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[wow]

Homepage http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net

About the game http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/about/

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

Features

Unique inverted keyboard gameplay style

Support for guitar controllers and generic joysticks
Includes a song editor for making your own tunes
Compete with others on the World Charts
Hundreds of songs composed by the community
Supports importing Guitar Hero™ I and Guitar Hero™ II songs
Multiplatform; runs on Windows™, Linux®, Mac OS X™ and FreeBSD®
Open source, full Python source code available
9 languages: brazilian_portuguese, french, german, hebrew, italian, polish, russian, spanish, swedish,

Requirements

128 MB of RAM(Should be more on puppy)
A fairly fast OpenGL graphics card with decent drivers (if you can run Compiz/Beryl you'll be fine).
SDL compatible sound card; SDL library installed. (Install libSDL from PetGet)

Screenshot

Usage

Rename the file 'FretsOnFire-1.2.451_2xx.sfs' as usual to match your Puppy version or use Puppy's Boot Manager(2.16)
Start the game from Menu>Fun>FretsOnFire or clic the icon at /usr/local/apps/Games/ (You can drag the FoF icon to the pinboard)

If the game doesn't start type this in a terminal window to see error messages:


Code:

/usr/local/apps/Games/FretsOnFire/FretsOnFire

Troubleshooting

Right clic over the game folder/icon and read the help file.

Download:

[FretsOnFire-1.2.451.sfs] 31.6 MB
md5sum: 52ffb3912a0df4a0a6c4975c121a8d0b FretsOnFire-1.2.451.sfs

Enjoy

[Indy]

Hi,

Is any one else having a problem downloading the file?

I only get a 4250B file when I download it from File Front (which says it should be 31.55 MB).

[wow]

Sometimes(rare) the service is unavailable , try again later.

I forgot something else, this sfs can be mounted on Puppy-1.09CE as loop device (don't use it as usr_more.sfs, use 'mount -o loop <something>.sfs /<SomeDir>') and since it's a RoxApp you can start to play just clicking the icon (<wherever it's mounted>/usr/local/apps/Games)

Tip: when downloading from filefront don't use download accelerators.

[schnauzer93]

I installed Frets on Fire and the libraries, but I got this error message when I tried to start it from the terminal:

open /dev/sequencer: No such device
open /dev/sequencer: No such device
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/skyostil/src/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in ?
File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in ?
File "src/GameEngine.py", line 155, in __init__
File "src/Video.py", line 68, in setMode
pygame.error: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[wow]

That's because it only works at 24bpp. Exit X, run xorgwizard, choose Xorg and select "1024x768x24" or "800x600x24", etc.

[wow]

- SFS reuploaded
- Also tested on Puppy-4beta

[skyline-gtr-r34]

Can someone reupload the FoF sfs file. It just leads me to file front home page.

[wow]

Fixed.

[brendoncdodd]

I installed this into Puppy 4.00 and got this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "src/GameEngine.py", line 23, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/__init__.py, line 2/ in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/GL/GL__init__.py", line 2, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/GL/GL__init__.py", line 2, in ?
File "ExtensionLoader_OpenGL_GL_GL__init.py", line 12, in ?
ImportError: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct
ory

Is ther a problem with my OpenGL? Do I not have OpenGL? I would think that it would come with Puppy 4.

[wow]

brendoncdodd
Is ther a problem with my OpenGL? Do I not have OpenGL? I would think that it would come with Puppy 4.

Ok, make sure that you have installed the xorg_xorg_full_dri-7.3.pet
package from petget. Now install the video driver for your card and change to the color depth to 24 bpp, don't waste your time if you don't have and ATI or nVidia gpu/igpu.

[orbital]

First I installed Frets on Fire and got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "src/GameEngine.py", line 23, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/__init__.py, line 2/ in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/GL/GL__init__.py", line 2, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/GL/GL__init__.py", line 2, in ?
File "ExtensionLoader_OpenGL_GL_GL__init.py", line 12, in ?
ImportError: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct
ory

Later i installed the xorg_xorg_full_dri-7.3.pet and got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/skyostil/src/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in ?
File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in ?
File "src/GameEngine.py", line 155, in __init__
File "src/Video.py", line 68, in setMode
pygame.error: X11 driver not configured with OpenGL

How to configure X11 with OpenGL?

[wow]

Try to install another build of SDL to fix it.
This one is from my puplet, don't know if it'll work on other puppies:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=283424#283424

[nancy reagan]

[shadowtroop]

[bump]

Could someone reupload this to mediafire or something?

[666philb]

hi shadowtroop

i had seen your other post and i had a go a getting the new fretsonfire to work, but i had the same error as you. I think it might be to to with the 'dreaded python!'

However i found an older version that does work . I tested it on lupu520 and lupu525 with just my graphic drivers and python installed.

Just unzip it, and click the FretsOnFire script to start it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fretsonfire/files/fretsonfire/1.2.451/FretsOnFire-1.2.451-linux.tar.gz/download

666philb

edit: it's the same as the above version