FastGH3 Chart Browser

This is a simple tool for quickly scanning and loading custom Guitar Hero songs in FastGH3.

Screenshot (v1.7.0 Black theme)

Screenshot (v1.7.0 Legacy)

Prerequisites

• Windows 10 22H2 or newer
  • I recommend updating to Windows 11, if possible, as Windows 10 will be discontinued by Microsoft on October 14, 2025.
• .NET Desktop Runtime 9.0 (Legacy edition only requires .NET 8.0 or higher)
• FastGH3

If you can't get v1.3.0 or newer to launch, then either install .NET 9 or try the Legacy edition instead.

How to use

1. Make sure that FastGH3 is installed, preferably to C:\Program Files (x86)\FastGH3. If installed elsewhere on your PC, click the Browse for FastGH3.exe button.
2. Click the Browse for Folder button to select the folder containing your songs. At the moment, it's only possible to scan one folder, unfortunately.
3. Click Scan Songs and be patient. This can take somewhere between a few seconds and minute(s), depending on how many songs you have and how fast your PC and disk are. It is recommended to store your songs on a good SSD, if possible.
4. You can type in the Filter Songs bar to search by title, artist, album, genre, chart author, and even the file path of the chart.
5. Click the song you want to play, then click the big ol' Play Song button, and rock on!

As of v1.4.0, you can use an Xinput gamepad (such as a guitar controller) to scroll through songs and launch into the game (see below)

As of v1.7.0, scanning songs will store a cache of the scan results to a file, which can be automatically loaded on the application's next launch. If you add new songs to your library, be sure to scan again to update the cache!

Planned features

• Displaying icons from OpenSource?

Credits

• donnaken15 : Maker of FastGH3
• mdsitton : Clone Hero developer who made the .sng format
• Neversoft / Aspyr : Makers of the original Guitar Hero III PC port
• teh_supar_hackr (The Spriters Resource) : Ripped UI button assets from Guitar Hero World Tour (used in v1.4.0+)
• amerkoleci : Vortice XInput library used for controller navigation
• YARC : Makers of YARG and OpenSource (the JSON data used for source display)
• Everyone else whose code helped me from countless Google searches