Have C3/customs kept your Rock Band experience alive? Tell us here!
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I keep a well-cultivated customs setup that I run at conventions, so if you chart songs, there’s a chance random gamers and furries have been playing them. Have downloaded hundreds of custom pro guitar charts, relentless bake a bunch of keyboard/harmony upgrades into songs that barely anyone but me would bother trying. I’ve got another con coming up in early July, hoping to get more Rock Bandfootage from that.
I’ve also gotten other friends interested in both playing and charting customs, and have met pksage in person.
And I’m already looking forward to figuring out what kind of RB4 slipups lead to the next generation of customs charting.
I discovered C3 about a year ago. I play PS3 pretty much exclusively and never had any hope of playing customs on my system. But on a hunch I checked out a video of a guy drumming and he mentioned this site. I got here about a month after the PS3 got green lit and the pause glitch had just been fixed. This site has been a dream come true
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> Best year of Rock Band EVER!!I really doubt I’d still be playing if it weren’t for you guys. The game was getting stale after HMX stopped releasing tracks each week. I feel so lucky to have stumbled upon your link while searching customs and thinking they were just a fable. Pretty sure I found it right around C3’s inception. I’ve bought plenty of DLC from bands I discovered here and bought some just because you released a song I forgot I liked so I bought more of the band. My girlfriend bought a ton too once she realized how cool DLC and customs are. I remember when she asked if there’s any Lady Gaga on here and I was like no I think most of it is already for sale. I explained dlc cost is barely anything compared to the work people put in to make customs. She went on to buy every Lady Gaga track on the store just as an example. Speaking of that I love how much different music there is. Sure there are a lot of weeks where it’s not my cup of tea, but other people like my girlfriend are thrilled to see pop songs and what not. The most important thing you guys did was help other custom creators. I still absolutely love going through the Other Customs forum and finding hidden gems I somehow never noticed before. I thank everyone on here who has ever been generous enough to share customs. You’ve kept Rock Band ticking and made the RB nights funner than I ever imagined.
My girlfriend and I play almost every week – she on Bass and me on Guitar.
Customs help to keep the game fresh for us and thus have continued its lifespan – and that is a great thing. I really look forward to seeing what customs come out every week (as I used to on the harmonix forums).
As a wii user, my only avenue for new songs is C3 and the sterling work done by everyone who creates them and stackoverflowox, who converts them for the Wii.
If I was an Xbox user, I would have made plenty of customs myself to support the community. As it is, I can’t afford to switch gear. But you live/die by your decisions early in life right !
Anyhow, C3 is amazing. So pleased I found the site about 2 years ago, and so pleased I finally decided to sort out the Wii in order to be able to play the customs, albeit not an easy and a relatively daunting process.
We play a game, where we show the songs in stars achieved mode…… we have to play a zero star, a 3 star, a 4 star and then anything we want after. Our aim is to get our increasing library to all 5-star songs. A neat game within a game.
We love 80’s stuff (seeing as we’re both around 40) and anything really well known, as well as other stuff, such as Nightwish.
Thanks C3
Shame it will come to an end soon (for regular content) – but hey, that’s not here yet !!
My first run-in with a Rock Band custom was when I came across a youtube video of Xepher (
). I love this song and I needed to find out how this person got it in the game. After Googling around, I stumbled across 360iso, but it was so disorganized and there was rampant piracy. Once those customs threads died, I found this wonderland and lurked for a while. It inspired me to finally make a custom song (which I kept putting off for years because of how much work it would be to figure out and then the RBN docs disappeared). Due to the amazing twitch tutorial by pksage, I made my first custom song and am proud of it. Then CAT, the reborn RBN docs, and other tools came out and it fueled my motivation even more! Tempo mapping doesn’t seem like a huge goliath now, and I love playing songs I dreamt about playing for so long.
Seeing the looks on my friend’s faces when I show them a new custom I’ve made that’s related to an inside joke we have is priceless. Rock Band drumming is one of my favorite things in the world, and C3 has made it all the more enjoyable over the past years. Thank you for everything you guys have done!
