Lips - Game Hacking

[k4roshi]

Is anyone interested?
I made some research, and have been able to import all songs from lips into lips Number one hits on my HD install (from xexloader) of lips.
You simply need to edit MusicDB2.db3 in the Ls2 folder and add your songs there in the three tables MusicData, PreviewData, StageData and then copy them over in the directory you specified. It is in sqlite3 format, there are many tools out there to manage such DBs.
The other files (MusicDb2_4D530888_*) are also dbs in Sqlite format, and contain infos the first lips game, there are many versions of it, for instance MusicDb2_4D530888_8 contains the italian one.

I also tried to add custom songs. Songs are stored in Ls2\Levels\Uno\ and divided in folders by the firs letter of the author. Then again in folders by author, and then song. In there are those files:

Song.jpg (album art)
Song_Lyric.X360 (semixml file that contains the lyrics of the song, but no note data)
Song.X360 (probably note data)
Song_prv.nft (unknown)
Song_prv.xWMA (preview song in xWMA format)
Song_prv.wmv (video preview in simple wmv format)
Song_prvcl.xWMA (some preview of some kind... xWMA format)
Song.xWMA (song)
Song.wmv (video)

It doesn't seem to be very hard, we just need to figure out how the note encoding is done and what the nft is for.

.k

[jelle2503]

there's a lot of games you can mod.. this is nice find for lips lovers

have a look at Forza 3 for example.. just a bunch of .ini files and .xml files you can easily edit
sadly the cars are zipped in a to me unknown format, so i can't edit car attribs

i would've loved to make a mini behave like a bugatti veyron

or Unreal Tournament 3 is very easy to mod too

[vintage_guitar]

there's a lot of games you can mod.. this is nice find for lips lovers

have a look at Forza 3 for example.. just a bunch of .ini files and .xml files you can easily edit
sadly the cars are zipped in a to me unknown format, so i can't edit car attribs

i would've loved to make a mini behave like a bugatti veyron

or Unreal Tournament 3 is very easy to mod too

You actually managed to get the changes on forza 3 to go through? There seems to be good security on the game.. The game simply gives dirty disc errors when trying to mod any of those files. Even the saves are encrypted. But if you want to extract the car zip files, grab http://aluigi.org/papers/quickbms.zip and use this script with it http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/zip.bms then go to town.

[jelle2503]

i have made a few changes to Forza 3 yes, changed the quantity of tire smoke.. i even changed a texture "smoke_effect.tga" and it showed up ingame

physics ini file seems to be protected as i get dirty disc, i had been wanting to change car gravity (or i might've put a value that's not suppose to be there)

i doubt there's many interest here for custom songs on lips. but could be wrong maybe there's masses of lips lovers here

[unknown v2]

The security on Forza 3 is in a xex resource. Extract the "0D163575" resource from the xex file and you will find it. It contains the file name of the protected files followed by a null terminator and their corresponding SHA-1 digest. Some of the digest sections seem to have more than one hash so those sections aren't a digest of the full file, maybe divided into blocks.

[Shaun]

excellent stuff. i was just going to have a look at combining the 2 versions as no1 asks for the other disc as it already shows the previous versions content

[MikeFellows]

im struggling to get lips to work at all, gives me a disc read error (clean disc etc..) when trying to play from USB hard disk, strangely enough though it works from the USB drive when I have the original disc in the drive.  I'm guessing its possibly a bad rip from xexloader but I cant be certain. 

I will look into the sqllite stuff though to merge everything together, could be of interest

[MikeFellows]

The DB Files MusicDb2_4D530888_*

1 - US
2 - Intl
3 - UK
4 - ANZ
5 - NO
6 - DE
7 - ES
8 - IT

to test I moved copied a german entry on all 3 tables and moved to the UK database, fired up lipsnoh and it shows up (still cant get any songs to actually play)

I noticed when editing the DB files that a lot of the path names are:

game:/lps/Levels\Intl\A\Alicia Keys\No One\No One.ixb

now game: im presuming is always going to be the DVD drive (which makes sense as to why I cant get the actual songs to work), does anyone know if I coudl change these to a USB path (e.g. usb:/Games/Lips/lps/levels\intl\a\alicia keys\no one\no one.ixb) 

Thanks

Mike

[k4roshi]

As i have lips IT i tried merging musicdb_8 with musicdb2.db3 (which is the one used for lips noh). The songs did show up but none of them could be played. I then tried adding them manually, and putting the songs in the /ls2/Levels/Uno directory and editing the db entries accordingly and they did play. Strangely enough i still have all the songs from lips 1 appearing in my songlist in Lips noh, even if i completely removed them.

