shny-scott/rock-band-3-deluxe

(discontinued, please use upstream) QoL enhancements and additions to Rock Band 3 (personal build)

Rock Band 3 Deluxe is a Massive Quality-of-Life Improvement Mod for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii

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This Fork's Changes

• Debatably funny text edits
• Trans rights note color modifier

✍️ What You'll Need

Playing Rock Band 3 Deluxe requires these things:

• A vanilla copy of Rock Band 3 for PS3 or Xbox 360 that you can extract onto your PC. The USA version is required for PS3 (BLUS30463)
• For Console: A modded/hacked PS3 or Xbox 360 and a way to transfer files to it, we recommend using FTP
• For Emulator: A mid-to-high-end PC capable of running RPCS3

📥 Downloads

Rock Band 3 Deluxe recieves very frequent updates. You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

PlayStation 3

📥 Rock Band 3 Deluxe (Standard) for PS3

The standard install, typical for most users.

📥 RB3DX (With rb3_plus Keys Upgrades) for PS3

Contains additional Keys/Pro Keys upgrades from rb3_plus. Significantly larger file size. More info here.

📥 RB3DX (Without Chart Fixes) for PS3

By default, Rock Band 3 Deluxe has chart upgrades to fix things, this build does not contain those.

📥 RB3DX (Stock Instrument Mapping) for PS3

Use this if you're on a real PS3 and using a Guitar Hero or Rock Revolution drum kit.

Xbox 360

📥 Rock Band 3 Deluxe (Standard) for Xbox 360

The standard install, typical for most users.

📥 RB3DX (With rb3_plus Keys Upgrades) for Xbox 360

Contains additional Keys/Pro Keys upgrades from rb3_plus. Significantly larger file size. More info here.

📥 RB3DX (Without Chart Fixes) for Xbox 360

By default, Rock Band 3 Deluxe has chart upgrades to fix things, this build does not contain those.

📥 RB3DX (Series X/S Xenia) for Xbox 360

Forces all instruments to be Guitar controllers since Xenia UWP does not support them at the moment.

📥 RB3DX (Series X/S Xenia Without Chart Fixes) for Xbox 360

See above two.

Wii

📥 Rock Band 3 Deluxe for Wii

The Wii version of Rock Band 3 Deluxe is no longer being maintained or supported.

📩 How to Install

Select your Platform of Choice

• RPCS3 (Recommended for PC)
• PlayStation 3
• Xbox 360
• Xbox Series X/S (Xenia UWP)
• Xenia (Advanced)
• Wii (Unsupported)

📩 Installing on RPCS3 (Recommended for PC)

• Install your North American copy of Rock Band 3 through the emulator. The official RPCS3 site covers this nicely.
  • Remember, Rock Band 3 needs to be BLUS30463. RPCS3 will tell you this in the game selection GUI under the Serial column.

• Download Rock Band 3 Deluxe for PS3.
  • Extract the zip and drag and drop the .pkg file on top of the main RPCS3 window to install it.
  • Select Yes to confirm.

✅ Rock Band 3 Deluxe is now installed!

We highly recommend you check out Optional Upgrades for songs and other cool stuff you can add to your game.

Sidenote: we recommend enabling Write Color Buffers for Rock Band 3 to prevent any character model issues.

📩 Installing on PS3

NOTE: You WILL need a HACKED/MODDED (CFW or HFW/HEN) PS3 in order to play this mod on console. We hope this is clear.

NOTE: Rock Band 3 Deluxe only works with North American (BLUS30463) copies of the game on PS3.

• Download Rock Band 3 Deluxe for PS3.
  • Extract the zip and copy the .pkg file to the root of a FAT32 formatted USB drive.
  • Remove it from your PC and plug it in to the rightmost USB port on your PS3.
  • Navigate to Package Manager > Install Package Files > Standard in the XMB and install it just like any other package.

✅ Rock Band 3 Deluxe is now installed!

We highly recommend you check out Optional Upgrades for songs and other cool stuff you can add to your game.

Sidenote: if you're using a Guitar Hero or Rock Revolution drum kit, download the Stock Instrument Mapping version of Deluxe instead.

📩 Installing on Xbox 360

NOTE: You WILL need a HACKED/MODDED (RGH or JTAG) Xbox 360 in order to play this mod on console. We hope this is clear.

• Install your vanilla copy of Rock Band 3 to your console's hard drive.

  • In case anything goes wrong, we recommend that you rename default.xex to default_vanilla.xex.

• Disable updates for Rock Band 3 in Aurora. Rock Band 3 Deluxe rolls TU5 into its base installation.

• Download Rock Band 3 Deluxe for Xbox 360.

  • Copy the contents of it to where your copy of Rock Band 3 is installed (we recommend using FTP to do so).
  • Select Yes to overwrite the files if it asks you to.

✅ Rock Band 3 Deluxe is now installed!

We highly recommend you check out Optional Upgrades for songs and other cool stuff you can add to your game.

Sidenote: We also recommend clearing your song cache, as well as your system cache.

• To clear your song cache, navigate to System Settings > Storage > Rock Band 3 and delete the song cache.
• To clear your system cache, navigate to System Settings > Storage and press Y to clear the system cache.

📩 Installing on Xbox Series X/S (Xenia UWP)

NOTE: You WILL need an Xbox Series X/S running in Developer Mode. We hope this is clear.

• Extract and copy your vanilla copy of Rock Band 3 to your USB drive.

  • In case anything goes wrong, we recommend that you rename default.xex to default_vanilla.xex.

• Download Rock Band 3 Deluxe for Xbox 360. Xenia UWP currently does not have guitar support so you need to download one of the Series X/S Xenia versions.

