I’m *mostly* so happy right now.
In short, I finally have the Hacked Guitar Hero II DVD working on my playstation. This is where I can play other songs instead of just Guitar Hero I and Guitar Hero II. My goal isn’t necessarily to play just this hacked version – my goal is to be able to make my own custom songs with all the songs I already own, but this is a MAJOR step towards that goal.
The GOOD news about this custom hacked version (you can find it on various torrent sites) is:
The few songs I like on the song list:
- Journey’s “Separate Ways” and “Don’t Stop Believin’” (that’s right, TWO journey songs! woohoo!)
- Three words: Stairway to Heaven
- Scorpion’s “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
- “Land of Confusion” by Disturbed
- Alien Ant Farm’s cover of “Smooth Criminal”
- Europe’s “The Final Countdown”
I also like the funny little sayings throughout the game. Like instead of Easy, it’s called “LOL”. Medium is called “Wimp”, Hard is “WOW” and Expert is “Insane”.
Take a look at the failure screen:
And the old screen that it had when you paused the game said “PAUSED” at the top, but now it says “WHY YOU STOP”. And when you get star power, it uses hacker terms like uber and haxx0r.
The BAD news is:
- It locks up on some previews of some songs, forcing a restart, which means loading the Swap Magic CD in again, then waiting, then putting in the hacked version. Seems this would have been preventable after reading the forums, but until I make my own darned custom songs DVD’s, I guess I can’t talk.
- Most of the songs aren’t my cup of tea. I mean, out of sixty-something songs, the above list is about all I’ll play on them. Granted, I need to give them a chance but basically I’ve never heard of most of it. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised because surely someone had to have a reason to go through all the work to put these songs together. I went ahead and put the entire song list on the hacked version down in the extended entry as well.
- No multi-difficulty ability on multiplayer. Simply put, you can’t have someone play Expert while the other plays Easy. But when I do my own version, I’ll be sure to do that. Also, most of the songs don’t have any “easy” or “medium” setting. I hear the other “guitar hero purists” on the forums saying “hey, we’re all expert here” but I have people I share my game with that can’t play expert but like the songs. So my next huge project (which I’ve already started) is to do my own songs, just the way I want them.
- It’s evident that some of the people who put together the midi files for the songs (that’s the part that controls what notes come down during the song, and when) just simply don’t know music as well as they should. They’re missing notes, or the notes go down instead of up, or choose to continue playing the rhythm instead of the lead. So much improvement can be made to some of the songs. A good example is Stairway To Heaven – there’s an obvious part where the acoustic guitar kind of doubles-up it’s it’s arpeggio-style melody and the Guitar Hero version just stays the same.
- While most of the songs are mostly in sync, it’s still not perfect. So you sometimes have to WATCH the notes and play at the right time instead of actually playing EXACTLY with the song itself. I think I recall that mostly in Rock You Like a Hurricane.
The rest of this post, in the extended entry, shows some of my screen shots of sight-reading the game. I hereby assert and testify that these shots are my first time trying out these songs, and I’m pretty darned proud of them.
I went through a bit of pain and grief to get all of this to work, so I’ll likely document it in another post in case it helps others. In short, I bought Magic Keys 2 and Swap Magic 3.8 from modchip.com (I probably should have bought it from mod-chip.com) but ended up having to use the “tape method” on the sensor on the inside because the 3rd tool just wouldn’t work on my version of the slimline.
Now when Guitar Hero hits the Wii, that will be a splendid time guaranteed for all. Except custom song fanatics.
1. 360 Exclusive Set One
* Billion Dollar Babies – Alice Cooper
* Dead! – My Chemical Romance
* Hush – Deep Purple
* Drink Up – Ounce of Self
* Kicked to the Curb – Noble Rot
2. 360 Exclusive Set Two
* Life Wasted – Pearl Jam
* Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo – Rick Derringer
* Salvation – Rancid
* Possum Kingdom – The Toadies
* The Trooper – Iron Maiden
3. Slim Pickins
* I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness
* Don’t Bring Me Down – Social Distortion
* Pain – Three Days Grace
* Coming Undone – Korn
* Land of Confusion – Disturbed
4. Stairway to Zeppelin
* Straight to Video – Mindless Self Indulgence
* Hells Bells – ACDC
* Dashboard – Modest Mouse
* Seize the Day – Avenged Sevenfold
* Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
5. Energizer or Duracell
* Seperate Ways – Journey
* Last Resort – Papa Roach
* Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers
* Pirates That Don’t Do Anything – Relient K
* Rock You Like A Hurricane – The Scorpions
6. Hardwood Floor
* Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy – Big & Rich
* One Winged Angel – Advent Children
* The Kids Aren’t Alright – The Offspring
* Jane’s Roll Call – DJ Kingpin
* The Dragon Lies Bleeding – Hammerfall
7. Gut Wrenchers
* Kickstart My Heart – Motley Crue
* Lonely Train – Black Stone Cherry
* Whiskey in the Jar – Metallica
* Blood of Ganon – Virt
* The Final Countdown – Europe
8. Ball Busters
* Crazy Bitch – Buck Cherry
* Welcome Home – Coheed and Cambria
* Sonic Adventure Song
* Bat Country – Avenged Sevenfold
* Through Fire and Flames – Dragonforce
Moar Sawngz
* ”Raw Dog” Buddy Berkman’s Ballad – Buckethead
* ”Arterial Black” Sick of You – Gwar
* ”Collide” Black No. 1 – Type O Negative
* ”Elephant Bones” Holy Orders – Daisuke Ishiwatari
* ”Fall of Pangea” Northern Comfort – Children of Bodom
* ”FTK” It’s Not Over – Daughtry
* ”Gemini” End of Heartache – Killswitch Engage
* ”Push Push (Lady Lightning)” – Du Hast – Rammstein
* ”Laughtrack” The Pylons are Trap Balls
* ”Less Talk More Rokk” Shine – Collective Soul
* ”Jordan” Smooth Criminal – Alien Ant Farm
* ”Mr. Fix-it” Rust in Peace – Megadeth
* ”The New Black” Concerto – Cacophony
* ”One for the Road” Jesus of Suburbia – Green Day
* ”Parasite” Bring Back Truth – Soldiers of Jah Army
* ”Radium Eyes” Selkies: The Endless Obsession – Between the Buried and Me
* ”Red Lottery” In Regards To Myself – Underoath
* ”Six” The Frayed Ends of Sanity – Metallica
* ”Soy Bomb” Sandstorm – Darude
* ”The Light That Blinds” You’re The Reason I’m Leaving – Franz Ferdinand
* ”Thunderhorse” Don’t Stop Believing = Journey
* ”Trogdor” Those Who Cannot Speak – Shadows Fall
* ”X-Stream” Wholelottacrap – Wholelotta People
* ”Yes We Can” Inspector Gadget
Is there anyway you could make me a custom guitar hero if I shipped you the game and payed you to do it let me know.
