Guitarvania games prior to 6th gen consoles

[FateLanegod]

Howdy,

I played some Guitar Hero and Frets on Fire a decade ago, but this game blew my mind:
https://retrogametalk.com/repository/nes-roms/dpad-hero-2-homebrew-nes/

It is simple... simply amazing, and coop mode is absolute blast.

Some forum user made a term for the genre "Guitarvania", I love it.
Just all those GH/Rock Band rhythm games for PS2 are a bit bloated with fancy graphics, demanding powerful hardware and require a guitar controller to really get into it fully...

So I wonder now, is there more retro or newer homebrew games like that, which focus to play on regular gamepad for 2 players coop?

Or maybe somebody could recommend where to download ready to use fresh FoF or FoFiX archive with various mods and songs.
Back in the days I found some cool torrents, but it was lost in time warp. Thanks!

 

[VivaLaShaye]

Check out Clone Hero and YARG, you won't be disappointed.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Check out Clone Hero and YARG, you won't be disappointed.

This.

I've started mapping drum songs with CloneHero from MIDI drums. From that point I could export the song to pretty much every other rythm games out there, even VR games like Beat Saber.