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With Guitar Hero II in stores today—the faithful have called in sick and are already shredding, no doubt—we found a man who clearly puts the Hero in Guitar Hero. Mike Smith spent a series of nights transforming his 2 year old's Tickle Me Elmo guitar into a fully functioning Guitar Hero controller. This was no simple transplant—the-guts-from-GH-controller-into-Elmo-guitar either. Smith actually used the wiring from a PS1-era DualShock for the Franken-Elmo's inner workings.
The Elmo guitar only has four fret buttons instead of the traditional five, which means his daughter can only play the game up to the medium skill level. "I didn't think she'd have a chance to get beyond that point anyway," Smith explained.
To activate Star Power, in Smith's words, "You have to press the Elmo head button."
No word yet on Smith's daughter's shredding abilities.
Elmo as Guitar Hero Controller [Guitar Hero Forum]
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Shredd toddler shredd.....thats awsome man/
A reverse transplant with the leftovers would make a great gag gift, let someon play GH with you and as soon as they hit the blue button they hear Cookie Monster singing "C" is for cookie and cookie is for me.
Nice hack!
I love stuff like this.
This guy is my hero.
Would that I could do this for my daughter.
cute :/
Like most mods, pointless...
robthefrog says:
Like most mods, pointless...
Why? The guy produced a working version of the GH controller small enough for his kid to use, enabling her to play a game that teaches good coordination and rhythm. Why is that pointless, exactly?
I'm just here because I thought I read "vagina" in the headline.
Thats pretty cool, but the fact that he downplays how good his daughter could be when asked why he didn't have five buttons is pretty shitty.
I mean, obviously the daughter will never say the "My parents always felt I could do anything!" line in her VH1 special.
And I stress, Chimera, like most mods, pointless.
downgrade.
robthefrog, sometimes modding is about the journey, not unnecessarily the destination.
haha yah, the journey, like "Don't Stop Believin'"!!!!
which his daughter can now learn to jam to
Boot to the head.
"Thats pretty cool, but the fact that he downplays how good his daughter could be when asked why he didn't have five buttons is pretty shitty."
Dude, she's two.
"Thats pretty cool, but the fact that he downplays how good his daughter could be when asked why he didn't have five buttons is pretty shitty."
His daughter now has a project of her own: Wire in a fifth fret-button.
Anxiously awaiting the YouTube video of father and daughter multiplaying in GH II.
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