RawkSD - Rock Band 2 Wii SD Customs - v2.01 09/02/09

**AerialX** · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 178

Rock Band 2 Wii Custom SD DLC

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RawkSD allows you to install custom songs as DLC onto an SD card, to be played on Rock Band 2.
It also supports importing songs from Rock Band and all Guitar Hero games.
It supports everything up to the most updated Wii, though you must run the included patcher before running it.

For those who use customs/exports, don't forget to add your RB2 Friend Code to our list!

See the changelog for all the newest features! v2.00 brings in perfect customs support and importing from Guitar Hero 5, World Tour, Metallica, and Smash Hits!

And here are some videos for you guys to enjoy

Special thanks goes out to nanook and GameZelda for all their work on Guitar Hero hacking.

**thesentence** · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 1389

This should help customs really get going for Rock Band, looks great guys!
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**sonicdude164** · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 870 Location: CT

Great job guys, you rock!
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**sislermi** · Joined: 24 Jul 2008 Posts: 14

Thank You so much guys this is hecka easy compared to other custom methods, here is a video i just uploaded of me playing jordan as an rb2 custom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8SSSZKZBS4

**Underdrive** · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 274

I knew it'd happen someday, thanks a ton guys.
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**Con45** · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 33

About how many games/songs can you hold on a 4gb sd card?

**BHK** · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 189

Do you guys have support for custom album covers yet? Great job on this guys! I'm so out of touch with the wii scene though, I have a modded Wii with a Wiichip. Do I need to install anything beforehand to my wii (homebrew channel, etc) or can I just put it straight on my SD card.

**TNTX** · Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 1069 Location: Grand Island, NE

**doctorfaust** · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 93 Location: Columbus, OH

Some tidbits I figured out after working at getting a few customs in:

My chart scrolls too fast/too slow!
Naturally one would use the "Scroll Speed" setting in the RawkSD "Edit Custom" option, but the slightly unintuitive part is that if you want your chart to scroll faster you have to put in a lower number. RawkSD defaults to 2300, so try something like 1800 or 1600. Conversely if you need to slow your chart down, increase it to around 3000.

How come the crowd claps out of time/my characters sway out of time to the music?
These tempos are controlled by the BEAT track in the chart, but RawkSD only puts in a basic beat for you, so chances are it's out of whack. I'm not a programmer so I don't have a way to do this automatically, but you can brute force it with Anvil Studio if you need to. After RawkSD has done its thing, use Anvil Studio, go to the rawkSD\customs\ folder, and find your song's folder. Open up the file titled 'chart' (no extension) inside. Go to the BEAT track and view it in Piano Roll Editor mode. Find where RawkSD has placed a couple of notes. You'll want to remove those notes and put down new ones that actually match up with the tempo of your song. Use C1 for the first beat in a measure and C#1 for subsequent beats, like so:

Use 16th notes and place four per measure. Do that for the entire song. Then reimport your custom onto your SD card - the crowd should now clap in time to the music, and the character animations should be timed better now.

If your time signature is not 4/4, or if there are wild tempo changes, you will have to also alter the notes placed in BEAT accordingly, but I haven't experimented with this yet so I don't want to say concretely what you have to do.

How come my singer stage dives like 7 times during the song?
As the info for RawkSD states, the animation controls are entered completely randomly. This means that animation controls that aren't used that often, like the stage dive, may pop up multiple times during the song. These can be edited again using Anvil. Open up the 'chart' file for your custom as described. This time go to the VENUE track, and choose the Event List mode in the View menu. You should be able to see the animation control events for both lighting and animations. Some of them are rather self-explanatory. In our example, a stage dive is indicated by the comment:
[do_directed_cut directed_stagedive]
If you would rather not your singer stage dived there, if for example it's the very beginning of the song, double click on the event. You can change it to something else. For instance:
[do_directed_cut directed_duo_gb]
will instead change the camera/animation to one of the duo-playing shots of your guitarist and bassist. I don't have a complete list of the possible events, but just look around the other events RawkSD placed. Or, you may be able to take out the event completely. If you look at a "real" RB song (such as a song extracted from a track pack by RawkSD) the real songs tend to have much fewer directed_cut events and several lighting change effects. I'm guessing the game changes the camera randomly until it hits a directed change effect, so you may be able to remove a lot of the directed cut events if you want the animations to vary each time you play it. Not sure how much you can remove though - RawkSD puts in these events for a reason, because without them the songs freeze up in quickplay.

How come my drummer just sits there?
This is the one major thing I haven't figured out yet. Judging from what people figured out for GH customs, I've tried inserting a [play] comment at the beginning of the PART DRUMS track, a [verse] comment in the VENUE track, and [section intro] (for example) comments in the EVENTS track, but I have yet to be able to actually get the drummer to look like they're playing. If anybody has any other guesses/advice on this question I'd love to hear it.

(cross-posted to gbatemp)
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**doctorfaust** · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 93 Location: Columbus, OH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyYhuECUYc0&fmt=22

Success! Thanks to tueidj's help, I got drummer animations working properly. Unfortunately, it's actually a lot of work - unlike the guitar/bass tracks, you have to chart each individual drum hit as another note in the .mid. Somewhere down the line, maybe somebody will make a program that will add these animations in semi-automatically from the drum chart, but for now it's a lot of work. If you're masochistic and still want to try...

Here's the list of notes, courtesy of tueidj:

**ddrsensation** · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 319 Location: Papillion, NE

I appreciate this.

**Vendetta** · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Northern Illinois

Great success. This thing is a dream come true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dw6vTnw0wI

I gotta get some drum charts to mess around with.

**ddrsensation** · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 319 Location: Papillion, NE

Imported customs from ISOs are working perfect, but my other customs (.mp3 + .mid) freeze the game, which is okay for me, but I'm not sure what I did wrong. Awesome program though!

**Con45** · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 33

can anybody tell me how to set up superdump, i can't find instructions for it anywhere.

**Teancum** · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 437

Just curious -- are the midi files the same format between RB1/2 for NON-Wii games? I have it for the 360 and for the Wii, and I'd like to just import my midis into my wads to keep the original animation data for the games I have on two platforms.