As a kid, I played through the entirety of GH2 just to see if Goofy Goober Rock was on that game. I was disappointed when it didn't appear, but it started my GH career. Now I can finally actually experience my childhood dream.
This is really nuts! My childhood game was always Guitar Hero 2, played until the disc was unusable. I hope if we have a song with bass, drums and vocal tracks we can somehow translate into in game animations, that would be so sick the band actually playing at the song.
alot of the Rock Band DLC already does that! It flawlessly converts over to the GH2 engine's animation programming; I was playing Nirvana's Breed & all the members/characters were rocking in its tempo!
I want to clarify that if you make ISOs with the delays on your charts, it would courteous to those who prefer playing on Real PlayStation 2 to label your ISO "for PCSX2 use only"
The ImgBurn link gives an access denied error, although you can still get to the actual download page through it. Should probably still change it to avoid confusion/Plumato's nightmare
This process would make ISOs only suitable for YOUR setup though. I feel like we still need a custom version of PCSX2 that automatically appends player's personal audio delay. In fact, isn't there a setting for that already, or am I mistaken?
Muchas gracias! si funcionó para los que hablan español y se preguntan si esto también funciona en consola y no solo en emulador les respondo, si sirve en consola. he hecho una iso con aproximadamente 100 canciones y todo funciona ok uwu ahora toca esperar una versión de xbox 360
yo lo estoy probando en pcsx2 abre el juego todo pero la iso no reconoce ninguna canción y sigo al pie de la letra el tutorial... abro el onyx pongo el archivo, y lo paso a iso con las canciones y lo corro en el emulador
Hello friend, I really liked your video!! But I couldn't understand where I get the songs? Can I add any music? I need to convert mp3 songs to some other different file format? Help me as I would love to add other songs to play on PS2. Thank you so much friend!!
you get songs as same as how you download clone hero. in case you don't know about clone hero, every songs contains audio, chart, also song.ini (contains song data). simply dropping an mp3 wont do it. find songs by searching on youtube and adding "clone hero" (or search on C3, the clone hero discord server). Cant find it, make one!
I don’t have a working PC, so I’ve never been able to play Clone Hero. I do have a PS2 though, and this looks really neat. Finally gonna get to play some charts that I’ve been wanting to play for a while.
Hey Acai, do you know how I can add things to GH2? I realize that since it is an empty ISO of songs (less Speedtest), then I would like to add and make my own setlists, that is, add songs to the setlist (as Mariteaux did to add new things like the Speed Test or Hypervelocity Menu).
for some reason, every time i try booting the iso, i just get kicked to the PS2 BIOS. the base customs iso works fine, but it doesn't matter what customs i try to add, i always get the PS2 BIOS. uhhh help (???)
@@moreacai9321 ah ok! I asked on the discord as well, but didn't consider file size. I had to split up gh2dx to get it to work on a flash drive, so I might start using the empty build to avoid that.
Super DOOOPE! But is there a way to see all the (custom) songs without putting in the cheat code? The first time I tried to add customs I thought it simply didn't work, then I saw that you used the cheat code, but it's a drag to put it in
still being worked on! but if you're impatient this can potentially tie you over. jnack ported the 360 frets, notes, flames, lightning, and sustains over which look crisp as hell
I tried a few songs with extended sustains, and it seems like onyx cuts the sustains off before the next note since gh2 is glitchy with extended sustains.
Hey Acai, is Onyx safe? I downloaded the Windows 64 version and Avast says that they are questioning the installer to see if it is dangerous or not (XD)
im hacing the same thingg. mine says Microsoft Defender SmartScreen couldn't verify if this file is safe because it isn't commonly downloaded. Make sure you trust the file you're downloading or its source before you open it. .. what do i do? it shows keep anyways.
I've gotten to the onyx batch process however every song creates an error, it is loading it and has some of the same messages as you have but it would then say "ERROR! user error (ARK operation failed: saving ARK)". I am not sure how to fix this.
This probably won't work for you, but I had an error involving the install location for onyx personally when I got to the batch process. I had it installed in an otherwise empty redundant folder in my downloads. What seemed to fix it was making it so Onyx wasn't "a folder within a folder". Either that or moving it to my program files.
