There are already several homebrew and even commercial paint/pixel-art programs in development for the Nintendo DS, but BassAceGold's UAPaint (v1.02) adds something special -- support for Guitar Hero: On Tour's Guitar Grip controller.Artists can use the Grip's buttons as tool shortcuts in UAPaint - blue for the pen, yellow for the paint bucket, red for the color picker, and green for the line tool. Slick!
We saw the potential of homebrew slot-2 accessory tinkering with Mario Kart DS hacked to interface with Taito's paddle controller, but there hasn't been any advancements with that since, possibly due to the paddle's pricing and limited availability. With Guitar Hero's popularity and readily obtainable peripheral, hopefully we'll see more homebrew uses for the Guitar Grip!
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6-28-2008 @ 5:29PM
IoNPedro said...
And one more reason to buy The Grip appears.
But the 6.0 @ Gamespot isn't helping...
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6-28-2008 @ 7:36PM
velocitySTRIKE said...
lol, Gamespot.
6-29-2008 @ 7:21AM
Lord Bowser said...
lol, Gamespot.
6-29-2008 @ 8:59AM
Cal said...
lol, Gamespot indeed.
7-03-2008 @ 2:29PM
Pedroion said...
Now I saw IGN's rating.
9.0
What can I say?
lol, Gamespot.
6-28-2008 @ 5:34PM
shadowchaoscontrol said...
i just hope someone can make frets on fire, or a game similar to that nature using the grip
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6-28-2008 @ 7:11PM
Pedroion said...
Check out our topic about this:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=91006
And forget Frets On Fire, Guitar Zero 2 is MUCH better:
http://guitarzero2.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=20download&action=display&thread=693
They are releasing new versions really quickly.
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6-28-2008 @ 7:44PM
Capt. Castellanos said...
i'm just waiting for a jam sessions hack for the guitar grip.
green - up
green/red - up right
red - right
red/yellow - right down
yellow - down
yellow/blue - down left
blue - left
blue/green - left up
and different combinations do other things.
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6-29-2008 @ 2:09AM
iruka said...
That would be so cool! I hope somebody's trying to figure this out already...
6-29-2008 @ 12:20AM
LocalToast said...
Gah!
I was looking for a "Submit News" button on this page to let you guys know, but I guess you already found it.
I have an RSS feed of BassAceGold's blog and read his posts a lot :P
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6-29-2008 @ 10:57AM
Alisha Karabinus said...
For future reference, it's right under "Resources" on the left sidebar, above the "powered by Blogsmith" button.
6-29-2008 @ 4:21PM
LocalToast said...
Wow, that's tiny ... I would've never found it.
Thanks for the heads-up.
6-29-2008 @ 11:06AM
Richard said...
Anybody know if you can buy the G.Hero peripheral seperately, or do you have to buy the game with it?
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6-29-2008 @ 11:39AM
Eleniel said...
That's really clever. There's already a library for the grip?
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