I was up at 5am every week since the launch of RB1 buying DLC and for a very long time was putting videos on youtube of the new content. During that time and even before I was also messing around with Frets on Fire and the customs on that forum. Briefly, I had a JTAG’d 360 and could play a handful of customs in RB2. A small minority of customs notwithstanding, customs were really shitty until C3 came along. Harmonix ending weekly DLC was shitty and having you guys pick up the torch was a real thrill because I really respect the quality of the customs produced here and on these forums and it’s extra awesome to be able to play bands you know will never become an official reality.
I’ve tried several times to do my own customs and I just do not have the patience or discipline to stick with it, so I have massive amounts of respect to the crazy, crazy people who do find that time and energy to make these charts a reality. I’m pretty down on RB4 with the confirmation that there won’t be any online multiplayer at launch and, well, I’m not sure they’ll ever get around to adding it in, so RB3 and customs are going to be keeping me going for a while yet or until my 360 is dead and my instruments rendered useless.
I’ve got a lot of e-mail from people saying they bought DLC because of RBHP, and that made me very, very happy.
My wife says to me back in Oct of this year to look and see if anyone has done anything about adding new songs to Rock Band. Low and behold here is C3. I love music, more so than most people in my circle. I tried guitar in my early 20’s and that wasn’t happening. Where I lived, drums wasn’t happening. (Even though I banged on everything I could with my hands when music was playing and drove everyone crazy!) Anyway, not to tell my total life story. Rock band was born and a friend said come over and lets try this. Been hooked on drums ever since. Never played a lick in my life, but I amazed myself along with all of my circle how quickly I picked it up. I played every chance I could without people killing me. With 850+ songs I tried to mix it up, but with DLC gone the main complaint I was getting was tired of hearing the same old songs over and over. Even with that much. So I found this beautiful goldmine and been creeping nearly every day since. But what makes my story slightly different than most is, I got tied of replacing my plastic drums that I would break constantly, and someone was giving away for free this 5 piece drum set. Yea setting it out on the curb! So I asked myself the question. Would it actually work? After adding a few pieces and a few weeks of training myself to hit it where I was supposed to, I was there and there is no turning back to any plastic or electronic drum set. I did go through plenty of sticks and a few skins until I got used to the whole idea of using an actual drum set with rock band, but I am here to tell you all, it can be done! Some songs like Killing in the Name of from Rage sound bang on perfect, and some songs I need to play a few times to hit the right things by ear.
I cannot begin to give enough THANK YOU’S to everyone involved with C3 and the work they do for us, and ALL of the other custom makers out there. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Now I can honestly say I can play anything from Jimmy Hendrix, RUSH, Metallica, Godsmack, Disturbed, TOOL, and anything in between on nothing attached to Rock Band. (too many to list lol) You just have to crank that **** loud to hear it!
So I would say that C3 and all the custom makers for sure has enhanced my Rock Band experience. I will look into Rock Band 4 but no promises. Depends if I can do the same thing with it.
I had got rockband 2 for christmas a few years ago after seeing the amazing amount of songs that could be bought and played in the game. Needless to say i played the game religiously and even imported rockband 1 and searched high and low for a lego rockband export key so i could get “Every little thing she does is magic” and “Word up!”
After spending lots of money and countless hours mastering the game and playing every song, I had discovered many bands that I hadn’t really heard before and now absolutely love! Rockband opened up my ears to a new world of music that had been hidden from me for quite a while.
Then I heard about rockband 3. Bought it the day it came out and thought that the inclusion of synth was perfect and the idea of pro instruments really sold it. Imported everything across to rockband 3. 1,2 and lego. I searched through the rockband store and the newer network store and spent lots of money AGAIN on what i thought was the greatest music game of all time. 5 starred everything on rockand 3s disc on pro drums and even made me and my friends as custom characters in the game. Hilarious! The hours I have invested in the franchise is scary.
Even though I had spent the most part of my gaming experience on rockband the last few years I slowly felt myself getting bored of it. The time had passed and it was time to move on to other games. I had heard about making my own songs in the game but I have an apple mac and i guess i never really thought i could get customs or where to even look and besides like i said, I was getting bored with the game. I had moved on to next gen and there was nothing keeping me on the xbox 360 and i let it gather dust for quite some time on my shelf.