@@austinjaeger25 no this did not work. I tried doing both, putting it as one folder with the files in it, as well as moving it to my program files. did not work and still gave me the error message.
Ok right now it seems that I have gotten it to work. Instead of mounting the iso, I just did what alec said, make a folder and drag all the folders to that folder. Now when you go to add the songs to the ark file, just select that location. The process is still going as I am writing this but if anyone was having the troubles that I was having last night then this might help you.
I got everything working kinda but for whatever reason once the song has loaded it doesn't wanna recognize my guitars inputs. Like it navigates the menus and songs but won't play. Also how do you select modifiers for the PS2 version
@@moreacai9321 I tried bro my setup doesn't have vulkan support or direct3d apparently. My cpu in this prebuilt is 10 yrs old and no gpu just Intel hd 4600. Xenia just crashes immediately. Rn all I can run flawless is clone hero and ghwtde
Can I have a brief explanation on the advantages of playing GH2 instead of CH? AFAIK, the main difference is the engine much more punishing on GH2, like A LOT (event more than Precision Mode). Is there anything else I'm missing?
Game still holds up and feels like one of the best in the series imo, CH feels unrewarding sometimes where in GH2 even the easiest stuff feels better to play. Like having a nice mental reset on playing the 5 fret games
@@moreacai9321 All right, thanks for the info. I might give it a shot, I've been enjoying precision mode a lot as it felt more like a rhythm game compared to an arcade game normally. I might get that feeling with GH2 as well. Thanks Brown Legend!
i know this video is extremely old but is there a way to get zero audio latency in PCSX2 without adjusting it per song with the blank edition? i've got the audio latency about as low as i can (set to 1ms in emulator with 25ms buffer size) but it's still not perfect. there are some tips in the readme that comes with the game but they're outdated and half of those settings don't even exist anymore within pcsx2 nightly lmao
@@lonestardreadpirate PCSX2 audio has never been good, until it’s completely redone to support 0 audio latency it will always be bad 60ms buffer before adding to songs to ark in Onyx makes it just about perfect if you put the audio latency all the way down in the emulator
@@moreacai9321 yeah this is fine for customs but kinda sucks cuz i don't have the custom edition and wanted to play through the whole game lol, at least the disc songs are very playable with my current audio settings i'm just picky about calibration :p
@@moreacai9321 its just the 1 problem chart that i am having in bury the hatchet where it does not seem like there should be forcing, but like halfway through it randomly makes like the rest of the chart all strums.
@@kurokoshirai5402 probably because the bpm is fucked in that song, if you're using the GH2 version from CH that is. There's some stuff having to do with the hopo threshold I don't 100% understand yet but I definitely know what you're talking about and it's fixable but through some really tedious text editing within the song
@@moreacai9321 ah thats unfortunate, i think i will just wait for the dlc disc to come out to play that song specifically. im having no issues with the rest of the customs i put in. ty for the info
I followed this tutorial to success for the first iso file I made, but the second file I tried to create will not work. I’ve tried recreating it 10 or so times now with different variety of songs, and OPL on my ps2 will start them up on a blank black screen. All my other games start up fine. Has anyone run into this problem before? I’m wondering if something is happening through imgburn?
I was trying to play in the real hardware, but for some reason when i select any music the game dont load and goes blackscreen. I searched online and just found two guys on reddit saying nothing that could help. 😑
After mounting the ISO did you make a folder and move the files out then modify THAT ark? Or did you mount iso and think you could just modify the mounted ark? Because it doesn't work that way
@@thardwardy if you know your way around Makiloha then it's easy to modify the tiers via editing campaign.dta with the the internal song names (which for onyx customs are gonna be like "o123456789" or something, you'd find all of that info in songs.dta internally) then you can edit the tier names in locale.dta (I only edited the first tier to just be a space for the blank ISO)
As a kid, I played through the entirety of GH2 just to see if Goofy Goober Rock was on that game. I was disappointed when it didn't appear, but it started my GH career. Now I can finally actually experience my childhood dream.
Imagine if you played Rock The 80's instead. You'd've been surprised for sure.
