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Post by canped on May 21, 2008 17:34:48 GMT -5
Right, I've read through tutorials and I've come down to this...
How do I make the nescessary .dat file from a midi file- a standard .mid?
What do I need to download?
Where do I get it?
Can Feedback load premade midi files?
sorry if these things have been asked and answered a million times, but I can't find anything anywhere.
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Post by philauto on May 27, 2008 18:41:56 GMT -5
im not sure where to get a converter. but midi files should work just fine with guitar star, like if u download a fof song. just throw it in the songs folder and it will work.
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Post by darthslaw on May 27, 2008 18:53:36 GMT -5
The latest Feedback can open pretty much any correctly-formatted midi now. After opening, you can save as a chart and use one of the chart2dat converters. You might even be able to use Leff's Chart2Mid2Chart converter, available in my signature quicklinks. Alternatively, you can fiddle around with midi2gz.exe, available here. There are some tutorials in the Original GZ subforum on how to use it and how to tackle various issues that you might run into. |
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Post by melonman67 on Jun 6, 2008 23:53:11 GMT -5
Aside from songs with separate audio tracks, *.chart works perfectly fine in GZ2 (even song sections work nicely), even with MP3 files (as long as the *.chart points to it). I'm not sure why GZ2 seems to still primarily use *.dat when Feedback is the standard song editor nowadays.
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Post by darthslaw on Jun 7, 2008 1:02:35 GMT -5
Do you have a song.dat in the directory with your chart file? I've been testing and doing this seems to break the ability to choose song parts to play (bass, guitar, etc). It also seems that the game takes the song info from the dat file and the notes from the chart file when you have the two files together.
I took a custom chart (which plays flawlessly on its own.. coop, single, everything) and tried a variety of things to break it (renaming the ogg files, changing references in the chart file, etc) but nothing broke and it still functioned fine.
When I put it in a directory with a GH2 song's files (and removed the midi and ini files, leaving the dat file), only then did stuff break.
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Post by ledzepp123 on Jun 14, 2008 8:39:25 GMT -5
You don't need dat files. I actually prefer to use midis.
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Post by furiouss on Jul 3, 2008 11:14:43 GMT -5
the old gz beta 2's used .dat
i know their still acceptable in the new beta's
however it is much easier to use the chart file from feedback.
explanation
on what works
chart/song.ogg/guitar.ogg --works (you dont need the song.ogg either)
midi/ini/song.ogg/guitar.ogg ---that method works
.dat/song.ogg/guitar.ogg---that method works
if you already have a mid create a .ini file and your good to go
if you need a mid to dat converter i still have the original gz converter up here somewhere
or download anvil studio
open your mid
then export as midi type o
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