Guitar Hero 3 - Blue Fret

[Lanky MikStanky]

So I'm a big fan of the game. The prospect of playing it literally anywhere is exciting, so I'm trying to emulate it.

My phone does this very well:

OnePlus 6, OxygenOS ver. 5.1.11 (Android 8.1.0)
Dolphin 5.0-8775.apk

I've got an OTG cable on its way to me so I can test it with a proper guitar controller, and just been using my PS4 and Xbox Controllers via bluetooth for testing in the meantime, just to see if I can run the game at all, which I can.

Problem is, the blue fret doesn't seem to want to work. All the others are fine (Green, Red, Yellow, Orange), but blue doesn't seem to want to register on my button press. I've tried multiple configurations (Shoulder buttons and face buttons), but no such luck. Either there's something up with the controller(s), the comms. between the controller and my phone or the game itself, but this is a little annoying. I was wondering if anyone else had had any success with this or if I'm just missing something really, really obvious.

- L. M. Stanky


UPDATE 1: Since the game can also played without a guitar extension, you can just map the controls as though you weren't using one and just using a Wii remote. It's awkward, but it works as a temporary solution. Updates to come once I've got my Type C OTG cable and can try an actual controller:
Green Fret - B
Red Fret - D-Pad Right
Yellow Fret: A (This also becomes the button for menu selections etc. Same with the Green fret and going back through menus)
Blue Fret: 1
Orange Fret: 2

[Lanky MikStanky]

(10-02-2018, 12:31 AM)Lanky MikStanky Wrote: So I'm a big fan of the game. The prospect of playing it literally anywhere is exciting, so I'm trying to emulate it.

My phone does this very well:

OnePlus 6, OxygenOS ver. 5.1.11 (Android 8.1.0)
Dolphin 5.0-8775.apk

I've got an OTG cable on its way to me so I can test it with a proper guitar controller, and just been using my PS4 and Xbox Controllers via bluetooth for testing in the meantime, just to see if I can run the game at all, which I can.

Problem is, the blue fret doesn't seem to want to work. All the others are fine (Green, Red, Yellow, Orange), but blue doesn't seem to want to register on my button press. I've tried multiple configurations (Shoulder buttons and face buttons), but no such luck. Either there's something up with the controller(s), the comms. between the controller and my phone or the game itself, but this is a little annoying. I was wondering if anyone else had had any success with this or if I'm just missing something really, really obvious.

- L. M. Stanky


UPDATE 1: Since the game can also played without a guitar extension, you can just map the controls as though you weren't using one and just using a Wii remote. It's awkward, but it works as a temporary solution. Updates to come once I've got my Type C OTG cable and can try an actual controller:
Green Fret - B
Red Fret - D-Pad Right
Yellow Fret: A (This also becomes the button for menu selections etc. Same with the Green fret and going back through menus)
Blue Fret: 1
Orange Fret: 2


UPDATE 2: So I got my OTG cable and tried two different controllers. One wireless via the Xbox 360 wireless receiver, and one wired, an original Guitar Hero 2 Xplorer via USB. No luck with either. Blue fret still doesn't work when emulating, so I can only image it;s got something to do with the way Dolphin configures Wii extension controllers on Android. To confirm this, I tried using the same controllers while playing a GameCube game (Metroid Prime) and it works perfectly fine there. I've attached an image of my configuration. No idea why the buttons are mapped out of order, but Button 99 seems to be the troublemaker here.

[JosJuice]

Please try the new version 5.0-8785.

[Lanky MikStanky]

Holy cow you done fixed it
You've done me a solid. It's a small fix but I really can't thank you enough

I took a look at the commit details and what was wrong. Funny how a typo can interfere with things. You're doing awesome work