• A copy of Guitar Hero III for whichever platform that you can extract onto your PC, or the PC version itself installed on your PC
• For Console: A modded/hacked console, and a way to transfer files to it. The console MUST be set to use English, otherwise GH3DX will not load!

Guitar Hero III Deluxe recieves very frequent updates. You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

Continue to: - Installing on PC

Continue to: - Installing on Xbox 360

Continue to: - Installing on RPCS3 - Installing on PS3

• PC
• RPCS3
• PlayStation 3
• Xbox 360

• Install Guitar Hero III on your PC.

• DO NOT install GH3DX on top of BetterGH3! You will break things!

• Download Guitar Hero III Deluxe for PC.

  • Extract the zip and copy the contents to where you have Guitar Hero III installed.

  • Overwrite all files when asked. If you weren't asked, you're in the wrong place!

• Install your copy of Guitar Hero III through the emulator. The official RPCS3 site covers this nicely.

• Download Guitar Hero III Deluxe for PS3.

  • Extract the zip and copy the contents to the Disc Game Folder to install it. You can get to the disc game folder by right clicking on Guitar Hero III, going down to Open Folder, and selecting Open Disc Game Folder.

    • Do not copy it to the update folder! If the path does not include PS3_GAME, you are copying it to the wrong location!

  • Replace all files when asked. If you weren't asked, you're in the wrong place!

NOTE: You WILL need a HACKED/MODDED (CFW or HFW/HEN) PS3 in order to play this mod on console. We hope this is clear.

• Install your copy of Guitar Hero III to your console's hard drive.

• Download Guitar Hero III Deluxe for PS3.

  • Extract the zip and copy the contents to the extracted game folder on your console's hard drive.

    • Do not copy it to the update folder! If the path does not include PS3_GAME, you are copying it to the wrong location!

  • Overwrite all files when asked. If you weren't asked, you're in the wrong place!

NOTE: You WILL need a HACKED/MODDED (RGH or JTAG) Xbox 360 in order to play this mod on console. We hope this is clear.

• Install your copy of Guitar Hero III to your console's hard drive.

• Disable any title updates you may have for Guitar Hero III in Aurora. Guitar Hero III Deluxe rolls TU3 into its base installation.

  • If you have TU3 installed from Xbox LIVE, we recommend clearing your system cache.

    • To do this, navigate to System Settings > Storage and press Y to clear the system cache.

• Download Guitar Hero III Deluxe for Xbox 360.

  • Copy the contents of it to where you have Guitar Hero III installed.

  • Overwrite all files when asked. If you weren't asked, you're in the wrong place!

Python - For user script functionality (requires 3.10 or newer!)

Honeycomb - For compiling Deluxe Q Script files