RB3Maker: easy .rba to XBox 360 customs (Jan02: 2.1.0.80 beta)

[DorkmasterFlek]

Hey, I was trying to get RB3Maker to build a CON file using an actual DLC file (I'm trying to add harmonies to legacy songs) and it seems that it has problems parsing the songs.dta file at all depending on the format. It's okay with the type that Magma makes where each tag is on a separate line and surrounded by quotes like this:

[DorkmasterFlek]

Hey, I was trying to get RB3Maker to build a CON file using an actual DLC file (I'm trying to add harmonies to legacy songs) and it seems that it has problems parsing the songs.dta file at all depending on the format. It's okay with the type that Magma makes where each tag is on a separate line and surrounded by quotes like this:

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[DorkmasterFlek]

Oh yeah, I forgot you have the source code in the original post. That's a big help. It's giving a crash when parsing the songs.dta, but it apparently still continues past that point. The other problem now is that it's trying to convert the album art keep_png file, but I'm not sure why this is necessary for building a full song out of existing files. Shouldn't it just add the keep_png file to the CON package and be done with it? I'm wondering if, on a real DLC file, the keep_png file is a different format, or possibly encrypted like the MOGG file is.
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Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

[DorkmasterFlek]

Oh yeah, I forgot you have the source code in the original post. That's a big help. It's giving a crash when parsing the songs.dta, but it apparently still continues past that point. The other problem now is that it's trying to convert the album art keep_png file, but I'm not sure why this is necessary for building a full song out of existing files. Shouldn't it just add the keep_png file to the CON package and be done with it? I'm wondering if, on a real DLC file, the keep_png file is a different format, or possibly encrypted like the MOGG file is.
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wlinn751 wrote:

Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

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[DorkmasterFlek]

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[DorkmasterFlek]

Ah, I PM'd you the songs.dta I was having trouble with, and I also figured out how to solve the album art conversion issue (aside from updating the program to not do it at all of course). It was expecting a .BMP file for the album art, but there was none of course. However, for some reason, this didn't cause a failure in the initial conversion call. It created the extra encoding file for it (.DDS or something like that) and tried to convert the .BMP to the encoded PNG, which of course failed at that point. I just used a RB3 package icon file enlarged to 256 x 256 and saved as a 32 bit BMP named correctly to circumvent this.

It builds properly now, but the only thing is that the venue triggers seem to not work. They're still in the MIDI file; I didn't alter that part, just added the extra HARM# tracks. I'm thinking it's because there are several other files that aren't normally part of the RBA files that Magma generates. They're named <songname>.vox, <songname>.vocab and a few others. I think they're older files that aren't used in newer DLC. Obviously, they don't get picked up when RB3Maker is building the file. I'm guessing these are the cause, but I haven't tried putting them into the CON file manually yet to verify. In any case, the song itself works fine and I can make harmonies for it, so that's a plus.
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wlinn751 wrote:

Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

[DorkmasterFlek]

Ah, I PM'd you the songs.dta I was having trouble with, and I also figured out how to solve the album art conversion issue (aside from updating the program to not do it at all of course). It was expecting a .BMP file for the album art, but there was none of course. However, for some reason, this didn't cause a failure in the initial conversion call. It created the extra encoding file for it (.DDS or something like that) and tried to convert the .BMP to the encoded PNG, which of course failed at that point. I just used a RB3 package icon file enlarged to 256 x 256 and saved as a 32 bit BMP named correctly to circumvent this.

It builds properly now, but the only thing is that the venue triggers seem to not work. They're still in the MIDI file; I didn't alter that part, just added the extra HARM# tracks. I'm thinking it's because there are several other files that aren't normally part of the RBA files that Magma generates. They're named <songname>.vox, <songname>.vocab and a few others. I think they're older files that aren't used in newer DLC. Obviously, they don't get picked up when RB3Maker is building the file. I'm guessing these are the cause, but I haven't tried putting them into the CON file manually yet to verify. In any case, the song itself works fine and I can make harmonies for it, so that's a plus.
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wlinn751 wrote:

Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

[yamamoto114]

Been having problems running this. I recently reformatted my computer, and when I try to run this, it says I don't have .NET 4.0 installed. Except I do. So that makes no sense.

Tried uninstall, reinstall, restart, etc. Nothing works. It doesn't seem to recognize that I have .NET installed already. =(

[yamamoto114]

Been having problems running this. I recently reformatted my computer, and when I try to run this, it says I don't have .NET 4.0 installed. Except I do. So that makes no sense.

