks for the help!

I got it working.

Man! These madcatz really need you to beat the crap out of them!!!!

Later dude, off to jam some mastodon or something!

[SketchMan3]

You shouldn't have to hit them that hard. For whatever reason, sometimes my hits don't register unless I use JoyToKey and bind my drum pads to keyboard keys. It works perfectly that way. In frets on fire I map my drum keys to some out of the way keys like the 1-5 on the numpad, and then in JoyToKey I set my drum pads 1-5 to the corresponding numpad keys.