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Minimalist Guitar Hero 3 mod with one click play and numerous gameplay fixes and additions

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FastGH3

(or lesser known as FastGH3 ain't smaller than Guitar Hero 3, for longer)

Play Guitar Hero better than ever before!
Optimized and reworked for speed, portability, accessibility, and QOL.
The days of GHTCP, slow songlist batching, and janky-to-use tools are no longer, so we bring you THIS!

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PLAY NOW!

Features/Planned list

FastGH3.Preview.-.Squarepusher.-.Dark.Steering.mp4

Instructions

  • Download.
    download
  • Install. (or extract, and run register.bat on portable)
    installer
  • Open a chart.
    clicky
  • ROCK OUT!
    video game
  • For an extensive list of settings, open settings.bat, or in a command prompt in the game folder, run fastgh3 -settings. (Installer adds a shortcut for this)

Extra steps

  • To enable file association (that is when you click on a file, it opens the program that supports it), you must use the installer or run register.bat, or click "Open with" on a chart or MIDI and select this program.

Additions

  • Breakneck audio conversion speed (Even faster if ffmpeg is installed)
  • Open sustains
  • Open notes, taps (by ExileLord)
  • Overlapping starpower
  • Load charts stored in archive files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z)
  • Dynamically loadable QbScript mods
  • Custom themes available here
  • GH3+ plugin system (by ExileLord)
  • Windowed mode (and borderless)
  • Toggleable VSync
  • Dynamic note limit
  • Easy highway and zone swapping for ultimate personalization
  • Background images and videos
  • Easy chart downloads and instant play through fastgh3:// links
  • Play charts straight from Google Drive and Chorus Encore
  • Song caching (songs converted at least once are saved for later play)
  • Autoplay with automatic starpower activation, and automated battle attacks
  • A multitude of fixes, such as for:
    • Audio calibration slow down
    • Particle velocity/friction tied to frame rate
    • Whammy width looking smaller on higher resolutions
    • Leftover starpower FX glitch
    • Holding sustains when unpausing
    • Frame rate based scripts
  • Boss battle charts
  • Rock Band Solos
  • Toggle particles
  • Toggle highway/HUD intro
  • Hide notes upon hitting them
  • Removed venues and models for max performance
  • Rich Presence
  • Optimized and heavily compressed zones
  • Modifiers
    • All strums, or doubles, or taps
    • Hopos to taps
    • Mirror mode
    • Color shuffle

AND A LOT MORE!
AND EVEN MORE TO COME IN THE FUTURE!