It doesn't always seem to grab Chords from the Guitar Hero controller correctly, for example, when I'm pressing down Red+Green for a Chord, it'll sometimes only detect green and then lag (with just green of the chord working) before claiming a miss-note.
I bet fixing the lag would probly be a (relatively) simple change in the source code too, just to add support for the song.ini delay. or maybe it just doesn't handle them well. I haven't confirmed this, but I think guitarfun doesn't read MIDI properly - seems like it only uses the first tempo in the file header and ignores tempo changes. If the song is still messed up, the tempo in notes.mid could be set wrong. If I need to delete some and there's not enough dead space before the song starts, then I use a MIDI editor to add time to the notes.mid (I use FL Studio. Usually need to insert 200 ms of silence and add 'delay = 200' to the song.ini (to keep it proper for FoF). Now that I have a good baseline, make adjustments as needed. For a positive value, delete ms from the start of the ogg(s) - for negative: add ms of silence. In fact, in one that I downloaded (Never Too Late, by Three Days Grace, it's on the FOF forum) the notes went too fast.įirst thing I do is check the song.ini for a 'delay = ' line (I don't think guitarfun uses it) and adjust the ogg(s). Not all songs are created equal, some require more silence then others. an amount of silence may need to be inserted or removed to compensate, haven't experimented with this aspect yet). It seems, though, that songs which have a delay defined in song.ini require that to be taken into account also (ie. I use Sound Forge's Batch Converter to do this across multiple files, thereby avoiding having to adjust each file by hand. song.ogg, guitar.ogg, etc.) is a functional workaround for the lag issue.
I've been experimenting with this for a while, and can confirm that inserting 0.2 seconds of silence into the start of each song element (ie. I can confirm that version 3.5 doesn't resolve this issue. Do we even know if everyone has this problem? - Lexen I uploaded it to my server here: I would love it if we could test it out and see if it lines up with everyone. I edited an FoF song and I got it to line up. I don't know what makes the lag different, but it is around 0.2 seconds. Unfortunately, the lag is different for each song. I suggest finding a Guitar Hero/Frets on fire song editor, such as FeedBack, to see if the song may be part of the problem.Īlthough, the game does start to mess up after a few seconds, maybe we'll see a fix in future versions.ĭoes anyone know if version 3.0 fixes any of the lag problems? Kilroy 22:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC) Please remember that some songs are made poorly, and were basically made with lag. As for the lag, maybe a A/V delay like FoF would work? - Parag2k3 21:00, 29 July 2008 (CEST) So notes set at non 100ms multiples will have the weird gaps. According to page 37 on the spanish forum, the notes can only be shown in 100ms intervals. Even note charts I made myself have this problem. I also tried the same songs in Frets on Fire and it didn't have this problem. I even checked the MIDI files of the songs and the repeating notes were evenly spaced,however sometimes in the game they weren't. This is definatly a problem with the program and not with the custom songs I am using since this happens with all the songs (even the ones ripped straight from Guitar Hero). When the spacing between them is supposed to be equal the spacing is varied instead.
I have the above bug and another one:Sometimes when the same note is being played repeatedly, the spacing between the notes is inacurrate.
Yep got the same ) it makes it harder to play! Otherwise, the only other things are cosmetic and if enough people chip in with their expertise we'll have a fantastic looking game. The only thing I have issue with, at the present time, is that for some reason there's about 500msec of lag as compared to playing the same song in Frets on Fire. this might render games like Guitar Hero useless! It's an awesome app, it's everything I wanted.