@@waycnf7229 omg yes!
The new GH2 customs meta is now OFFICIALLY upon us. Great tutorial
So happy to see things like this. GH2 has always deserved this level of love. This year was just a perfect storm of events to make it happen
This is really nuts! My childhood game was always Guitar Hero 2, played until the disc was unusable. I hope if we have a song with bass, drums and vocal tracks we can somehow translate into in game animations, that would be so sick the band actually playing at the song.
alot of the Rock Band DLC already does that! It flawlessly converts over to the GH2 engine's animation programming; I was playing Nirvana's Breed & all the members/characters were rocking in its tempo!
@@streetxjammingdualxscreens9228 so the game probably have the other bands "chart".
We can finally play Dark Caves of LOLNO on GH2 as God intended
Will come back to this video in over a year from now, but in advance thank you Acai!
Yesssss! Thank god I’ve wanted to know how to do this for so long. And putting them in Deluxe is even better with that strum limit removal.
I want to clarify that if you make ISOs with the delays on your charts, it would courteous to those who prefer playing on Real PlayStation 2 to label your ISO "for PCSX2 use only"
The ImgBurn link gives an access denied error, although you can still get to the actual download page through it. Should probably still change it to avoid confusion/Plumato's nightmare
@@jojivlogs_4255 ty
This process would make ISOs only suitable for YOUR setup though. I feel like we still need a custom version of PCSX2 that automatically appends player's personal audio delay. In fact, isn't there a setting for that already, or am I mistaken?
@@FlergerBergitydersh yes there is. You can mess with the audio latency settings in PCSX2 for others' ISOs to work. For console you can't do that
the beginning of an era is becoming
Nice tutorial, now maybe i'll re-make my dawg custom to this deluxe
Thanks, man. Playing Ram Ranch on real PS2 hardware is a fucking fever dream
The future is here! We’re gonna take you back to the past-
Finally, i can make Rock Revolution Deluxe, and i guess Powergig to fill out bonus songs.
finnaly GH empty version
thank's
teaches how to remove subtitles (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, bonus) in the setlist to fit +1 song in the list
This is it boys we finally made it
Muchas gracias! si funcionó
para los que hablan español y se preguntan si esto también funciona en consola y no solo en emulador les respondo, si sirve en consola.
he hecho una iso con aproximadamente 100 canciones y todo funciona ok uwu
ahora toca esperar una versión de xbox 360
Hola hay una forma para contactarte tengo una
yo lo estoy probando en pcsx2 abre el juego todo pero la iso no reconoce ninguna canción y sigo al pie de la letra el tutorial... abro el onyx pongo el archivo, y lo paso a iso con las canciones y lo corro en el emulador
Como fez para que não trave após escolher uma música?
Hello friend, I really liked your video!! But I couldn't understand where I get the songs? Can I add any music? I need to convert mp3 songs to some other different file format? Help me as I would love to add other songs to play on PS2. Thank you so much friend!!
you get songs as same as how you download clone hero.
in case you don't know about clone hero, every songs contains audio, chart, also song.ini (contains song data). simply dropping an mp3 wont do it. find songs by searching on youtube and adding "clone hero" (or search on C3, the clone hero discord server).
Cant find it, make one!
@@wibs0n68 Got it.. Thank you so much friend!!
I don’t have a working PC, so I’ve never been able to play Clone Hero. I do have a PS2 though, and this looks really neat. Finally gonna get to play some charts that I’ve been wanting to play for a while.
This is an awesome game mod, period.
Of course, there are some song charts that are going to be really difficult, if nigh impossible to play.
so I did exactly what you did, and now I'm only getting "Speed test" by god forbid exilelord, how do I fix this?
Gotta put the cheat code in?
i have the same problem even after putting the cheat code in, and songs won't convert to gh2dx from onyx.
this is freakin CRAZY oh my lord i am lookin into this for sure
Thank you Acai, very cool!!
great tutorial, even after 3 years
3:35
Is there a way to not put on 'Delay=' on the ini files?
Because I don't want to waste my time having to out so many songs onto their ini.
