Guitar Hero (Guitar Dream)

Games: Guitar Hero → (PS2, 2005) · Guitar Hero II → (Xbox 360, 2006) · Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s → (PS2, 2007) · Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, 2007)

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.

How it gets to PC

Game-specific engine

Console

PlayStation 2

Original studio

Harmonix

Year

2005

Author

mbracali

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