This is my twin brother, Ichinisan/jevansturner, playing GHIII on the PC for the 3rd time with the Wii Guitar displayed on the Sony KDL-52XBR2 @1080p.
This isn't a skill demonstration, so ignore the performance unless you just want to see it work. He's still getting used to the latency it introduces (he didn't calibrate) and the 2 phones ringing didn't help him focus any. He's only been playing a few weeks on and off.
This motherboard's DTS Connect feature is a good way to one-up the Wii version's current lack of a fix, replacement, or work-around for DPLII surround-sound, though I'm not really set up for it at the moment.
Using GlovePIE, we only just got it working so we haven't finished the parts of the script for supporting tilt, but that'll be easy ("-" button for now). The whammy bar will be better once we figure out how to smoothen the mouse mapping. There's no support for the Wii-exclusive speaker and rumble, though I'd expect the Guitar Hero clones to add this soon. The recent Wii homebrew hack seems to have helped make sense of the Wii's disc format, so importing from the Wii disc may be the next big thing.
One problem is that the PC version always defaults to "Leftie Flip" when there is no X-plorer guitar connected due to the default KBM config.
It's paired with some Bluetooth adapter that was included with a MS Wireless Presenter Mouse. It functioned as a proprietary USB wireless mouse at first, but it was easy enough to download and configure the right Bluetooth stack to get this going. At least this way it was easy to find 64-bit drivers!
PC specs:
Antec 900 -this gawdy case grew on me
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 -CPU
Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus -motherboard
XFX nVidia 8800GT SLI -video; SLI disabled
4GB Crucial 800MHz DDR2 -memory
500GB -hard drive; game & OS installed here
2TB RAID0 -transitioning to this
Daemon-Tools -image drive; loads super-fast!
Nintendo Wii Remote -input; DUH
Red Octane Gibson Les Paul -controller; Wii version
YouTube user "mrbellek" has made a nice GlovePIE script with tilt, rumble, and more:
http://wizardswhinings.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-use-wii-guitar-hero-iii-guitar.html
Be sure to thank him for it!
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