Well, I know what I'm gonna do for my PS2 console! I just need to find my dongle for my guitar controller.
Hey how to use the cheat code? Blue = R2, Yellow = R1, Red = L1, Orange = X ??
Do you by chance still have the setup video? I need to figure out how to get over 60 fps on PCSX2 and I cannot figure it out. :/
Hey Acai, do you know how I can add things to GH2?
I realize that since it is an empty ISO of songs (less Speedtest), then I would like to add and make my own setlists, that is, add songs to the setlist (as Mariteaux did to add new things like the Speed Test or Hypervelocity Menu).
This looks pretty cool!
anyway, you can also fix the audio lag through pcsx2 audio settings, i never used calibrate lol
Can you add songs to gh2 Xbox360? I have an RGH….
Please help me i get everything running but once i pick a song it cuts audio and goes into a black screen that never loads any troubleshooting?
Conseguiu resolver? Estou com o mesmo problema
for some reason, every time i try booting the iso, i just get kicked to the PS2 BIOS. the base customs iso works fine, but it doesn't matter what customs i try to add, i always get the PS2 BIOS.
uhhh help (???)
I'm having the same problem too. ImgBurn is kinda shit at repackaging PS2 ISOs. I can't find any other tool to use to fix it.
i have followed your tutorial, but there is no song display in song playlist, how do i fix this?
how did you get the song name appear when playing?
Thanks for the video now I could play my two favorite songs made by las dilly sisters
Can you not do this with the original build of gh2dx? I'm so used to there being tiers segmenting everything.
You can, but you're adding songs to the original GH2DX build. The ark size is limited to 4gb and the empty build is supposed to help manage that
@@moreacai9321 ah ok! I asked on the discord as well, but didn't consider file size. I had to split up gh2dx to get it to work on a flash drive, so I might start using the empty build to avoid that.
where do you download the songs and can i request a link from you if you still have the file thanks
Thanks man this is perfect
Does it work in other games?
Super DOOOPE! But is there a way to see all the (custom) songs without putting in the cheat code? The first time I tried to add customs I thought it simply didn't work, then I saw that you used the cheat code, but it's a drag to put it in
Nice ! We really need a port for modded Xbox 360 consoles
still being worked on! but if you're impatient this can potentially tie you over. jnack ported the 360 frets, notes, flames, lightning, and sustains over which look crisp as hell
@@moreacai9321 can’t wait
hi where do u get that song.ini, can I put m4a?
so how would this work with charts that have taps and/or open notes? im guessing it converts to hopos like rock band 3 customs but im curious
I tried a few songs with extended sustains, and it seems like onyx cuts the sustains off before the next note since gh2 is glitchy with extended sustains.
Yeah it basically copies the RB3 Custom conversion process for those types of notes
@@moreacai9321 heck yes thats awesome!! thank you so much for these tutorials man youre starting a whole new wave of GH2 fans
the empty game download isn't in the description? i also can't find it anywhere
nevermind, for some reason the description didn't load? not sure
ty for the tutorial btw
Hey Acai, is Onyx safe? I downloaded the Windows 64 version and Avast says that they are questioning the installer to see if it is dangerous or not (XD)
isnt avast already sketchy?
@@wibs0n68 I don't know,but i can't...says "It's no a Win32 valid" or something
@@LuckyxTension700 is your windows 32bit?
im hacing the same thingg. mine says Microsoft Defender SmartScreen couldn't verify if this file is safe because it isn't commonly downloaded. Make sure you trust the file you're downloading or its source before you open it. .. what do i do?
it shows keep anyways.
@@meraspencer5755 Too late but thanks,anyway it's safe
@More Acai Hey, what do I need to do in order to update the ISO into the V1.0Aa patch?? Please lmk thanks!
can u help me why i dont have a folder like clone hero? and how can i put my song if i dont have a folder like that?
I tried the calibration thing at both 89ms and 0ms and I'm hitting notes late for both even though I'm strumming to the beat
Hi acai. i wanna tell u if u can do the same versión But the Xbox360 songs versions, including all DLCs pls
I tried to download the new Onyx version but Windows Defender detects it as a Trojan and stops the download from finishing.
