Everything's FINALLY arrived. Had my Wiitar for weeks now, but unfortunately I couldn't use it until the adapter arrived.

Ordering the adapter was a hassle and a half. Placing the order was super easy, but Amazon decided to cancel shipping after a few days and not inform me of it. I checked my Amazon account a couple of days before delivery was due and found that the package had been returned to sender without my authorisation.

For a domestic package I wouldn't have minded, as it would only add maybe one or two days to the whole process of getting a product from Amazon, but I'd been waiting over a week now for the adapter to come and I wasn't having it. I contacted Amazon customer support to find out what happened, but from their end, the package was still coming to me. I was escalated to another customer support rep, who told me that the only option was to refund the cost of the adapter and to buy a new one. Great. I asked them what had happened and she did some checking and then came back and told me that actually, I couldn't have a refund, and that I'd have to wait several more days to see if the package actually arrives. Fucking fantastic.

I pressed and managed to get the refund after talking to customer support for over an hour. I tried to get them to compensate me by upgrading the shipping for free (literally 3 quid) so I wouldn't have to wait over a week again as a result of Amazon's mistake. This was when the customer support rep started getting rude and cutting me off, and ultimately terminated the session. Never had that happen on UK Amazon... (And no, the original product never did arrive).

Anyway, I got my refund, and was very happy to find that the seller of the adapter on Amazon had discounted the product, so I ended up paying roughly the same price that I originally paid but with upgraded shipping this time. Still an utter waste of time and money, but hey, Amazon does that sometimes.

The adapter finally arrived today. Forgot to mention: also had to order a USB extension cable off their Amazon Basics line. Got the 3m one - seems decent enough quality.

Total cost?

• Got a REALLY solid deal on a new in-box Wii Les Paul on eBay - £0.99 plus an extortionate postage charge of £6.99, so £7.98 all in all for a pristine Wii guitar. Not bad at all (usually the new ones go for about £30 - not sure why no one bought this one, cos it's definitely not a fake).
  
• Bought this female to male USB 2.0 extension cable for £4.47. 3m, so it's long enough that you can plug it into your PC and move around with it or whatever. Can't complain about this at all. I have use for this anyway, as my current USB cables don't stretch far enough when I game with my PS4 controller just in general. Could've bought a longer USB cable, but I can kill two birds with one stone with this.
  
• The adapter... Amazon tells me that I spent a grand total of £24.01 on this. The controller is garbage and not worth using, but the cable works well. If you don't buy the upgraded shipping, you'll probably spend around £20 instead. I'm hoping that Amazon refunds me the import charges, as by UK law the product isn't eligible for any import charges due to the price.
  
  

  Total cost: £36.46.
  

  With Raphnet adapter, it would have cost (including imports etc): £48.10
  

  
  Lesson learned: just buy a fucking Raphnet adapter. I saved 12 quid lol. Admittedly, I overpaid for shipping, and I'll probably get import fees refunded, which would bring the cost down to about £29 if you were to do this. And you probably wouldn't have the same hassle that I had with the Amazon adapter. All in all, though, the adapter works, and I've got a sweet, sweet Wiitar to play, so I'm not really that disappointed (assuming the adapter doesn't crap out on me...)
  
  If you can afford to spend maybe an extra £20 for the Raphnet, just do it. It's really not worth the hassle trying to get a good deal. In the future, though, if I ever need a new guitar, I don't have to worry about buying another bloody adapter - I can just buy another Wiitar off eBay, and hopefully for cheap.
  
  £37 is also almost exactly how much I spent on my new in-box Xplorer, so make of that what you will. I'm not sure if Xplorers have gotten any more expensive since I bought mine. I can't really give any impressions on how the Wiitar compares to my Xplorer, either, as I've only set up the guitar and made sure everything works at the moment. I've not done any proper playing. I can tell you that the Xplorer was very awkward to play due to the shape of the body, so I had to do this weird leg cross over thing to get it to sit nicely on my legs when sitting in my chair. It seems like that's the main complaint people have with the Xplorer, and I've seen Randy do almost the exact same leg cross over thing to get his Xplorer to sit properly on his lap. Also, I ended up with a gen 1 Xplorer which apparently had crappy frets. Mine did, so I messed with the fret pad (the slit mod where you slit the sides of each fret) and got them playing excellently, but unfortunately I overcut and they only lasted a few months before blue and orange started occasionally sticking under the slits I cut - hence why I'm buying a new guitar.
  
