Guitar Hero/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.

= ==DualShock controller== =

When played with a DualShock controller, no strum action is utilized; only the buttons on the fret of the guitar controller are used, and are mapped to various DualShock buttons.

= ==Guitar Controller== =

The guitar controller features five colored buttons on the fret, a strum bar, and a whammy bar.

It is possible to make custom guitars, using an original DualShock controller. (This controller must be used; the original PlayStation controller is unsuitable without analog sticks, and the DualShock II is unusable due to its pressure-sensitive buttons.) The game uses psx: Left Dpad to determine if you've plugged in a guitar controller—it must be set to constant "on" for the game to recognize the unit as a guitar. The other buttons are mapped to buttons found on a standard PlayStation analog controller. The following buttons are mapped on the guitar:

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.

These buttons are not the same as the buttons the game uses when a DualShock controller setup is used.

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