xbox port - xbox1

[kee]

any chance that someone could make a port for this on the xbox1? they made a port of stepmania for the xbox and from whet i see, that its kind of the same thing

[fastbreak]

The Force is strong in this one...

[syberdave]

Hmm, well, FoF is written in Python, so it'd probably take a bit of work to get it to work on an xbox. (StepMania is C++.)

However, I'm currently trying to help someone install FoF on Xbox Linux. I have no idea how that'd work out.

[Teancum]

You have to run the Xbox version Windows98 to even have a slight chance. (which requires a modded Xbox) Even then, running Win98 and then FoF on top of that would probably be slooooooooow if Python even would work.

If Guitar Zero was open-source that would be the best bet since it'd be written in C++. Not sure about Freetar Hero, but that might be written in C++ as well.

[MichallusTG]

Windows version is made with py2exe and it does not need any external Python installation... wouldn't it be nice to port the executable/rewrite it to XBox architecture?

[Jonathan_Antillies]

Not sure about Freetar Hero, but that might be written in C++ as well.

Freetar Hero was written in Java...

...Actually, I still have that on my PC, now where did I put that .sgn converter...

[Logan812]

if you could get to work on the xbox1, then could you do it for the 360?

[Jonathan_Antillies]

Why? ???

Xbox 360 already has GH2, and using a PS2 Guitar controller with a USB adapter won't work on the 360.

Now porting FoF to the Xbox, that would be sweet!

Oh, wait...That means destroying my X-plorer controller to make the USB connector to plug into an Xbox port.

maybe there's a USB to Xbox converter cable out there.

*Leaves to Google USB to Xbox converter cable*

EDIT: Haha! Success!!! USB to Xbox converter

[kee]

Why? ???

Xbox 360 already has GH2, and using a PS2 Guitar controller with a USB adapter won't work on the 360.

Now porting FoF to the Xbox, that would be sweet!

Oh, wait...That means destroying my X-plorer controller to make the USB connector to plug into an Xbox port.

maybe there's a USB to Xbox converter cable out there.

*Leaves to Google USB to Xbox converter cable*

EDIT: Haha! Success!!! USB to Xbox converter

lol, just make one. xbox controllers are just usb, you don't need a converter

[kee]

if you could get to work on the xbox1, then could you do it for the 360?

u can not run unsigned code on the 360 yet, the firmware upgrade only lets you run copied games, not unsigned code

[stig87]

i have a modded xbox.......if you want attempt to run frets on xbox-linux..........i could play a guinea pig.


my first custom guitar was made using an xbox controller, so it works on xbox........and pc

[hooovahh]

I was just about to post this question (glad I used the search)

Any who, yeah I'm no expert at modded xboxs, however I do own one and am familiar with what needs to happen to create xbox executables.

So like any thing you would need to compile it into a .xbe file. There are 2 ways to do this, with the Microsoft XDK (which is illegal to obtain) or the Open XDK found here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxdk/

I'm sure that that compiler only accepts C+ code. So yeah I don't know any thing beyond that, I mean is there a Python compiler also? Is there any one who could re-write FOF to C+? Is there any one else who could add to this topic?

[hooovahh]

Alright so I did some testing and figured I'd post what I did.

I also would like to have FOF on my modded xbox. So what I did was installed linux on my xbox, and figured I'd give the linux version of FOF a try. I didn't really think this would work, but I wanted to see what would happen.

I installed Gentoox, fairly simple and easy to install with the xbox controller. Then I hooked up a usb mouse to a hacked controller port and that worked, but I don't have any usb keyboards to test that feature.

I tried copying over FOF from an FTP but my network is buggy. But even if I did get it up and running and installed it, it won't work. Just running the Gentoox was slow, the mouse would become unresponsive alot. I figure that's because of the low amount of ram an xbox has. It only has a 733MHz processor and 64MB of ram. I'll try again to install it soon but it's looking like this is not an option.

I'm afraid we are limited to what we can do. First we could re-write FOF to C++ (which it looks like some people are trying to do) or we could have FOF in a very limited install for this purpose. What I mean is if we get rid of all unnecessary graphics, and just had the core program running in linux it may work. I don't know much about python but I will download the source and see how difficult it would be to remove some graphics.

[raptor jesus]

Why would we want this to run under Linux on Xbox? You could just as easily use a S-Video cable and run it from you computer to you TV and play that way (I do this on occasion).

It would be nice to convert this to C++ and have it run as it's own application on the Xbox.

Just wondering, why does it have to be converted to C++? Couldn't we just remake the executable and still use all the other files? I've seen other ports that were just an executable and a file for the xbox controls.

[syberdave]

I tried copying over FOF from an FTP but my network is buggy. But even if I did get it up and running and installed it, it won't work. Just running the Gentoox was slow, the mouse would become unresponsive alot. I figure that's because of the low amount of ram an xbox has. It only has a 733MHz processor and 64MB of ram. I'll try again to install it soon but it's looking like this is not an option.

https://www.fretsonfire.org/cgi-bin....16;st=0

But he never replied.