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Hey, updated with some pictures from the all-singing, all-dancing, all-guitar hero playing unveiling of my latest masterpiece: the aptly named Steve's Guitaraoke Palace. Like Martin Luther King, Jr., I had a dream, and it was to play Guitar Hero, with Karaoke Revolution _and_ a dance pad all at the same time. Requirements: 2 PS2s, Karaoke Revolution Party with microphone, Guitar Hero with Guitar, dance pad and 2 televisions (I had a TV which allows to accept 2 signals and split the TV in half, displaying both signals). Sadly, Karaoke Revolution Party's sing and dance mode makes you sing and dance to a truncated version of the songs it features.

So sadly, my dream came to a crashing halt. We would have to settle with the combination of guitar and singing, which I have cleverly named "Guitaraoke." Sadly, only 1 song is featured in both games: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts' "I Love Rock and Roll." The plan was to have me playing guitar, with Ron on vocals. The key to getting Guitaraoke was syncing the two games, which is quite hard, and which we were never quite able to do exactly. After several abortive attempts were thwarted by Gordon's poor timing, we were finally able to sync it up somewhat, but alas we were thwarted yet again by Ron's inexperience with "I Love Rock and Roll" and he failed the vocal parts. We were never able to sync it as closely as the time when Ron failed in singing, so curse you Ron! We were finally able to do the song with Jess on vocals, but it was odd as the 2 songs were ever so slightly out of sync. In the end, we did what we set out to do, somewhat.

Note to music/rhythm game makers. Combine drummania, Guitar Hero and several guitars, karaoke revolution and you've got you're very own Garage Band. The possible results make me salivate.

Update: For those who want higher quality photographic evidence as well as incriminating video footage, email or message me.