Hacking RawkSD

[Xupmatoih]

i heard RawkSD now Dumps Smash Hits and Metallica songs, both games my friend owns and is psyched we can finally get to play GOOD songs on RB2 but, im a bit worried....about the drums... since he owns the Wii versions, and supposedly they dont work with rb2 drums... will we still be able to like edit the charts accordingly?

 

[qwertymodo]

is the leader board RiiVolution based or RSD3?

It's currently only released in a format that works with Riivolution, but will be an integrated part of Rawk3.

Unfortunately, Riivolution and RSD don't play nice together, so if you want to try the custom leaderboards without sacrificing custom songs, I made this:



download

Unfortunately, I can't redistribute the channel shown in the video as the banner is copyrighted by Nintendo

Also, this is NOT the beta. This just takes the publicly available RSD 2.0 from the site and combines it with a loader that enables the custom leaderboard without sacrificing customs.

 

[grrkodiak]

Qwertymodo

does it read from USB drive also

 

[Xupmatoih]

not to be pushy and all, but im still curious about my question(above)

 

[OncleJulien]

not to be pushy and all, but im still curious about my question(above)

dont sweat it man, youve given them 7 hours to respond...thats more than enough time from my perspective.

 

[tueidj]

not to be pushy and all, but im still curious about my question(above)

I don't understand what you're asking.

 

[Szalkow]

i heard RawkSD now Dumps Smash Hits and Metallica songs, both games my friend owns and is psyched we can finally get to play GOOD songs on RB2 but, im a bit worried....about the drums... since he owns the Wii versions, and supposedly they dont work with rb2 drums... will we still be able to like edit the charts accordingly?You're asking if the imported drum charts for Smash Hits and GH: Metallica will work with RB2 Wii drums, right? When RawkSD imports, everything is converted into a Rock Band chart, meaning four drum heads (orange gets charted to blue or green, I forget which). And since Rock Band 2 works with all of the Wii's instruments so far, any drum set will work with a song played in RB2 using RawkSD.

QUOTE(grrkodiak @ Jun 1 2010, 07:19 PM) does it read from USB drive also

Assuming you're asking about v3? Rawk v3 will support SDHC, USB, possibly network; this has been mentioned about a million times. The existing "beta" and the channel qwertymod made for it are only to test the leaderboard function that will be included in the final release; this beta does not support any new storage methods.

 

[fubka]

was actually getting excited there for a bit

 

[Maurice10]

Colors (especially on the fretboard) look kind of funny to me when loaded through the channel. The orange is way darker.
Maybe I'm imagining things though since nothing else looks very different.

Edit: I guess it's really just me imagining things. This post is now about the potential dangers of leaderboard cheaters by renaming long songs.

 

[Szalkow]

Colors (especially on the fretboard) look kind of funny to me when loaded through the channel. The orange is way darker.
Maybe I'm imagining things though since nothing else looks very different.

Edit: I guess it's really just me imagining things. This post is now about the potential dangers of leaderboard cheaters by renaming long songs.

Yeah, that's your imagination.

Renaming would help you beat customs scores, but RawkSD automatically adds a prefix to the songID to prevent customs from being confused with official songs. So, unless you want to go fiddling with the song data, the official leaderboards are relatively safe. As for customs, who knows. If customs become popular enough, a system could be put in place to check if scores submitted to the RawkSD leaderboard for popular songs are feasible.

 

[grrkodiak]

I was talking about what qwertymodo posted since it is using Neogama

 

[tueidj]

Then why did you address your post to Aaron?

 

[calthephenom]

Colors (especially on the fretboard) look kind of funny to me when loaded through the channel. The orange is way darker.
Maybe I'm imagining things though since nothing else looks very different.

Edit: I guess it's really just me imagining things. This post is now about the potential dangers of leaderboard cheaters by renaming long songs.

Yeah, that's your imagination.

Renaming would help you beat customs scores, but RawkSD automatically adds a prefix to the songID to prevent customs from being confused with official songs. So, unless you want to go fiddling with the song data, the official leaderboards are relatively safe. As for customs, who knows. If customs become popular enough, a system could be put in place to check if scores submitted to the RawkSD leaderboard for popular songs are feasible.

do you guys have a system in place to ban users who cheat from submitting to the leaderboards/

 

[tueidj]

Yes, we send their wii a self destruct signal.

 

[Szalkow]

Yes, we send their wii a self destruct signal.

This.

 

[TheGlow]

Yes, we send their wii a self destruct signal.

Yea, mine got hit last week. Forced it to update to 4.3U

 

[qwertymodo]

I was talking about what qwertymodo posted since it is using Neogama

No. This is the same version of RawkSD provided from the RawkSD wiki. No USB loading, either for the game itself or for the customs. Yes, it's using NeoGamma, but I removed config options and hardcoded it to only load Rock Band 2, so you can't load the game from USB. You wouldn't be able to anyway, due to the fact that it uses IOS37, which does not have USB loading abilities.

The point of my loader is that the custom leaderboard patch released by the RawkSD team uses Riivolution, which unpatches IOS37, which kills customs. So this allows the custom leaderboard hack to run without Riivolution. So you get everything you already have in RawkSD + custom leaderboards. That's it. Nothing more.

 

[crezwell]

Ive used RawkSD since day one and altho i havent used it in a while, i check here when i can for any advancements in Rawk 3.0.
Im more into customs than imports and the 2gb limit is the reason i havent carried on using it. I have a few customs completed but loads in need of minor tweaks, just never got round to finishing them.
Anyway, i like the way its heading with the online leaderboards and possible sharing online of customs, which will make me go ahead and complete and publish them for everyone to use.
My question is will there be any possibility of feedback of customs, or rating ingame, like there is on GH when you download user created songs? And also if tweaks do need to be made how easy will it be to pull the song, change it and re-up it? I presume only the author would be able to do that, if it is possible? Or will this all be done from the PC via a custom website rather than ingame?

 

[Szalkow]

Ive used RawkSD since day one and altho i havent used it in a while, i check here when i can for any advancements in Rawk 3.0.
Im more into customs than imports and the 2gb limit is the reason i havent carried on using it. I have a few customs completed but loads in need of minor tweaks, just never got round to finishing them.
Anyway, i like the way its heading with the online leaderboards and possible sharing online of customs, which will make me go ahead and complete and publish them for everyone to use.
My question is will there be any possibility of feedback of customs, or rating ingame, like there is on GH when you download user created songs? And also if tweaks do need to be made how easy will it be to pull the song, change it and re-up it? I presume only the author would be able to do that, if it is possible? Or will this all be done from the PC via a custom website rather than ingame?

As it is now you are welcome to create a page on the RawkSD wiki for your custom; upload the finished .rwk on your favorite file host (I use MediaFire), copy the style/infobox from someone else's customs page, and make your own page. The wiki also has a rating system. There are some decent customs up there now but new ones aren't added very frequently and only a handful of people try every custom that's uploaded. It's my hope that the system becomes more popular and a central custom-sharing hotspot emerges in the future.

Also, shameless plug, try my most recent customs:
Panty Raid by Moon Bounce
When Worlds Collide by Powerman 5000
Space Opera by Aram Bedrosian (bass solo)

 

[zero.echelon]

Also, shameless plug, try my most recent customs:
Panty Raid by Moon Bounce
When Worlds Collide by Powerman 5000
Space Opera by Aram Bedrosian (bass solo)

ZOMG! When Worlds Collide!!!
Haven´t heard that song since THPS2! xD