Alps switches in Guitar Hero guitar

[ComradeSniper]

I work for a company that does electronics scrapping on the side, so I was pulling apart a Guitar Hero Playstation 2 guitar apart a few days ago and found this under the strum bar.



I guess alps switches or an alps switch clone are what make the strum bar clicky. Pretty interesting IMO.

[CPTBadAss]

That's awesome man. Love me some alps and who doesn't like fun facts like that??

[johndavis33]

That's just cool. I have an old one for the wii that I don't use, so i'll go take that apart later.

[daerid]

Ahhhh Guitar Hero... those were the good old days

[kmiller8]

I had heard this before, nice to see it confirmed.

[MTManiac]

cool to see! I had never know that

[Moosecraft]

I was real good at GH3 back in the day. 100% on like 70% of the story

[hasu]

I like that hot glue usage and will try the method some day instead of plate.

[debt4lyfe]

so, what you're telling me is, i need to go collect about fifty of those guitars

[tp4tissue]

wah, guitar hero's not cool no more? why did no one tell me. I still play.. ffff

[tricheboars]

this is a random awesome factoid.

[Techno Trousers]

I never played GH, but now I know I would have loved the switch feel!

BTW, this is the exact opposite of a factoid, but it is interesting!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

[rootwyrm]

Wish they'd done that with Rock Band. (Yes, I'm a Rock Band loyalist.) Instead, they used ****ty leaf springs over cheap microswitches. Same for later GH guitars tho.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Those are not Alps switches:

Someone reported on the DT wiki that they are "XM" (i.e. Xiang Min KSB series), but they might in fact be Hua-Jie AK series: I need a picture showing the mould numbering to have a better idea. There is no photo available of the internals, but someone's 3D sketch of what he thought he saw, matches both KSB-C and AK-CN2 (2), which are identical inside.

Guitar Hero Repair in the UK sell the YH-B Alps clone as a replacement, but to no avail, I've not succeeded in finding out who makes them, or in fact a single word out of them at all. Miserable toads. (And the stupid things aren't even the right part for some guitars.) The YH-B clone is something horrible like > 100 cN — it's stupidly stiff. I have no idea what spec the Guitar Hero switches are.

[tricheboars]

well thanks for crushing our dreams. jk.

your knowledge is vast.

[BucklingSpring]

Dream crusher! Pfffffffffff

Even with fake boobs, I still find her pretty.

Those are not Alps switches:

[daerid]

Wish they'd done that with Rock Band. (Yes, I'm a Rock Band loyalist.) Instead, they used ****ty leaf springs over cheap microswitches. Same for later GH guitars tho.

Could never get into Rock Band. The feel of the instruments was just too weird. Loved GH though, rocked the crap out of GH 1 and 2 before it fell out of fashion.