Super Mario Bros. Begginer Tutorials (Updated)

[Wezinator]

First off all credits etc go to [url]Wezinator[/url]. i forgot which had something to do with the possibility of adding customs to SMB.

I have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of these applications but it's getting tiring reading the same problems over and over in the application thread so i have whipped together a quick tutorial.

This is just a basic tutorial to get you going on adding customs to your game


Things you need to know:

You need an Level Edit of your song, and a mariochart so Super Mario knows where to place its Tiles & Monsters, the game doesn't automatically create a note chart for you to play. Mariocharts can be found Here

- Dont use VBR Level Editor's
- Preferably use 128kbps Level Editor's
- Do not use multi channel Levels's
- These tools are all still in very early development and are improving almost daily. (Credit:Spoonman)
- People are having problems adding multiple songs in multiple sittings (Credit:Spoonman)
- some songs just simply don't work at the moment (Credit:Spoonman)
- There's a maximum number of songs you are able to add to each list, experiment and find out [Maximum amount reported working; 105 Levels in Super Mario (Credit:Spoonman)
- If this does not work, please note your exact steps and then post a bug report in the support forum (Credit:Spoonman)
- For each new release of the songlist editor, please start over from a fresh copy of SMB (credit:locks)
- if your running Vista, make sure you run the editor as ADMINISTRATOR (also on XP you may need to run as admin if your account dont have admin rights already) (credit:locks)
- Make sure your regional setting are in english US (control panel / regional setting) (credit:locks)
- Make sure you install the game in english (credit:locks)
- If when loading a song you get an infinite loading screen, then there's something wrong with your mp3 or mid file (credit:locks)
- if you can play the Tiles but there is no sound, Level Editor is bad (credit:locks)
- how do I fix my Level Editor? well load it up in audacity and convert it to Level Editor at 128kbps & 44.4khz and try to reimport the song with the editor (credit:locks)
- Keep the names of the Level, level editor & midi files short, otherwise the game may crash (credit:locks)
- Don't use weird characters in your song names, as this can cause problems too
- Sometimes note charts are only written for one difficulty ( usually just expert ) so when its played on a lower difficulty you will either have a complete duplicate of the expert chart or no chart at all, either find a different chart or start playing on expert ;-)

BACKUP ANY SAVE GAMES YOU HAVE BEFORE STARTING ANY EDITING

To create a backup of your save game, go into your "my documents folder" and create a copy of the Nintendo folder and store it somewhere safe.


Optional Step To Avoid Having To Reinstall when you mess up or you want to revert to a previous change

Credit goes to locks on this

1) Browse To C:\Program Files\Nintendo\Super Mario Bros.\DATA\PAK ( unless you installed it somewhere else )

2) Copy qb.pab.xen and qb.pak.xen somewhere safe



3) if you want to restore from a previous backup, just copy the backed up files ( qb.pab.xen & qb.pak.xen ) back into the Data\PAK folder overwriting the old ones



First off, you will need the following applications:

- Super Mario Bros. for PC
- Mario2Mid [url]Here[/url]
- SMB PC editor [url]Here[/url]
- Lame.exe [url]Here[/url]
- Leviel edit nfo [url]Here[/url]
- An Level Editor of a song you want in the game
- A Mario Chart for the Level Editor of the Level you want in the game.


For Testing purposes I am going to use Buckethead - Nottingham Lace for this tutorial.

You can either rip the song off the cd or "acquire" it from somewhere, i will not go into detail on how to do that.


-- THIS TUTORIAL IS BASED ON A CLEAN INSTALL --



1) Install Guitar Hero 3 ( and v1.1 patch if you have it )
2) Download GH3 PC Editor [url]Here [/url]
3) Lame.exe [url]Here[/url]
4) MP3info [url]Here[/url]
5) Extract GH3 PC Editor into a folder on your desktop
6) Extract lame.exe from step 3 into your GH3 PC Editor Folder
7) Extract MP3info from step 4 into your GH3 PC Editor Folder
8) Get your mp3 and a notechart for it ( A Notecharts Index can be found Here)
9) Once you have your mp3 and a notechart for it we will need to convert/prepare the .chart file you have downloaded to a .mid so GH3 Pc Editor can import it into the game

10) GET Leff's Chart2Mid Tool Here
11) Once you have downloaded it, extract it to a folder, run the .jar file and select your .chart and convert it to .mid
12) Basically right about now you are supposed to have an mp3 & and notechart in .mid form