  Oh, almost forgot: I haven't figured out how to get whammy to work yet, but this is also a problem with the Raphnet adapters. I probably just need a tutorial.

This isnt an official guitar of course! Its made by "The Ant Commandos" as a 3rd party guitar for Guitar Mania & Guitar Hero. I found a link to the dongle for you!

https://www.amazon.com/Commandos-Wireless-Guitar-Receiver-Shredder-Guitars/dp/B00WV94LI0


Edit: BTW my buddy had this guitar. I recall it not being so great.

> to that button? All the buttons I’ve found are too deep with 12v rated lights. Nice work! FYI If you unscrew the pcb yo

I use these ones: https://www.amazon.com/EG-STARTS-Illuminated-Buttons-Raspberry/dp/B01N11BDX9/ref=pd_sim_194_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01N11BDX9&pd_rd_r=dfe0416a-bb6f-11e8-a904-6bfe9a9fef2d&pd_rd_w=jmhh9&pd_rd_wg=Y5nPz&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=H31DW5P0R8HPQNJA5G36&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=H31DW5P0R8HPQNJA5G36

and use this drill bit https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EPBVIV0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

those don't run on my school laptop, all i can run is glovepie and Clone Hero, i just need a script that works with this third party wii les paul i bought from amazon, i tried Gh3.Pie script, but all it does is tilt for star power, none of the frets or strum bar or start/manual starpower work... help! https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Guitar-Wii-Games-Color-Nintendo/dp/B004QSY97W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519627301&sr=8-1&keywords=guitar+hero+3+les+paul+wii

All the screws that hold the body itself together are T10 heads. I got this set off Amazon, works like a charm.

idk if $50 is affordable to you but I just got the Rock Band 4 Strat on Amazon. It seems to work okay for me.

Something like this will do: https://www.amazon.ca/Fosmon-Replacement-Microsoft-Controllers-Controller/dp/B009I0VK2U

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Or if you're bold, cut it off and solder in a USB cable.

UKOG uses either the BPHS1 or BPHS1-XF4 by Audio-Technica (Probably the BPHS1's, but I'm not 100% sure).

The difference between the two seems to be the connector, but I'm not sure what the rest of his set up looks like.

Randy uses Sades A60S's.

Here’s a link for those that would like one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00P9NDC4O/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519916724&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=warriors+of+rock+controller

This should work just fine. https://www.amazon.com/Trenro-Wired-Controller-Breakaway-xbox-360/dp/B0055464UQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=A1634+usb+breakaway&qid=1558465871&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr1

I'm not 100% sure, because I haven't had to buy a dongle. However, this looks like something you might be looking for.

https://www.amazon.com/Kinivo-BTD-400-Bluetooth-4-0-USB/dp/B007Q45EF4

This one is recommended I believe.

You can get an XBOX One controller receiver here off Amazon.

I'm looking for buttons now, since I also want to do this. These might work? https://www.amazon.com/EG-STARTS-Illuminated-Joystick-Raspberry/dp/B01LXZSV2N/ref=sr_1_12_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1537274129&sr=8-12&keywords=arcade+button

Hello.

Do you think a standard Wii to USB converter such as this one would work aswell?

a quick dig found this looks to have the same shell cant see the printing on the front due to the angles though https://www.amazon.co.uk/OSTENT-Controller-Adapter-Converter-Compatible/dp/B00FBM347I


edit turned the exact one up too http://www.manufacturers.com.tw/showroom-8486-1-5-0000082657-0.php

Insten USB Breakaway Cable Compatible With MicroSoft xBox 360 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B006GLM866/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_oYCYCbHQHFYHB

I'm guessing you mean the Xbox 360 breakaway adapter
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AEJ8152/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_voE0CbNN9AFNT

This is the one I got: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0096PSFBG/


Low latency, and whammy works. I haven't been able to get star power tilt to work with it though.

You're probably missing the breakaway USB adapter. https://www.amazon.com/Wired-Controller-Breakaway-Cable-Microsoft-360/dp/B005685BM8