Then not that long ago. Me and one of my friends started going on guitar hero and challenging each other. He had played rockband and GH as much as I had and I finally had someone who was as good as me who could play locally at my house. I knew that harmonix had stopped releasing dlc but somehow i found rosanna by toto on the store and I had wanted that song on the game for years and somehow I hadnt noticed it there for purchase. AMAZING! Bought it and then a load of other songs my friend had bought and recommended. We had discovered rockband again!
Now VERY recently, as in last month I went away to the countryside and i have a lot of music on my iphone but i was in the mood for RUSH. An awesome band whose first song I had ever heard was on rockband 2 (the trees). While away I got addicted to the song superconductor. Im not sure why but i guess after hearing the entire discography of a band I branch out to lesser known songs. I couldn’t leave it alone and while sat away in the middle of nowhere I searched youtube for the music video etc and found a video of superconductor being played on rockband 3. It was a custom song! After doing a bit of research I found your website and you guys had uploaded that song not that long ago.
When I got back to my house I slowly but surely got customs working on my xbox and I have never had more fun on rockband! Since discovering all your customs and the customs of other users I had to join up and actually thank every single person who has added customs to this game. I have downloaded songs i NEVER would have thought would be on here. Count of tuscany, the theme to return of the living dead, tommy the cat, sorry you’re not a winner, in the air tonight, the save room theme from resident evil 1 and about 15 songs from 311 I thought no one would bother charting (but somebody did and I TRULY appreciate it)
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> I search these forums practically every day looking for songs I’ve missed and while I will be getting rockband 4, I dont think I’ll stop playing and downloading customs.
Thank you all.
I started off with a copy of Guitar hero 3 with a 360 Controller! LOL
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif” />but my cusin and member here, Blaize Vincent got me into rockband 1 + 2 and my friend charles had it for the Wii (the first game) i never thought much of rockband, but eventually i got Rockband 2 and oh my god that game got me into so many new music and artists, then i showed a lot of my friends and had a heck load of parties, my friend mark then got it on PS3 and played Rockband 2 like crazy, then time went and went and my friends mark and blaize lost interest and he even picked up The X Factor game over Rockband 3!.
I brought Rockband 3 and showed him the real game he should have brought i got the game Rockband 3 day 1 and had to wait for the keyboard.
Rockband Customs didn’t get Mark back into it as he didnt want to mod his PS3, but he does respect rockband customs, and loves a lot of the Customs.
Apart from me and Charles (mystical potato) noone else really plays rockband anymore, believe me i have tried.
I’m hoping Rockband 4 is going to be good, i will be buying it but im not going to be at launch, too many features left out for me and the wrong direction. the old saying is “if it aint broke don’t fix it”
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My first experience of Rock Band was RB1 on the PS2, bought the full band kit and absolutely loved it. Then Harmonix started releasing DLC so I bought a PS3 – luckily my old instruments were compatible – happy days. However I couldn’t wait for the Pal release of RB1 so I imported a US copy, no region lock a PS3 so again happy days however the DLC was region locked so set up a US PSN account and fake address and then spent a small fortune over the next 6 years buying US psn cards from ebay to buy all the DLC that was released bar for a few packs.
Used to have regular RB nights with friends and played RB2 to death even got the platinum – yes spent over 6 hours drumming for the bladder of steel trophy! Imported US RB3 on release. Bought keys and mustang guitar but never had the patience or inclination to learn these properly, but my pro drumming was really improving so got an DM6 Alesis – I was in the big league! Then Harmonix pulled the plug on DLC – I needed counselling, what was I gonna do on a Tuesday evening!
Fast forward 3 months – saw a trailer for the rapture on score hero and felt a tingle in my stomach – holy shit new songs, only problem I needed an xbox and controllers. Picked up a new 360 and a second hand guitar hero controller – needed to test these customs out before purchasing more kit. At this point C3 had released 3 or 4 weeks of content which included all the GH converts, I was truly amazed how good these charts were, so very close to official DLC. Picked up another 3 guitars, an xbox ion brain, keys and another mustang – no idea why I still cant play them and I was off again.
