Rumor I heard

[Genga]

[Genga]

[Riff]

I wrote my own code to extract files from the archive given a file name as input. The archive format supports directories too so my code will always retrieve the first file with a given file name but it works and it would be easy to add directory support.

There is at least one utility for manipulating game archives that can extract the Guitar Hero files. I don't remember the name. An alternative is to simply open up the archive file in Hex Workshop (or some other hex editor that is capable of streaming from disk) and searching for the string "MThd" to find the start of each MIDI file. I believe that in all cases, the VGS audio files follow the midi files so you would select everything from "MHdr" up to the character just before "VgS!". In any case the MIDI files end in the string 0x6E 0x64 0x00 0xFF 0x2F 0x00.
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[Riff]

I wrote my own code to extract files from the archive given a file name as input. The archive format supports directories too so my code will always retrieve the first file with a given file name but it works and it would be easy to add directory support.

There is at least one utility for manipulating game archives that can extract the Guitar Hero files. I don't remember the name. An alternative is to simply open up the archive file in Hex Workshop (or some other hex editor that is capable of streaming from disk) and searching for the string "MThd" to find the start of each MIDI file. I believe that in all cases, the VGS audio files follow the midi files so you would select everything from "MHdr" up to the character just before "VgS!". In any case the MIDI files end in the string 0x6E 0x64 0x00 0xFF 0x2F 0x00.
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[achat]

(not sure if this follows the theme here) how possible would it be for a web interface type thing to be designed where you input all of your own notes for a song? you come up with a list of 30 of your own songs that you would like to play, design the note layout, send it in to the game's creators, and they create a custom guitar hero cd for you. can this work? all copyright violations aside, of course.

[achat]

(not sure if this follows the theme here) how possible would it be for a web interface type thing to be designed where you input all of your own notes for a song? you come up with a list of 30 of your own songs that you would like to play, design the note layout, send it in to the game's creators, and they create a custom guitar hero cd for you. can this work? all copyright violations aside, of course.

[Genga]

you think they would take the time to do that though?
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ScoreHero's First Ever Mascot!

[Genga]

you think they would take the time to do that though?
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ScoreHero's First Ever Mascot!

[Riff]

Licensing issues aside, custom DVDs would be possible but the cost would be quite high. One issue are that each new song requires animation data for both the guitar fingering and the band activity This data takes a non-trivial amount of time to create. Another issue is that vocal track data is required to anmiate the singer's mouth. These tasks are much easier completed by Harmonix/Wavegroup who already have the equipment needed to capture the data in a timely fashion. The biggest issue is probably the fact that custom tracks eliminates the possibility of mass duplication. The cost of a custom DVD would probably be several hundred dollars due to the labor involved in creating the animation data, recording the songs and pressing a custom DVD or CD.

A much more feasible idea is to have Harmonix licensed songs as usual but add an editior to save custom note data for each song. This would be easily accomplished by simply letting the user toggle the existing expert level notes on and off and allowing the colors to be changed. The custom note data would be so small that the extra data for a set of 50 songs would probably fit in a 128K memory card region.
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[Riff]

Licensing issues aside, custom DVDs would be possible but the cost would be quite high. One issue are that each new song requires animation data for both the guitar fingering and the band activity This data takes a non-trivial amount of time to create. Another issue is that vocal track data is required to anmiate the singer's mouth. These tasks are much easier completed by Harmonix/Wavegroup who already have the equipment needed to capture the data in a timely fashion. The biggest issue is probably the fact that custom tracks eliminates the possibility of mass duplication. The cost of a custom DVD would probably be several hundred dollars due to the labor involved in creating the animation data, recording the songs and pressing a custom DVD or CD.

A much more feasible idea is to have Harmonix licensed songs as usual but add an editior to save custom note data for each song. This would be easily accomplished by simply letting the user toggle the existing expert level notes on and off and allowing the colors to be changed. The custom note data would be so small that the extra data for a set of 50 songs would probably fit in a 128K memory card region.
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