Defender is probably flagging it as a false positive, so try disabling Windows Defender and see if that helps.
I cant imagine why I would want to play this instead of clone hero
im stuck in calibration mode beacause of the strumming thing and i only ave keyboard wa should i do can you make a video please?
How do we save the settings (i.e. Lefty flip, no focus mode, GRYBO, deactivate No Fail mode, etc.)? I have to readjust every time I boot.
I've gotten to the onyx batch process however every song creates an error, it is loading it and has some of the same messages as you have but it would then say "ERROR! user error (ARK operation failed: saving ARK)". I am not sure how to fix this.
is it that you will need to add the offset that we calculated to every single .ini in my folder or could it be something else
This probably won't work for you, but I had an error involving the install location for onyx personally when I got to the batch process. I had it installed in an otherwise empty redundant folder in my downloads. What seemed to fix it was making it so Onyx wasn't "a folder within a folder". Either that or moving it to my program files.
@@austinjaeger25 no this did not work. I tried doing both, putting it as one folder with the files in it, as well as moving it to my program files. did not work and still gave me the error message.
Ok right now it seems that I have gotten it to work. Instead of mounting the iso, I just did what alec said, make a folder and drag all the folders to that folder. Now when you go to add the songs to the ark file, just select that location. The process is still going as I am writing this but if anyone was having the troubles that I was having last night then this might help you.
what is yours controller?? for windows i cant use cheat my box 360
You can also open ISOs with 7zip by just clicking it without extracting it.
no notes chart error on onyx for me help boss
Is there a way to change the note colors back to the beta color scheme or even make your own?
changing the game texture probably.
Can you post a link of the iso that you made , i cant create my own coz im just using an emulator on android , thanks
Same process for playing it on PS2 hardware?
Whats the troubleshooting process when your ISO randomly crashes during gameplay or during menu switches ?
I like to make save states in the menus in case a song crashes
I got everything working kinda but for whatever reason once the song has loaded it doesn't wanna recognize my guitars inputs. Like it navigates the menus and songs but won't play. Also how do you select modifiers for the PS2 version
Bro at this point just do the Xenia version
@@moreacai9321 I tried bro my setup doesn't have vulkan support or direct3d apparently. My cpu in this prebuilt is 10 yrs old and no gpu just Intel hd 4600. Xenia just crashes immediately. Rn all I can run flawless is clone hero and ghwtde
where i can download the song Canon rock ?
when i hit the ark file it doesnt do anything
How do you get that songs.ini?
I have a freemcboot phat ps2 and want to run custom songs using opl hope this works!
I’m trying to figure this out right now. Did you have any success?
Excuse me where do you download songs
I didn't realize you could use imgburn. I used cdvdgen and apache and that was a pain....
Cdvdgen and apache is more consistent with console, but for PCSX2 ImgBurn works very well
I'm gonna save up for a laptop to play clone hero/gh2dx
Can I have a brief explanation on the advantages of playing GH2 instead of CH? AFAIK, the main difference is the engine much more punishing on GH2, like A LOT (event more than Precision Mode). Is there anything else I'm missing?
Game still holds up and feels like one of the best in the series imo, CH feels unrewarding sometimes where in GH2 even the easiest stuff feels better to play. Like having a nice mental reset on playing the 5 fret games
@@moreacai9321 All right, thanks for the info. I might give it a shot, I've been enjoying precision mode a lot as it felt more like a rhythm game compared to an arcade game normally. I might get that feeling with GH2 as well.
Thanks Brown Legend!
i know this video is extremely old but is there a way to get zero audio latency in PCSX2 without adjusting it per song with the blank edition? i've got the audio latency about as low as i can (set to 1ms in emulator with 25ms buffer size) but it's still not perfect. there are some tips in the readme that comes with the game but they're outdated and half of those settings don't even exist anymore within pcsx2 nightly lmao
@@lonestardreadpirate PCSX2 audio has never been good, until it’s completely redone to support 0 audio latency it will always be bad
60ms buffer before adding to songs to ark in Onyx makes it just about perfect if you put the audio latency all the way down in the emulator
@@moreacai9321 yeah this is fine for customs but kinda sucks cuz i don't have the custom edition and wanted to play through the whole game lol, at least the disc songs are very playable with my current audio settings i'm just picky about calibration :p
Where do i get clone hero charts?
hello so you original Guitar hero 2 deluxe with no background in Live show.?
