Comments on: Will Pelican’s USB Adapter Let You Play Guitar Hero on the PS3?

By: omakad

omakad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:23:37 +0000

Anyone knows if this would work on ps3 for rock band? I have two old GH guitars for PS2, but now I have Rock Band for ps3 and it would be nice if I could use those two with RB.

By: omakad

omakad — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:23:37 +0000

Anyone knows if this would work on ps3 for rock band? I have two old GH guitars for PS2, but now I have Rock Band for ps3 and it would be nice if I could use those two with RB.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:51:30 +0000

This controller doesn’t get full use out of the Guitar Hero game and/or guitars. As it states (on the instructions…not on the packaging), “‘Hammer Ons’ and ‘ Pull Offs’ will not work while playing Guitar Hero 2 while using this adapter. You must strum for each individual note that is played.” This makes progressing further in the game (i.e. the Hard and Expert levels) nearly impossible. I wouldn’t buy this controller purely for GH.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:58:28 +0000

I have this adapter, and tested it with GH II,

I have not been able to get to work fully; when using the guitar to naviage menus, you have to put the adapter into menu mode by holding the green fret and strum, and there’s a righty mode, and a lefty mode. I think my errors were coming from being in the wrong mode. From the buttons that were working for me, there was no lag.

in the instructions, there’s a disclaimer that says that w/ the adapter you WILL NOT be able to perform hammer ons and pull offs w/ the adapter.

By: Blackout

Blackout — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:06:39 +0000

To be relased 7/17 http://www.buy.com/prod/two-player-ps2-to-ps3-controller-converter/q/loc/108/203328582.html

By: Paul Munn

Paul Munn — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:41:39 +0000

It comes with detailed instructions on setting up the righty and lefty modes of the device for GH play.

My friend who bought the Pelican adapter did buy Guitar Hero II the next day and reported that it worked fine. I haven’t had a chance to ask him in detail if there’s any noticeable side effects with it, like maybe a delay or something. Given that it’s a hardware device I’d be surprised if it had any kind of delay or adverse effect, but we’ll see.

By: Damian Frost

Damian Frost — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:00:59 +0000

I have read on some sites from ppl posting there that it reads the fret buttons backwards on the GH and GHII controllers, maybe they aren’t aware of the Righty/Lefty mode switch on the side. I will definitely be getting one of these to test it for my self.

By: TeamQJ

TeamQJ — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:11:04 +0000

to be honest. we haven’t tried this one yet but the ps home button is really something. some of our readers pointed out that it still doesn’t work with GH controllers. just thought you would know that.

http://www.qj.net/Pelican-s-PS3-USB-adapter-compatible-with-PS2-s-GH-controllers/pg/49/aid/91645

By: Paul Munn

Paul Munn — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:45:07 +0000

After I posted I noticed there’s actually a switch on it for changing to three different modes. One is Normal mode for controllers, two and three are for different Guitar Hero related modes, lefty and righty. This looks very promising.