  • Copy the contents of it and paste them on top of your vanilla copy of Rock Band 3.
  • Click Yes to overwrite the files if it asks you to.

✅ Rock Band 3 Deluxe is now installed!

We highly recommend you check out Optional Upgrades for songs and other cool stuff you can add to your game.

Sidenote: we recommend enabling Readback Resolve in Xenia settings to prevent any character model issues.

📩 Installing on Xenia (Advanced)

Follow Building (Advanced) first in order to properly follow this guide.

• Extract your vanilla copy of Rock Band 3 and copy the contents of the gen folder to \_build\xbox\gen\.

• Then, navigate to windows_bats if you're on Windows or user_scripts if you're on Linux and run build_xenia to automatically update, build, and run Rock Band 3 Deluxe.

  • You need to run this script every time in order to play and update the game. run_xenia will run the game only and won't update and build it unless a new update is available, so you can use that if build_xenia takes too long.

• If your controller does not respond, navigate to the _xenia folder and map your controller with x360ce.

  • When it asks you to create xinput1_3.dll, create it and rename it to xinput1_4.dll.
  • If your controller is mapped and recognized and still doesn't register any inputs, unplug it from your PC and plug it back in while Xenia is still open.

✅ Rock Band 3 Deluxe is now installed!

We highly recommend you check out Optional Upgrades for songs and other cool stuff you can add to your game.

Sidenote: if you're experiencing issues regarding character models,

• Navigate to _xenia, open xenia-canary.config.toml in your text editor of choice.
• Change the following settings (you may need to press CTRL + F to find these):
  • gpu from vulkan to d3d12,
  • d3d12_readback_resolve from false to true.

This will fix all texture issues but will drastically affect the framerate, you also may experience BSODs. If you don't want to deal with any of this, we recommend using RPCS3 instead.

🔥 Optional Upgrades

These are some optional, but very handy additions you can make to your Rock Band 3 Deluxe installation.

• Additional Songs
  • RPCS3
  • PS3
  • Xbox 360
  • Xenia
• rb3_plus Keys Upgrades
• Custom Textures

🎵 Additional Songs

You can find song packs compatible with all Rock Band titles for both platforms on This Spreadsheet.

You can also use Onyx Music Game Toolkit to generate your own custom song packs for Rock Band games or convert Xbox 360 packs to PS3, and vice versa. Converting custom songs from games like Clone Hero is a breeze.

🎵 Installing Songs on RPCS3

• Download a PS3 song pack of your choice and open RPCS3.
• Drag and drop the song pack you want to install on top of the main RPCS3 window and select Yes to install it.

🎵 Installing Songs on PS3

• Download a PS3 song pack of your choice and put it on the root of a USB drive.
• Open Package Manager and select the song pack you want to install.

🎵 Installing Songs on Xbox 360

• Download an Xbox 360 song pack of your choice.
• Copy it to its respective folder.

For RB3 LIVE files, install them to:

For RB3 CON files, install them to:

For RB2 LIVE files, install them to:

🎵 Installing Songs on Xenia (Desktop and UWP)

• Download an Xbox 360 song pack of your choice.
• Open Xenia, navigate to File > Install Content, and select your song pack(s) of choice. You can select more than one at a time.
  • Xenia supports both CON and LIVE files.

• If you're on Xbox Series X/S, copy the entire content folder to your USB drive.
  • Click Yes to overwrite the files if it asks you to.

🎹 rb3_plus Keys Upgrades

rb3_plus features optional Keys and Pro Keys upgrades that you can install alongside Rock Band 3 Deluxe fairly easily. These upgrades include new audio files (.mogg's) for the upgraded songs. These take up additional file size and generally are a generation removed from the original audio mix with additional processing, but can be a great addition for any Keys or Pro Keys player.

You can download a build of Rock Band 3 Deluxe containing these upgrades for both PS3 and Xbox 360.

🎨 Custom Textures

By default, Rock Band 3 Deluxe contains a variety of custom textures, found in the Deluxe Settings menu in-game, as well as a way to import your own with relative ease.

Importing Your Own Textures

Follow Building (Advanced) first in order to properly follow this guide.

• Copy any .jpg, .png, or .bmp file into \custom_textures\***\, then navigate back to windows_bats and run process_textures_***.bat.
  • These will make them show up in game, resize your images accordingly (including those with arbitrary resolutions), and convert them to the proper format for Rock Band 3 Deluxe to read.

You will need to rebuild Rock Band 3 Deluxe in order for these to take effect.

🔨 Building (Advanced)

Installing Python (Required)

• Head to the Python downloads, download and install Python (version 3.9 or later).
  • Select "Add python.exe to PATH" on the installer.

Initializing the Repo

• Go to the Releases of this repo and download _init_repo.py.
  • Make a new empty folder, put _init_repo.py in the folder, and run it. This will pull the repo down for you and make sure you're completely up to date. This will take some time.

The folder should look like this once it's done:

✅ The Rock Band 3 Deluxe repo is now set up!

From here, you can make any personal modifications to the game or build it yourself.

• Navigate to windows_bats if you're on Windows or user_scripts if you're on Linux.
  • Run the build_ script for your platform of choice to build Rock Band 3 Deluxe.
  • Built contents will be in the _build folder on the root of the repo.

You can now return to Installing on Xenia (Advanced) or Custom Textures.

🖥️ Dependencies

Git for Windows - CLI application to allow auto updating Deluxe repo files

Dot Net 6.0 Runtime - Needed to run ArkHelper

Python - For user script functionality (NOTE: 3.9 or newer is highly recommended!)

Mackiloha - ArkHelper for building Deluxe - SuperFreq for building .bmp_xbox highway images

swap_rb_art_bytes.py - Python script for converting Xbox images to PS3

dtab - For serializing .dtb script files