Guitar Hero WoR FSB Files by drfsupercenter at 7:24 AM EDT on September 9, 2014
I am curious if anybody has managed to figure out the odd format of the Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock FSB archives yet.
For those who don't know, every Guitar Hero title prior to WoR - Guitar Hero World Tour, GH5 and the spinoffs (Metallica, Van Halen, Smash Hits, Band Hero) use an interesting container for their multitrack audio.
Essentially, the audio itself is not encrypted. The Xbox 360 uses XMA and the PS3 uses mp3. I cannot say too much about the technical makeup of the format, but I know there are three files per song - named .fsb.xen (on the 360) and .fsb.ps3 (on the PS3)
I had contacted HCS about this a while back, since he wrote some XMA extraction tools that DID work on these games, it was just a huge pain as you had to run a bunch of stuff manually.
As a result, he wrote xmash, the tool you can get from his software section :) Essentially you can just run xmash on those 3 files, and you get the extracted XMAs. Pretty sweet, right? Then all you have to do is run "towav" and you have studio multitracks from the game.
Guitar Hero 6 (also known as Warriors of Rock) changed something around though. Speculation was that they changed the encryption around, but that's the thing - with these FSB files, the keys you need to decrypt them are inside the files already! You just have to know where to look.
I'm curious if any gurus wouldn't mind taking a crack at it... the game's been out for several years now and the interest in multitracks has quieted down as well. I would just love to be able to get direct-from-game rips once and for all, the newest Guitar Hero title is the only one I am missing from my collection.
If anyone wants some sample files to look at and compare, let me know and I'll provide.
I think I tried to rip this sometime ago. Maybe Alpha did it already by now? But, the problem I faced at the time with the tools was that some of the files didn't want to decrypt correctly and ended up with a bunch of garbage. Even though it should have been the same key for all files.
I know nothing about this stuff, so it's all foreign to me! I just know that the GHWT format was kept all the way up until the newest game so none of the tools work anymore.
Did anybody mean me? Well, I too got problems with retrieving decryption keys from fsb containers. However if you're looking for something to get the resulting xma files to work, take a look here: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9023&sid=a463dc62642102175ea8f58753caa73e