Custom Guitar Hero Song Release!

[ImaCarrot]

Song: "Megaman" by The Acro-Brats
Difficulties: ALL
Midi file:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/1044035
Game: Guitar Hero
Video: YouTube

Programs Used:

Midi Editing:
Midi Maestro
Anvil Studio

Other:
Shadowzero313’s utilities

Comments:

This is my first custom Guitar Hero song, as well as the first publicly released Guitar Hero song for download (as far as I know). Some of you may remember that this particular song was already in a special edition of Guitar Hero that was created for the IAM8BIT exhibit awhile back. I always wanted to play it, so that’s why I made it. I’ve never even seen that version so I have no idea how close my note chart is to theirs, chances are I’m way off, but oh well.

I charted the whole song by ear, as I couldn’t find tabs or even a midi version of the song (I doubt either exist on the net), so it likely isn’t completely accurate, but it sure is fun! I also created the entire midi from scratch, we don't want any reason for RedOctane to get pissed off about this now do we?

Everything you need to know to put this song into the game and actually play it is in the Official gh-utils thread.

The song, “Megaman” by The Acro-Brats, has been freely available on their MySpace page for months now. The link up at the top of this thread will take you there, it’s up to you to find the .mp3 to download.

Also, I have even less musical experience than I do programming experience (i.e. none). If some of the more musically inclined out there notice things wrong with my note chart, please don't hesitate to point them out to me. Or if someone wants to use my version to build off of and improve, by all means go for it, just be sure to ask me first.

Thanks:

Thanks go out to Riff for showing us all that it is even possible to hack your own songs in and for writing up that great doc on how the Guitar Hero MIDI and VGS files work.

Thanks as well to shadowzero313 for releasing the utilities that allowed even the most non-programmer out there (like myself) to put their own songs into the game.

Last, but not least, the ScoreHero community for being awesome all around.

[ImaCarrot]

Song: "Megaman" by The Acro-Brats
Difficulties: ALL
Midi file:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/1044035
Game: Guitar Hero
Video: YouTube

Programs Used:

Midi Editing:
Midi Maestro
Anvil Studio

Other:
Shadowzero313’s utilities

Comments:

This is my first custom Guitar Hero song, as well as the first publicly released Guitar Hero song for download (as far as I know). Some of you may remember that this particular song was already in a special edition of Guitar Hero that was created for the IAM8BIT exhibit awhile back. I always wanted to play it, so that’s why I made it. I’ve never even seen that version so I have no idea how close my note chart is to theirs, chances are I’m way off, but oh well.

I charted the whole song by ear, as I couldn’t find tabs or even a midi version of the song (I doubt either exist on the net), so it likely isn’t completely accurate, but it sure is fun! I also created the entire midi from scratch, we don't want any reason for RedOctane to get pissed off about this now do we?

Everything you need to know to put this song into the game and actually play it is in the Official gh-utils thread.

The song, “Megaman” by The Acro-Brats, has been freely available on their MySpace page for months now. The link up at the top of this thread will take you there, it’s up to you to find the .mp3 to download.

Also, I have even less musical experience than I do programming experience (i.e. none). If some of the more musically inclined out there notice things wrong with my note chart, please don't hesitate to point them out to me. Or if someone wants to use my version to build off of and improve, by all means go for it, just be sure to ask me first.

Thanks:

Thanks go out to Riff for showing us all that it is even possible to hack your own songs in and for writing up that great doc on how the Guitar Hero MIDI and VGS files work.

Thanks as well to shadowzero313 for releasing the utilities that allowed even the most non-programmer out there (like myself) to put their own songs into the game.

Last, but not least, the ScoreHero community for being awesome all around.

[Riz]

Damn fine job. Congratulations.

Riz.
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[Riz]

Damn fine job. Congratulations.

Riz.
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[ImaCarrot]

Thanks!

[ImaCarrot]

Thanks!

[Sottle]

That's an awesome job!

Is there any chance we can get some step by step instructions as to how get this song onto Disc? I did look in the other topic but there's an awful lot of information there and it's too much for my brain to comprehend this late in the evening >_>

Assuming i have a copy of the GH2 Demo on my HDD, and i have the files you've posted there, where do i go from there?

[Sottle]

That's an awesome job!

Is there any chance we can get some step by step instructions as to how get this song onto Disc? I did look in the other topic but there's an awful lot of information there and it's too much for my brain to comprehend this late in the evening >_>

Assuming i have a copy of the GH2 Demo on my HDD, and i have the files you've posted there, where do i go from there?

[ImaCarrot]

[ImaCarrot]

[ebayitup]

awesome job man

I too would VERY much love to read a tutorial on this as well. I really wanna do a thrice song, deadbolt

*edit* i don't care if you don't like them, keep it to your selves please
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[ebayitup]

awesome job man

I too would VERY much love to read a tutorial on this as well. I really wanna do a thrice song, deadbolt

*edit* i don't care if you don't like them, keep it to your selves please
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[ImaCarrot]

[ImaCarrot]

[Squirrel]

Well you can't replace it with smoke in the water.

MM sounds 3x too fast, lmfao, chipmunks ftw

EDIT: Tried it with Callout, still playing WAAAY too fast. *sighs*
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[Squirrel]

Well you can't replace it with smoke in the water.

MM sounds 3x too fast, lmfao, chipmunks ftw

EDIT: Tried it with Callout, still playing WAAAY too fast. *sighs*
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[ImaCarrot]

you should be able to replace whatever song you want, this makes me think that you did something wrong during the encoding of the wav or vag. Does the wav file you made sound alright? If it does, then how did you convert that to a .vag? You should be able to just use mfaudio on it's default settings and go from there. Just be sure you change the saved file type to the .vag.

[ImaCarrot]

you should be able to replace whatever song you want, this makes me think that you did something wrong during the encoding of the wav or vag. Does the wav file you made sound alright? If it does, then how did you convert that to a .vag? You should be able to just use mfaudio on it's default settings and go from there. Just be sure you change the saved file type to the .vag.

[Squirrel]

I got it to work, I used the guide on the forums in the GHUtil thread except I did something different.

When I went from WAV to VAG, I forced the VAG to be at 44100 sample rate. That did the trick.
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[Squirrel]

I got it to work, I used the guide on the forums in the GHUtil thread except I did something different.

When I went from WAV to VAG, I forced the VAG to be at 44100 sample rate. That did the trick.
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[Jackhammer]

so you guys have modded playstations to play these?

[Jackhammer]

so you guys have modded playstations to play these?

[ImaCarrot]

Sweet, what did you think of it Squirrel? I'll probably see you on irc tonight if you are on after 8:30.

[ImaCarrot]

Sweet, what did you think of it Squirrel? I'll probably see you on irc tonight if you are on after 8:30.