Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

PS2

Guitar Hero (Guitar Dream)

mbracali/prj-gd-engine

Guitar Dream Engine is a reimplementation of the engines of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band era of guitar games, with one folder and engine per game and a universal launcher. The README states it contains no original code or assets and distributes none: you are expected to buy the discs and extract their content yourself. According to its table, Guitar Hero (the PlayStation 2 version) is 99% playable, Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360) 88%, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (PlayStation 2) 80%, and Guitar Hero III (Xbox 360) 47%; the other titles, through Rock Band 3, show no progress yet. There are launcher builds for Windows, Linux, Steam Deck, macOS, and Android; 0.1.8 is from October 30. It is published under the PolyForm Noncommercial license plus additional attribution terms, so it is not for commercial use. Each game’s folder includes notes for AI coding agents.

You needYour own copy of each game, from which you extract the assets yourself (discs or ROMs in the original_isos folder): Guitar Hero and Encore in their PlayStation 2 version, Guitar Hero II and III in the Xbox 360 one. Windows, Linux (including Steam Deck), Apple Silicon macOS, or Android.

PS3

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (sp00nznet)

sp00nznet/gh3

A static recompilation of the PS3 disc release of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (BLUS30074) into a native Windows executable with ps3recomp, the SPU programs included. It boots through the intro movies, the menus, and the save load, and plays with the venue, band, highway, fretboard, gems, HUD, star power, and song audio. On September 28 the game’s own bot played all 45 Quickplay songs on Easy with none failed and no hangs, at 30 to 40 fps in songs and 50 to 60 in menus; a busy PC costs a note or two. Still missing are 60 fps, guitars (for now you play with XInput controllers or the keyboard), checking latency, and the Career, co-op, and local multiplayer modes; online play is out of scope. There are no prebuilt executables: you build it from source, and the repository holds nothing from the game. All 59 of its commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of the Guitar Hero III PS3 disc, US release (BLUS30074), with its EBOOT decrypted (EBOOT.elf). To build it, a ps3recomp checkout, Python, CMake, Ninja, and clang-cl.