[Reposted] [Arcade PC] Guitar Freaks & Drummania V4, V5, V6, V7, V8, XG1, XG2, XG3

[Wajiro]

This post was originally uploaded by Spiderzsoft , however the post went missing after Emuline went down. I pulled all of this information out of Wayback Machine

(comment pulled from JJWithNoSause)

... and also sorted the game list.

Guitar Freaks & Drummania V4

Instructions

Copy the contents of Crack.zip to the same folder where the "data" folder is.
Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the "bin" folder of the game and type the command:
Drummania: gdv4 -d
Guitar Freaks: gdv4 -g

During startup, the game will throw a Backup Data Error message.
Press the test button to access the test menu and enter the option called "All Factory Settings". Confirm the initialization of data and, when it finishes, press the start button to return to the main screen and then press the exit button.

Run the game again and this time, the game will tell you to configure the shop name.
Enter any character you want and select a prefecture in the second option. After that, select "Save and Exit". Return to the home menu by selecting "Exit".
Enter "Network Option" and disable E-Amusement. Select "Save and Exit". The game will tell you to reboot the machine. Just close the game and run it again.
It should work fine now.

Troubleshooting:
*If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter
(you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager)
Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.
*If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using. Bluetooth devices and HDMI audio don't seem to work.
*If you get a crash at the title screen or no videos during songs, try the following steps:
Install Pure Codec
Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the Codecs section, change MPEG2 codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the changes.
Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the bin folder of the game and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax
This should fix the crashes and video load problems.
NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again.
Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. This last file won't work with V4. If you have that one registered, unregister it and register the 480KB one from this release.

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!IJ1AnIRB!FGTMUC4fiRiwCvSFscRXwA
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Guitar Freaks & Drummania V5

Instructions

Copy the contents of Crack.zip to the same folder where the "data" folder is.
Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the "bin" folder of the game and type the command:
Drummania: gdv5 -d
Guitar Freaks: gdv5 -g

During startup, the game will throw a Backup Data Error message and a second error in Japanese (can't reach router).
Press the test button when both of these messages appear, to access the test menu and enter the option called "All Factory Settings". Confirm the initialization of data and, when it finishes, press the start button to return to the main screen.
Next, enter "Network Options" and disable E-Amusement. Select "Save and Exit". The game will tell you to reboot the machine. Just close the game and run it again.
It should work fine now.

Troubleshooting:
*The game runs at 640 x 480. If you run it as it is, it will do so in a small window. Right click gdv4.exe, go to Properties>Compatibility and check "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution" to run it in fullscreen.

*If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter
(you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager)
Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.

*If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using. Bluetooth devices and HDMI audio don't seem to work.

*If you get a crash during the boot sequence, try the following steps:
Install Pure Codec (https://mega.nz/#!gItxQSAC!SccQnKVMZwTcecyQgstvTJCoHy1OWYpROLGvlMZc_PQ)
Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the Codecs section, change MPEG2 codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the changes.
Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the bin folder of the game and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax
This should fix the crashes and video load problems.

NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again.
Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. This last file won't work with V5. If you have that one registered, unregister it and register the 480KB one from this release.

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!5cs2VawY!Vvu9MXlbcUzHCzvzZDSXqQ
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Guitar Freaks & Drummania V6

Instructions

Copy the contents of Crack.zip to the same folder where the "data" folder is.
Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the "bin" folder of the game and type the command:
Drummania: gdv6 -d
Guitar Freaks: gdv6 -g

During startup, the game will throw a Backup Data Error message and a second error in Japanese (can't reach router).
Press the test button when both of these messages appear, to access the test menu and enter the option called "All Factory Settings". Confirm the initialization of data and, when it finishes, press the start button to return to the main screen.
Next, enter "Network Options" and disable E-Amusement. Select "Save and Exit". The game will tell you to reboot the machine. Just close the game and run it again.
It should work fine now.

Troubleshooting:

• The game runs at 640 x 480. If you run it as it is, it will do so in a small window. Right click gdv6.exe, go to Properties>Compatibility and check "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution" to run it in fullscreen.

