Harvey Houston (a.k.a "HarvHouHacker") is an amateur musician, homebrew/mod user, and rhythm game player. He also is a libertarian Christian who speaks openly on his faith and talks on politics from a Biblical point of view.
The Rock Band Customs Project - Status Update
The Rock Band Customs Project has been both fun and frustrating. It's fun to be able to try out different things - I found a place where you can get the delisted game Rock Band Blitz (not providing a link here because they offer a lot of PS3 stuff for free that you can still buy - in other words, "warez"), and I also got the Playstation 3 emulator RPCS3 to try it out on. Since I was able to make the AMD driver package that I found work in Windows 8.1, I've finally gotten RPCS3 to run - unfortunately, it has a lot of graphical glitches that makes the game unplayable. What a shame.
I haven't been working much on the GitLab Group as of late; so much is going on in my personal life that has taken greater importance over the project. However, I had tried to create and promote a thread over on the C3 Forums. Frankly, C3's new site is a pain in the neck to use, as I have tried more than once to post things, and they never managed to appear correctly. For instance, I would use HTML tags, and you could plainly see the tags when posted, and the post would not be formatted at all. Up until more recently, I couldn't edit any of my posts in a forum thread there, but Farottone finally announced that editing was made possible. Even still, PMs, statuses, and other posts can't be edited, and some can't even be deleted except by a moderator.
That's not even the worst part. A moderator took down my support thread and informed me that it had pirated software in it. Since I'm sure GBAtemp admins and mods will be reading this, let me clarify that the GitLab Group does NOT contain pirated content. While instructions have been laid out that can be used on official DLC if the user so desires, a very small portion of the GitLab Group actually contains files that can be found in DLC and on consoles; however, there are no actual songs, art, or stuff like that. I'm talking mainly about the ticket WADs and header APPs that are in the DLC Packers, and they're only there for functionality purposes. One can easily use this software wholly for completely custom-made DLC and disc extracts that one ripped from a retail disc that they own. Now, the Discord server does distribute official content, but only the DLC from the Wii versions that are no longer available, and a cloud copy of Rock Band Blitz which was delisted some time ago. I NEVER allow the distribution of disc files (as ISOs or other formats), currently available games and DLC meant to be bought on console stores, nor the software or services that does such. I even had, for a short time, a link to the place where I got Rock Band Blitz for PS3, and promptly took it down once I realized that the Rock Band DLC could still be bought from the Playstation 3 Store.
Yet, I was accused of pirated content on GitLab, which bothered me greatly. I'm still trying to get this resolved with them, but so far I haven't gotten much feedback. I don't know if this will get resolved; if not, then I probably won't be as active on C3 Forums even though I have an account on there. I made several friends on there, even Farottone who is one of the admins, so it might get resolved, but we'll just have to see what happens.
Introducing... The Guitar Hero Customs Project
I don't own any Guitar Hero titles other than the Nintendo DS game Guitar Hero: Decades (which is very uncomfortable to play using the included accessory that is REQUIRED to play the game), but if I ever get any for the Wii (or even PS3, since I'm doing RPCS3), I already have a GitLab Group ready for custom songs and hacks for those titles. It will pretty much follow the same type format as the existing Rock Band Customs Project, but I'm also hoping to get those from the forum site ScoreHero involved.
Here's the full logo I plan on using:
This is the corresponding icon:
Here's a preview of the website: https://guitar-hero-customs.gitlab.io (The corresponding GitLap Group is currently private, so only the website is visible)
Note that the logos shown here could change in the future, and the website page linked above only displays a placeholder page, but I'm so excited about the concept, I just couldn't keep the idea to myself any longer. However, I definitely NEED people who are willing to contribute, so PM me if you're interested on helping out!
That's pretty much all I have to say, right now. Keep rocking, fellow hackers!