Rock Band Blitz Plus

Introduction

Rock Band Blitz Plus is a quality of life mod based on MiloHax Rock Band Blitz Deluxe Project.

This guide contains full instructions on how to install Rock Band Blitz Plus for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.

Table of Contents

• Features
  • Quality of Life
• What You'll Need
• Downloads
• How to Install
  • Installing on RPCS3 (Recommended for PC)
  • Installing on PS3
  • Installing on Xbox 360
• Repo Setup (Advanced)
• Dependencies

Features

Quality of Life

• Faster Boot Time
• Faster "Discovering DLC" at Boot
• Offline Powerups
• Fine Tune Calibration to 1MS
• Added Keys Parts to songs

What You'll Need

Playing Rock Band Blitz Plus requires these things:

• A vanilla copy of Rock Band Blitz for PS3 or Xbox 360 that you can extract onto your PC. The USA version is required for PS3 (NPUB30749)
• 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

How to Install

NOTE: Rock Band Blitz Plus on PS3/RPCS3 installs differently compared to the other Deluxe projects.

Installing on RPCS3 (Recommended for PC)

• Install your North American copy of Rock Band Blitz through the emulator. The official RPCS3 site covers this nicely.

  • Remember, you need to be running NPUB30749. RPCS3 will tell you this in the game selection GUI under the Serial column.

• Go to Repo Setup (Advanced) and follow the steps to install the repo on your computer.

• In the NPUB30749 game folder, copy the main_ps3.hdr and main_ps3_0.ark to the repo folder _build/_rebuild/ps3/gen.

• In the windows_bats, run build_ps3.

• Copy the files & folders inside _build/ps3 to your NPUB30749 game folder.

Rock Band Blitz Plus is now installed!

To update Rock Band Blitz Plus, repeat the above steps. You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

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 Blitz Plus only works with North American (NPUB30749) copies of the game on PS3.

WIP - COMING SOON

Rock Band Blitz Plus is now installed!

To update Rock Band Blitz Plus, repeat the above steps. You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

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 Blitz 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 Blitz in Aurora. Rock Band Blitz Plus rolls TU5 into its base installation.

• Download [Rock Band Blitz Plus for Xbox 360].

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

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

Rock Band Blitz Plus is now installed! We highly recommend you check out Optional Upgrades for songs and other cool stuff you can add to your game.

To update Rock Band Blitz Plus, [re-download it] and repeat the above steps. You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

Repo Setup (Advanced)

Installing Required Dependencies

• Install Git for Windows, Dot Net 6.0 Runtime, and Python (version 3.9 or later).
  • Install Git and Dot Net 6.0 Runtime with their default options, and select "Add python.exe to PATH" on the Python installer.

• Open a new command prompt (press Win+R, type cmd and press Enter), type in pip install gitpython, and press enter. Close the command prompt when it's done installing.

Initializing the Repo

• Press the Code button and then Download Zip
  • Make a new empty folder, Extract the contents into this folder

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

The Rock Band Blitz Plus repo is now set up!

Dependencies

Git for Windows - CLI application to allow auto updating Plus 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 Plus - 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