Sorry Eric, that’d be illegal if I did that. I can assist by giving pointers, answering questions, and helping as much as I can, but I can’t put copyrighted music on there and give it out. When I do custom songs, I’m doing it for the songs I already own.
But I’d be glad to help out, tutorial-wise. Are you stuck somewhere specific?
Some questions:
- Do you have a modded PS2?
- Have you read about GHeX?
- Do you have access to scorehero.com to get the midi files and recommended offsets?
- Have you tried YouTube and searching for guides on how to make custom songs? (this helped me the most)
Hope this helps!
Im wondering what program you used to burn because apache 2 doesnt work for me and cant find apache 3 if theres another method that would be great. Im almost there just one more step because i have swap magic and everything all i need is to burn it and if you could tell me the burning process and the burning programs that would be awesome!!!
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i have tried the scorehero.com method and that doesnt work please help me!!!
Like I said in the post, so far I’ve just used the hacked GH2 iso that I got from torrents. So I actually haven’t burned any of _my_ own custom songs.
I used magicISO to burn the torrent iso.
I hope to have some time this weekend to try it out. If/when I get it working, you better believe I’ll document it here.
I just found out about these custom songs a few minutes ago, looked at the scorehero boards, but can’t seem to find any way of downloading the actual MIDI files. I can do the burn myself, but can you point me to a place where these files exist?
I’m not @ my computer now, but if I recall correctly, there’s a specific forum topic about custom songs, and it lists one for each author, listing all the customs they did. The author is responsible for putting the .mid somewhere publically available and linking to it. Something like rapidshare.com or something. I don’t use filesharing sites like that since I have whall.org to host, so I don’t readily remember. But I downloaded several, then got my own mp3′s and used ghex to sync them up.
Hope this helps!
Sing in at Scorehero.com, click forums then scroll down to the sowtware division click custom songs and there you are. When you click a song most of the time there will be a link so fileshare.com download the .mid files from there
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Right on… thanks guys… no to sequester myself for days getting these to work!
Thats funny man your game looks just like mine
Hey, I’ve donloaded the torrent for the guitar hero 2 with custom songs, and i’ve run it through bittorrent, but I’m stuck here. How do I burn it onto a dvd? I heard something about converting the RAR to ISO, is this true? If so, could you tell me how? Please get back to me! Thanks!
dude tell me how tu get songs on thu game
cus im gettin bord wit thu same oll songs over and over
tell me at my e-mail adress megacomeaux@yahoo.com
Can you Help me get Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry on to my PS2 verison of Guitar Hero 2
If you’re confused by scorehero you can check out theguitarheroes.com. (this isn’t spam we really do have good guides and custom songs there) You should check it out.
I have a slim ps2 and i read somewhere that it doesn’t have to be modded. is that true? mine isn’t modded right now and i don’t wanna mess anything up.
Hayden, I also have a slim ps2 and didn’t want to mod it. So I purchased the little kit that let’s you fasten these little metal clips in three places and it boots from a special cd/dvd and then let’s you swap to the hacked editon. It’s called SwapMagic. Just make sure you get the right one for your ps2.
Hope this helps!
can i use the “lol you suck” picture in one of my youtube videos, i just found it hilarious and it would be perfect for my video
Mark, the pic isn’t mine – it’s a screenshot from the hacked version I downloaded. It does not have a copyright as far as I can see (it *is* a hacked copy after all, so whoever made the screen doesn’t care for copyrights) so you’re free to use it.
i am trying this sotfware custom thingy on the wii and guess what 89% on Crazy train on expert, 80% on master of puppets (live with sfso) on expert, and 91 % on i dont wanna stop on expert nd imm now about to add MR. Crowley by ozzy osbourne into the game. I love me computer!!!
joseph can you tell me more about this “software custom thingy on the wii”? You mention custom, wii and computer but I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Is there a way to play custom software on the wii that involves your computer? I’d love to play the songs you mention!
hey, is there any way to get custom songs on my ps3 for guitar hero 3? send the message to mastermind_soldier@yahoo.com
how do I going to get this guitar hero custom? what must I do?
what must i do to make a guitar hero custom that is the same as you?what must i download or copy?i can’t understand a thing. please e-mail me “authentic.avirex_225@hotmail.com”. please~
How do you do this and is it possible on a basic computer
yo guys i’m am just gonna the program downloaded on a disc from one o my friends (he has it) have fun cuz im pretty good with this stuff and i cant understand a bit of it :3 lawl
how can i download some songs that i like and guitar hero 2