• If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter (you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager) Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.

• If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using. Bluetooth devices and HDMI audio don't seem to work.

• If you get a crash during the boot sequence, try the following steps: Install Pure Codec    (https://mega.nz/#!gItxQSAC!SccQnKVMZwTcecyQgstvTJCoHy1OWYpROLGvlMZc_PQ)

          Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the

          Codecs section, change MPEG2  codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the

          changes. Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the bin folder of the game and

          type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax This should fix the crashes and video load problems.

NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again. Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. This last file won't work with V6. If you have that one registered, unregister it and register the 480KB one from this release.

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!pRNjhQQS!TN3mUbOlMjRdCDPp7PY7sA
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Guitar Freaks & Drummania V7

 

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!gVVX2aCC!wXfoNos8E6OsxnIE3if3yA

CRACKED https://mega.nz/#!QFtRxarQ!AZJK9LRNy0Kc1ES620pMdjdH7LtZQJiP-OQvOjQkg6E

 

A few notes on the game:

*The game runs at 640 x 480. If you run it as it is, it will do so in a small window. Right click gdv7.exe and go to Properties>Compatibility and check "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution" to run it in fullscreen.

*It's possible the game will have problems with background videos. If that's the case, try installing Pure Codec, and then go to fddshow (installed along with Pure Codec) and set MPEG2 to libavcodec.

Enjoy!

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Guitar Freaks & Drummania V8

 

Thanks to a person who rather remain anonymous, Guitar Freaks & Drummania V8 is finally playable. This person finally decrypted the required game files for the game to run, a task nobody else wanted to undergo in all these past 8 years.

 

For this game, you will be using Gitadoratools (don't confuse it with Spicetools. They are different programs)
Extract the game from the split archive and then open Crack.zip.
Extract the contents of the folder "v8tools" into the "bin" folder.
Go into the "bin" folder and run the file "required.reg". This will register some COM dll files required for the game to run.
Open "bemaniconfig.exe" and configure the controls (the effect button for the guitar doesn't work for the V series. It will only work with Gitadora) After that, run one of the .bat files to start the game (start_dm, start_dm_window, start_gf, start_gf_window)

 

During startup, the game will throw an error message in Japanese (can't reach router).
Press the test button to access the test menu and enter the option called "Network Options" and disable E-Amusement. Select "Save and Exit". The game will tell you to reboot the machine. Just close the game and run it again.
It should work fine now.

 

In the archive Crack.zip, there is also a folder named "Song Unlock".
Extract the contents (a file named "game.dll") into the "bin" folder, and overwrite the existing one to unlock all songs.

Troubleshooting:

 

• If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter (you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager) Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.
  If the game keeps crashing in the same place after the previous step, run the game as admin.
• If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using.
• If you get a crash during initialization, try the following steps:
  Install Pure Codec (https://mega.nz/#!gItxQSAC!SccQnKVMZwTcecyQgstvTJCoHy1OWYpROLGvlMZc_PQ)
  Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the Codecs section, change MPEG2 codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the changes. Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the bin folder of the game and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax This should fix the crashes and video load problems.

 

NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again. Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. I don't know if this last file works with V8. If it doesn't, unregister it and register the included one.

• The game requires you to have both, an E: and F: drives for storing some game files (it will create the folders CONF, CACHE and TMP in them). If you don't have them, you can easily create them following a tutorial on the internet. Those partitions don't have to be big (I think two 50MB partition will be more than enough) so you won't lose a lot of space from your main one.
• Since the effect button for the V series of Guitar Freaks doesn't work in Gitadoratools, if you want to change the song wheel sorting (which usually is GREEN + EFFECT), you can use the following alternative: press RED, GREEN, BLUE, PICK.

 

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!NcMxBIxD!U-UOZus_-d3yUDJ7lGTx_A
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Guitar Freaks & Drummania XG

 

For the first time since its release, Guitar Freaks & Drummania XG is finally playable, thanks to the efforts of the same person who worked hard to make V8 playable.

