GHMetalRecomp v0.3.1-beta.1 (Beta)

Beta 1 of 0.3.1: guitars. Every controller works in the launcher, PS3 guitars play with the right frets, and a whammy bar and tilt can be assigned

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.3.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.3.1 comes out, Updates will offer it to you.

Important

You need your own copy of the game: the USA / Europe Xbox 360 disc, as an ISO. This release contains none of the game's files.

New

• Assign your whammy bar (Controls, your guitar, Whammy bar): the button is now called Assign and works on any axis of the controller: press it, push the bar all the way, hold it, then let it go. The row shows the axis in use, for example "assigned (RT)". This is for guitars that report themselves as a gamepad, such as a CRKD guitar on its PC setting.
• Assign your tilt (Controls, your guitar, Tilt): if tilting gives you no Star Power, press Assign, tilt the neck up as for Star Power and hold it, then go back to your playing position. Any axis of the controller works, and its accelerometer where it has one. This is for a Wii guitar through a program such as WiitarThing, and for PS3 guitars. The game takes tilt only at the very end of its axis, so a tilt that ends with the neck straight up rarely reached it.
• The last controller that pressed a button drives the launcher. Before, only the first one connected did.

Fixed

• The launcher ignored every controller but the first one: on the others no button could be assigned and the whammy bar read nothing. With a DualSense connected, a guitar was never the first.
• Yellow and blue swapped on PS3 guitars, and their whammy bar read half pressed at rest. This covers PS3 Guitar Hero guitars, and should cover a CRKD guitar on its P3 setting. On that setting use View for Star Power, or try assigning Tilt.
• The launcher stopped responding to a guitar after a button was assigned on it, until it was closed: an Xbox 360 guitar's tilt looked like a button held down.

Known issues

• These guitar fixes have not been tried on a CRKD, Wii or PS3 guitar yet. If yours still misbehaves, tell us its slider and dial position and send the newest launcher_NNN.log and ghmetallica_NNN.log from the logs folder.
• Singing is experimental: if the pitch line jumps around, lower the microphone's Gain in the launcher; if the game does not hear you, raise it.
• Drums and AMD graphics cards have not been tested yet.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

• Over your install: extract the zip (GHMetalRecomp-v0.3.1-beta.1-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves and settings stay.
• New install: download the installer (GHMetalRecomp-v0.3.1-beta.1-setup.exe), or the zip and extract it into a folder of your own. The first start asks for your ISO.