Adding Custom Songs to Guitar Hero III¶

Contents

  • Adding Custom Songs to Guitar Hero III
    • Introduction
    • Requirements
    • Song List Editor
    • Calculation a Custom Song
      • Footstep 1
      • Step 2
      • Step three
      • Step 4
      • Step 5
    • Adding Frets On Burn down Songs
    • Playing Your Song
    • Links

Introduction¶

This guide volition show you how to add together your own songs to Guitar Hero III on the PC. After hunting effectually the Internet for ways to practice this I found several methods. The method shown in this guide I found to be the easiest. Other methods tin can be found in the links section.

Annotation

Warning! - calculation custom songs volition corrupt your save game file, make sure you dorsum it up!

Requirements¶

Here's what you volition demand to get things upwards and running:

  • A copy of Guitar Hero III for the PC
  • songlist_editor_v032.zip
  • Chart2Mid2Chart.zip by Leff
  • A nautical chart file for your song or MIDI file (explained after)

Note

Before continuing make sure you take installed Guitar Hero Iii on your PC.

Vocal List Editor¶

songlist_editor_v032.zippo is a handy programme that will allow you to add songs to your Guitar Hero III installation. Using Song List Editor y'all add non only your own songs, only songs from Frets On Fire (FOF) as well. This guide will bear witness you how to practise both.

After you take downloaded songlist_editor_v032.naught , extract the annal to a location on your PC.

Now load songlist_editor.exe. The program will load a control window in the groundwork where data about what the program is doing will exist displayed (e.yard. song conversions etc.). The chief window will wait like then:

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Adjacent, go to File -> Open. You will be presented with the following dialog window:

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Calculation a Custom Song¶

For this example, nosotros will exist adding Smooth past Santana to Guitar Hero Iii.

Step 1¶

To add together your own song to Guitar Hero III, you will need an MP3 or OGG file of the song y'all wish to add. In addition, you lot will too demand either a chart file or MIDI file for the guitar notes. Luckily, the folks at ScoreHero.com accept a library of thousands of chart files for songs.

All you need to practise is register for free at their site to proceeds admission to the library.

Step 2¶

Once y'all have created your business relationship, login and get to the custom songs section of the site:

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Click "Browse database" to admission the search tool. Enter the details for the vocal you want to search for and then click "Search Charts". You lot will then be presented with a listing of results like so:

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The dificulty levels that the chart file supports will be highlighted in the search results (encounter to a higher place). E = easy, M = medium, H = difficult, Ten = expert. If the second row of diffulty levels shown for a song are highlighted, then the chart file provides lead and bass guitar tracks. In the example in a higher place, neither chart file provides a 2nd track, so only one player can play these. Likewise, the 2nd chart file found supports all diffulty levels and so we will download this one.

Step 3¶

Once yous have downloaded the chart file, save it to a location on your PC. Now we have the chart file, we demand to generate a MIDI file from it. For this we will use Chart2Mid2Chart.zip . If you lot accept non already downloaded Chart2Mid2Chart.zip , download information technology now and extract its contents to a folder on your PC.

Open up the folder and double click Chart2Mid.jar. You volition exist presented with the window below:

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Click "Scan" and locate the chart file that yous downloaded in pace 2. Now click the "Guitar Hero" radio button followed by the "Convert" button. This will generate a MIDI file in the same directory as the chart file.

Step four¶

Load Song Listing Editor (equally described in a higher place). Click "Insert New Song". This will display the following dialog window:

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Go on as follows:

  1. Enter the name of the track - information technology must exist in lower case. This is the proper noun that Guitar Hero 3 uses internally to reference the runway.
  2. For the Guitar, Rhythm and Song track fields, click "Browse" and locate the MP3 or OGG file for your song.
  3. Click "Browse" by the MIDI file input box and browse to the folder where you created your MIDI file in step 3.
  4. Finally, enter the details for the song as you would like them to appear in the game.

The dialog window should now look like to the one below:

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Now click "OK". Your Guitar Hero Iii track will now exist created. This may accept a couple of minutes. The command window will evidence the progress of the conversion. When the conversion is complete, the bulletin "done creating fsb" will be displayed:

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Step 5¶

Your song will now announced in the "Vocal list" on the left mitt side of the Song List Editor window.

Nosotros now need to add together the song to 1 of the play lists in the game. To do this, click "Edit Setlists". Yous will be presented with the following dialog window:

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Go on as follows to add your song to the "Bonus Songs" play list in the game:

  1. Choose "Bonus Songs" from the gear up listing driblet down box.
  2. Increase the number of songs per tier by 1. This volition add together a song to the stop of the list.
  3. From the song number drib downwardly box cull the last song in the list which should now be "slowride".
  4. From the song drop downwardly box find the song you added in footstep four (in our instance "smooth").

Yous should now have something similar to the following:

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Click "OK".

Now go to File -> Save and click "OK" when the alert message box is displayed.

You are at present ready to play the game!

Adding Frets On Fire Songs¶

Frets On Burn down is an open source Guitar Hero III clone. Every bit a result, many song packs are available for the game in comparing to Guitar Hero III. Lucily, Vocal List Editor allows you to import Frets On Fire songs into Guitar Hero III.

If yous have Frets On Fire songs on your computer you can add them to Guitar Hero III like so:

  1. Load Song List Editor.
  2. Locate your Guitar Hero Three directory (File -> Open).
  3. Click "Import FOF Songs".
  4. Locate your Frets On Fire songs directory.
  5. Click OK - your songs will now exist converted. Notation: this may have some fourth dimension depending on the number of songs you take.
  6. Add the converted songs to the "Bonus Songs" playlist as shown above in step 5.

You are at present ready to play the game!

Playing Your Song¶

Load Guitar Hero III. The game will complain that the game content is corrupt. This is nothing to worry nigh, but make certain you accept already backed-upward your salvage game file if yous desire to go along your scores. Choose "Delete content". You will and so exist presented with the main menu.

Every bit your progress has at present been deleted, you volition not have access to the bonus songs. No need to worry! Just go to Options -> Cheats. Enter the unlock everything cheat by strumming the dark-green fret twice. This will unlock the bonus songs playlist.

Now get to Quickplay and go to the bonus songs list. Scroll to the lesser of the list and your added songs will be there (meet below):

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Now yous can play your vocal…

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Click any of the screen shots above to view a curt video of Smooth by Santana being played in Guitar Hero 3. This is the cease product of the example used throughout this guide.