A program that lets you connect Wii Guitar Hero instruments to a Windows PC wirelessly using a wiimote and Bluetooth.
If you're updating from v2.7.0 or earlier, you should uninstall the ScpDriver that it required, as it is no longer necessary. It is not required to be uninstalled however, if you have other programs that use it then you can leave it installed.
Once your wiimote has been synced, you shouldn't have to sync it again, and can simply power it on and hit Connect. Some Bluetooth receivers don't handle this properly though, and may not correctly save the pairing.
Please note that third-party wiimotes do not work 99% of the time. This is not something WiitarThing can solve, as a majority of third-party wiimotes cut corners and only implement enough of the Bluetooth stack to connect to a Wii, and cannot connect to a PC in any capacity.
Guitars must be calibrated before use, otherwise your tilt or whammy may not work correctly. Calibration can be done at any time by simply following these instructions, there is no specific menu you need to go to for it to work.
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button on the wiimote.2
button on the wiimote.The following wiimote extensions are supported:
Wiimotes can also be used standalone, currently with mappings that are intended for using a wiimote like you would a gamepad with Gamepad Mode enabled.
The Wii U Pro Controller is also supported, and can be synced the same way as a wiimote can.
On World Tour/GH5 guitars, the touch bar can be enabled and disabled by pressing the + and - buttons on the wiimote, respectively. When enabled, the touchbar will be mapped to the regular frets.
Make sure you do NOT have HID Wiimote installed, as it completely overrides the Wiimote's drivers and makes WiitarThing unable to communicate with them. Uninstallation instructions may be found here (scroll down to "Uninstall Instructions").
If you do not have HID Wiimote installed, then your Bluetooth receiver is most likely to blame. Some receivers don't play well with wiimotes, and there just isn't anything that WiitarThing can do to fix it. Try to avoid cheaper receivers, and check user reviews before purchasing one.
This is most likely being caused by Steam's controller configuration settings. Go to the Settings menu inside Steam and click on the Controller tab, then click the General Controller Settings button and uncheck the Xbox controller configuration support option. If you play a game that requires this setting, then you can enable it for that specific game by going to its properties and enabling Steam Input in the Controller tab.
Alternatively, you can instead remove the right stick mapping inside of the Desktop Configuration menu. By default, Steam's desktop configuration maps the right stick of gamepad controllers to the mouse. Removing this mapping will stop the mouse from being controlled by the guitar.
If you have any questions or issues not addressed in this readme, join the official Clone Hero server on Discord and ask in the #help-line
channel.
WiitarThing will not work directly for the PC versions of Guitar Hero 3, Aerosmith, or World Tour. This is because WiitarThing emulates a standard Xbox 360 gamepad, and cannot currently emulate an Xbox 360 guitar directly. To work around this, you can use the v3.x version of x360ce alongside WiitarThing to make the game see an Xbox 360 guitar instead.
WiitarThing is built upon WiinUSoft and WiinUPro, but not forked because the changes are too significant and messy. All credit for connecting Wiimotes in general and most of the UI goes to KeyPuncher.
This version of WiitarThing is based on Myst/Meowmaritus's original version, with the original ViGEmBus code done by MWisBest in their fork/issue. Aida-Enna merged the ViGEmBus code and built releases for it, and now TheNathannator maintains it.