Tried uninstall, reinstall, restart, etc. Nothing works. It doesn't seem to recognize that I have .NET installed already. =(

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[trojannemo]

is it a known issue to have non-standard characters refuse to show up in game correctly?

back when I was learning I asked in the creators.rockband.com forum about non-standard characters in lyrics not showing correctly and I was told to add 'encoding' 'latin1' to songs.dta.

i've tried converting DLC songs to CON as well as converting my own RBA compiled with Magma to CON and in both situations (tried many times now) I end up with incorrect characters for the song or artist name in the game.

this is getting extremely frustrating. any idea?

[trojannemo]

is it a known issue to have non-standard characters refuse to show up in game correctly?

back when I was learning I asked in the creators.rockband.com forum about non-standard characters in lyrics not showing correctly and I was told to add 'encoding' 'latin1' to songs.dta.

i've tried converting DLC songs to CON as well as converting my own RBA compiled with Magma to CON and in both situations (tried many times now) I end up with incorrect characters for the song or artist name in the game.

this is getting extremely frustrating. any idea?

[Nyxyxylyth]

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[trojannemo]

ohhh I hope that's what it is.
i've been using NotePad++ but apparently it was set to "UTF-8 without BOM" not UTF-8

will give that a try now.

[trojannemo]

ohhh I hope that's what it is.
i've been using NotePad++ but apparently it was set to "UTF-8 without BOM" not UTF-8

will give that a try now.

[trojannemo]

worked on one song, not the other two. one was set to ANSI...that one is the one that worked once I changed it to UTF-8. the other two were on UTF-8 without BOM...changed to UTF-8...still same issue.

this sucks. one of those is Blue Oyster Cult's Burnin' For You from GH WoR...which is totally done and ready to be released...pending this "issue"

EDIT: I spent soo many hours yesterday trying different things...nothing worked. here's what I have tried.

- setting the document to Encode in ANSI, and typing in the character (Alt + 153 for the Ö). saving as ANSI and putting it in game.

- setting the document to Encode in UTF-8, and typing in the character, saving as UTF-8 and putting it in game.

- setting the document to Encode in ANSI, typing the character in, then setting the document to UTF-8 (Character changes to a weird symbol), saving as UTF-8 and putting it ingame.

- opening the songs.dta from a Harmonix Blue Oyster Cult, and replacing all the text inside with the text of my songs.dta file, and saving in its existing format (ANSI is the format that Trasmaniacon's songs.dta is in) and putting it in game.


I did this also with a latin song that has the ñ character (alt + 164).

none of those attempts worked. I deleted and rebuilt my song cache everytime, and seeing as I have 2,900 songs...it's very freaking annoying.

I always end up with the Ö or the ñ being replaced in game with a capital A with a squiggly line on top. even though the characters it's failing to show up are different, it's replacing both with the same character.


WHAT AM I MISSING?! i'm about to blow a gasket here.

[trojannemo]

worked on one song, not the other two. one was set to ANSI...that one is the one that worked once I changed it to UTF-8. the other two were on UTF-8 without BOM...changed to UTF-8...still same issue.

this sucks. one of those is Blue Oyster Cult's Burnin' For You from GH WoR...which is totally done and ready to be released...pending this "issue"

EDIT: I spent soo many hours yesterday trying different things...nothing worked. here's what I have tried.

- setting the document to Encode in ANSI, and typing in the character (Alt + 153 for the Ö). saving as ANSI and putting it in game.

- setting the document to Encode in UTF-8, and typing in the character, saving as UTF-8 and putting it in game.

- setting the document to Encode in ANSI, typing the character in, then setting the document to UTF-8 (Character changes to a weird symbol), saving as UTF-8 and putting it ingame.

- opening the songs.dta from a Harmonix Blue Oyster Cult, and replacing all the text inside with the text of my songs.dta file, and saving in its existing format (ANSI is the format that Trasmaniacon's songs.dta is in) and putting it in game.


I did this also with a latin song that has the ñ character (alt + 164).

none of those attempts worked. I deleted and rebuilt my song cache everytime, and seeing as I have 2,900 songs...it's very freaking annoying.

I always end up with the Ö or the ñ being replaced in game with a capital A with a squiggly line on top. even though the characters it's failing to show up are different, it's replacing both with the same character.


WHAT AM I MISSING?! i'm about to blow a gasket here.

[ObeyDrX]

Sorry to sound like a complete imbecile, but I can't even get RB3Maker to work. Clicking either the setup file or the RB3Maker application results in an error message saying "Application cannot be started." Suggestions? Or am I just screwed?

[ObeyDrX]

Sorry to sound like a complete imbecile, but I can't even get RB3Maker to work. Clicking either the setup file or the RB3Maker application results in an error message saying "Application cannot be started." Suggestions? Or am I just screwed?

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