Guitar Hero II/Controls

The game typically uses a special guitar controller, often packaged with the game disc. It can also be played with a standard DualShock controller. Each controller appeals to different players; some can use a guitar, some can use a DualShock, and some can comfortably use both well.

The guitar controller features five colored buttons on the fret, a strum bar, and a whammy bar. However, DualShock players use different buttons. This table details the guitar to DualShock control mapping.

The other buttons (psx: Right Dpad, psx: R1, psx: R3, psx: L1, psx: L3, psx: Neutral Rstick, and the remaining axes of psx: Neutral Lstick) are unused.

In-game
On the menu screens, treat Green as psx: X and Red as psx: T. Green goes forward, Red goes back, strum bar goes up and down. Simple as that. When playing a song, the fret buttons correspond to the colored notes on screen, the strum bar strums, start pauses, the whammy whammies notes, and select activates star power.