GH3 MSV files

**tma** · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1414 Location: Australia

Anyone interested in the Xbox 360 files should know that the files in the COMPRESSED sub-dir are compressed with zlib (or a variant).

The Perl module "IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate" deals with them quite nicely.

**GameZelda** · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 1705

Those are the first images of the (maybe? I'm the first? kata? bi0hacker?) first "real" custom song. Generated the expert note chart and the beat track (I think that it's bugged on BPM changes... I don't know since I did play without sound because I don't know how to convert an audio file to 30750 Hz

). But the chart is right

Solo B

BNoF

Bridge

Still too hard to make them. Knowledgement of hex editing required.

I will try to finish a "good" Chart2QB conversor... for now it only supports beat and expert note chart tracks

Also... some questions about the chart format/how GH2 works...?

You can change the BPM only on the start of one beat, or in the middle of one beat too? (that will be a real problem, since the "beat track" on GH3 does not use BPM, it uses the offset on miliseconds where each beat starts).
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(Ok, I failed to do it in 24 hours...

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GH:WT-PS2 Customization Progress
[100%] Make it work (w/songs loading) in a DVD5 (thanks psychospacefish!)
[100%] Modify audio (Finally done 25/11/2008)
[100%] Modify charts (Done 26/11/2008! Customs finally

)

**Ihatecompvir** · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

OH MY GOSH.
Jordan in GH3.
MAKE A VIDEO!
I want to see how easier it is in the GH3 Engine.
Awesome, just AWESOME.
Also, post the Mid.qb please.
I want to get Jordan in the game.
Or a tutorial...
Also, I don't need a "good" one...most people only make charts that are Expert only.
Edited total:5 times!

**tma** · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1414 Location: Australia

Nice work!

**Ihatecompvir** · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:22 am Post subject:

I know how to edit Songnames now!
Kickass.
Anyways, Use GameZelda's PAK extractor to extract qb.pak.ps2 and THEN go to the folder cripts(no typo here!)/guitar/songlist.qb and open it in notepad. BAM! Songnames! Edit them, and viola!

**GameZelda** · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 1705

Some new releases

HEDTools 0.2.0.1

http://www.savefile.com/files/1236471

Just fixed for GCC

**Headbang** · Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 474

Hell yes.
Thankyou very much

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Justin Hawkins signed my butt.

**tma** · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1414 Location: Australia

Kudos.

Debr and I identified the sustains as an issue when we were working out the basics for his charts. It appears that all sustains are actually a 1/4 beat shorter in game than they are in the the note charts (I think 1/4 beat was what Debr worked out). Yes, all of them.

**JetsterDajet** · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 718 Location: Norcal

Great job on taking it apart! Now to put it back together...

**GameZelda** · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 1705

**TomPudding** · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 97

Great work GameZelda.

I've been playing with the songlist.qb file. Ive now got a script that can modify it arbitrarily and update all the subsequent pointers and whatnot, here's an example of adding extra letters to a song name:

I'm thinking the next step is to create new entries in the downloaded songlist as that's probably the the best place to put the customs if possible.

**tma** · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1414 Location: Australia

I've finally got off my arse and written something up on the mid.qb files.

Here:

http://moto-coda.org/gh/gh3_midi_spec.txt

I'll add to it over time, just wanted to put something out there like I've been promising for too long now.

Open to comments, criticism, death threats, whatever.

Once it's become a bit more complete, I'll make a new post for all this related info and try and get it stickied.

**GameZelda** · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 1705

I did also have a tool to do this (Implemented on my QB parser).

Your is for PC or PS2? Mine is for PS2

tma: Also, it will be great to include the base of the CRCs

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(Ok, I failed to do it in 24 hours...

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GH:WT-PS2 Customization Progress
[100%] Make it work (w/songs loading) in a DVD5 (thanks psychospacefish!)
[100%] Modify audio (Finally done 25/11/2008)
[100%] Modify charts (Done 26/11/2008! Customs finally

)

**GameZelda** · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 1705

Well, I just think that I have the right formula for encoding/decoding the beat track now since

GH3 --> GH2 = Synced
And GH2 --> GH3 = Synced

Even with this, the BPM loses, inevitably, some quality.

For example, Jordan is 116 on almost all the song (Except 115.75 on the start):

My encoder says, for the last measures, after converting to GH3 and converting back to GH2...

115.830116
116.054161
116.054161
116.054161
115.830116
116.054161

I can't notice this when previewing in GHex, but it could affect some things

The average every 4 beats is "115,99814975", so basically, every 4 beats, It syncs again.

..

EDIT: And also, how can I create a 33075Hz WAV?
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(Ok, I failed to do it in 24 hours...

).

GH:WT-PS2 Customization Progress
[100%] Make it work (w/songs loading) in a DVD5 (thanks psychospacefish!)
[100%] Modify audio (Finally done 25/11/2008)
[100%] Modify charts (Done 26/11/2008! Customs finally

)

**SixStringedBass** · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 181

@ GameZelda
To create an audio file with specific sampling frequency, you could open the audio in Audacity. Where the waveform shows up, there is an area with the name of the file with a chevron next to it. Click on that then go all the way down to the bottom of the popup list where it says sample rate and click on other. then enter in that number.

Hope that helps.