13) Fire up GH3 PC Editor now ( by using the songlist_editor.exe )
14) Select File > Open > it should automatically find your GH3 folder, Click ok


15) it should now display a list of all the songs in the game


16) Click the insert song button at the bottom and another window will open

17) Give the song a name ( in this case, buckethead )

-- NOTE, what you choose as the song name will be the identifier for the gh3customs pc editor program --

18) where it says guitar click browse and navigate to your mp3
19) follow the above steps for rythm & song
20) Select your freshly created .mid file
21) Enter the Artist And Song name in the fields below

It should look something like this


22) Click ok, it'll convert your mp3 into a format GH3 can use, this should only take a few seconds

Your Song should show up in the list of available songs now


23) now that is done, click edit setlist below
24) Select Bonus songs

25)Next to the songs per Tier section click the "up arrow" button to increase the number of songs in the bonus songs section
26) It will create a slowride entry at the bottom of the song number drop down list

27)
Select Slowride
28 ) Now under SONG Select your newly added song ( in this case, buckethead)

29) Click the ok button which will return you to the main menu where you click file then save

30) you will see this prompt


31) Click OK
32) Now Fire up the game, find your new Level there



34) Enjoy

How To Make Custom Levels On Super Mario Bros. Videos

Hard Relay Mario-----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqog-br6nhY&feature=player_detailpage

Mario Air----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qre--P2Hh2s&feature=player_detailpage

Mario Custom Level MS Paint 2---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zu2TZTVRSU&feature=player_detailpage

Mario Level Editor--->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAjRH18HMc&feature=player_detailpage

[url]More Mario Customs On Youtube...[/url]

Have Fun

[Wezinator]

First off all credits etc go to [url]Wezinator[/url]. i forgot which had something to do with the possibility of adding customs to SMB.

I have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of these applications but it's getting tiring reading the same problems over and over in the application thread so i have whipped together a quick tutorial.

This is just a basic tutorial to get you going on adding customs to your game


Things you need to know:

You need an Level Edit of your song, and a mariochart so Super Mario knows where to place its Tiles & Monsters, the game doesn't automatically create a note chart for you to play. Mariocharts can be found Here

- Dont use VBR Level Editor's
- Preferably use 128kbps Level Editor's
- Do not use multi channel Levels's
- These tools are all still in very early development and are improving almost daily. (Credit:Spoonman)
- People are having problems adding multiple songs in multiple sittings (Credit:Spoonman)
- some songs just simply don't work at the moment (Credit:Spoonman)
- There's a maximum number of songs you are able to add to each list, experiment and find out [Maximum amount reported working; 105 Levels in Super Mario (Credit:Spoonman)
- If this does not work, please note your exact steps and then post a bug report in the support forum (Credit:Spoonman)
- For each new release of the songlist editor, please start over from a fresh copy of SMB (credit:locks)
- if your running Vista, make sure you run the editor as ADMINISTRATOR (also on XP you may need to run as admin if your account dont have admin rights already) (credit:locks)
- Make sure your regional setting are in english US (control panel / regional setting) (credit:locks)
- Make sure you install the game in english (credit:locks)
- If when loading a song you get an infinite loading screen, then there's something wrong with your mp3 or mid file (credit:locks)
- if you can play the Tiles but there is no sound, Level Editor is bad (credit:locks)
- how do I fix my Level Editor? well load it up in audacity and convert it to Level Editor at 128kbps & 44.4khz and try to reimport the song with the editor (credit:locks)
- Keep the names of the Level, level editor & midi files short, otherwise the game may crash (credit:locks)
- Don't use weird characters in your song names, as this can cause problems too
- Sometimes note charts are only written for one difficulty ( usually just expert ) so when its played on a lower difficulty you will either have a complete duplicate of the expert chart or no chart at all, either find a different chart or start playing on expert ;-)

BACKUP ANY SAVE GAMES YOU HAVE BEFORE STARTING ANY EDITING

To create a backup of your save game, go into your "my documents folder" and create a copy of the Nintendo folder and store it somewhere safe.


Optional Step To Avoid Having To Reinstall when you mess up or you want to revert to a previous change

Credit goes to locks on this

1) Browse To C:\Program Files\Nintendo\Super Mario Bros.\DATA\PAK ( unless you installed it somewhere else )

2) Copy qb.pab.xen and qb.pak.xen somewhere safe



3) if you want to restore from a previous backup, just copy the backed up files ( qb.pab.xen & qb.pak.xen ) back into the Data\PAK folder overwriting the old ones



First off, you will need the following applications:

- Super Mario Bros. for PC
- Mario2Mid [url]Here[/url]
- SMB PC editor [url]Here[/url]
- Lame.exe [url]Here[/url]
- Leviel edit nfo [url]Here[/url]
- An Level Editor of a song you want in the game
- A Mario Chart for the Level Editor of the Level you want in the game.


