Introduction: How to Inject Custom Songs Into Guitar Hero III or Aerosmith on Any Wii
"I have burned 5 wii games succesfully using Imgburn and my laptops intergrated dvd burner. What Imgburn does by changing the booktype is it tricks the wii into reading the DVD+R disk as a DVD-R disk. I dont know if all DVD drives suport it but you go to burn an image and pop in you disk then check the information it should be at DVD+R default. What you do is click on a little yellow open book icon and find your brand of DVD Burner then you change your booktype to DVD-ROM."
** I am not responsible for your wii, and if you dont follow my instructions exactly, your wii may break.**
A video of one of the songs i replace later in the instructable: Welcome home.
In this instructable, you will learn how to install custom songs into a guitar hero 3 legends of rock or guitar hero Aerosmith iso, which can be played on a hard or soft modded nintendo wii. if you dont know what wii homebrew is, or have never heard of a mod chip, Thundaboy1047 would be happy to explain how to homebrew enable your wii. Click here to get to his instructable, and once you have succsefully gotten your wii homebrew enabled, it needs to be able to run backups. A backup is basically the iso taken from an official disk burned to a blank dvd-r. thundaboy also has an ible on this, located right here . after you are done there, you are ready to move to the next step. if you have a modchip, just goto step 1.
Step 1: Supplies List
You will need the following to complete this instructable with sucsess:
1. A wii capable of running homebrew.
2. a computer capable of burning data to a dvd-r. you can download imgburn here .
3. a program called "the ghost". you can download that by going to this page.
4. For the ghost to run, you need codecs. codecs allow your computer to encode, decode, and play music and video of various file extension formats. im sure you have heard of mp3, or mp4, but have you ever heard of ogg audio, or flv video? when you download frets on fire song packs use ogg audio and if you dont have the codecs installed, ghost will not function. period. Vista for windows vista. XP for windows xp. if you have linux with wine installed, you may be able to use the ghost, but unfortunately for mac users, ur screwed cus the ghost isnt made for mac... at least not that im aware of. you can google the ghost mac and see what pops up.
5. A guitar hero 3 or aerosmith nintendo wii ISO file. i dont think that i am legally allowed to distribute a link for this one because that would make me a "piracey promoter" and im a good person. i owned my game before i dumped it.
6. Some frets on fire song folders. go here, make an account, and browse by artist to get song folders.
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Step 2: Configuring the Ghost
enter the tools folder, and run the audio tool application. install the wav dest filter, and the xbadpcm codec. then click the begin tests button. you should here a guitar solo, then get a poppup box asking if you heard the noise. if you heard the noise, click yes. the box doesnt even pop up if you dont have the codec, so there is no reason for the no. if you have no red X's and all checks, you can continue to the next step.
Step 3: Using the Ghost
click start to finish up in ghost. depending how many songs you changed, this could take a while. with me doing 2, it took 15 seconds. if you plan on making another version with more songs, click save the project. WOO HOO!!!!11!!1!! next step
Step 4: Finishing Up
you are pretty much done. just take the iso you pointed to is the beggining of ghost and burn it to a high quality, i reccomend sony, DVD-R. That is a MINUS!!! MINUS R!! not plus r, or minus rw. if it isnt minus r, it won work. and burn at 3x.
lets say you want to make two different versions of the same guitar hero 3 game, but want to track your process defferently on each disk. normally if you just burned 2 different ones, lets say the original and a metal version, you would have the same band, and if you played one more than the other, the same progress and score. you can fix this by changing the disk id. normally it is R as in Wii game, 2 letters, in this case gh like guitar hero, and then some numbers. change the numbers, and you get a new save. you can do this by running theghostwiiisotool.exe you can also change the name of the game to show up under the save icon. i havent actually used this tool, but once i do i will document it further.
45 Comments
7 years ago
12 years ago on Step 3
dosent matter i fixed it
12 years ago on Step 3
i get a error saying it cant open key.bin pls help
13 years ago on Introduction
how a bout Infrarecorder for the burning program?
14 years ago on Introduction
I have a legal copy of Guitar Hero : Aerosmith for the Wii, how can I obtain the ISO file from my disc?
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
to get it FROM =the disc, you will need to go through waaaayyyyyy too much trouble than its worth.. either doing a wifi dump through the wii that is prone to failing, or doing it bit by bit over flashdrive. i say just go to a website that the name goes like this: first "wii" then "so" then ".com" and as long as you own the game its perfectly alright.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
https://www.instructables.com/id/Run_Backups_on_any_Wii_Without_a_Modchip/
13 years ago on Introduction
i use imgburn because it has never failed. even on my netbook with win7 i still use imgburn because of the amount of options it allows. here is the link to the legit site www.imgburn.com/ and if you still dont want to trust it then check if windows image burner supports changing the write speed because IT MUST BE AT 3X. that is all.
13 years ago on Step 2
I opened the tools folder.
when i click on the 'Audio setup' folder en try to instal wavdest, it says i can't open it.
I got this code: 0x80070005
When i try to instal xbadpcm it just opens a pad and doesn't do anything...
Am i just doing it wrong or did i miss something?
thanks
13 years ago on Step 3
When i click next on the first page with the project settings, i get an error message saying 'can't import songs from iso'. What's wrong?
14 years ago on Step 3
It keeps saying error could not get from source HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply 14 years ago on Step 3
Ok help me out: when exactly does it say that? what are you trying to do?
Reply 14 years ago on Step 3
when you chose the wii scruber and the other two things when i chose the game location and click next it sais error can not locate root of iso
14 years ago on Introduction
I fretted (added notes to) my own songs with this great program called EOF, it takes MP3s, and then you add the notes, and when it saves it, it saves it in the Frets on Fire Format.
You could also use the computer (All OSes) program called Frets on fire to test out your songs with a keyboard or USB guitar.
My First Song was Boats 'N Hoes from Step Brothers. I FRETTED IT MYSELF AND TAKE ALL CREDIT. heres the song folder:
http://rapidshare.com/files/209324601/Boats_and_Hoes.zip
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
P.S. When you are editing the name and adding the OGG files, make sure to put the Song Volume and Guitar Volume as greater than 1, because at 0, it was very hard to hear. Its a very HQ song though (from iTunes Store)
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
ok thanks. i might run it through mp3gain just to make sure though : ) i think i should have done that with all of my songs before hand. it starts off by making all of the songs in the work directory the same volume, then allowing you to change them up or down all at a time, or individually. takes a while though, even with only 300 songs. i wonder how long it will take when i let it loose on my 1644 song ipod directory haha. itunes says it takes 36.9 days (no joke 3, 6, 9) to listen to it all. 5.7 gigs.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
I think itunes was on drugs the day i gave you the info of my library.i have 1540 songs at 5.4 gigabytes and it takes 192.6 days to listen.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Well I did use audacity to do a 15DB gain, but it F++Ked up the quality, so i used normal volume and set the volume change in theGHOST
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
i just ran through the song and its perfectly fretted! if thats your first song, you did a really great job. i know i had to adjust the offset of about 18 of my other songs from other people AT LEAST. so eof eh, ill go grab that right away, but before i do, how long did that song take you?
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
I catually used Freetar Hero for the first half, converted and got it working in EOF because FH isnt as supported, and EOF can do 1/32 or 1/48 of a fret. Its a short song though, so it only took me and my friends 1 afternoon. We copied and pasted the chorus, so it made it easier. But whats a hammer on and pull off?