Feel very sorry to you guys that you all have to wait for a while for this games, I've been playing it for 2 days and it's really rocks. Hopefully you guys can get it soon. Good Luck.

congratulations! so instead of boasting of being the 1st to play pirated ps1/ps2/psp games, u are now also a 1st 360 gamer. really congrats. hopefully ur kid will grow up soon and he can also post here to boast. congratulations all around   

don't worry sifu tot, u only grew up whacked cos when u're a kid, daddy dint get u any toys, now facing ur mid-life crisis, always have the compulsion to boast abt little kids toys, i understand. at least ur kid will grow up normal, he's surrounded with love & toys, he'll do fine. all the best

Ok so people hating piracy is one thing, but what's with the trend of bashing below the belt (ie jobs, family). Having one bad seed is enough la.

I've beaten the Easy Mode and get 5 stars on all 35 songs. Now I'm playing the Medium Mode (did 5 songs out of 48). My son had also beaten the Easy Mode and his playing the Medium Mode too and had done 30 songs of out 48 in this mode. So far there's no problem with the game or my X360.

May be to be safe, if you're really paranoid on this issue, just don't do the update patch.

Psychobilly Freakout is crazy wei, I still cannot get 5 stars on Medium. My wrist ****ing hurts already. I'm still having trouble with the Choruses. I tried strumming like usual, cannot get, strum alternately, also cannot get.

It makes me wonder how that 8 years old can do it without even looking at it.

Just got my GHII, damn hard, but then again, very entertaining. Arj, no more strumming like a real guitar ok heheh.

guess what I found.... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrNxjmacWjw...related&search=

is this true..  looking at the button synchronization's with the song seems quite logic..

There are lots of videos of custom GHII songs. Can only be done on the PS2. Now this is crazy shit:

UPDATE 5/9 , v1.1 RELEASED !

New version out, more bugfixes, features and improvements. Read changelog below for more details.

Get the newest version here: http://files.filefront.com/GH360v11rar/;8486537;/

Changelog:

Version 1.1
- Rewrote all code for printing of songlists, output is aligned and much better looking now.
- Fixed a bug where the song details wasn't properly updated when using the arrow keys to navigate through the songlist (thanks Illithid for reporting).
- Minor aesthetic GUI changes.
- Fixed the issue where a songlist wasn't being saved at all if you tried to overwrite the original songfile (thanks reaper527 for reporting). Added a dialogue to ask for another filename (as the original songfile always should be untouched).
- Improved the lock option so it also prevents editing of songname and difficulties for a song that is marked as locked (and not only injection of new files).
+ Added an option to override a failed 'number of channels' check. This will only be allowed for songs where the original song has less channels than the custom song though. I have used this option myself on a number of songs and they all load, but I can't guarantee it will always work so turn on this option at your own risk.
+ Added an option to let the program try to automatically detect and set what difficulties the mid file support when injecting a song (thanks for the pointers TurkeyMan).
- Changed the option to only suggest original songs to only suggest unlocked songs.

Version 1.0
- Rewrote code for the difficulty settings, now it should always be visually correct.
- Updated the GUI, log messages and other minor details.
- Rewrote parts of the code to be more efficient and use less memory.
+ Added a settings menu and the option to show details about the riginal song files. You can now see the nr of channels and mid/mogg size of each original song for better song replacement planning (as requested by users).
+ Added an option to automatically lock a song after injection (default).
+ Some of the menu options are now disabled until an ark file is opened.
+ Added a lock option so you can lock individual songs to make sure you can't replace those songs by mistake. The suggest button will of course skip theese songs also.
+ Added a check to verify that a chosen mid file is in GH2 format (and not GH1) before the actual injection is allowed.
+ Added many logical checks just to make the tool even more intuitive to use and minimize the possibility of users doing uninteded, 'bad' things.

Version 0.9
- Initial public release.

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GH360

After alot of trial and error my GH360 application is finally ready!