For Testing purposes I am going to use Buckethead - Nottingham Lace for this tutorial.

You can either rip the song off the cd or "acquire" it from somewhere, i will not go into detail on how to do that.


-- THIS TUTORIAL IS BASED ON A CLEAN INSTALL --



1) Install Guitar Hero 3 ( and v1.1 patch if you have it )
2) Download GH3 PC Editor [url]Here [/url]
3) Lame.exe [url]Here[/url]
4) MP3info [url]Here[/url]
5) Extract GH3 PC Editor into a folder on your desktop
6) Extract lame.exe from step 3 into your GH3 PC Editor Folder
7) Extract MP3info from step 4 into your GH3 PC Editor Folder
8) Get your mp3 and a notechart for it ( A Notecharts Index can be found Here)
9) Once you have your mp3 and a notechart for it we will need to convert/prepare the .chart file you have downloaded to a .mid so GH3 Pc Editor can import it into the game

10) GET Leff's Chart2Mid Tool Here
11) Once you have downloaded it, extract it to a folder, run the .jar file and select your .chart and convert it to .mid
12) Basically right about now you are supposed to have an mp3 & and notechart in .mid form

13) Fire up GH3 PC Editor now ( by using the songlist_editor.exe )
14) Select File > Open > it should automatically find your GH3 folder, Click ok


15) it should now display a list of all the songs in the game


16) Click the insert song button at the bottom and another window will open

17) Give the song a name ( in this case, buckethead )

-- NOTE, what you choose as the song name will be the identifier for the gh3customs pc editor program --

18) where it says guitar click browse and navigate to your mp3
19) follow the above steps for rythm & song
20) Select your freshly created .mid file
21) Enter the Artist And Song name in the fields below

It should look something like this


22) Click ok, it'll convert your mp3 into a format GH3 can use, this should only take a few seconds

Your Song should show up in the list of available songs now


23) now that is done, click edit setlist below
24) Select Bonus songs

25)Next to the songs per Tier section click the "up arrow" button to increase the number of songs in the bonus songs section
26) It will create a slowride entry at the bottom of the song number drop down list

27)
Select Slowride
28 ) Now under SONG Select your newly added song ( in this case, buckethead)

29) Click the ok button which will return you to the main menu where you click file then save

30) you will see this prompt


31) Click OK
32) Now Fire up the game, find your new Level there



34) Enjoy

How To Make Custom Levels On Super Mario Bros. Videos

Hard Relay Mario-----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqog-br6nhY&feature=player_detailpage

Mario Air----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qre--P2Hh2s&feature=player_detailpage

Mario Custom Level MS Paint 2---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zu2TZTVRSU&feature=player_detailpage

Mario Level Editor--->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAjRH18HMc&feature=player_detailpage

[url]More Mario Customs On Youtube...[/url]

Have Fun

[inimitable]

What in the name of Odin's beard is this?
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Newest custom chart: Avantasia - The Tower (RB3 Full Band)

[inimitable]

What in the name of Odin's beard is this?
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Newest custom chart: Avantasia - The Tower (RB3 Full Band)

[LocalH]

It's this, with nonsensical edits. I've seen stuff similar to this on YouTube, for example someone taking video of Prevue Guide and editing it to be something fictitious called "NICK Channel".
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Alakaiser sez: POST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING.

[LocalH]

It's this, with nonsensical edits. I've seen stuff similar to this on YouTube, for example someone taking video of Prevue Guide and editing it to be something fictitious called "NICK Channel".
_________________

MiloHax 2.0 Discord server - Everything GH/RB (RIP MiloHax 1.0 01/30/2017 - 04/04/2022)
O211: An Unofficial Scorehero Alumni Discord


Alakaiser sez: POST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING.

[blackwidowcd]

Buckethead!!!
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[blackwidowcd]

Buckethead!!!
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[yksi-kaksi-kolme]

The fuck is this guy doin
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My Accomplishments - GH | RB || My Youtube Channel || My Customs

[yksi-kaksi-kolme]

The fuck is this guy doin
_________________

My Accomplishments - GH | RB || My Youtube Channel || My Customs