Pelican adapter promises to bring Guitar Hero to PS3

It looks like the long wait is over for Guitar Hero fans impatient to get their thrash on with the currently Hero-less PlayStation 3, as a new USB adapter from Pelican promises to succeed where others have floundered and enable controllers from both PlayStation 2 versions to work on the newest console. As you may recall, the compatibility problem arises from the guitars' lack of the PS button required to start PSone and PS2 games on the PS3; Pelican's adapter addresses this issue by sporting a PS button of its own, along with three LEDs to indicate whether the unit is in regular, Guitar Hero left, or Guitar Hero right mode. Sounds pretty snazzy, and if it works as promised, may allow you to finally retire the old PS2 once and for all.

[Via Joystiq]

[FrankTheCrank @ May 9th 2007 6:19AM]

Morning Y'all...

When's the street date for this long awaited device?

[mck @ May 9th 2007 6:32AM]

I just bought a new PS2 solely to play Guitar Hero -- mine won't be going anywhere soon.

[Joel Laumans @ May 9th 2007 7:03AM]

Doesn't seem to matter what they do, but the PS3 will not catch up to the Xbox360...

[Bazza @ May 9th 2007 9:32AM]

catch up? The article is aimed towards about backwards compatibilty, both of s/w and h/w. I'm afraid I (as an owner of both systems) fail to see how the 360 is so far ahead in this area that the PS3 will never catch up.

[Johnthegr8 @ May 31st 2007 1:00AM]

the XBOX 360, ahead pffff hahaha... i own both the ps3 and 360 i have played the crap box only 3 times. Microsoft released their system way to early like a teenage boy in the playboy mansion. just look at it this way the 360's gpu matches up to my crappy desktops nvidia 6800 when the ps3 matches up to my good computers 7900 with way high clock speeds on the main processing units. the only thing that ps3 lacks is good game titles but thats soon to be over when they release grand theft auto 4 and grad turismo.

[VAStateOfMind @ May 9th 2007 7:25AM]

That's just great. Now, can Pelican get started on a PS2-to-Wii guitar controller adapter so that my kids won't harangue me about spending ANOTHER couple hundred $$$ on new guitar controllers for Guitar Hero III (or Rock Band) on the Wii this fall?

[RodneyP @ May 9th 2007 9:45AM]

I wonder why there are mixed reviews about this product over at Gamestop. Does this thing really work???

[michael @ May 9th 2007 9:58AM]

they already have a ps2 to usb adapter at radioshack... its like 20 bux and it does the trick

[Matthew McGuirl @ May 9th 2007 11:10AM]

BN.com has these shipping now for only $5... though as mentioned, people on gamestop and ebgames seem to be reviewing it as NOT working properly with GH!

[Will @ May 9th 2007 11:20AM]

There are rumors that it is only currently working for Guitar Hero and not Guitar Hero II. Mine is arriving today, so I'll test it and report back.

[Josh @ May 9th 2007 11:46AM]

Does this adapter work on the PS2 Dance Dance Revolution dance pads?

[SOSdan @ May 9th 2007 12:40PM]

For dance pads, order a Super Joy Box 5 Pro from play-asia.com It'll do the trick and it's the same price or cheaper than a radio shit... shack one.

[Matthew McGuirl @ May 9th 2007 12:47PM]

Based on the two reviews on ebgames, it works fine with the dance pads (five stars from each of them), just not for GH 2 apparently.

[ed @ May 9th 2007 12:34PM]

This thing doesn't work if you're good at GH2.

You can't hammer-on or pull-off with this adapter (which means you can't play on "expert") and navigating the menus requires switching the dongle to a different mode or holding down the orange button and hitting the strum bar and the green(or red) button when you are selecting items in the menu.

On the PS2, you can just hit the green or red buttons and that's it, you don't need to hold down the orange AND hit the strum bar AND hit the green button.

[Keith @ May 9th 2007 12:44PM]

This is pure speculation, but I would expect it wouldn't work with Guitar Hero 2. Apparently they added special code to Guitar Hero 2 to detect third party guitars and not allow them to be used. This same code will detect that you are using a USB adapter and also not allow it to work. After the 1.7 firmware update a lot of older PS2->USB adapters already started working for Guitar Hero 1.

[Brandon Wirtz @ May 9th 2007 1:58PM]

I'm most intersted in a Wireless Guitar for 360, and can anyone tell me when the pedal is going to be enabled?

http://www.xyhd.tv/2007/04/gaming/becoming-a-guitar-hero-tips-and-tricks-for-guitar-hero-2-on-xbox-360/

[eduong @ May 9th 2007 8:34PM]

Will the rumble feature work on the PS3 with this adapter?

[JooNkeN @ May 9th 2007 9:44PM]

Confirmed, it DOES work with GH1/2... BUT, yeah, there's a BUT
It's not 100% compatible.
(No Hammer-ons, Pull-offs, and you have to press SELECT for StarPower)
Details on the link.


http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=71816

[HomerCIDAL @ May 23rd 2007 11:20AM]

I'm thinking this will no longer be a problem when Rock Band comes out later this year since you will probably be able to use the PS3 guitar controller that should be available for that game to play GH1 and GH2. I'm hoping this is the case because GH1/GH2 are the only reasons I am still holding on to my slim!

[Adrienne @ Nov 20th 2007 11:49PM]

NO the Rock band guitar will NOT be compatable with any of the guitar heros.

[Big Smitty @ Jul 28th 2007 7:07PM]

The pelican adapter works on the ps3 for guitar hero I but thats it. It doesnt work for any of the other guitar games. It sucks. Make a damn adapter that will actually work with everything!

[SaintsFan39466 @ Aug 10th 2007 7:56PM]

This adapter from Pelican doesn't work for any of the Guitar Hero games since upgrade v1.8. But what I did find to my surprise is that there are two that do work (except the tremolo doesn't work at all!!). There is one from Pega and the one from Radio Shack. You can do your hammer ons and pull offs with no problems. If you don't mind the tremolo not operating then you should purchase one of those.

[Linda @ Jul 2nd 2008 11:56AM]

hello !
I'm from Norway and I want to know where can I buy this pelican adapter!??
On amazon is there nothing or is there other adapters like this??
I want to play my PS2 guitar hero games on my PS3 whit my PS2 guitar hero guitar! :D