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Though the redone Dirty Magic is wrong. ALL WRONG.

I felt guilty about not giving their latest stuff a chance, as they lost me some time ago, but after reading that I feel less guilty. You don't revisit classic tracks like that unless you've got some masterful plan. Especially this long later. Especially that song. Ugh.

 

Stumbed across this while looking for the actual track and watched the whole thing because the drums are fucking amazing; whoever transposed it did a good job. Shame it's not official; that game needs more Rx Bandits.

I'd have gold stars in that within an hour :cool: It does look like a fun one to play though, definitely.

Do you have any idea htf people are creating custom tracks like that and how one goes about obtaining them? I had seen it done in the past with Guitar Hero, which I know to be a PC release, but I ignored it as I'm not a fan of that interface. If there is a scene of people making custom RB shit with pro support though, I need to find out where it is and stand in the center of it. I might even have to learn how to contribute.

I think there's still value in stuff The Offspring do, you just have to adjust your expectations a bit. Ever since Ixnay, they have always gone in a different direction overall but there are flashes of the old stuff in there.

 

With that Rx Bandits song, I wasn't really talking about technical skill (though I think I did show you Bled To Be Free by them) but the overall composition and creativity. The drummer just blows my mind.

 

The custom RB stuff is all part of the Rock Band Network initiative, I believe. They released some sort of software or something that people can purchase or license or whatever and it enables them to create charts to go with songs. I figure a lot of people just use it for personal enjoyment, but it looks like a fair few companies/individuals actually work for bands or record labels and create the tracks to sell on RBN. If you could figure out how it works, you could theoretically make anything you wanted though you'd need to hold the licence to make any money off of it though.

 

I was just being a smug gold-star collector haha, not disparaging at all. It was a pretty slick tune, and I def dug the drums.

 

I should have realized what that was. I'm aware of the RBN tools, I guess I just saw that and was hoping that people had figured out a way to share those custom tracks with people, regardless of whether or not it gets picked up on RBN. It really would be amazing... The DLC release schedule has slowed to a crawl ever since they were sold by MTV, and the selections rarely do anything at all for me. Oh well. Guess it's back to waiting for Harmonix to secure the stuff I'm interested in playing in there.

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I'm aware of the RBN tools, I guess I just saw that and was hoping that people had figured out a way to share those custom tracks with people, regardless of whether or not it gets picked up on RBN.

Sorry, should've clarified that. I think there has been some sharing going on, though I'm not sure how easy or widespread it is. But then I guess I wouldn't have expected people on YouTube (where I saw this stuff) saying "Here's the file to do it. FREE SONGS."

 

And, yeah, I didn't get that you were being disparaging about the Rx Bandits track. I just love them SO IF YOU SOUND EVEN REMOTELY NEGATIVE, I WILL FIGHT YOU :P

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This was how I spent my Saturday afternoon...
I dumped the UMD to an ISO (ok, I lied - but I own the real UMD and an ISO of it...)
Opened it up and dumped a 1 GB .CVM file from it, which is apparently a "CRI ROFS file," similar to an ISO
Dumped a ton of stuff out of that, including a bunch of ADX files.
Got a converter to rip those to WAV.
Got a utility to show me where they're supposed to loop.
Got the newest version of Audacity for good measure.
Opened the songs in Audacity, viewed where the volume clipped, and it did, lots. Reduced the volume a bit, then told it to rebuild the clipping parts automatically.
Selected everything from the spot indicated by the loop point finder to the end of the song, copied it, and pasted it onto the end of the song twice to lengthen it. Then faded the end out because these songs don't have ends (they get interrupted by other music in the game.) Saved an MP3.
Grabbed the cover art and took a crash course in using Windows Movie Maker to put music on Youtube.
...and that's the result!
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