GH3 Songs ->GH2 *Tutorial*

**killawiz** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 327

GH3 Audio Extracting *Tutorial*
Hello everyone. This is my first guide, so try not to be too harsh with me. I'm going to try my best to explain this so that everyone can understand.
With that said...
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Overview

This tutorial is intended to take the songs out of GH3, that is the audio of a certain song, and put it into GH1/GH2/GH80s/and possibly RockBand.
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Tools Needed:

MSVTools
ghex is needed..
Audacity You'll want 1.2.6 download. i've replaced the link, it should work now

Extract these and make sure they are ok and running.
Few notes before we start:

let's get it on!
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The Start

First what you'll want to do is find all the folders you have copied from you GH3 disk. Should be a Gen, IOP, Movies, Music, Streams, Sounds, a Slus and a Sysem file. Now you'll want to locate your "Music" folder, open it and you should have a list of folders ranging from 0 all the way to F...

Find the song(s) you want and find the corresponding folder from this list. I chose Folder 3, and chose Welcome to the Jungle; so I would look for 3ADA655D.IMF: in folder "3". Open your folder and you should see a bunch of IMF/ISF files. Find the .IMF file you are looking for and then Open MSVTools. (I highlighted the .IMF for Welcome to the Jungle) *You'll always want to open the .IMF file*

Now find the MSVTools you downloaded, make sure you extracted it already and launch the GUI. Should be a square gray box with two tabs in the top left-hand corner, a "Main" and a "Help" tab. Hit the Main tab and go down to the Split MSV->VAG button.

It will ask you where you want to save it. This is where that folder you made previously comes into play. Personally, I like separating my files that's why I have many folders for Guitar Hero, anyways, locate that folder and hit save. *Make sure you don't save the VAG files into the Music folder!*

opening it then ...

...saving it

Should end up with 6(in my case) Welcome to the Junge.vag files

Now, you'll need to use MSVTools one last time. open the GUI and hit Main->Decode VAG to Wav.

You will have to locate each VAG file you just created, and one by one decode them to WAV (into the same folder that has the VAG files is fine.) You should end up with 6 wav files.

*Do this again for the other songs you want*

Once you have all the wav files of the songs you want, Open audacity.Go to the tab on the very top, and hit Project->Import Audio. Locate the 6 wav files you just created with the MSVTools. and import them(highlight them all so it imports them all at once)

Now we want to turn the six mono tracks into 3 stereo tracks, to do this hit the small dropdown arrow on the far left of the track, beside the name of the Track. *circled in the shot*

The first stereo track is guitar, second is band, third is bass. There are a few ways to the last part. the easiest one is to export the whole project as a wav. I usually don't do it like that, I click on the first track and export 'selection' as wav.. and named it welcome_guitar.wav, and the others were named welcome_band.wav and welcome_bass.wav.

If you don't have the charts for the song, then I would recommend using Leff's new GH3 PS2 Song Importer. It's simple and very easy to use.

Now we can move to the final step...ghex!
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The Ending

Open ghex and find the chart you replaced in the song, and go to the vgs and hit import->locate the three files, or "the" wav file you created in audacity.

*Make sure that you get the channels and the #'s right for each track, band/guitar/bass. The only channel im not sure about is bass, I made its channel 0 and it seems to work fine.* (I highlighted the important areas.)

This should conclude my Tutorial. Not very long but easy to understand. I don't have a camera to record this actually working in GH2, but i've had one other person tell me that they had successfully taken GH3 songs and put them in GH2. So I can say that it worked for me. Hope you guys have fun, and this thread is open for Comments, Questions, Feedback, bumping if you'd like

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**Leff** · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 1315

Well done, sir.
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**killawiz** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 327

**Chil** · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 850 Location: Delaware

If the bass track is stereo, you're better off replacing one of these so you can import both channels:

carrymehome
freya
johnthefisherman
messageinabottle
monkeywrench
rockthistown
sweetchild
warpigs
yyz
collide
onefortheroad
parasite
radiumeyes

Taken from: http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50699
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**FlorisJan** · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

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**Vendetta** · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Northern Illinois

Thanks so much for the guide. This is exactly what i was looking for.

I'm putting my favorite GH3 songs into GH2 so I can actually get a challenge out of them...

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**CornDogsRule** · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 26

is there a tutorial showing how to extract the "mid.qb" or whatever it uses to gh2???
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OH, COOL! I JUST FOUND THE SIGNATURE SPACE!

THIS IS SWEET!!!

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**ZekeKatana** · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 158

hey, is there any way to get songs from from the PC version?
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**killawiz** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 327