 So today I came out to my garage to hide something behind this unit that I wasn't gonna use for years And what did I find something that I haven't used for years? This is a guitar hero guitar actually it says guitar mania Wireless 2.4 gigahertz and no around it to see what game console it's for now I bought this thing over 15 years ago now. I'm pretty sure it was for a PlayStation 1 or 2 I've never owned any of those consoles I've never really owned any console other than the original Nintendo and Gameboy But I bought this like I said 15 years ago because I thought that I'd be able to wire it into my computer because I was just learning about arduinos and development boards and microcontrollers and I'm stupid back then I thought that I'd be able to take the Attapter from this and I thought there would be a pin for each button on here and there's not that's not how it works So originally these were about $40 the price tag on it is $39.98 now if you know me I'm cheap. I don't I would not spend that much I think I got them for about $5 pop and I bought two of them and the first one years ago after I realized I wasn't able to do this control thing I thought maybe if I pry it apart I can wire into each button into an Arduino and into the computer and And and I ended up throwing that guitar out years ago and forgetting about the second one until just now And I had never even opened the box the box got wet here in my garage Somehow some water got on it, but the guitar seems to be in good shape now again I wasn't even sure if this was a PlayStation 1 or 2 You know what console it was for well when I first started searching for it I thought okay first find out what console it's for and then find out if someone has come up with some arduino Software that I can wire into this and maybe hook to my computer, but when I searched PS1 or PS2 game controllers just to see what it looks like the first thing that came up was USB adapters for this You can get them on Amazon for $8 or $9 and apparently you just plug this into the dongle Into your computer through USB and it's going to show up as a game controller Theoretically hopefully well, I'm a little too cheap to spend eight or nine dollars So I looked on AliExpress and I found that they sell them for about three and a half dollars ship from China But it's gonna take about a month to get here. So hopefully in a month. I'll get a little dongle in the mail I'll plug this in plug it into my computer and it will just show up as a game controller at that point I can do lots of things with it now if you go back into my earlier some my earliest videos I had borrowed a Wii guitar where the Wii controller went in it and if you guys watch one of my videos, you know that I love Wii controllers I've never owned a Wii but I have a bunch of the controllers because they hook through Bluetooth and they are great Great little devices. Well, I'm hoping that I'll be able to hook this up And then just like in my earlier videos I put this up to a synthesizer on my computer and play some music or Play frets on fire. Do you guys remember frets on fire? Probably not. I'll probably review that game again if I get this up and running that's a fun little game But you can also, you know, should be able to play video games because it should just show up as a game controller in theory So hopefully hopefully when that shows up It will work and I'll be able to continue this video Otherwise you may never see this video here So let's go ahead and jump a couple weeks in the future Cross our fingers that this little three and a half dollar adapter works and I'm not out three and a half dollars It has arrived. Let's see if this little three dollar adapter works It actually came in only a week Let's get some batteries in that guitar Plug the adapter into the USB dongle Currently I have three joystick devices hooked up to my computer in the dongle here Let that up. That's good Now let's see how many joystick devices we have cross your finger that there's more Well more than four. I said three earlier, but oh, there's a fourth one JS test on joystick number four Go ahead Connor You're not gonna hear anything just press buttons and move that little bar. You're pressing the buttons up there Nothing's happening What's wrong? We forgot one one one step, right? Got turned it on There we go. Now press the buttons And it's being detected