For this game, you will be using Gitadoratools (don't confuse it with Spicetools. They are different programs)
Extract the game from the split archive and then open Crack.zip.
Extract the contents of the folder "xg1tools" into the "bin" folder.
Go into the "bin" folder and run the file "required.reg". This will register some COM dll files required for the game to run.
Open "bemaniconfig.exe" and configure the controls.
After that, run one of the .bat files to start the game (start_dm, start_dm_window, start_gf, start_gf_window)

During startup, the game will throw a Backup Data Error.
Press the test button when this message appears, to access the test menu and enter the option called "All Factory Settings". Confirm the initialization of data and, when it finishes, press the start button to return to the main screen.
Next, enter "Network Options" and disable E-Amusement. Select "Save and Exit". The game will tell you to reboot the machine. Just close the game and run it again.

Once the game has been configured, you can switch between Guitar Freaks and Drummania without having to set up the configurations again.

Troubleshooting:

 

• If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter (you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager) Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.
• If the game keeps crashing in the same place after the previous step, run the game as admin.
• If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using.
• If videos won't load (attract screen and song videos), try the following steps:
  Install Pure Codec (https://mega.nz/#!gItxQSAC!SccQnKVMZwTcecyQgstvTJCoHy1OWYpROLGvlMZc_PQ)
  Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the Codecs section, change MPEG2 codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the changes.
  Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the bin folder of the game and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax
  This should fix the crashes and video load problems.
  NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again.
  Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. I don't know if this last file works with XG. If it doesn't, unregister it and register the included one.
• *The game requires you to have both, an E: and F: drives for storing some game files (it will create the folders CONF, CACHE and TMP in them).
  If you don't have them, you can easily create them following a tutorial on the internet. Those partitions don't have to be big (I think two 50MB partition will be more than enough) so you won't lose a lot of space from your main one.

 

DOWNLOAD  https://mega.nz/#F!gQ9TyC4b!B8MTgE4jtpvQ-FRmG8eLNA

 

 

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Guitar Freaks & Drummania XG2
 

Instructions

Open the archive "Crack.zip".
Extract the contents of the folder "Decrypted files" (three folders, called "dev", "modules" and "prop") into "..\K32\Contents", overwriting the existing files.
Next, copy the contents of the folder "..\K32\Contents\modules" into "..\K32\Contents"
Now, back in the archive "Crack.zip", extract the contents of the folder "Gitadoratools" into "..\K32\Contents", overwriting the existing files when prompted.

 

In the "Contents" folder (..\K32\Contents), run the file "bemaniconfig.exe" in order to configure the input. Don't forget to configure the buttons under the "Gitadora - System Buttons" section.
Click the Save button when you're done.
After that, in this same folder, run the file "required.reg" and select Yes when prompted. This will register some COM dll files required for the game to run.

 

Finally, run the .bat file for the game/mode you want: start_dm.bat, start_dm_window.bat, start_gf.bat or start_gf_window.bat

When the game starts you'll get a "Backup Error" message. Press the button you configured as "Test" in bemaniconfig.exe to enter the Test Menu.
Enter the option called "All Factory Settings" and confirm the intialization of data.
Back on the test menu, select "Network Options". Set "e-Amusement" to "Off" and then choose "Save and Exit".
 

When the game asks you to restart the machine, press the "Esc" key to close the game.
After that, run the game again.
These steps need to be done only once. No matter if you do them on Guitar Freaks or Drummania, once one of the games has been setup, both will work.

 

Song Unlock:

Inside the archive Crack.zip, there's a folder called "Song unlock". This folder contains a file called "game.dll".
Extract this file into the Contents folder, overwriting the existing one.
This will unlock all the songs in the game.

