Frets on Fire

Description

Frets on fire is a guitar hero clone for your computer. Why would you want a guitar hero clone on your PC? Well because you can download songs not on any guitar hero games and you can make your own! You can also customize in many more ways like the logo, cassette covers, and guitar necks.

Controls
The default controls are f1-f5 and enter. You hold your keyboard like a guitar using the f1-f5 keys as notes and enter as strum.  Like in the picture below.

But if you want easier controls you can hook your Xbox360 guitar hero 2 controller in as a joystick.

Size
The size of frets on fire is about 34mb, which isn’t to big for a full game.

Screenshots

Score
I give this game an 8/10

Downloads
http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

Other useful links.
A fan forum and a good place for songs
Frets on Fire wiki

Legend of Zelda Movie

An independent film company RainFallFilms is making a Legend of Zelda movie. This movie is a low budget film, but looks like it will have great CG effects. It’s release date has spawned controversy though. It is set to be released on 4/1/09 better known as April fools day. Some think that this movie is just a prank on all Zelda fans. Now it’s pretty high quality for a prank. I personally think and hope this movie is the real deal. It will probably go straight to DVD, but it might come out in select theaters. If it is real expect my review some time soon after it.

For those who want to see the trailer.
Click here.

Emulation Tutorial.

Remember all those classic games you used to play, Like your NES/SNES and Nintendo64? Wish you could replay them? Well you can! And here is a basic tutorial on how to.

Step 1. Figure out what system you want to emulate. I will be using the Nintendo 64

Step 2. Get the emulator. This is a great site for emulators. Find the one you want(Again I’m using N64 as my example) and click the link on the left. It will take you to a page describing the system and requirements. Scroll down a little and you come to the emulators.

Step 3. Select your emulator. Read the description under each emulator. Some will say certain things like ” does not work well on slower computers.” After that pick which one suits you. I would usually go for the top rated one(I am going to use Project 64). Then download.
Note: I made a folder on my desktop to keep it organized.

Step 4. Now we extract the file. Go to wherever you saved it. And double click the “.exe” file. On mine it brought up the installer.

Just go through it like any other installation. When it’s done all the files should be extracted, but we can’t yet. We still need the Roms(Read only memory file).

Step 5. Getting the roms. Before we go downloading any roms we need to make a rom folder in the folder where all files we just extracted are.

Now We can download the roms.
Here are some good sites for roms:
http://www.rom-world.com/
http://doperoms.com/
http://www.dgemu.com/ requires registration
Now we find and download our rom. I will be getting legend of Zelda ocarina of time off of Doperoms. Now download the rom to your ROMS folder.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO EXTRACT THE ZIP FOLDERS.

Last Step Now we play! Open your emulator “.exe”(not the setup) and goto open rom. Navigate to your rom folder and select your rom’s zip.

Click open and play!

Now you have successfully installed an emulator and played a game on it.

If you have any questions just ask in the comments. Also regular comments are appreciated!