The ultimate Guitar Hero hack

**Riff** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 104 Location: Champaign, IL

I'd like to present to you the first known user created song for Guitar Hero. Check out the video for Billy Squier's "The Stroke" at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fS1Vvu7t4
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:34 am Post subject:

That's awesome. Now we just need some Metallica

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**Riz** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011

Just out of curiosity, why didn't you play it? Is it playable?

At any rate, nice job. I'd really love it if someday RO and Harmonix would give us the tools to do this stuff in a trivial manner.

Riz.
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**Riff** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 104 Location: Champaign, IL

I didn't play it partly because I'm pretty lousy at the song but mostly because some changes I made to the audio file didn't get copied over to the guitar track making the background stream lag behind the guitar stream by about three seconds. If I had played along with the song you would have heard several sections where it would have seemed like the audio skipped back to the previous measure. I'll make another video after I allocate notes for the medium difficulty so that I can play the song without looking like an amateur.
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**Riz** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011

Awesome. I look forward to seeing that. Great song choice, really. I'm deliberately not asking just how you achieved this feat, because I am pretty sure the answer is extremely scary (hence my "need trivial tools" comment above). Regardless, still, nice job.

Riz.
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**gmriggs** · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 48

Damn, you never cease to amaze me man. GREAT job!

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

nice one mate, congrats
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**SThorpe** · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 2500

thats really cool, nice job
I wonder if it'll ever be possible to just pop in a CD and somehow the game makes notes for it, I'm sure some dance mat game did something like this recently

**rabies** · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject:

Wow.....just....wow!

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Did I say wow yet? Wow.

**gweeto** · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 82

so once you perfect it Riff, will we be able to play this song just by coping the code onto an Action Replay type device or is there lots of your talent needed to do this?

Nice job too btw

Guido
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**Anthony** · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 659 Location: Cali

Would you be able to save these songs onto memory cards? If so you could make a lot of money selling these homemade songs. Of course scorehero users would get discounts though.
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**Riz** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011

Making a lot of money off of selling something that contains someone else's music without paying the licensing fees for said music is a really good and quick way to find oneself on the pointy end of a really nasty lawsuit. This is probably at least part of the reason why RO has not (yet, one can hope) been sufficiently motivated to provide the tools to do it easily.

Sharing and "hobbyist" uses are arguably one thing, with bonus points for just plain cool hackery. Making a big wad o' cash is another

Riz.
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

**gweeto** · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 82

if that were the case then all one would need to play new songs is a copy of the DVDR and a modded PS2.
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**catfish7** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 927 Location: North Florida

Wow man I can't even begin to imagine the work that went into that. Way to go. Cool song too, I've always liked that one.