 

Note & Troubleshooting:

• If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter (you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager). Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.
• If the game keeps crashing in the same place after the previous step, run the game as admin.
• If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using.
• If videos won't load (attract screen and song videos), try the following steps: Install Pure Codec (https://mega.nz/#!gItxQSAC!SccQnKVMZwTcecyQgstvTJCoHy1OWYpROLGvlMZc_PQ) Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the Codecs section, change MPEG2 codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the changes. Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the Contents folder of the game and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax This should fix the crashes and video load problems.

 

NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again. Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. This last file also works fine with XG2, however, it doesn't work with older games (V4, V5, V6). Keep this in mind if you plan to play the older games on the same PC.

 

All necessary archives to run the game is included in K32-Release.zip

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!IENWDQDJ!2NWRDgSnrD0Y4Q12x_vrhw
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Guitar Freaks & Drummania XG3

Before starting with the instructions, I'd like to give credit to Spicetools dev, Felix. Thanks to him, Guitar Freaks & Drummania XG3 is playable for the first time, since it was released 7 years ago.
He decrypted all required files and added support for XG3 to Spicetools.

 

Instructions

Download Spicetools from: https://onlyone.cab/downloads/spicetools-latest.zip
Open spicetools-latest.zip and extract spice.exe and spicecfg.exe into the L32 folder.
Use spicecfg.exe to configure the input for both games (Guitar Freaks and Drummania) as well as the system input (Test and Service buttons)
Copy the contents of the modules folder into L32 folder (where spice.exe is).
Inside the L32 folder, right click on an empty space of the window while holding the shift key, and select "Open command window here"
Type the following command to start the game:
Drummania: spice -e .\prop\eamuse-config.xml
Guitar Freaks: spice -e .\prop\eamuse-config2.xml

During startup, the game will throw a Backup Data Error.
Press the test button when this message appears, to access the test menu and enter the option called "All Factory Settings". Confirm the initialization of data and, when it finishes, press the start button to return to the main screen.
Next, enter "Network Options" and disable E-Amusement. Select "Save and Exit". The game will tell you to reboot the machine. Just close the game and run it again.

These steps are only needed once. No matter which game you run first, once the system has been configured, both games are ready to be played (since they use the same files)

In the link, there's also an archive file called Extra.zip.
Extract the file called game.dll to the L32 folder, overwriting the existing one. This file unlocks all songs in the game.

Troubleshooting:

• If you are facing network errors at startup, make sure you only have 1 network adapter enabled. To do this, press the Windows key + R and type: devmgmt.msc and press enter (you can also reach this screen on Windows 8/10 by right clicking the Windows icon in the task bar and selecting Device manager) Under Network Adapters, disable all but one.

• If you get sound errors at startup, change the audio device you are using.

• The game needs a video codec installed in order to show background videos:
  Install Pure Codec (https://mega.nz/#!gItxQSAC!SccQnKVMZwTcecyQgstvTJCoHy1OWYpROLGvlMZc_PQ)
  Open ffdshow Video Decoder settings (Pure Codec folder in Start menu) and in the Codecs section, change MPEG2 codec from "disabled" to "libavcodec" and apply the changes.
  In the archive Extra.zip, there's a file called CLVSD.ax. Extract it to the L32 folder (where spice.exe is).
  Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the L32 folder and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax
  This should fix the video load problems.
  NOTES: if you have already registered the CLVSD.ax file (from another game), you don't need to do it again.
  Also, note this file is 480KB. There is another version of the file that's 866KB. This last file also works fine with XG3.

 

DOWNLOAD https://mega.nz/#F!5QNUFagA!dW0m3PU1npPgx2mdVqQU7Q

Special Thanks Goes to Cros

 

Modifié le 16 janvier par Wajiro

[Inari]

Thanks for the helpful repost.

Yeah, a bunch of rhythm game threads straight up vanished.

[Boikamot]

Cant play, black screen then crash

 

[taktvoll69]

After starting I´ve got this Screen. After hat the screen is black and crashes. I´m using Pure Codec. 

[hyu430]

How do you set the wail front of guitarfreaks XG1 and XG2 using bemaniconfig.exe?

[Matlin98]

How do I get this to work on a laptop?

