Rock Station PSP

Rock Station
General
Author	Blade_punk (Xsjado)
Type	Music
Version	2008
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2008/12/22
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Rock Station is a muisc homebrew that gives you the chance to jam away using both drums and guitar for hours on end, and even compose your own music.

Features

• Drums, composer and guitar times displayed in main menu. See how much time you've spent playing.
• Composer with save/load feature:
  • Support for more than the standard acoustic and synth kit setups when using the drum composer.
  • Automatically read the contents of Sounds/Drums/ and list the folders in the composer menu.
• Drum Simulator:
  • Music playback while you play. Browser can be accessed by pressing select while playing.
  • Multiple kit setups like in the Composer..
• Guitar Simulator.

User guide

Drum Simulator:

• It gives you all the buttons on the PSP to use to your disposal to smash and crash on a virtual kit.
• Once you've had enough making up your own beats you can access the music player and load music out of your ms0:/MUSIC/ directory.

Guitar Simulator:

• By using the Analog stick to strum and buttons to cycle through chords, you can play the chords like you would on a real guitar.

Composer:

• Those who have trouble keeping in time can use the composer to create their own music.
• The composer gives you two bars two mess around with, adding notes in quarter, eighth and sixteenth note positions and supports drums and guitar.

Note: Make sure the Sounds/Drums/ folder contains every sound needed or the program will crash.

Controls

Menu:

Up/Down - Navigate Up/Down

Left/Right - Change Option

Cross - Select Option

Drum Simulator:

Square/Left - Snare

Triangle/Up - Tom 1

Circle/Right - Floortom

Cross/Down - Bass

R - Hihat/Ride

L -Crash/Splash

Start - Pull Up Menu

Select - Pull up the music browser

Analog Stick Left - Change to Hats

Analog Stick Right - Change to Ride

Analog stick Up - Open Hats/Ride Bell

Analog Stick Down - Close Hats/Ride

Guitar Simulator:

Analog or D-Pad Up/Down - Strum

Cross/Circle/Square/Triangle - Swap between set chords

Select - Bring up chord config menu

Start - Exit to main menu

Music Composer (while composing):

Square - Fill the current line with notes

Triangle - Clear the current line of notes

Left/Right - Move between Beats

Up/Down - Move between Notes

Select - Begin Playback

Start - Return to main menu

Analog Stick Left - Change to Hats

Analog Stick Right - Change to Ride

Analog stick Up - Open Hats/Ride Bell

Analog Stick Down - Close Hats/Ride

L/R Trigger while using guitar composer - Swap note between sharp and natural

Music Composer (during playback):

L/R - Skip to beginning of current/next bar

Screenshots

Compatibility

This will most likely will crash on PSP-1000's.

Credits

Blade_punk/Xsjado - Coding.

Thanks to:

• ro0kie42, TacticalBread, Vonsta & Xitherun/Tacticalbread for testing and giving me ideas.
• Luke Hocking for the guitar graphics, testing and ideas.
• A_nub/A_noob for confParser. Saved me heaps of time writing up my own.
• Sakya for ID tag reading.
• Auraomega for file browser sample.
• Brunni and Sakya for OSLib.

External links

• PSP-Hacks - http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/f141/release-rock-station-t231143/ (archived)