7:20 this 'focus mode' disable the background
Where can you get charts?
How can I adjust the delay on the stock GH2DX? Through this same process? Wouldn't make the tiers vanish?
I don't know of a solution to that yet, sorry
i have a strange issue where some charts will not put hopos where they need to be is there any way to fix that or do i just have a bad chart?
There is no forcing in GH2
@@moreacai9321 ah alright that makes sense lul
@@moreacai9321 its just the 1 problem chart that i am having in bury the hatchet where it does not seem like there should be forcing, but like halfway through it randomly makes like the rest of the chart all strums.
@@kurokoshirai5402 probably because the bpm is fucked in that song, if you're using the GH2 version from CH that is. There's some stuff having to do with the hopo threshold I don't 100% understand yet but I definitely know what you're talking about and it's fixable but through some really tedious text editing within the song
@@moreacai9321 ah thats unfortunate, i think i will just wait for the dlc disc to come out to play that song specifically. im having no issues with the rest of the customs i put in. ty for the info
what about if i import a song that has taps? will onyx convert all the taps into hopos or will i have to do something else?
Si
How to delete songs that already imported on .iso file?
I followed this tutorial to success for the first iso file I made, but the second file I tried to create will not work. I’ve tried recreating it 10 or so times now with different variety of songs, and OPL on my ps2 will start them up on a blank black screen. All my other games start up fine. Has anyone run into this problem before? I’m wondering if something is happening through imgburn?
I was trying to play in the real hardware, but for some reason when i select any music the game dont load and goes blackscreen. I searched online and just found two guys on reddit saying nothing that could help. 😑
do you have the program in 32bits?
64bit only
im stuck in calibrating because of the contriller i only have keyboard rn
i tried converting soulless 1-4 and penger and all failed with the error
ERROR! user error (ARK operation failed: saving ARK)
After mounting the ISO did you make a folder and move the files out then modify THAT ark? Or did you mount iso and think you could just modify the mounted ark? Because it doesn't work that way
@@moreacai9321 yup, that was the error, thanks for the help!
How do you go about playing this on real hardware?
freemcboot, freeDVDboot or modchip. freeMCboot is easiest method
did they added tap notes and open notes in this mod?
No
what type of song should i use? mp3?
am i need add delay too
for play in ps2?
After all of that, does the ISO can works on real PLAYSTATION 2 or not??
Please Reply🙏
where you guys download songs?
I need help I'm trying to put rb1 sings into gh2dx
Download the rb1 rip from the clone hero spreadsheet and load them into Onyx that way
Google the clone hero spreadsheet to get access to it
@@moreacai9321 I got it thanks!
@@moreacai9321 I'm trying to play it on a actual ps2 and its not showing up?
How do you disable the background?
press select twice in Free play while selecting a song, or go into practice and enable focus mode when you're selecting your speed
Can I do this to my ps2 disc???
How does song organisation work?
At the moment it's the order in which they are in your OS's explorer
@@moreacai9321 would custom tiers be possible? (with custom names of course)
@@thardwardy if you know your way around Makiloha then it's easy to modify the tiers via editing campaign.dta with the the internal song names (which for onyx customs are gonna be like "o123456789" or something, you'd find all of that info in songs.dta internally) then you can edit the tier names in locale.dta (I only edited the first tier to just be a space for the blank ISO)
where can I download a song
is this working on actual ps2?
Just played GH2DX in PSXC2 with Dualshock 2 on keyboard
How to enter code unlock all using dualshock 2, not to X
Just switch to guitar in the settings, map the frets, type the cheat, and then switch back to dualshock 2.
@@austinjaeger25 Okay
@@austinjaeger25 modifited options when select songs press
Having trouble any tips
where do you get all the song files?? anyone please help
chorus
@@moreacai9321 whats chorus mean?
found it thanks
how to cheat in unlock song in ps2?