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How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Guitar

Posted by timothy on from the jumprope-can-be-hifi-if-it's-got-usb dept.

An anonymous reader writes 'Sean Lind over at PokerListings has written a really interesting piece on how to configure Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) instruments to use them as controllers for playing online poker. The instructions given in his how-to could really be used to configure the instruments for any game.' Or how about a genuine chording keyboard?

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  1. That's one good use for the kiddy guitar by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're going to play with the plastic Rock Band guitar, you might as well go whole hog and play all your games with it. It's just a controller, FWIW.

    If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.

    1. Re:That's one good use for the kiddy guitar by ari_j · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, it has been my observation that playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band is at least as likely to help you pick up women than playing a real guitar, if not more so. It turns out that women are not attracted to men for any rational reasons.

    2. Re:That's one good use for the kiddy guitar by Rycross · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Why does this come up every time?

  2. Re:uhh... by geekoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But if you can do it and not ruin the pizza, it would be an interesting hack. I am assuming you mean pop-up toaster.

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  3. I don't understand? by Useful+Wheat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't really understand why this is news. I have a friend that can kick your ass at any fighting game using the guitar instead of a controller. Myself, I've played Halo with the rock band drum kit, and I had 1 kill. You can't move or fire, but you can do the melee hit, which I used to ambush people who thought I was AFK. I've played several Xbox live games with the guitar, including that free side scrolling shooter. The main disadvantage was I couldn't go left or right, but up and down was easy, and all you really need. The controls for poker are so trivial I can't imagine this took more than 5 minutes of effort. The real story would be if he was playing counterstrike with the guitar, or if he was writing software with the guitar instead of using a keyboard. Because really, what coder wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?