Apparently the nft file is some kind of image anyway..

About playing from usb i doubt it would work, but would be awesome anyway! I cannot test it until January 2 though.

[MikeFellows]

I have made some progress too

i wiped all lips and lipsnoh data from my 360 hard disk

i than setup lipsnoh on xexloader running from USB hard disk and got all the lips number on hits songs to work (this does not work with the original lips, a lot of the file paths contain game:\levels\ (maybe these could be edited to show USB?).

with lipsnoh files working i edited the musicdb2.db3 and added a test record to show up (no album artwork etc..).  I then extracted the files from some lips DLC i had and added them to the correct locations as specified in the musicdb2.db3

the test song now shows up in the menu, the preview video plays and i can see original video when i click to play.

the song loads as normal and then as its about to start I get the disc is unreadable error, please clean yadda yadda.

this could be just a DLC issue but i then used some of the localized files from lipsnoh (i used german, renamed them all to the correct files)  again the preview and everything plays but I get the clean disk error.  Im sure im missing some files

Thanks

[MikeFellows]

hmmm

I tried duplicating a song that already existed using my test song, it shows as expected but will not play, this makes me think I have got some data wrong in the database.

[Shaun]

the dirty disc error with the dlc may be a title update is required for the xex

[MikeFellows]

I  would have agreed but im using files that are already on the disk

I basically made 2 copies of 1 song

your right about title update though with regards to the DLC i couldnt get to work (also there are no .xex files withing the pirs/con file for lips DLC)

thanks

[MikeFellows]

k4roshi, when you say you did a hdd install did you just use xexloader to install to hdd:\games\lipsno1? as i dont see how that makes any diference to my usb:\games\lipsno1.

also when adding the lips one songs did you copy the files to the lps\levels editing the MusicDb2_4D530888_8 database (as your using the IT version) or uno\levels editing the musicdb2.db3 database?

i cant get any additonal content to work but cant see how your hdd install makes any difference

Thanks

[alkar]

This post is funny cuz I just did the same discovery a few days ago, and was surprised no one thought about hacking the DB file

Personally I don't use the JTAG hack, so I did try before doing the same trick but replacing the files directly in the iso and burn the game as is, and the replaced musics did work. I noticed you can make your custom jackets as JPG, modifying the path in musicdb2 in the AlbumJacket tab (it links to a NFT, but you can link it to a game://.......whatever path you want.jpg). What I noticed too is that #1 hits has all original lips regions lyrics in the DVD (but no video/wma), even some hidden songs no versions has (actually only 2 french songs) so you can easily add them editing the musicdb file and the path according to the files, it works again perfectly. I think the bug in your case is indeed related to having the game booted with xbr and not a DVD source (or at least booted from DVD).

Since DLC files aren't encrypted, you can even add DLCs to the disc, but i guess you jtaged users dont care about this since it can read any unsigned DLC...

ANyway i think it's a great discovery, too bad in my case there is no way to add more than 40 musics by modifying the iso, but you guys can for sure put all the songs you want in it as long as you have the room on your hdd !

[nicomic]

hello
i'm very interesting in lips modification but i don't know how to do
can someone make an explanation and where can we find songs?
thanks

[Arakon]

uhm.. no? If you want pirated songs, you better look elsewhere.

[nicomic]

in facts, i have lips number one hits and the first lips, i use xbreboot and i'd like to makee one games with the songs of the two games that i bought!

[alkar]

k4roshi : you still have all Lips song on the list because Lips1 copies its musicdb to the hdd cache so lips 2 is aware of it. Just remove it and voilà

[janvkem]

I have the game lips (dutch version) and some bought songs of xbox live. If i want to use these songs on my jtagged console do i have to edit the Music2b2 file? I already got them of my harddisk (ripped files from Partition3\Content\0000000000000000\4D530888\00000002 to my pc), unlocked the files using Yarisswap and replaced them on my 500 gb harddisk in the same folder as they came from (Partition3\Content\0000000000000000\4D530888\00000002). The downloaded songs however do not show up in the game.