[nate123]

you don't

[GFDM]

How to merge split archive?😥

[Zen_B7]

1 hour ago, GFDM said:

How to merge split archive?😥

What type of archives, file extensions ?

R01, R02 and such ?

Just double click R01 and the rest of the files will automatically extract with it.

7zip is a good extractor.

 

Modifié le 16 août par Zen_B7

[GFDM]

15 hours ago, Zen_B7 said:

What type of archives, file extensions ?

R01, R02 and such ?

Just double click R01 and the rest of the files will automatically extract with it.

7zip is a good extractor.

 

001 to 059 file

Please Reply Quickly

 

[GFDM]

it crashes while i start

 

 

[GFDM]

Open command prompt as admin, navigate to the bin folder of the game and type: regsvr32 CLVSD.ax This should fix the crashes and video load problems.It Dosen't Work

 

[POPO69200]

Hello, I have the guitar freak 3 Machine witch GF6 inside. DOes it is possible to change to Guitar Freaks & Drummania XG3? If yes...how can I do?

 

[rn22]

i think not, cuz xg3 uses 9 pads and 5 buttons, instead of an actual standard 3 buttons and 6 pads.

[rn22]

If someone has video loading problems, or even black screen on XG1, try this clvsd.ax instead.CLVSD.ax

Modifié le 14 septembre par rn22

[nemesisnz]

I just want to play DMV4 and I've followed instructions perfectly along with all of the troubleshooting and it just keeps giving me a black and white checkered little window and then a black screen and then it disappears. Every single time, so frustrating!!

Anyone able to help please?? 😭😭
 

[rn22]

2 hours ago, nemesisnz said:

I just want to play DMV4 and I've followed instructions perfectly along with all of the troubleshooting and it just keeps giving me a black and white checkered little window and then a black screen and then it disappears. Every single time, so frustrating!!

Anyone able to help please?? 😭😭
 

did you ran the either gf or dm .bat file? if not, you'll most likely opened gdv4.exe directly, not on the bat file itself.

[rn22]

Here's the v8 autoplay support.v8_bin+debug_support.rar

[nemesisnz]

19 hours ago, rn22 said:

did you ran the either gf or dm .bat file? if not, you'll most likely opened gdv4.exe directly, not on the bat file itself.

I just followed the instructions with extraction and then running the command line as admin, do I need to use a different command than gdv4 -d ?
or open the .bat files in the comnmand line?
I just tried opening the bat file and it gives me a list of keys,commands as bemaniPC config but not sure how to set them...

16 hours ago, rn22 said:

Here's the v8 autoplay support.v8_bin+debug_support.rar

have tried replacing my files and then changing command for v4 instead of v8 but still giving me the error
I will download V8 and give that a try now

[rn22]

1 hour ago, nemesisnz said:

I just followed the instructions with extraction and then running the command line as admin, do I need to use a different command than gdv4 -d ?
or open the .bat files in the comnmand line?
I just tried opening the bat file and it gives me a list of keys,commands as bemaniPC config but not sure how to set them...

have tried replacing my files and then changing command for v4 instead of v8 but still giving me the error
I will download V8 and give that a try now

that debug support supposed to be running on gfdm v8, not v4.

 

Quote

or open the .bat files in the comnmand line?

I just tried opening the bat file and it gives me a list of keys,commands as bemaniPC config but not sure how to set them...

you can just directly click the bat file either start gf.bat or start dm.bat

 

about bemanipc config, you'll just bind all the necessary keys for the game to work. 

 

e.g. i click the "A" key, and then bind it to "Hi-Hat". etc etc.

[rn22]

Btw, is there anyone have the chinese data for GFDM V7 and XG?  And can someone upload it here?

[rn22]

On 9/26/2024 at 6:34 AM, rn22 said:

Btw, is there anyone have the chinese data for GFDM V7 and XG?  And can someone upload it here?

nvm, have it.

[rn22]

Also, for those who downloaded the DJHACKERS V7 crack, and have missing files such as sys folder and d045/pack1359.pak, here it is.