So what is GH360 you might wonder. Well, it's a tool used for injecting CUSTOM SONGS into GH2 for the xbox 360! Yes, you read correct and this is not a joke. I have replaced more than 40 songs one of my discs and it plays wonderful in my xbox.

This tool does NOT contain any files or other copyrighted contents from the GH2 game, so it should be ok to share and use.

I have even more ideas and functionality I want to integrate in this tool, but as it is stable and working really good right now I felt that I should release it to the public for all to use and try. Expect new versions with more features in the future.

While me and a few selected friends have tested it quite alot there might still be some bugs inside, so use at own risk and dont blame me if your computer blows up

Suggestions, found bugs (if any), new features and other input can be written into this thread and I will read them when I have time.

Get the program here: http://files.filefront.com//;8362363;;/
See a screenshot of it in action here: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1003/gh360uo8.gif

Also, you need the .Net framework installed to start this program. If you don't have it get it for free from Microsoft.

Note: This tool will help you inject custom .mid and .ogg files into GH2 .ark files, nothing more and nothing less. You still need to get the .mid/.ogg files yourself.

Short description of how it all works as I don't want to be swamped with questions:

1. Make a good backup of your original GH2 game, I won't get into details of how to do that here.

2. Extract the main_0.ark from your GH2 game backup (using for example xbox backup creator 2.5).

3. Get hold of some custom .mid and ogg files or make them yourself.

The ogg can be made with Audacity (free program) but remember to export as .ogg and with the correct number of channels (4-6) depending on which original song you want to replace (don't worry, my program will tell you if it's wrong and refuse to replace the song).

If you don't know how to make a ogg with many channels, read the excellent posting from Drummerguitarist here as guide: http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.p...er=asc&start=30

The mid can be downloaded from scorehereo or made in for example Feedback. If you do a .chart, import it into ghex and then export it back out again and it will be a nice .mid to use.

4. Select a song you want to replace, select mid and ogg file, press "verify" and if it passes all tests you can press the "inject" button.

Note: there are no "save" button as this program works by injecting your custom files on the fly, so when you press "inject" and it says "song X injected" it's replaced and your'e done with that song.

5. Repeat with all songs you want to replace.

6. Insert the modified .ark with the rest of the original game files (again using for example xbox backup creator 2.5) and burn.

7. Boot on 360 and enjoy your custom songs.

EDIT: and before alot of people asks... YES you NEED a modified 360 to play burned games on your console. Don't ask me how to do that, google is your friend.

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How to make ogg files

As some people seem to have problem getting good ogg files I will explain how I do it (this is ofcourse not the only way).

1. Download Audacity 1.3.3. Start the program and go to Edit-> Preferences (ctrl-p).

2. Under File Formats, change the When exporting tracks option from Always mix all tracks down to Stereo or Mono channel(s) to Use Advanced Mixing Option and press OK.

3. Open the mp3 (should work with other fileformats like wav also).

4. Check the original song you want to replace and note the number of channels (if using v1.1 of my tool you can change the options for channelcheck and always export them with 6 channels, easier to replace).

5. File -> export, press save, move the slider to the number of channels you want.

6. Make sure the two original channels are mapped to channel 1 and 2 respectively. Also map one of the channels (left or right, doesn't matter) to the third channel too, this is only to make the volume of the song a bit higher and more in tune with the volume of the rest of the game (crowd noice and so on).

You might skip mapping the third channel to get smaller ogg files, but then
that song will have a lower volume.

7. Open the newly saved ogg in audacity and verify that it sounds good. I have experienced that some songs that have a very high gain/volume might get slightly distorted when saved as ogg.

If the ogg does indeed sound a bit distorted, redo everything above but add the following step before saving:

4b. Mark the whole song and select effects->amplify but input a negative number (like -0.5). Choose a good value (do not adjust the volume too much, just a little bit so the peaks doesn't hit the +- 1.0 limits anymore). Accept changes and save as step 5.

Wao this is great!
@mayatsan, can I borrow/copy your custom Gh2 disc also?
I got no time to make my own custom tracks la