Started to get grips with some of the incredible homebrew software, thanks Nemo, and acquired all the official DLC. Applied all the upgrades from the harmonies project, thanks espher, and started building custom packs. I now have two hard drives of content – one for party songs and songs I like and another for metal and for songs that are less well known in the UK. I never go online so I’m not bothered about using USB sticks. I’m currently swapping songs between the two drives, fine tuning my set up to satisfy my RB OCD!
The standard of the custom content has risen ten fold over the last 2 years and the support for new authors has been tremendous. I’m now picking up songs from the other customs forum as the quality there is right up to almost C3 standards. I’d love to author myself but unfortunately my 18 month old son has other ideas!
There is no doubt I wouldn’t be still playing RB3 if it wasn’t for C3, you guys rock. I just wanna say thank you to everybody in the community for what you have done. C3 has created a monster – I’m sure customs on RB3 are going to continue way past RB4’s release. Yes I will be buying RB4, I’ve got a PS4 so it will be another US import or digital download and I will be dusting down my PS3 instruments, however Harmonix are going to have to pull out all the stops or I’ll be returning very quickly to my custom setup. Thanks for reading this waffle now back to the game ….
When I first found this site like many others who have commented before me it was a revelation.Having tired of the standard Rockband tracks and a handful of DLC s.. to find this website was really encouraging.
For me, my hobby is authoring. Having become reasonably familiar with Reaper and all its nuances and with the abundance of help from forum addicts like myself…. I get a kick out of authoring tracks (admittedly, some way of the C3 standards ). The fact that I can publish these , and people comment their appreciation. That really satisfies to know that others get a kick out of my efforts too (which really makes up for the hours spent authoring until my eyes are out on stalks…)
Without C3 of course, none of this would have been at all possible. So a big thank you, one and all to rekindling my creative streak.
Rock on!
I found out about the ability to create customs just before the official DLC stopped. I was less interested in finding other customs (though I did find and DL a LOT) and more interested in actually making my own. By the time C3 came to be, I was busy in my own world creating my own customs. I didn’t share them at the time – I wasn’t really aware of the forums or what was available within them. I DL’ed C3 customs via customscreators.com as they came out, but that was all. Once I realized what was going on in the forums (eight months later), I started sharing what I had created and suddenly (with some positive feedback from the community) I kinda became addicted to creating and releasing my own customs each week, foregoing almost all RB3 playtime. Lately I haven’t had the time to work on customs or play RB at all – my current investment in the community is checking the forums every day. But to answer the question, yes, customs and C3 specifically has absolutely helped keep RB alive for me.
Do you have stories on how you kept playing the game and now plan to buy Rock Band 4 because of customs?I think customs have helped keep the game alive for me. I really never had anyone to play the game with since my wife and friends arent into rock music. Back in late 2011 I got a message from TrojanNemo on youtube. He found the custom forgot about dre that was created by nonzero. I had posted a comment earlier that year because I couldnt figure out how the hell to get the song in the game since it was an rba file. He took a long shot and sent me a message asking if I had the rba file. Thats pretty much how I learned about customs. He helped keep me up to date with what was happening the custom scene on xbox360iso and then eventually c3. If he had never messaged me, I probably would have never found anything about customs and sold all my gear. You all have kept the game alive for me, even the guys submitting there own stuff on the forums. Since customs kept my interest in the game combined with Rock Band parties I now have I will definitly be buying Rock Band 4.
Have you bought additional DLC after discovering an artist through C3?I haven’t bought any dlc from discovering new artists through C3. I am pretty picky when it comes to artists so although I watch the c3 videos every Friday, if I dont know the song or the band, I’ll pass on the song.
Even though you don’t own a current generation console are you planning to keep playing Rock Band for as long as possible just because you found out about user generated content?This is my first time owning both current gen consoles. For awhile I flipped back and forth about keeping my 360 just for the customs. I have had a few offers for the console and Rock Band gear that I have collected over time and decided with the announcement of Rock Band 4, it would be a perfect time to sell it and then reinvest that money back into Rock Band 4, new instruments, and dlc. With that being said, since I sold my stuff to a coworker, I will still be able to play Rock Band on the 360 whenever they have a party and keep that catalog up to date for any customs that release in the future.
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