The Beatles: Rock Band

Game: The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360, 2009)

A PC port of The Beatles: Rock Band for Xbox 360, made with ReXGlue. The repository doesn’t publish source code: it only holds a launcher, the already compiled game executable (beatlesrockband-guitar.exe, about 45 MB), and the runtime libraries. For that reason it carries the closed-source tag, and how it is made can’t be checked beyond what the README explains. The launcher asks for the default.xex from your extracted copy of the disc, together with charnames.zbm and the gen folder; the README says the package includes no XEX, disc data, or DLC. It supports guitar and drums with keyboard or Windows controllers and imports data-only DLC packages from the launcher itself. The README presents it as playable, with about 60 FPS observed, occasional stutters, and manual audio and video calibration if needed; keyboard guitar and drums were tested, and imported DLC from Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper, and All You Need Is Love. The latest version is 0.6.1 (October 24).

You needYour own extracted copy of The Beatles: Rock Band for Xbox 360: default.xex, charnames.zbm, and the complete gen folder (with its header and ten ARK files). DLC, if you want it, is the original LIVE, PIRS, or CON packages from your console; title updates and DLC with code are not supported. Windows with a keyboard or a controller.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Xbox 360

Architecture

PowerPC

Author

mercurialw0rld

Original studio

Harmonix

Year

2009