RawkTour

From RawkSD

RawkTour is a small set of tools that you can use to unpack Guitar Hero: World Tour Wii DLC, and pack it up again with your own custom audio and note charts.

Download RawkTour v0.04.

Contents 1 Installation 1.1 PC Installation 1.2 Wii Installation 2 Usage 2.1 Start With An SD Card and DLC 2.2 Unpacking DLC 2.3 Replacing the Audio 2.4 Replacing the Chart 2.5 Packing the DLC Bins 3 Changelog 3.1 v0.01 3.2 v0.02 3.3 v0.03 3.4 v0.04

Installation

PC Installation

RawkTour is distributed in a WinZip archive. This may be extracted to any location, and can be started by simply running RawkTour.exe. RawkTour requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed on your computer. If you are unable to run RawkTour.exe, you must install the .NET framework, which can be downloaded here. It can also be run on other platforms such as Mac OS X and Linux. You must install the Mono runtime, which can be downloaded from here, or can often be installed from your distribution's package manager.

However, note that the batch scripts and tools included for modifying Bink audio are specific to Windows.

Wii Installation

The RawkTour.zip archive also includes an "apps" folder within it. This must be copied to the root of an SD card in order to be launched from the Wii's Homebrew Channel. The included RawkSD Patcher needs to be run only once, and then it may be deleted from your SD card. It prepares your Wii to allow you to run customs. This installer may not be required if you already have a patched IOS37 installed on your Wii, which could be the case if something like cIOScorp or SoftMii is installed.

Usage

Start With An SD Card and DLC

RawkTour replaces official Guitar Hero World Tour DLC files on your SD card with its own. You may use a seperate SD card for customs, and another for your real DLC. The important thing is that you have an SD card with DLC on it to start with. This can be any of the DLC you've bought, or any free DLC that has been downloaded. You are limited to replacing only the DLC songs that you own, however you can swap SD cards (or rename your /PRIVATE folder) to overcome this limit. So once you've downloaded some DLC from in-game and copied it to an SD card, take that into your computer to start modifying it.

Unpacking DLC

Your DLC is located on the SD card under the path /private/wii/data/SXAE. Start by using the Unpack DLC bin option and pick one of the bin files in that path to unpack. The first two bins (000.bin and 001.bin) are not DLC songs.

Once unpacked, you have access to the files you need to customize the DLC. The main files you'll be messing with are the audio, DLCxx.bik, and the note chart, DLCxx_song.pak.ngc.

Replacing the Audio

Note that RawkTour does not actually extract the audio from the DLC. This is done on purpose to keep the master tracks of the original song safe; extracting them is not RawkTour's goal. It simply makes a placeholder file that must be replaced with the audio of the custom you want to use. Since the Bink audio format is not common, RawkTour includes Windows batch scripts that can be used to create the audio files you need.

NOTE: If you have any issues running the batch scripts, download and install RAD Video Tools.

1. To begin, run the RawkTourDummyBik.bat file by double-clicking it. It will ask you how long you want the audio file it creates to be, in seconds. You should add about 5 seconds to the actual length to account for the silence at the end when the track disappears.
2. Then pick a name for your audio file; this is arbitrary. It will create a file named YOURNAME.bik in the same directory once the process is done.
3. Now the script will create an empty Bink file for you with the length you specified, including all 7 required audio tracks filled with silence. Wait for it to finish...
4. Now that you have an empty Bink file, use the second script, RawkTourInjectAudio.bat, to insert audio into the multi-tracked Bink. Follow the instructions in the script by entering the same name you entered in the previous script, pick a track to replace (just use track 5 for standard MP3 audio without master tracks). Then give it the full path to the audio you want to inject and pick the audio quality (4 is recommended).
5. Let it run through the process until the audio is injected, and repeat for each track.

Replacing the Chart

Guitar Hero World Tour uses its own QB chart format. While there are no known editors for this yet, you have access to the DLCxx_song.pak.ngc file in case other ways to edit it emerge. One possibility is editing it manually with Queen Bee, but at the time of writing Queen Bee v1.7 does not save the file properly and files modified by Queen Bee will not work in GHWT. Nanook should be updating it soon to address this issue.

RawkTour includes a Rock Band 2 .mid to Guitar Hero World Tour .qb chart conversion tool. This works with MIDIs designed for Guitar Hero 1/2/3, Rock Band 1/2, as well as Frets on Fire. It will convert the charts for all difficulties of Guitar, Bass, and Drums.

1. To start, run RawkTour and select the "Unpack .pak.ngc" option. Pick the DLCxx_song.pak.ngc file, and it will quickly extract its contents to a folder of the same name.
2. Return to the main menu and select the "RB2 MIDI Chart to GHWT QB" option. First select a MIDI chart, and then select the DLCxx_song/dlc/output/dlcxx.mid.qb.ngc file that was extracted in the previous step. Wait for it to convert the chart.
3. Once the chart is converted, use the "Pack .pak.ngc" option to place the modified chart back into the original DLCxx_song.pak.ngc file.

Packing the DLC Bins

Once you're done customizing, select "Pack DLC bin" from the RawkTour menu and pick the original bin that you extracted and have been modifying all this time. RawkTour will overwrite that bin with your new chart and audio. You will run into an error if the resulting bin is larger than the original; you must either sacrifice some audio quality or restart the process with a larger source bin. Otherwise, the bin will be overwritten and the SD card is ready to be placed back into the Wii. Simply select the DLC song in the game's song list, and play your custom!

Changelog

v0.01

• Initial Release

v0.02

• Added support for solos as tapping sections
• Fixed hammeron/pulloff thresholds. Use a "{hopo_threshold 250}" comment in a MIDI to override it

v0.03

• Fixed critical bug where it would only allow you to convert full-band MIDI charts

v0.04

• Added support for GHWT PS2, PC, and XBox. Untested; whether Queen Bee supports them or not is another issue
• Included Queen Bee as a separate DLL to allow users to update it without needing a new version of RawkTour. Chances are an update to it might be needed for it to actually work with PC/PS2/XBox
• Fixed bug with star power sections turning into slider sections
• Converting Rock Band solos into slider notes is now an option
• Handles crashes better, with a helpful log file that can be used for debugging