Guitar Hero II (PS2)

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

Guitar Hero Classic is a modded recompilation of the PS2 version of Guitar Hero II that runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It recompiles the game with the author’s own fork of PS2Recomp and runs the original code mostly unchanged; the renderer, audio, controls, and saves were written separately. It brings together in one package the campaigns of Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II (PS2 and Xbox 360), and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, lets you pick the GH2 or GH1 note engine, mix every song from every game in quickplay, and play local multiplayer. A custom Vulkan rendering engine offers the original PS2 look, the Xbox 360’s, or anything in between, with any resolution, uncapped frame rate, MSAA, TAA, and mipmaps. Its author states generative AI was used only to write code and that no game asset was generated or upscaled. It is in active development; version 0.8.6 is from October 29.

You needDisc images of your own copies as .chd, .iso, or .bin: required, Guitar Hero II for PS2 (USA only, SLUS-21447); optional, any region, Guitar Hero (PS2), Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360), and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (PS2). A Vulkan-capable GPU; Windows, Apple Silicon macOS, or Linux.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

PlayStation 2

Architecture

Emotion Engine

Author

noahbaxter

Original studio

Harmonix

Year

2006

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